How did you get into sound healing?

I have been teaching yoga for twenty years as well as working in Education and I ended up working at Deakin Uni as a Lecturer and completing my Master of Education with research in Mindfulness. During this time I explored many aspects of wellbeing including art therapy, reiki, children’s yoga and meditation.

Sound has always been important to me. I can remember saying to my Dad that I didn’t care what job I had to do, as long as I had music with me! For many years I ran No Lights No Lycra in Geelong and Ocean Grove and loved providing a space where people could let there body be free and move without inhibition (and alcohol!)

With a strong interest always in music and sound, I was drawn to sound myself. I had often used tibetan bowls at the end of my yoga classes. A friend bought me a beautiful bowl back from Tibet and I started taking a few bowls to play at the end of my classes. I kept getting comments about how much people enjoyed the bowls. At the same time, I was becoming aware of sound healing as a healing modality. I had also been chanting on and off for ten years and was finding the power of mantra and sound to be very powerful.

So I started to explore sound healing training, although I had recently competed my Masters and was really not wanting to undertake further study. So I began to learn more about sound healing through a free online course and I noticed the effects and influence sound was having on my body. This prompted me to start a short course which involved using sound healing instruments with family and friends. I quickly became aware of the power of sound healing. So then I enrolled in a Certificate Course and the pivotal moment was when I was doing a sound healing on a client who had terminal cancer who said it was the most peaceful she had been since her diagnosis. This sound healing and many others showed me the healing power of sound. Following my certificate course, I then enrolled in a Diploma which required many hours of individual work and this also showed me the power of sound healing. I know have held sessions at team weekends, retreats, yoga centres and Geelong corporate organisations as well supporting people with a number of individual sound healing sessions to help individuals uncover the transformation power of sound.

I was seeing the transformations both in my own life, and in others. I also realised that although the mode was new (sound healing instruments) the space was very familiar after having taught yoga and meditation for twenty years.