Overcoming Anxiety Using Sound

My name is Lyz Cooper, Founder and Principal of The British Academy Of Sound Therapy, thank you for choosing to join this course on Insight Timer. Over the next 10 days we will be looking at how and why sound and music can be so effective at helping to reduce anxiety and will find answers by exploring how our brains have evolved since our early ancestors walked the earth. In addition to specifically designed sound and music pieces there will be other exercises including visualisation, breathwork and self-reflection to deepen and enhance your experience. We will learn more about our nervous systems, how to recognise when we are in ‘fight or flight mode’ and find easy and quick ways to return to balance and calm. We will also be working with a self-reflective method known as the 5Rs. This is a useful tool for helping us to navigate challenging situations and transform negative thoughts and experiences into positive ones.

Reviews

This course is a true winner…It was so enjoyable and illuminating that I intend to take it all over again.

The music+sound pieces constructed so artfully for each session are simply out of this world. Just •so• phenomenal.

Throughout, and without fail, Lyz is innovative, nurturing, pragmatic, explicatory, and excels at each aspect of her course.

An ideal example of how this course excels in its discreet, episodic goals: I had just today completed day 28 of the I.T. mid-year reset challenge. The selected instructor attempted to guide listeners through a ‘box breathing’ exercise. It didn’t go as well as intended, based on voluminous feedback.

Therafter, I pulled up and finished Lyz’s course by completing session 10–a fine wrap-up in which she also introduces a more complex poly-vagal breathing technique.

She guided us so perfectly in that undertaking that I found myself continuing it automatically after just a brief instruction, with zero difficulty but with all the benefits. Her count—and when and how she allows her voice prompts to diminish and then blend into the sonic swirl was masterful. The effect? Near magic. THAT is how good she, and this course overall, truly is.😊🙌🏼🙏🏼

I highly recommend this course. I learned a different exercises for helping me manage my anxiety. Also, I’ve been applying the techniques into my day to day.

This has been a wonderful course and I shall be finding out more about using sound for relaxation and calming anxiety. Thank you.

Very helpful course, thank you. It gives me easy tools for everyday any moment.

I love this course, it was so relaxful, useful and it brought me a lot of stillness and calm.

Unbelievable sounds which moved me in incredible ways!

I love music, but never considered its full impact on me before taking this course. There are some truly beautifully arranged pieces within. Even if you don’t have anxiety, the course is worth a listen just for that reason!

Really enjoyed the course. Good overview of how sound can help calm the mind and body and have learnt some useful exercises that I can do. I found the vocal exercises especially powerful. Many thanks.

One of my favorite courses I have done on this app thus far. Really feel like I can tackle my anxiety and have the right tools to do so in the process

A wonderful course, and transformational sound pieces sensitively presented and helpfully framed by Lyz.

I loved this so much! I will be doing the courtesy again, multiple times. Thank you so much!

I loved this course. I started this course thinking I knew almost everything about managing stress because I’ve been managing it for many years, but I learned quite a few new things. I highly recommend it and I’m thinking about making my teenage daughter take it.

Great course. Nice balance of theory and practice.

What a great toolbox of useful techniques and practices to help soothe our stress and anxiety in this very chaotic period of history. Thank you, Liz!

Absolutely loved this course! Thank you Liz definitely signing up for a course with you xx

A great course, very good and simple explanations, very usefull, I've learned a lot, thank you very much.

This course helped me learn ways to cope with anxiety.
Much gratitude!
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This course was incredible. I have never truly dived into music and sound as therapy, mindfulness, and a source of helping myself. I will repeat many parts of this again and again and look forward to starting Lyz’s other course. Thank you so much, Lyz! 🙏❤️🌟

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The music, the ployvagal and humming breathing, your counting/fading voice, the information. A fascinating subject and a much appreciated practical application. Thank you so...

This course is transformative! Finished the last day and am starting it again. I suffer from chronic anxiety and stress which has presented in a variety of physical symptoms. Not only did many of the sounds and corresponding techniques provide relief but offered me a toolkit to move forward in healing. So grateful. Wish I lived in UK to take Ms. Cooper’s classes.