Sound for Wellbeing

“Thank you so much for a wonderful healing sound bath. The gongs, didgeridoo & drums were awesome to hear in the true sense of the word and the pain relief I experienced is priceless. Magical and healing.”

“Supremely relaxing and incredibly beautiful”

“The gong sessions were simply divine – I don’t think I have been so chilled in months and months as I was walking out of that session – so beautiful!”

“I suffer with anxiety and was having quite a bad day but by the end of your gong session I felt completely different. It was amazing.”

At a time when more and more people are feeling the stresses of daily modern life, experiences that help us feel calm and restored in mind & body become invaluable.

What is a soundbath?

If you have been to any festivals with a healing area, you may have come across ‘soundbaths’, or ‘gongbaths’. People gather, lie down on mats, wrap themselves in a blanket and let themselves completely relax to the entrancing sounds of beautiful instruments such as gongs, gentle drums, singing bowls, chimes, Native American flutes or the deep, hypnotic tones of the didgeridoo.

Now people all over the country are regularly attending local soundbath events as they might do a yoga class, for the same purpose of completely unwinding from the stresses of life.

Healing & relaxing

Soundbaths always draw big numbers of people, and that is because they have such a powerful effect. They have been shown to:

Calm brainwaves & relieve stress
Lower blood pressure
Speed healing
Improve immunity

Most importantly they give people an experience of deep relaxation that helps the mind and body enormously. People come out feeling wonderfully peaceful and re-energised.

Soundbaths are helpful for anyone with stress, anxiety, depression or chronic pain issues and are a wonderful tool for meditation and ‘journeying’.

Sound is magical

Sound has a magical ability to transform our state of consciousness. From time immemorial we have used instruments, beginning undoubtedly with our own voices, to connect deeply with ourselves and each other.

We are musical beings, and respond on all levels to musical experiences. MRI experiments have shown music to be unique in engaging multiple areas of the brain at once, providing tremendous stimulus for coherence and connection across the hemispheres.

Music moves us and takes us into altered states of consciousness; it touches us physically, emotionally and spiritually, making it an ideal medium for improving wellbeing.

The instruments…

Drums, gongs and didgeridoos are vastly ancient instruments known for their powerful effects on the mind, used in cultures around the world for celebration and ceremony. Their sounds are entrancing and truly primal, evoking a deep response in us.

Gongs

The gongs include the beautiful tones and harmonics of ‘chau’ and ‘wind’ gongs from China, as well as stunning planet gongs, precisely engineered to reflect the frequencies of the orbits of the planets.

Drums

Sarah has played and taught West African drumming for over 20 years – and has a large collection of these beautiful instruments. For soundbaths she uses the gorgeously mellow tones of ‘bougarabou’ drums from Senegal.

Didgeridoos

Sarah’s didgeridoos are made of stunning ‘bloodwood’ eucalyptus, hollowed out in the traditional way by Australian termites – and finished here in the UK by top didgeridoo player and maker, Paul Cook.

What do I need to bring?

All you need is a thick comfy mat and cosy bedding to wrap yourself in, or you are welcome to sit in a chair. Starting with a guided relaxation, you’ll be taken on a beautifully nurturing sound journey, into deep relaxation…

“It has been found that musical vibrations make their impact upon the entire body, being picked up by the nerves, spinal column, and even by the bones… music affects the pulse, respiration, and blood pressure; but its deepest effects, and those from which most of its curative properties are derived, are mental and emotional.”

Doren Antrim (Music Is Medicine)

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