What is Sound Healing
My first experience with sound healing was with singing bowls many years ago when I rented a room within an acupuncture clinic. I worked among five other acupuncturists and I was the only massage therapist. I worked there for about eight years and it was a fantastic and loving environment. It was super sweet actually because the majority were women and I think they all took me under their wing in different ways. There was a great deal of respect and with all the skills under one roof we would often trade services with each other when there was time to.
During one of these trades where I had received acupuncture, it was at the end of the session when the acupuncturist entered the room and began to make the most deeply amazing sound as she walked around the room. I didn’t know what it was but I never wanted it to end!
Of course it did end and she took out the acupuncture needles while I asked what that was I just experienced. She told me she had just gotten some Tibetan singing bowls and was as in love with them as I was. I didn’t understand them at the time but my soul was like where have you been all my life!
I wanted my own bowls! I asked her to use them in future acupuncture sessions if possible. It was years later until I was ready to start my own collection.
Many years later as I was going through my Reiki training, it came to me that I was ready to receive and start my singing bowl journey. Because that's exactly what it is, a journey. And when your energy is open to it you find each other! No joke.
My first set of bowls I found in a few different places, expo’s and shops along my way. I’d feel a pull to go to a place and just wander around knowing I was there to find something and that I would know it when I saw it. The set I found was all machine made and I honestly thought it was my forever set, it was simply my training set as I look back on it.
More knowledge came through as I decided to get proper training to fully understand my singing bowls and the spiritual side with the science side too. There's a lot that's happening within the vibrations. How to play the bowls in just the right way to benefit the receiver is key to know.
Singing bowls are a vibrational tool similar to music and other instruments. With singing bowls the intention is different in such a beautiful way. With the Tibetan singing bowls, you can't lie to them. Through the sound that I hear from my singing bowls I can tell if energy is stuck or if I come across a blend of notes that is pulling trauma out.
What do I mean by you can’t lie to them?
You can say what you’ve been doing to make improvements but when I play the bowls a specific way and they don’t make a certain sound, that means that emotionally you might be stuck. Then I talk through what that could be and it’s up to you to decide how to process the physical and emotional parts of your situation.
Bowls help to remove imbalances allowing you to find your personal truth. There is also a specific way to play them to pull in love and light and to bring in the balance.
I’m still considered a student with the bowls. To be a professional sound healer takes a great deal of time but I did contact my school and have been given permission to offer sound healing in sessions and during the meditation and yoga classes that I co-teach.
My education is through a school in England which has been online but they have been expanding and traveling to the states. Which excites me for future possibilities.
The Tibetan singing bowls set I have now is all hand hammered, some antique some not. I have bowls and 2 bells and I find them in the most unlikely places! It makes for some fun stories. I clear them and attune myself to them when I find them. Then I use crystals to clear them and support them between uses.
Singing bowls are not the only tools in sound healing but they are some of the most common due to their power and popularity. If you have the opportunity to own your own bowl or take a meditation class or healing experience where they are used, you may find that you really enjoy them!
Come and experience the singing bowls in the classes I offer with Amanda and Lexie. The bowls support in different ways and I'm sure you'll love them!