My passion is to provide opportunities for you to connect into the present moment through vibrational sound, voice, your breath, and stillness. As a sound practitioner I support you in navigating into spaces of deep rest, self-discovery, relaxation, and self care; however that manifests for you in the soundscape. As a sound doula, in one on one sessions, I support you by creating restorative experiences in a co-collaborative format by offering customized sessions intuitively created to nourish feelings of well-being, balance, and restorative rest wherever you are in your life journey. If you can conceive it, we can create it! “Among the countless potential therapeutic benefits that sound offers- properly chosen and applied sounds can induce profound relaxation, whereby the human organism’s natural self-healing capabilities are set free to function, without the chronic inhibitions of stress and anxiety”- Thomas Orr Anderson, Sound Physicist I began my sound healing journey when I was faced with extreme stress in my previous career path, coupled with family challenges, mounting health concerns, an identity crisis, and existential faith crisis. I was in “the perfect storm” without a life preserver in sight and feeling as though I was drowning in overwhelm, confusion, fear, and anxiety. I was making toxic choices that affected my biofield and those around me. I felt drawn to seated meditation in the Soto Zen (zazen) and Theravada Insight meditation lineages ; supported with guided meditation and journaling. Journaling helped me navigate my innermost feelings and provided a sacred space to be raw and uninhibited; as well as creating a container to observe my limiting thoughts, beliefs, and delusions. These tools became part of my self-care tool box. I wanted to rewire my thinking and create new thought patterns. I wanted to understand the mental parameters of the reality I had been creating (to my benefit or detriment). Some of my patterns of thought came from years of unintentional familial programming and seemed hard to break. Some of my patterns were manifesting from my "shadow self", but I did not even know what that even was. I found myself restarting over and over after failing to break cycles. I remained persistent, through very difficult times. These tools helped me (and still do) to sort through my mental patterns and understand my many layers that are ever evolving. Meditation helped me to learn how to connect with my inner child and recognize my shadow -and love them both deeply. Rewiring mental patterns (neuroplasticity) can help change old patterns and move one closer to alignment with the healthiest version of themselves: spirit, soul, and body. As I drew closer to healing my inner child, I was reminded of my young self spending vast amounts of time in the woods listening to the trickling creeks, frogs, bird calls, crickets, cicadas, wind in the trees, and the crunch of dead leaves beneath my feet. I grew up loving to be wild and free- like the wind. My first magical soundscapes were while seated on the creek bank listening to all Mother Earth created. As an adult, vibrational sound meditation offered a place I could connect with sound as my focal point and enter into profound brain wave states that manifested deep feelings of peace, connection with the Divine, release, creative flow, recalibration, and in some scenarios support me in deep regenerative past trauma work. Each sound meditation offered something different about myself to explore. I taught myself how to use sound as a way to navigate my mind/subconscious and work with what I encountered to create harmony in my life. Sound meditation became a self-exploration practice that only required me to open up to the experience, allow things to unfold exactly how they are, be compassionate with myself, and repeat. Along my healing journey it has been the access to and application of a self-care support system that has aided my ability to recover from set-backs and help me maintain a level of balance. I practice seated meditation with others in meditation circles, retreats, and online. I also practice core energy body work through ecstatic dance, sweat lodges, drumming circles, and breathwork circles to engage in self healing of transmuting residue trauma energy. Once we help ourselves, we are in a better position to help others. Creating a self-care system enables us to receive the power boosts we need to feel connected to one another and supported! Check out the client testimony tab to read how others are using vibrational sound therapy as a nurturing tool in their self-care tool box. TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS · 5 Day Gong Ensemble, Recording Studio, Mike Tamburo 2024 · Gong Training Workshop, Atlanta, GA with Mike Tamburo 2024 · Gong Training, 4 Day Immersion, Mike Tamburo 2023 · Sound Healing III. Zacciah Blackburn & Dorothy Stone 2023 · Sound Healing II. Zacciah Blackburn & Dorothy Stone 2023 · 28 Day Shamanic Journeying. Denise & Meadow Linn 2022 · Sound Healing I. Zacciah Blackburn & Dorothy Stone 2022 · Reiki Holy Fire III practitioner training and certification 2021 · 100hrs Physics of Sound Advanced Training. Thomas Orr Anderson 2020-2021 · 200hrs Dig Deeper/School of Gong. Thomas Orr Anderson, Mike Tamburo, Dr. Mitch Nur 2020-2021 · 200hrs Sound Healing Certification, Sound Embrace, Danielle Hall 2019 · Top Secret Security Clearance Background Investigator · Bachelors of Science, Criminal Justice · Associates in Applied Science, Computer Science- · Active Duty Army Soldier, Honorable Discharge