What can you expect during the Music Bath?
I invite you into a space that is always fine-tuned to the last detail, cleaned with sound and palo santo wood. You enter a hall full of candles and lanterns, a fireplace crackles in the corner and the gentle scent of natural heating oil wafts through the air. You can choose which mat to lie down on, cover yourself with a blanket, and there's an eye mask waiting for you on the cushion. I will be playing various musical instruments and singing. Sound can have different effects on your body, your emotions and your soul. It is a reaction caused by the law of resonance, which I will explain later. The experience is unique for everyone, depending on what you need, what you are going through and how much you allow yourself to open up.
Starting...
Accompanied by a large singing metal bowl from India, I will guide you through a short meditation to relax the whole body. Then the flow adapts to the situation of the moment. I use many different musical and sound instruments such as a rain column, crystal bowls (clear and frosted), shamanic drum, Indian flute, rattles, sundrum, a sounding wooden bowl from England, chimes, bells and my beloved shruti-box (Indian organ). I also use a Paiste gong almost a metre long for my gong bath. And of course my voice. It took me years to work my way up to it and overcome my insecurities and huge stage fright. I now see my voice as a tool that uses a higher source to manifest what is needed. My intention is always to create space to heal, open the heart and hear the voice of the soul. Because it is your soul that knows what is best for you...
Today's overloaded and accelerated mind keeps us in a state of permanent tension and stress. The moment our mind relaxes and we move into the body, the body automatically begins the self-healing process. For example, the deep and regular sounds of the great shamanic drum, singing bowls and gongs are wonderful for slowing down the mind. With their deep frequencies they also retune the brain activity into a zone of meditation and relaxation as well as deep sleep. You are guided back into the present moment by the voice and chimes at the end of the bath.
I know from study, from my own experience and from feedback from people who have experienced a music spa that it can relieve you on many levels. They can help you recharge, improve sleep, relieve stress, relieve pain, make you aware of your needs (such as the need for rest and self-care), deepen your breathing, and more. Emotionally, you may find relief by washing away suppressed feelings and generally calming and distancing yourself from everyday problems. On a spiritual level, you will tune back in to yourself, listen to the voice of your soul, open your heart, and realize what is truly important to you.
My music baths usually last 80 minutes and the time passes in a completely different way. You can experience a lot, or feel like it was just a moment. A music bath can be experienced not only in a group, but also individually. In an individual music bath, the whole process is focused on you and your needs. Some musical instruments are placed directly on the body.
Sound therapy based on voice analysis
You can delve even deeper into the world of sound and use this amazing "tool" for deep healing - you can opt for individual Voice Analysis Sound Therapy, which I studied with Elaine Thompson in the UK. From her I got special software that shows you, by means of a graph, which tones and frequencies you use often in your normal speech, which ones less often and which ones you may be missing. We are such walking symphonies.
Our voice speaks volumes about our overall condition. In a basic voice analysis we can see the distribution of energy according to the chakra system. However, we can also look at specific frequencies to reveal, for example, which muscle is under stress. Each frequency has a different frequency attached to it - much like a seesaw. If the frequency of one muscle is under stress, i.e. it is represented a lot, the one that is attached to it will in turn be very low. If we start to replenish the low one, the swing will start to balance and the frequency under stress will start to decrease - the pain will go away, for example.
Our voice speaks volumes about our overall condition.
I work with three approaches during the therapy, which consists of 4 sessions of about a week each. On a special bed with speakers, I test specific frequencies that are individual to each person. During testing, physical and emotional blocks can be released. The selected frequencies are then given to your home to listen to for 6-8 weeks. Next, together we will discover your harmonizing voice, which is a specific tone that needs to be added to your spectrum of frequencies and which you will feel good about listening to and singing - you will feel more balanced and more in tune with yourself. You will feel supported within yourself and this is important for any challenging situation in life that you have to go through.
During the sessions I use specific musical instruments for overall harmonization of the body - shamanic drum, metal singing bowls (Tibetan) and also projection of my voice directly into your body. During this chanting I also use aliquot chanting, which is extremely healing for the human body because the mathematical ratios of the aliquots are the same as the sacred geometry within our body.
A bit of theory at the end
Sound is already commonly used in medicine, in the form of ultrasound, which produces, for example, pictures of the baby in the tummy for future parents. It is also being tested for use in cancer treatment. It is also commonly used in traditional allopathic and complementary medicine for pain relief and stress relief.
If you suffer from fatigue, anxiety or sleep problems, your doctor may recommend a relaxation CD as a form of relief from these problems. A highly advanced system of stimulating sounds is used to help with learning disabilities. A holistic psychotherapist may offer special sounds to balance the hemispheres and reduce brain activity.
Already Nikola Tesla said: "To find the secrets of the universe, think about energy, frequency and vibration." Visionary Deepak Chopra speaks of our bodies as orchestras that can be tuned to health through music, mantras and other sonic means. Dr. Andrew Weil (Self-Healing with Sound and Music) reports on the proven effect of sound therapy in treating a surprising range of health problems including heart disorders, arthritis, stress and more. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, author of Sounds of Healing, uses crystal and metal singing bowls to soothe and relax his patients.
Everything in our universe is a vibration. Sound, as we understand it today, is a wave. This wave manifests as moving air that takes the vibration of an object and allows it to travel. This wave hits our eardrum and then through an incredible bioacoustic process is first transformed into a chemical form and then into electrical impulses in our brain. Sound is measured in cycles per second, the unit being the hertz (Hz). The value of sound is called frequency. Humans are able to hear sounds from approximately 16 Hz to 16,000 Hz. Sounds below this limit are called infrasound and sounds above it are called ultrasound. So if we can't hear something, it doesn't mean there is no sound. For example, dolphins can perceive and emit frequencies up to 180,000 Hz.
From electrons moving around the atomic nucleus to planets in distant galaxies orbiting stars, everything is in a state of vibration, and therefore everything produces sound.
Resonance is important for sound therapy. Resonance is the natural vibration of an object, the specific frequency at which it vibrates. This magazine has a frequency, as does the chair you're sitting in. An object can only resonate if it meets an object with the same frequency, which is what happens with tuning forks, for example. If you have a tuning fork tuned to 100Hz and you vibrate it, other tuning forks that are also tuned to 100Hz will also start to vibrate. There are also objects that can start vibrating even if the source of the vibration is at a different frequency. Examples of these objects include musical instruments, water and, crucially for sound therapy, the human body, which resonates and responds to a range of different frequencies. Different parts of our body have their own specific resonant frequencies, so each of us is a kind of extraordinary orchestra that plays and creates its own suite. When we are in balance and harmony, we are healthy and feel good (we are in tune). If a part of our body is vibrating out of this harmony, we call this state illness (we are out of tune). By rejuvenating and re-establishing the body's own resonant frequencies, the imbalance ceases and the healing process can begin.
Our brains pulse and vibrate, creating electromagnetic frequencies that are also measured in hertz. Specific sound frequencies affect brain waves. In this way, they can bring us into a state of relaxation. Not only that, sound has the ability to penetrate our cellular structure and rearrange our molecules.
The scientific method that deals with the study of frequency phenomena and vibrations is called kymatics.
It demonstrates on the vibrations of matter and cells the characteristics of the action of sound. When you pour e.g. sand on a metal plate and use the sound of the tone to vibrate the plate, the sand starts to form a pattern. But it's only at certain frequencies that you get very clean and symmetrical patterns on the plate. There are plenty of videos on the internet where you can see this fascinating phenomenon (type in Cymatics).
There is a whole spectrum of sound healing in the world, from chanting mantras, tones, music therapy, binaural frequencies (e.g. Jeffrey Thompson), voice analysis therapy (Sharry Edwards, Elaine Thompson), kymatic therapy (Dr. Peter Guy Manners), sonopuncture (acupuncture with sound), auditory enhancement technologies (Electric Ear, Alfred Tomatis) to treatment with resonance tables, natural acoustic instruments, tuning forks, sound recordings and voice. The world of sound is waiting for you!
Martina Jelicic
www.soundtherapy.cz
www.mysticgarden.eu
Facebook: @Hudebnilazen (Music Bath)
Article published with the kind permission of the magazine Sphere
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