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Overcoming Anxiety Using Sound
With Lyz Cooper: The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST)
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.
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10 Days
12.3k students
4.8 stars
14 min / day
Anxiety
English
4.8 (451)
Recent Reviews
Leti
December 2, 2025
Informative and helpful.
d•i•
June 28, 2025
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.😊🙌🏼🙏🏼
Bird
October 19, 2024
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.
Amanda
April 9, 2024
This has been a wonderful course and I shall be finding out more about using sound for relaxation and calming anxiety. Thank you.
jenny
December 21, 2023
Very helpful course, thank you. It gives me easy tools for everyday any moment.
Acadia
October 14, 2023
Liz Cooper has brought something unusual and opened my eyes to the power of sound in controlling anxiety. Since I am a hiker, the point of our human bipedalism may be a reason why m rhythmic sounds help alleviate anxiety is totally understandable to me. The best sound effect for me was the low humming drum sounds 🩶🩶 that increased in frequency. Amazing! Slow pace Definitely helps calm and fast pace Definitely trigger faster heart rate and anxiety.
Heidi
October 6, 2023
Creative. Unique. Will listen again. Thank you
Julie
August 26, 2023
I love this course, it was so relaxful, useful and it brought me a lot of stillness and calm.
Teodora
August 15, 2023
Unbelievable sounds which moved me in incredible ways!
Robin
May 4, 2023
Such a great course. Gods and Goddess Bless!!! 🙏
Michelle
March 3, 2023
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!
GLORIA
July 7, 2022
Very relaxing 😌
Nicole
March 22, 2022
Very interested in learning more!
Kathy
February 26, 2022
Mike
December 6, 2021
Life changing. Floating snd relaxed like never before in a trance like chill
Valerie
November 23, 2021
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.
Ulrika
July 4, 2021
Wonderful course 🙌🏼🙏
Lisa
June 11, 2021
Well researched/ explored numberius sound methods - experiential as well.
Annick
June 6, 2021
Very Interesting. I loved this course.
Ashley
May 14, 2021
This course was so soothing and interesting!
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