Sound Healing Articles
Using Sound Within a Yoga Practice
Yoga is often described as a practice of presence. Through movement, breath, and awareness, the body gradually softens and the mind begins to settle. As muscles stretch and the breath...
Six Things to Consider Before Offering a Sound Bath
Sound 'baths' are as they sound, playing instruments and "bathing" participants with sound. Sound Baths or Sound Immersions are usually done in groups, with one or a few people playing...
Using Intention and Awareness
From Zacciah Blackburn... Let’s talk a little about awareness and intention. In this work, awareness and intention are fundamental to the nature of our practice. If we do not understand...
Carrying the Sound: Reflections on Audio Equipment
When people first begin exploring sound work, their attention is naturally drawn to the instruments. A singing bowl is struck and the tone expands through the room. A drumbeat settles...
Sound and the Chakras
Many people exploring sound healing eventually ask the same question: What sound works with each chakra?Which singing bowl note corresponds to each energy center? Across the internet it is common...
Listening Through the Body: Working with Tuning Forks
Most sound instruments are played into the room. A bowl rings outward. A drumbeat moves through the air. A gong fills the space with waves of vibration. Tuning forks are...
What Are Coherent States?
From Zacciah Blackburn... What is coherence? Coherence refers to our fundamental feeling states. The word itself means that which binds things together. The coherent positive feeling states do exactly that....
The Power of Chant
Across cultures throughout the world, chant has long been used as a way of invoking and attuning to deeper states of awareness. When the voice resonates with sincerity and intention,...
Healing Amongst The Giving And Taking With All Life
From Zacciah Blackburn... We often begin our practice with spaciousness, because it opens us to such a profound connection with the greater mystery. From that place, the practice begins to...
The Many Voices of the Rattle
Some of the first rattles most of us ever hear aren’t instruments at all. They’re the sounds of the natural world. Wind moving through dry grasses.Seed pods brushing together on...
The Two Aspects of Healing
From Zacciah Blackburn... There are two aspects of healing. In Peruvian mysticism there is not really a word for negative energy. Instead, they speak of either pure energy or heavy...
Custom Gemstone Fusion Crystal Singing Bowls
Imagine preparing for a meditation, sound bath, or personal practice. You place your singing bowl in front of you. Perhaps you light a candle. Maybe there is a meaningful crystal...
