WHY SOUND HEALING?
Healing through sound has been used to increase wellness, to treat pain, restore the nervous system, and release trauma, amongst other ailments for centuries.
From ancient Greece and Egypt, to India and the Americas, sound has been instrumental in medicine, and Western science is starting to catch up and utilize the incredible benefits of sound in several medical fields. Music therapy is deeply rooted in neurology and psychology.
The practitioner uses elements of music (frequencies, tone, volume, rhythm, skill, emotion) to improve the health of the patient. Sound healing therapy improves emotional and social development, cognitive and motor functioning, and psychological health.
During deep sound bath meditation, slower frequencies are used, activating slower brainwave action, such as Alpha, Theta and Delta waves. This results in states of deep relaxation, flow states, improved meditation, high levels of creativity, lucid dreaming, and increase in memory, to name a few.
BRAIN WAVES AND FREQUENCY PATTERNS
Gamma waves: heightened perception, learning, cognitive processing, problem solving
Beta waves: awake, alert consciousness, thinking, excitement
Alpha waves: physically and mentally relaxed
Theta waves: creativity, insight, deep states, dreams, meditation, induced consciousness
Delta waves: dreamless sleep, loss of bodily awareness, repair
Lucia uses her voice (mantras, chants, channeled music), Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, her medicine drum, koshi bells, percussion instruments, kalimba, ukulele, guitar, synthesizers and other instruments to create an experience conducive for deep relaxation and journeying. Sometimes she uses her looping pedal to create compositions of the moment, and occasionally she invites other sound healers and musicians to co-create together.
The person receiving usually lays in a restorative pose, and meditative state to allow for the nervous system to get attuned and recalibrated. Alpha and Theta brain waves are activated, working on the subtle body, bringing harmony to body, mind, and soul.
When we restore balance through sound we get access to innate frequencies that help us heal in a deep way. Falling asleep is ok, so are tears, or any emotions that may come up; embracing the state triggered often leads to release and repair.
PRIVATE SOUND BATHS
Treating yourself or someone you love to a sound healing session is an act of self-care.
Like bodywork, acupuncture, or energy treatments a sound healing journey can remove blockages and stagnant energies, and re-calibrate body, mind, and soul back to a state of wellness balance, and harmony.
The frequencies of well-tempered sound can aid us in a profound way, as we journey through this world of instability, and volatility. Aural Vibration can remind us what we came here to do, and root us to the center of our being.
WITH OTHER HEALING DISCIPLINES
Lucia often collaborates with healers, bringing her sound journeys, voice, and songs to yoga classes, plant medicine ceremonies, breathwork sessions, body therapy and network chiropractics. The healing properties of sound have the power to enhance the benefits of many disciplines, amplifying their wisdom, restoring wellness and guiding us into new realms of consciousness.
Would you like to collaborate? Drop me a line
GROUP SOUND BATHS
Lucia offers sound baths for community gatherings, groups of friends and families, corporate events, and in collaboration with other sound healers and organizations at different locations around California, and the world.
Some SOUND HEALING BENEFITS include:
Activating the parasympathetic nervous system
Anxiety and stress reduction
Deep relaxation
Increase in creativity and "the flow state"
Memory, concentration, and general productivity
Increase in mental and emotional clarity
Promotes stillness, balance, and well-being
Increase in energy levels
Heightened awareness
Decrease in blood pressure and muscle tension
Decrease depression and physical pain
ARTICLES
Sound Therapy and the Vagus Nerve