Healing Grief With Sound Frequencies: Journey + Sound Therapy Sessions - by Modality_Waves

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Healing Grief With Sound Frequencies: Journey + Sound Therapy Sessions

With Modality_Waves

In this course, you’ll learn how sound frequencies can calm the nervous system, soften emotional pain, and create a safe space for grief to move. You’ll explore the science and felt experience of tones like 396 Hz, 417 Hz, 432 Hz, and 528 Hz, and how they help the body release fear, reconnect with the heart, and rediscover balance. Each day offers gentle teaching, personal insight, and space to feel seen and supported exactly where you are. We’ll end every Day with a guided frequency-based Sound Therapy Session designed to help you regulate, rest, and integrate what you’ve learned. By the end of the five days, you’ll have practical tools, embodied relief, and a deeper sense of connection to yourself as you move from grief toward growth.


Meet your Teacher

Modality Waves is a musical project, emerging from a fascination of healing the body through frequencies. Certified Sound Wave Healing Therapist, Film Composer and Producer, Dustin Lau, has been on a journey of moving through grief and bringing regulation to the nervous system, discovering that frequencies in music have healing properties at a cellular level, promoting balance and harmony within the body and mind.

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5 Days

89 students

4.8 stars

26 min / day

Grief

English


Lesson 1

Grounding In The Present: Finding Safety Through Sound Frequencies

On Day 1, we start by helping your body feel safe again — something grief often takes from us. You’ll learn how low, steady frequencies support the nervous system by slowing the heart rate, deepening breath, and signaling the body that it’s okay to come out of survival mode. We’ll talk about entrainment, vagal tone, and why grounding sound can calm emotional overwhelm. We’ll take things gently, with compassion and no pressure. We’ll end with a sound therapy session designed to settle your system and bring you home to yourself. Citations Used Gatti, A. et al. (2019). Effects of 432 Hz music on heart rate and anxiety. Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine. PMID: 31031095 Porges, S. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, and self-regulation. — foundational work on nervous-system safety cues & sound. Yuan, Y. et al. (2023). Effects of Solfeggio frequencies (396 & 528 Hz) on muscle tension and emotional states. Journal of Integrative Medicine. (Used in a Day 1 case example.)

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Lesson 2

Honoring The Loss: Letting Grief Move Through Sound

Today, we acknowledge the weight you’ve been carrying without trying to shrink it. You’ll learn how certain frequencies help release emotional tension by influencing the limbic system — the part of your brain that processes memory and emotion. We’ll explore how vibration helps loosen the places grief gets stuck in the body, so feelings can move instead of building up. This is not about fixing grief; it’s about honoring it. We’ll close with a sound therapy session that supports emotional flow, safety, and softening. Citations Used Koelsch, S. et al. (2022). Music-evoked emotions and neural processing in emotional release. Journal of Music Therapy. Pelletier, C. et al. (2021). Music, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system: A meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. General frequency research note: Studies on low-frequency entrainment and limbic system modulation through sound stimulation.

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Lesson 3

Re-Writing The Story-Self: Remembering Who You Are Beyond The Loss

By Day 3, we look gently at the identity-shift grief creates — how the brain reorganizes itself after loss, and why you may feel disconnected from who you used to be. You’ll learn how specific frequencies support neuroplasticity, coherence, and self-recognition by calming the prefrontal cortex and opening creative, intuitive pathways. Together, we’ll explore who you are becoming, without pressure or expectation. We end with a sound therapy session that helps you reconnect to your inner landscape and remember the parts of you that are still alive. Citations Used Tuovila, E. & McFerran, K. (2021). Music-based imagery, self-concept, and identity reconstruction in bereavement. Frontiers in Psychology. Koelsch, S. (2014). Brain correlates of music-evoked autobiographical memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Neuroplasticity + frequency implication studies: Research on theta entrainment improving creativity, memory, and self-referential processing.

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Lesson 4

Visioning What’s Next: Finding Hope With Sound Frequency And Stillness

Today we explore how grief narrows the brain’s ability to imagine the future — and how sound can gently reopen that door. You’ll learn how frequencies influence alpha brain states, which support calm curiosity, insight, and vision. This isn’t about forcing optimism; it’s about making enough space in your nervous system for possibility to exist again. You’ll practice sensing, not striving, as we gently invite your system into hope. We’ll end with a sound therapy session that blends safety with forward energy, helping you envision what’s next with softness and trust. Citations Used Cheng, Y. et al. (2022). High-frequency harmonic sound baths increase alpha-wave activity & emotional outlook. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Alpha entrainment and future-imagery: Research on alpha brainwave states improving visualization, insight, and calm future-orientation. Sound influence on imaginative networks: General findings linking music to activation of DMN (Default Mode Network), essential for imagining the future.

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Lesson 5

Integration & Celebration: Honoring What Remains, Welcoming What’s New

On our final day, we bring everything we’ve learned together — the grounding, the release, the remembering, and the quiet return of hope. We’ll cover the science of integration: how the brain connects emotional, physical, and narrative healing when supported by coherent sound fields. You’ll learn why layered frequencies help the nervous system feel whole again by synchronizing breath, heart rhythm, and brainwave states. This day is not about pretending the pain is gone; it’s about honoring how far you’ve come. We end with a full-spectrum sound therapy session using all your core frequencies to create a sense of coherence, completion, and renewed strength. Citations Used Chuang, C. et al. (2023). Whole-body sound therapy using 400–600 Hz tones increases HRV and subjective calm. Frontiers in Psychology. Integration neuroscience: Studies on oscillatory coherence (alpha–theta bridging) aiding emotional processing and memory integration. Heart-rate variability + sound: Luszczki et al. (2023) — 528 Hz reduces stress biomarkers and improves HRV. Biomedicines.

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Recent Reviews

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November 26, 2025

Dustin’s superlative course arrived at exactly the right time for me, as I’m experiencing a very deep, recent loss. Only two days ago, I completed my written eulogy, and was able to see it delivered to a standing-room-only gathering. Attendees expressed great admiration for what was conveyed, and how. I’m not sure that it all would have come together without my already having digested four of Dustin’s thorough and impactful lessons by then. I truly enjoyed his matter-of-fact explanations of the sound and just how it impacts the body-mind-feeling interdependencies that we possess. It made sense, and it was 100% free from pseudo-sciencey babble and new-age nonsense. His citing of current research in the field and various intriguing studies provided the requisite legitimacy and credibility around neuroacoustic therapy. His excellently crafted scripts and sound compositions; his warm, charismatic, calming voice and grounding cadences…each and all, I found to be both impressive and reassuring. What is noteworthy, too, is the complete lack of fluff or “woo-woo” stuff. On the contrary; you will no doubt take away a great deal, substantively, from your immersion into what he offers here. I look forward to exploring his other tracks and courses. Dive right in, I say, and may peace, solace—and, ultimately, some degree of “integration”—emerge for you as you take this wonderfully well-curated walk with this very fine instructor.🙏🏼☮️

Julie

Julie

November 25, 2025

Beautiful... 👌🏻

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