Sound Healing Practitioner
Sound Healing Practitioner
Group Sound Baths and Private Sessions
Experience the transformative power of sound healing with Callista's sessions, available in both private and group formats. Utilizing a variety of sound instruments, including crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, chimes, and gongs, each session is designed to promote relaxation and healing. To enhance the experience, Callista incorporates Reiki techniques along with Daoist stone and crystal medicine, creating a holistic approach that nurtures both body and spirit.
Private Practice: 75-minute session @ $150
Cash or Venmo
24-hour cancellation policy
$40 late cancellation fee
Group Sound Bath: Contact me to discuss fee structure options
Potential Benefits of Sound Healing
While some mechanisms are still being researched, many people report significant psychological and physiological benefits from the vibrational medicine practice sound healing.
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Reduces stress and anxiety
The deeply relaxing tones can calm the nervous system, lower cortisol levels, and help quiet an overactive mind.
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Enhances meditation
The sustained sound provides a focal point for the mind, helping practitioners to enter a deeper, more centered state of meditation.
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Improves sleep quality
By promoting a state of deep relaxation and guiding brainwaves toward delta frequencies, sound baths can help alleviate insomnia and improve overall sleep.
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Balances energy and chakras
Practitioners believe that the vibrations help to clear blockages and restore the natural flow of energy through the body's chakras, or energy centers.
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Boosts mood and mental clarity
Many people experience a sense of mental clarity, renewed energy, and emotional release after a session.
Sound Healing Instruments
Callista’s sound baths may include a combination of any of the following vibrational medicine instruments:
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Paiste Gongs - Chiron, Jupiter, Synodic Moon, Sidereal Moon, Venus, and Sidereal Day.
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Grotta Sonora Mini Cosmo plates.
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Martin Bläse Planet Cosmic Sound Tubes
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Martin Bläse Kult-Ur-Sprung - Planet Trigons - Polished and Natural Bronze
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Dieter Shrade Crystal Pyramids
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Koshi Chimes
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Zaphir Chimes
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Bar Chimes
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Crystal Singing Bowls
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Himalayan Singing Bowls
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Monolina by Feeltone
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Sacred Forest Crystal Harp
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Rain Sticks, Ocean Wave, and Thunder Drums
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Sacred Rattles, Peruvian Whistling Vessels
Crystal Singing Bowls
Crystal bowls are instruments made of quartz crystal that produce resonant, ethereal tones used in sound healing, meditation, and other wellness practices. Crystal singing bowls are primarily made from pure quartz crystal sand (silica) that is heated to over 4000°F, melted, and spun into shape in a centrifugal mold. The process creates a highly resonant, glass-like bowl, which can then be finished with different techniques to create various types of bowls. Frosted bowls are the most common, made by sandblasting the bowl after it's formed, while alchemy bowls are enriched with other elements like gemstones or precious metals. The healing is said to occur from the powerful vibrations they create, which are believed to interact with and balance the body's energy fields.
How Crystal Bowls Create Sound Healing
The therapeutic properties of crystal bowls are based on the concepts of vibration, resonance, and entrainment.
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Vibration and Resonance
When a bowl is struck or rubbed with a mallet, its quartz crystal structure vibrates intensely and produces a clear, sustained tone. This vibration is not only heard but also felt throughout the body, as the sound waves travel through the skin, tissues, and bones. This allows the bowl's frequency to resonate with the body's own natural vibrations.
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Brainwave Entrainment
The soothing sound waves can influence brain activity by shifting brainwave states from an alert beta state to more relaxed alpha and theta states. This is known as brainwave entrainment, and it helps to induce deep relaxation.
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Nervous System Activation
The calming effect of the bowls can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the body's "rest and digest" functions. This counters the "fight or flight" response, leading to a decrease in heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormones.
Himalayan Singing Bowls
The therapeutic effects are attributed to the sound and vibrations that resonate with the body and brain. Himalayan singing bowls are primarily made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Some traditional hand-beaten bowls may contain small amounts of other metals like iron, zinc, and silver, the "seven metals" (gold, silver, copper, zinc, tin, iron, and mercury/lead), though metallurgical analysis doesn’t always support a representation of that mix.
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How Himalayan Singing Bowls Create Sound Healing
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Vibrational Resonance
When a bowl is struck or its rim is circled with a mallet, it creates a complex sound wave that produces powerful vibrations. This physical sensation is believed to stimulate the body's energy meridians and promote relaxation by resetting the body's "resonant frequency" at a cellular level.
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Brainwave Entrainment
The low-frequency beating sounds from the bowls are thought to help synchronize brainwave activity. By moving the brain from a stressed beta state to a more relaxed alpha or meditative theta state, the sounds encourage a deeper state of calm.
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Parasympathetic Response
Sound baths activate the body's parasympathetic nervous system, which controls the "rest and digest" functions. This counters the "fight or flight" stress response by lowering heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormones like cortisol.
Gong Therapy
Gong sound therapy is a meditative practice that uses the deep, resonant vibrations of a gong to promote relaxation, stress reduction, and healing. Often called a "gong bath," the experience involves being immersed in sound waves while lying down comfortably. The practice has roots in ancient Asian traditions and has become a popular modern wellness technique. Most of the gongs I play are made by Paiste. Paiste gongs are made from a bronze alloy called nickel silver, which contains copper, nickel, and zinc. The therapy works on the principle of sonic entrainment, where the body and brain synchronize with the frequency of the gong's sound waves. The process can shift brainwaves from an active beta state to a more meditative alpha or theta state.
How Gongs Create Sound Healing
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Vibrations and Water Content
The human body is approximately 70% water, which allows the sound waves from the gong to travel efficiently through tissues, organs, and cells.
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Nervous System Activation
The vibrations stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls the body's "rest and digest" functions.
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Energetic Balance
In some healing systems, the vibrations are believed to unblock and rebalance the body's energetic centers (chakras) and meridians.
Meditative Journeys
How Meditative Journeys Work
By creating vivid mental pictures, sounds, and other sensory details, meditative journeys can have a calming effect on the nervous system. The brain responds similarly to even just the imagining of an action and actually performing it, which can boost confidence and motivation. While the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, visualization is the creation of your own mental images, whereas guided imagery involves following specific instructions from a practitioner or recording. At the beginning of a sound bath, or sound healing session, after comfort instructions are given, I will often lead the participants to suggest a state of openness and receiving in their minds, hearts and body. To invite each to set an intention and then let go trusting the experience that what you need is what you will get. If you have difficulty getting into a meditative state on your own, often a guided visualization at the outset of a sound healing journey will help you glide into an easier trance-like state. Open to your own inner experiences, in a sound healing session you will never step into the same medicine river twice. Vibrational Medicine is brilliant for getting into a state for receiving rebalancing/corrective energetic attunements thereby rejuvenating your entire being.
Contact me if you are interested in working with me or have other questions or comments you would like to share.