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Fionnbharre’s path to this work has been shaped by a lifelong interest in sound, awareness, creativity, and the ways people can support greater balance in their lives. For more than 25 years, he has maintained a contemplative and meditation practice, including five and a half years living at a full-time meditation retreat center. That experience gave him an appreciation for the relationship between mind, body, attention, and how people can change the way they respond to life. He has also spent much of his life working with his hands and with sound. He is a musician, instrument maker, woodworker, designer, and builder, with an interest in how sound is experienced not only through hearing, but through the body itself. That curiosity eventually led him to Vibroacoustic Therapy. As a Certified Vibroacoustic Practitioner, he brings together his experience with sound, vibration, mindfulness, and the nervous system. He also has training in coaching and NLP and continues to study sound, vibration, stress, relaxation, and well-being. Soma Sounds Wellness grew from these different threads of his life and work. He does not see this work as a promise to fix people, but as a way to create conditions that may help them slow down, reconnect with themselves, and experience greater ease and balance. Curiosity remains central to his approach. He continues to learn, experiment, build, and ask questions about how sound, vibration, awareness, and human connection can support well-being.

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