Sound Healing

Yesterday evening, I had the privilege of attending my first ever sound healing concert. The best way to describe the concert is one where you make yourself as comfortable as possible, on blankets, bolsters and other things, so that you may recline and allow sounds to wash over you. These sounds are coming from a collection of crystal and metal singing bowls, tingshas and bells, didgeridoos, rain sticks and ocean drums and a host of other earthy-sounding objects of glass, wood and metal. The crystal bowls made the most reverberant sounds, whose waves traveled to my very core. I had some sensational experiences while lying there on the floor, I became very warm (I was cold when I walked in), I felt sensations and tingling in my hands and at times I felt almost bowled over (even thought I was already lying down) by the sounds. At a point during the concert, I also felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen, which seemed to pulsate in time with the sound waves (at the end, I came to find out that others had similar experiences, but in different parts of the body). I most enjoyed the dissonance followed by slippery harmony when each bowl was sounded in conjunction with others. My ears were taken on a journey of ebbing and flowing sounds that bounced and shimmered about the room in a smooth wave. By the middle of the concert, I found it difficult to lay still, as I was sweltering, and my mind was racing with the possibilities of using some of these bowls for my own choreographic purposes. After the concert, Robert, the musician, suggested that some of us try having a bowl sounded off directly on our person. I had one placed on my lower back, as I have had a chronic pain in my left QL for years. The vibrations felt lovely. I was skeptical that my pain would be gone this morning, however, my back has felt pretty good all day! So, I guess Dr. Funkenstein was right: "Whatever part of your body it is, I want you to lay it on your radio...funk not only moves, it can remove!"

Have a lovely day!

~Cara