Sound therapy uses sounds, instruments, and frequencies combined with guided meditation techniques to improve health and wellbeing in clients. Sound healing has strong roots in ancient civilizations all over the world from Greece to aboriginal tribes in Australia. Many ancient civilizations used sound in a variety of practices to induce emotional, spiritual, and physical healing.
Present day scientific research also shows promising results in the healing capacities of sound. According to Psychology Today,
"One study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine found that an hourlong sound meditation helped people reduce tension, anger, fatigue, anxiety, and depression while increasing a sense of spiritual well-being."
Vibrational sound healing has been shown to help lower blood pressure, increase blood circulation, reduce pain (menstrual pain, arthritis pain, postoperative pain, etc.) and improve mobility. The use of binaural beats in sound therapy also guides clients' brainwaves from the aroused Beta brainwave activity of waking life to Alpha and Theta meditative relaxed brainwave activity.
A typical sound bath healing session...
begins with meditative practices and breathwork to induce a state of relaxation. A sound bath will then take place, incorporating a variety of low and high vibrating frequencies through traditional healing instruments. These sound vibrations will induce a deeper state of meditation, difficult to achieve without full-sensory immersion.
Through sacred instruments as Crystal Singing Bowls, Native Flutes, the Steel Tongue Drum and Aboriginal Percussion, the client will be guided through a journey of sound leading to the Center of stillness and peace.