My Story With Sound: How I Found This Work
21 August 2026
I didn't arrive at sound work through a straight line. Before this, I was deep in research, a PhD scholarship in economics, the kind of thinking that lives mostly in the head. Music had always been there underneath it, classical piano since childhood, but I didn't yet think of sound as something that could reach places thinking couldn't.
Why Sound Reaches Differently Than Talking Does
That changed slowly, through my own experience of it. What I noticed, both in myself and later in the people I worked with, is that sound seems to offer a different route into difficult material than talking does. Talk therapy is enormously valuable, and I want to be clear I'm not positioning sound work as a replacement for it. But there's something about a tuning fork or a singing bowl that doesn't ask the mind to explain itself first. The body can respond before the story has been fully told.
Some of what I've studied since points to a few possible reasons why: brainwave states shifting with certain frequencies, fascia (the connective tissue running through the whole body) responding to vibration differently than it responds to touch alone, the parasympathetic nervous system settling when the body senses it's safe to. I hold all of this as a framework I've found useful, not settled medical fact, and I'd encourage anyone curious to look into the research themselves rather than take my word for it.
What I've Actually Witnessed in Sessions
What I can speak to more confidently is what I've witnessed in the room. People arriving braced, and leaving a little less so. Not because anything was fixed in an hour, but because the body was given a kind of permission it doesn't always get elsewhere, to be affected by something gentle, and to let that be enough for one session.
I think of sound as a gentle elevator rather than a shortcut. It can help someone move into a quieter state where their own system has room to do what it already knows how to do. That's the work now: private sessions, group circles, and increasingly, teaching other practitioners to work this way too.
If any of this resonates, you're welcome to read more about my background, or go straight to booking a session.
Adapted from a piece I originally wrote for Brainz Magazine.
