For the Love of Sound

As an act of self-love and self-care, I treated myself to a sound bath training immersion with Susan Mondi Bowen at her beautiful space at Thrive Yoga in Rockville Maryland in January. Sound baths can help you achieve deeper states of relaxation, which can lead to better sleep, reduced stress levels, and improved moods.

“If meditation is taking the stairs, a Sound Bath is taking the elevator.”

Hand-hammered 7-metal singing bowl with Kalachakra etched on the interior, purchased during travels in Katmandu, Nepal, about ten years ago.

—Sound Bath: Meditate, Heal, Connect Through Listening by Sara Auster.

Sound baths are a type of meditation where you are immersed in the healing vibrations of sound. The instruments can vary, from metal to crystal singing bowls, gongs, wind chimes…. These sound frequencies bypass the intellectual part of the brain where we tend to live our daily lives in a busy Beta-wave brain state. The sounds surround and penetrate on a cellular level and allows you to relax into a slower brainwave state (shifting from Beta to Alpha and possibly to the deeper calm of Theta brain waves). In this dreamlike space. In this space, you have the opportunity to receive and process thoughts and emotions. The experience of a sound bath can make you feel calmer, happier, and more peaceful.

More of that!!!!!.