My Reflection on Sound Healing as Practitioner and Receiver

Everything is vibration—our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions all hold frequency. Over years of working with vibration, I’ve learned that to truly shift how we think, feel, speak, and behave, we must go deep within ourselves and shift our frequency. I support clients in doing this with reiki, Thai massage, Holistic Balance Massage, and sound healing.

Most of you have experienced the first three on this list at some point, and I want to invite you to consider more deeply sound healing as an add-on or a full session, because sound can shake things out where physical touch can’t reach. While every modality I practice offers a vibrational shift, the way we experience that shift, and what we need in the moment, can look very different. One month it might be massage that helps you move and release, another it could be reiki that works subtly on your essence. The main difference between modalities is the perspective from which we experience vibrational healing. For example, Thai massage (and shiatsu), when I work with the integrated system, shifts the energy of the body by moving chi through the meridians or sen lines, opening areas that have been tight and balancing areas that have been depleted. You experience this through stretching, acupressure, compression, breathing, and movement.

Reiki as Vibration

Reiki is also vibrational healing, and I could talk all day about the miracles it provides—pain relief, improved sleep, spiritual connection, emotional healing, calming a busy mind, groundedness, support with grieving, healing from injury or surgeries, and the list goes on. Sound healing fits into this same category of vibrational therapy, yet it brings a very different experience. You might be wondering: what’s the difference between the vibrational healing of reiki and that of sound? They are distinct in how we feel and receive them.

Reiki works subtly on the layer of our being that is our essence. It is like drinking water when you’re thirsty—you feel refreshed, satisfied, full, and after a while, you forget you were thirsty at all. Reiki is giving your body what it needs to be balanced in a gentle, loving, and supportive way. It’s hard to show what reiki does, and I’ve struggled with this in photographs for my site even, because reiki is an internal experience—we go somewhere deep, and only you know what it feels like for you.

Sound Healing as Vibration

Sound, on the other hand, moves through the physical body in a tangible, experiential way. It is felt through the deep hum in your tissues and the resonance in your ears. The whole body becomes entrained to the sound and moves from physical experience into subtle body awareness and beyond. As I write this, I can see that from my experience as both practitioner and receiver, sound moves from the physical layer to the layer of our essence. And I think that for people who have a hard time surrendering in a reiki session, sound may be the key to unlocking that experience.

Sound has been part of my healing path for many years. I began with one crystal bowl about 12 years ago. It was the heart chakra bowl. I loved the sound and it remains my favorite played bowl in my collection. Then, every year following, I was gifted a crystal bowl until my set was complete. I was later drawn to Himalayan bowls, and over time, I’ve deepened my practice by integrating multiple sound instruments together. The bowls I use are hand-hammered in Nepal and India by master artisans, created within a long lineage of vibration, rhythm, and chanting. These bowls are traditionally made in ceremonial ways, where prayer, mantra, and intention are part of the process itself. They are not mass-produced instruments and you can feel the depth and resonance of this lineage when they’re played.

A full one-hour sound healing session is a deeply nourishing experience for the nervous system. Sound therapy has been scientifically studied for its calming and restorative effects on the brain, helping shift us out of stress and into a state of rest, regulation, and healing. Many people describe feeling grounded, spacious, and deeply relaxed, often in ways that are hard to put into words.

I love to receive sound healing as much as I like to give it, and that goes for everything I offer. I offer it because of my passion and love for helping others find relief in these stressful times.

If you’re ready to experience it for yourself, I invite you to book a session and tune into your healing.