Sound Healing 101: Fundamentals Of Using Sound To Heal The Bodymind

Sharing practices from India, China and my own learning as a self-taught sound healer for the past 30 years, I'll introduce you to the concepts of sound healing, and practices you can do to start your own sound healing journey!

Although it's not rocket science, 'real' sound healing does require an understanding of the fundamental principles underlying vibration and the human bodymind. This course and its sister course, 'Sound Healing 201: How to use sound vibration to help the body heal' are designed for the student who doesn't have the time and money to attend a whole weekend-long or longer course. Instead, learn the concepts and practices organically and slowly, and incorporate them into your body and awareness! There are two segments in Sound Healing 101; in Segment One you'll learn about:
The nature and power of vibration
How to use entrainment wisely, and
The geometry of sound

The second segment of Sound Healing 101 introduces you to three sound healing practices: Nada Yoga and Mantra from India, and 6 Healing sounds of Qigong from China. After this overview of ancient meditation, vocal sound and movement practices, you'll get an idea of what resonates with you, and which practice you'll want to pursue.

Soundhealing 101 is a prerequisite course before you hop into Soundhealing 201, where you'll learn about various soundhealing instruments and how to play them skillfully: a 'sound knowledge' of the principles will supercharge your soundhealing practice! After attending both classes, you'll understand how to apply skillfully the principles of soundhealing in a way that really engages with the bodyminds of your clients and yourself.

Lección 1: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing, Segment One: All Things Are In A State Of Vibration

We now know through Quantum Physics that all things in the universe are vibrating, including your body and your thoughts. There is a long history of using sound healing to influence the bodymind, and this field is growing quickly in our current times. In this lesson, you'll understand how vibration permeates your relationship with yourself and others, and learn how sound therapies can help decrease physical and emotional pain.

Lección 2: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing, Segment One: Entrainment- The Good And The Bad

Entrainment is a fundamental sound healing principle; in this lesson, you'll discover what it is and how it affects the human body- both positively and negatively. You'll experience three sound healing instruments- crystal singing bowl, harp and voice- and understand the importance of tailoring your sound healing session for the conscious versus the unconscious mind. We'll also discuss how the volume level of sound is crucial to get right- and why that is!

Lección 3: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing, Segment One: Sound Is Form Is Sound

Sound isn't a purely auditory phenomenon- sound is also form. Although it doesn't manifest as solid form that our eyes and brains are created to perceive visually, sound creates a vibrational form with its own geometry which strongly impacts our bodies and minds, and adds to or detracts from our health. You'll learn about the fields of Cymatics and Sonocytology and explore mandalas and sacred geometry. This information will lay the foundation for Segment Two of this course, in which you'll learn practices from three ancient sound healing traditions!

Lección 4: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing. Segment Two- Three Sound Healing Traditions: Nada Yoga

From India comes the Nada Yoga system, which recognizes that there is both external sound and internal sound. When we access the internal sound called 'anahata', it connects us to the Divine and the cosmos. Using special seed syllable sounds, a focused mind and controlled breath, the individual can "listen in” on their own anahata, their own "inner sound", and ultimately unite the body to the divine cosmos. You'll learn the simple discipline of using the three universal sounds to start this process!

Lección 5: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing. Segment Two- Three Sound Healing Traditions: Mantra

The word 'mantra' means a sacred utterance that produces an altered state of consciousness. Mantras have been used in India, China, Japan, Tibet and other places for hundreds and even thousands of years, as people have pursued the goal of oneness with the Divine! In this lesson, you'll learn about how people use mantras, including some ways that may surprise you. I'll chant for you the mantras I use in my own practice, and you'll learn the most important thing to remember in mantra chanting.

Lección 6: The Fundamentals Of Sound Healing. Segment Two- Three Sound Healing Traditions: The Six Healing Sounds Of Qigong

Qigong is a practice that harnesses the power of breath and sound, movement and intention to create health and balance within the body. Each of these 6 vocal tones vibrates through the body in a unique frequency that activates a specific element and its related organs and meridians. In this introduction to the Six Healing Sounds of Qigong, I'll go through each of the sounds and their correlating organs, elements and a very simplified description of their movements; then we'll practice the 6 healing sounds together. This practice can be energizing and calming simultaneously!

Reviews

I really enjoyed learning the basics of sound healing. I knew some of it, but a lot of it was new to me. The sound quality of this audio is not so great though. But thank you for your shared knowledge.

Elegant, very informative class, carefully and thoughtfully created and I look forward to more from this teacher.
I appreciate understanding better the underpinnings of sound healing and I truly enjoyed this course- many thanks 🙏

I appreciated the clarity of this course so much - I knew a bit about sound healing already, but this course helped remind and convince me of its power, both through the felt experiences and the explanations. I also appreciated the recommendations for further exploration very much. I want to listen to this course again to help it sink in, then go on to the 2nd course :) Thank you!

I really enjoyed the simplicity of the information provided, and the teachers voice was very soothing. Looking forward to the next course!

This course finally helped me to understand the science and spirituality behind sound healing and to make sense of many experiences I have had. Christina is a wonderful teacher and I’m so very grateful for her providing this information, the sound healing in each day of the course, and her positive energy.