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CLASSES & EVENTS
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More information about the Singing Bowls, Gongs, and Sound Healing can be found below…
More information about
Bowl & Gong Sound Relaxation Experience
We all live busy, stressful lives and don't often take the time for Self-care. More and more scientific evidence shows how sound can reduce stress and enable healing of the Body and Mind. This is your opportunity to create a practice for yourself to become more peaceful and experience the inner joy that we are, naturally.
Please plan on arriving 15 minutes early to get your place set up.
Cash Only donations of $35 per person are accepted with deep gratitude.
Please bring a cushy mat, multiple yoga mats, blanket and pillows as being comfortable is very helpful to receiving the full enjoyment of the Meditative experience. An example of a good floor cushion is a Milliard Tri-Fold Cot Mattress - Size (31" x 75" x 3") available on Amazon.
Chairs are also available. Please let us know if you need a chair when making your reservation.
We must have at least 5 people signed up to hold an event. If we do not get at least 5 sign-ups the event will be canceled. Please be sure to let us know if you plan on attending.
Be sure to "Like" our new FaceBook Page as we continue to share information on Sound Healing, Frequency, and Meditation for personal growth and awakening.
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You can see what sound does to matter (and thus your body) at this site.
www.cymaticsource.com
TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS BACKGROUND
Origin
The use of Tibetan singing bowls dates back to 560BC, a time when Buddha was still teaching the enlightenment and the Buddhist doctrine. Despite the name of this bowl, its origin is unclear. These bowls are said to contain 5-9 metals. Some of these metals are gold, silver, tin, copper, lead, mercury and iron.
Some myths on the origin and composition of the singing bowls state that meteorites gotten from Tibet are also used to make this bowl. This meteorite is alleged to provide the healing power of the singing bowl.
This bowl is made by melting and purifying the metals. Then, the liquid metal is poured on a flat stone where it cools down a little. When cool, the metal sheet is skillfully hammered into the bowl shape. While working, mantras are repeatedly chanted, and this helps to program the singing bowls.
Each bowl creates a slightly different tone because of their slightly or widely varying metal composition. Furthermore, the sound of bowls differs, depending on the method used to make them. This can affect the purpose of the Tibetan singing bowl.
When used, the Tibetan singing bowls provides a feeling of calm that is essential while engaging in deep meditation. This calm is necessary when trying to achieve enlightenment. Hence these bowls are present in Buddhist temples, monasteries, and even yoga centers now.
Multiple singing bowls can be played at once to provide a tone that works with the vibration from other singing bowls. Sometimes, Tibetan singing bowls are called Himalayan singing bowls.
How Tibetan Singing Bowls Work
Everything in the world is vibrating at a specific frequency. This is the same as the human body and its organs. The cells, organs, and systems work in harmony and vibrate at the same rate.
The presence of illness, emotional problems, and even spiritual imbalance can be caused by a shift in frequencies. Striking the Tibetan bowl can emit a sacred vibration which enters the body and calibrates the vibration so that all the organs and systems in the body vibrate at the original frequency.
When this harmony of the body is achieved, the body can then begin to heal itself and reach balance.
Using Tibetan singing bowls qualifies as sound healing /therapy.
Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls
Tibetan bowls have been used for thousands of years for their physical and emotional benefits.
Physical
The physical benefits of these bowls include:
Pain relief
Using singing bowls can help to improve blood and fluid circulation
Singing bowls are useful for reducing stress and regulating blood pressure
These bowls can help to improve the functioning of the immune system.
Emotional
The emotional benefits of singing bowls include:
Creation of a feeling of relaxation
Healing of the subconscious mind
Provision of relief to anxiety and symptoms of anxiety.
Spiritual
Spiritual benefits of Tibetan Singing Bowls
Singing bowls provide mental clarity while meditating.
WHAT IS A GONG SOUND BATH?
Simply put, a Gong Sound Bath represents an ancient, multi-dimensional form of sound healing meditations that continue to be practiced today. Predating the Bronze Age, gongs have been used for meditation, healing, and communication purposes for nearly 6,000 years. As rightfully described by Gong Master Don Conreaux, "the gong is known as an instrument of transformational power" and translates to "an engine of power releasing tone resonance and complex harmonics that are transferred to the recipient." It is considered a bath as you are bathed in vibrations from the instruments.
Today, Gong Sound Baths may utilize one or several gongs, in addition to various other ancient and/or new age instruments. Journeyers who participate in these sacred sound healing meditations often receive (and manifest) experiences that oscillate between the intensely introspective and the extremely cosmic, often fusing into some combination of the two while helping you shed that which does not serve you. And that's just the beginning...
On a production level, a Gong Sound Bath works by participants laying down with their heads closest to the gongs, allowing the vibrations of the gongs to wash over them the crown to the root. This allows energy to be discharged from the fingers and toes. Participants are encouraged to lay in complete stillness to allow the vibrations the opportunity to move stagnant energies.
Gong Sound Baths may be hard to accurately describe to those who have not yet experienced them firsthand, but we can safely assert that they are indeed very strong, particularly during crescendos, and will leave you feeling refreshed and resonating with notable healing effects on your body, mind, and spirit.
HOW DOES A GONG SOUND BATH HEAL?
There are several levels that sound has the power to heal.
Vibrations - Everything vibrates at a particular frequency. People, places, things all produce a vibration. You are vibrating right now, singing a song that is your unique tune. Within you, each of your organs is vibrating at a specific frequency. Use the analogy of an orchestra and each of your organs is a different section. When each of these sections is tuned, it creates harmony within your body. Illness manifests when something within you is out of tune. Stress, trauma, anger, and environment are just a few factors that could cause your body to experience dis-ease. They can manifest as physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual disturbances.
Attunement - Each participant carries their own mis-alignment of vibrations within them as they lay in relaxation and the vibrations of the Bowls and Gongs wash over them. The Gong Sound Bath provides resonance for the dissonant vibrations to tune. The body instinctively wants to heal and knows with which frequency to sync effecting the body on a cellular level. By providing something to which to tune, the body can tune to the universal song and return to a state of harmony.
Entrainment - Entrainment is a method of synchronizing our brainwaves, which fluctuate, by producing a stable, solid frequency that our brains adjust to and then match. Your body contains an autonomic mechanism that syncs you up with strong, external rhythms, pulses or beats, a phenomenon known as entrainment. Actually, we entrain to the rhythms around us all the time, although we are not aware of it most of the time. Our bodies will sync with the vibrations from the instruments. Clearing away discord and creating harmony within your body.
Healing Aspects - This tuning has a myriad of effects on participants. Sound healings like gong sound baths create a sense of relaxation in the body reducing stress, inspire altered states of consciousness, is deeply rejuvenating for the body, and can help move emotional blockages from past and/or current trauma.
Ailments - Healing with sound can improve or cure many ailments including, but not limited to: Psychological/Psychiatric and behavioral disorders including autism, depression, learning disabilities, and developmental troubles Anxiety disorder
Stress
PTSD
Pain
Mood swings, or negative emotions, such as sadness, aggravation, anger, self-pity, and heartbreak.
Emotional healing - It can also bring about:
Clarity and balance
Relaxation
Improved memory and concentration
Improved sleep (both in quality and quantity)
A stronger immune system
Improved creativity
Heightened awareness, both of the self and the environment
WHAT TO EXPECT AT A GONG SOUND BATH
Visions - Journeyers have recounted psychedelic-like experiences in the form of visions and experiences in the ether. Visions may lift you up and carry you on a journey down your ancient path, deep into the present, further into your life or lives path, or just around this amazing universe.
Creative Problem Solving - Gong Sound Baths are a form of meditation. As you can stay present with the journey and clear your mind of chatter, you may experience moments of epiphany when inspiration or solutions present themselves. These thoughts are good to acknowledge in order commit them to memory, but you are encouraged to not follow them too far down the rabbit hole and to rejoin the meditation. In these cases, it is nice to have a journal to write down these thoughts.
Emotional Healing - Our emotions are vibrations. The harmonics of the sound healing hold a space for our emotional selves to be expressed and disharmony can tune to the overall harmony of your body. You may laugh, cry, feel angry or scared, as the journey penetrates your emotional body. Many experience a sense of relief and even at times bliss after a sound healing.
Physical Discharge - Gong Sound Baths are some of the most powerful, intense, and loud sound healings. It is common for the body to vibrate, even to the point of shaking, as the vibrations course over and through you. Often referenced as a type of exfoliation, you may experience debris such as stress and tension being scrapped from your body as the vibrations clear your body. The strength of the sound waves and overall vibrational forces generated during our Gong Sound Baths can activate stagnant/tight energies dwelling throughout the body. Some experience an energetic discharge in the form of shaking throughout the body, often out of the hands and the feet.
Transpersonal - Tap into the space of universal vibrations and tune to the cosmic song of consciousness.
(Information from Vinyasa Productions)
Contact Celeste Shakti Hill to reserve a space
(530) 295-7264
Email: celesteh@rdhill.com
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