Sound heals
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Sound healing is an effective and natural way to heal the body, mind, and spirit. It can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions, both physical and mental. If you are looking for an alternative therapy to help you relax, reduce stress, or improve your overall health, sound healing may be right for you.
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We are Katerina and Richard Down and we offer sound healing events around Devon and Cornwall as well as individual sessions, and training.
In our sound healing sessions, together with sound, we use guided meditation and various breathwork and minfulness techniques to help people access deep relaxation and induce a deeply restorative state in the brain, activating the body’s self-healing system.
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We play various musical instruments including the "typical" instruments used in a sound bath such as gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks and chimes.
To create a rich soundscape and a powerful healing journey we also bring in string instruments, flutes, drums, didgeridoo and a monochord.
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We also sing the amazonian healing songs Icaros which we weave into the sounds.
We have worked in many places including festivals, schools, nurserier, residential homes and hospices.
The Benefits of Sound Healing
Sound healing has emerged as an alternative therapy people seek in the case of stress, anxiety, or to deal with pain. Some benefits of sound healing are:
Relaxation
One of the most important and universal advantages of sound therapy is deep relaxation. The sounds pervade our system, restoring equilibrium. As calming as a spa, sound healing helps you quiten your mind, relax your body and find your harmony.
Improves Energy
As the sound vibrations open, clear, and balance their chakras and release blocked energy, some patients experience deep healing during sound therapy. It makes you feel refreshed and balanced.
Health Benefits
Improved sleep, less chronic pain and blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and a lower risk of heart disease are all advantages of sound healing.
Mental Health Benefits
Stress, anxiety, and depression can all be reduced with sound healing. Sound healing restores mental balance and clarity, resulting in a revitalized sense of purpose, well-being, peace, and enjoyment.
Meditation and healing have long been linked to sound. Sound healing has long been practiced in civilizations around the world, from Australian aboriginal tribes that have been using the didgeridoo as a sound healing instrument for over 40,000 years to Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowl spiritual rites.
Sound meditation is a sort of meditation that focuses on concentrated awareness. An analysis of 400 published scientific studies on music as medicine showed substantial evidence that music improves mood and reduces stress in both mental and physical health. In fact, rhythm (as opposed to melody) can help to relieve physical pain. One hour of sound meditation, according to one study, reduces stress, anger, weariness, anxiety, and sadness while also enhancing spiritual well-being.