Sound therapy for beginners

By Lauren Mooney

Sound therapy is a healing modality that uses various instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls, drums, and more on and around the body.

“If meditation is taking the stairs, and sound bath is taking the elevator,” Sara Auster, a Booklyn-based sound therapist explains. “A sound bath [may] allow you to experience meditative states and relaxation within the short period of one session. With other types of meditation, one might have to practice consistently for a few weeks or months to feel the same kind of effect.”

For example, drums can help with coming back into the body, after feeling dissociative and out of the body. Tuning forks can literally bring the body back in-tune. And chimes can help with inner child healing, dream remembrance and processing, relaxation, and improved sleep.

Studies have shown that sound therapy can help to lower your blood pressure, decrease pulse rate, and help with the parasympathetic nervous system - rest and digest mode. Clients have reported increased creativity, decreased anxiety, digestive balance, hormone balance, better sleep, and more.

Your first sound therapy session at Soul Sprout starts out with a grounding chat and an intake process. We then create a custom sound experience based on your needs, and you’re invited to lay down on a crystal infused heated mat, as the sound envelops you in a tender healing space.

Lauren provides one-on-one sound healing and reiki sessions at Soul Sprout. She also leads group sound healing sessions once a month at Align.