I developed an appreciation for Sound Therapy when I understood that life is what energy looks, feels, tastes, smells, moves and sounds like.
Sound lures us to bypass our logical mind and align with our feelings, passions, memories and infinite possibility. Sound is a pathway to transformation. Sound carries us to our Source.
Imagine your body as a musical instrument. Musical instruments rely on three aspects to produce sound. For a guitar: the action of a finger, plucking a guitar string resonating in a guitar body. In your body: your exhaling breath, vibrating your vocal cords and resonating in the hollow spaces of your torso, throat and skull. In Sound Therapy: gently striking a Tuning Fork, holding the fork near to your ear or placing the vibrating fork on bone and fascia connecting you to infinite possibility.
I bought my first Tibetan Bowl back when I first began to use the words sound-energy-healing in the same sentence. Then singing bowls, chimes both the little tinkly ones and huge chest resonating ones, Peruvian whistles, rattles made from seeds that grow from plants in Amazon bat caves and my first full set of Tuning Forks which I still use today.
My first clear memory of the power of sound was lying on a beach in Baja Mexico listening to the repetitive sound of crashing waves resonating deep inside me. Then unexpectedly, a startling pause in the rhythm of the waves; a Still Point of silence in nature like a seal on a zip lock bag running the full length of the beach sealing it off from sound. Just as suddenly as the sound stopped the waves began to crash again at my feet and that crashing sound chased the silence down the beach. It was the Yin and Yang of sound, sound chasing the soundless; two different realities in one moment, within the same space.