A Sound Bath is a meditation. Sound has a profound effect on the body. Sounds we love (our favorite music, natural sounds like birds, wind, rain, waterfalls, etc.) can make us happy, relaxed, and calm. Sounds we don’t like (jackhammers, honking horns, loud sirens) can unnerve us, frighten us, and cause stress and anxiety.
Everything in the universe vibrates at its own level or frequency, including us. Day to day stress and anxiety, noise pollution, and other stressors can alter those frequencies. Sound affects us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, all the time, whether we are aware of it or not. You can re-tune your body with the healing sounds of the Tibetan Singing Bowls.
Tibetan Singing Bowls create a range of sounds to restore the normal vibratory frequencies of out-of-harmony parts of the body, mind and soul. The bowl vibrations are soothing enough to calm the nervous system yet powerful enough to travel deep into the body to penetrate the bones. Vibrations can travel into every cell in the body and can reach places you could never touch with your hands.
The pure sonic waves of sound emanating from Tibetan Singing Bowls wake up our ability to hear with more than our ears. We feel the harmonizing sounds of the bowls with the flesh of our body as much as we hear them with our ears. When these bowls are struck the sound begins to quiet the ceaseless noise within the mind. This combination of sound and vibration enables deep relaxation and meditation that reduces stress and allows the body to rebalance itself.
When a pebble is thrown into a pond it creates circular ripples of water that grow and continue to move outward. The human body is made up of 60-70 percent water. When we play Tibetan Singing Bowls the vibrations of the bowls affect the body in the same way as the pebble did in the pond. The sounds ripple through the body reducing stress and anxiety. The sounds set up a frequency wave response that creates a balancing for left and right brain synchronization.
I invite you to join me for a meditative Sound Bath where you can let go of stress, move through a stuck space, or simply experience deep relaxation.
Our next online session is on Wednesday, December 27th at 7pm click HERE to join the program via ZOOM
If you can’t make it, I invite you to discover YPL’s playlist of sound meditations on their YouTube Channel (insert link here).
It is my pleasure to invite you to incorporate sound meditation in your lives.
This post is a collaboration with YPL and Michelle Clifton, a licensed massage therapist specializing in sound healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls. She is a craniosacral therapist , a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner and has studied energy healing since 1987. She works with individuals, runs group workshops, and also performs at large events. Visit her website: https://www.sonicbowls.com/