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What is Sound Therapy?
Sound Therapy has been used by various cultures for eons as a powerful healing method, using vibrational frequencies to help produce a state of harmony and balance, or resonance, in our bodies, minds, and spirits. Pythagoras was the first known person to use sound as a healing tool using interval and frequency.
How Does It Work?
Sound therapy has been shown in studies to affect the psychology and physiology of the body by influencing brainwave frequencies. In this state many different therapeutic processes can occur.
It induces a deep meditation, or an altered state of consciousness (ASC), allowing your body to heal itself at a cellular level. This works by facilitating shifts in our brainwaves, using rhythm and frequencies to move from our normal conscious beta state, to a relaxed alpha state, to theta, a deep meditative state, and optimally delta, where sleep and healing can occur.
Medical studies have shown that Sound Therapy is beneficial in reducing stress levels, by actively reducing cortisol levels when the meditative state is reached. Ailments such as insomnia, inability to focus, infertility, physical issues and mental health diseases have been shown to benefit from this form of therapy.
It is now widely accepted that most illness, or dis-ease, is stress related. Therefore treatment methodologies that promote relaxation and help reduce stress can be a very effective way to prevent and treat illness. Through Sound Therapy, your body can vibrate at its optimum frequency, creating an ultimate environment for wellness to occur.
Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, an oncologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University in New York, and author of "The Healing Power Of Sound", says that sound "can lower blood pressure, reduce cardiac complications among patients who have recently suffered heart attacks, reduce stress hormones during medical testing and boost natural opiates". He considers sound healing an integrative complementary practice with orthodox western medicines, and uses it in his own practice.
What Can I Expect ?
Before each session, Paola will ask about your medical history and any current health issues, all confidential of course.
Your initial consultation will be approxomately 1.5 hours, with consecutive appointments of 1 hour.
This is a non-invasive therapy, where all you have to do is lie down on a massage bed and relax for about an hour!
You will be surrounded in sound, using singing bowls, to create a healing, meditative sound bath.
Using Acutonics, Paola can apply osteophonic tuning forks on acupressure points to target particular areas (these forks help release Nitric Oxide, a free radical which affects pain transmission and protects major organs in the body).
The bowls and forks are attuned to the freqency of each Chakra, and Paola is able to personalise each treatment and target your particular health issues. Paola also uses the golden 432 HZ frequency which is said to vibrate with that of the universe and carries with it the properties of light, time, space, consciousness, our Chakras and our DNA code.
The treatments often produce a release of energy blockages in the chakra system, as well as mental and muscle tension, improving general health and wellbeing.
The 5 elements of space, air, fire, water and earth are brought together to create a unique experience to each person.
Sound Therapy session
Reiki
A unique immersive experience blending traditional Usui Reiki + Sound Healing to begin to retrain the autonomic nervous system
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What is Usui Reiki? Usui Reiki is a traditional Japanese form of healing energy, literally translated as universal life-force energy. Reiki is activating energy by touching (or hovering over) another person, animal or plant. During Reiki, clients are fully clothed on a massage table while the practitioner lightly places their hands on the client or hover just above their body.
What is Sound Healing? Sound healing is the transfer of vibrational frequencies into the cells of the nervous system. It helps your brain to more easily access a meditative state of theta brainwaves, triggering strong feelings of clarity and calm.
Together, both forms of energy transfer are designed to compliment each other to help you retrain your autonomic nervous system to achieve a state of deep relaxation and balance. Energy applied to energy affects some type of change.
What to expect
Preparing for Your Session
Don't be nervous or anxious. You've got this! Dress comfortably. You will be on a massage table for almost an hour. Constricting clothing can keep your mind wandering about comfort versus being able to have peace within. Plan on drinking lots of water after your session, and if you can, plan on taking it easy afterwards instead of rushing into your day, that would be best.
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During the Session
Sessions are not only different for each individual, but from your own session to session.
You might feel warmth, tingling, heat. You might feel like you are floating, and you might just fall asleep. You may cry or you may laugh. My advice? Have no expectations. Know that you will feel peace, calmness and lighter when you leave.
After the Session
Many of the benefits or Reiki occur after the session, while you have time to process any feelings, sensations or insights that may have arisen during treatment. I recommend taking some quiet time to process - a walk in nature, a meditation or gratitude journaling. As with any energy work, hydrate and enjoy a mindful, nourishing meal for best results.
The power of sound
Group Sound Bath
Imagine laying on a yoga mat being bathed in beautiful waves of sound from healing instruments such as crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, bells, strings and gongs. All you have to do is listen and let the sound wash over you. Sound wave frequencies from the instruments help promote relaxation and restoration within the body, mind and spirit.
Most sound baths include the use of instruments such as Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls and gongs. At Realign Your Life Wellness Center, we incorporate many more sound healing instruments into our sound baths. For example, you may also enjoy the monolina, tongue drum, koshi chimes, crystal triangle, rain stick, tuning forks and more.

The chakras, or energy centers, are a fundamental influence for the physical body. So when there is blockage or disharmony within the energetic body, it can often manifest into a physical and/or emotional illness or imbalance. Sound wave frequencies from these instruments help harmonize imbalances or blockages – energetically, emotionally, or physically.
What can you expect
at a Sound Bath?
You will typically lay in a comfortable position on the floor on a yoga mat. We offer bolsters to put under your knees for additional comfort. You can bring your own yoga mat or use one of ours. Feel free to bring a pillow and blanket if that will make you feel more comfortable.
You will simply relax, close your eyes and enjoy the experience. You don’t need to think about anything, you can just be.
The sound healing practitioner will play several instruments during the sound bath and may also include voice chants.
At the end of the session, the sound healing practitioner will guide you back to awareness before concluding the sound bath.