Sound Healing

Sound healing has been around for thousands of years.  It is a full body listening experience.  It uses sound vibrations to create or maintain deep states of relaxation so your body can heal itself.  In our sound baths, all you need to do is lie down and immerse yourself in sounds made by quartz crystal sound bowls.

Sound healing uses sound waves and vibrations to create and maintain deep states of relaxation so the body can relax and heal itself.

In our sound baths, all you do is lie down and immerse yourself in sounds made by quartz crystal sound bowls.  Experience the sounds and the effects they have on you.  Pay attention to your breath, and notice anything that comes to you.  This is a passive form of healing and rest for your body and your mind.

When your brainwaves come into contact with the soundwaves from the sound bowls, the waves begin to meet.  Since the sound bowls create a more powerful wave, your brainwaves begin to match up with the waves from the bowls by speeding up or slowing down.  Your brainwaves oscillate at certain frequencies.  When your brain listens to the frequencies from the sound bowls, your brain waves can match up with them.  This is called “entrainment” which helps your brain enter a more relaxed, restful state.

Our sound bowls are made from quartz crystal.  Powdered quartz crystal is melted and molded into the bowl shape, similar to hot glass.  Tuning of bowls is achieved by varying their heights & thickness.  Quartz bowls can resonate or ring for a long time since the particles vibrate for a long time.  Quartz bowls can be tuned more accurately than metal hammered bowls.  Bowls made of quartz also have more overtones.

According to a study done by Carnegie Mellon University in 2023 with 240+ participants, the results showed a 70% decrease in stress and anxiety, and an 80% increase in ability to relax.  

When we’re awake, our brain is normally in the higher frequencies of beta and alpha waves (higher frequencies).  When our brain is in a more relaxed state, like when we’re asleep, first waking up, are falling asleep, in deep relaxation, or are in meditation, our brain produces theta or delta waves (lower frequencies).  When listening to the vibration from the sound bowls, our brain may be able to enter into the more restful and relaxed states with lower frequency brain waves.  This can feel like a state of semi-consciousness, like when you’re falling asleep, or a loss of time.

Listening to sound helps quiet and still the mind by creating something for the mind to focus on and anchor to.  The mind stays focused on the sound, to help it not focus on everything else.  It helps to keep our mind still and drown out any distractions.  Listening to the vibration from sound bowls may allow your brain to enter theta or delta waves, which is where the brain is in sleep or deep relaxation.  When your brain is in this state, your body physically begins to heal itself as if you were asleep.

There is no scientific evidence that this is the case.  Different frequencies affect different people in different ways.  What is healing for one person, may not be healing for another.  Our bodies vibrate at different frequencies.  To claim that one specific sound bowl can heal one specific chakra for all bodies may not be true. 

You can wear whatever you feel comfortable in that will allow you to relax.