Haven Yoga and Meditation explains the many benefits of sound healing in meditation or yoga practice.
Sound healing using singing bowls is an effective and proven modality that uses vibrational sound to help reduce stress, alter consciousness and create a deep sense of peace, well-being and better health.
Sound has also been shown to be a vital part of our healing process following illness, injury or surgical intervention.
Although there are many benefits from regularly incorporating singing bowls and sound healing in your meditation or yoga practice, here are our top five:
1. They are relaxing
First and foremost, singing bowls and sound baths are most often used to help guide the body and mind into a state of relaxation. The crystal singing bowls that we use in the Haven Yoga Mediation Studio allow a person to enter a deep, immersive, full body listening experience that can bring balance, relaxation and a sense of calm to your whole being.
2. They stimulate calm brain waves
When the brain receives stimulus either through the eyes, ears or any other of our senses, it emits an electrical charge, a cortical evoked response. If the brain receives a repeating stimulus, it responds by synchronising these electric cycles to the same rhythm. This is called Frequency Following Response, or, FFR. FFR is used in sound healing to stimulate special brainwave frequencies that are associated with positive well-being.
These are the binaural beats, a sonic phenomenon that is created when two sine waves (single tones) of slightly different frequencies are played together, one in the left ear and the other in the right.
3. They help to reduce pain
When we relax with the sounds of the singing bowls, our concentration improves and our emotional tensions and blockages are eased. The sound with its vibrations can ease mental or emotional pain including low self-esteem, worries, fear, anger, anxiety, depression and insomnia.
4. They can boost overall well-being
A fundamental principle of sound healing is that our body supports an underlying energy field that generates symptoms of emotional, physical and mental behaviours; if we change the energy field we change the resulting behaviours. Correcting and rebalancing this energy can enhance the resonant frequency of our body, restoring balance, health and harmony to our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves. The bowls help us sleep better and then manage our daytime in a more relaxed and settled way.
5.Assists with chakra cleansing and balancing
The notes of the crystal singing bowls correspond with each of the major chakras. Chakras can be described as energy centres of the body. Each energy centre has unique aspects and corresponds with specific tones of the musical scale. Keeping these centres in balance results in health and harmony throughout one’s body and mind.
Experience the Benefits of Sound Baths with Haven Yoga and Meditation.
We integrate crystal singing bowls into our meditation sessions. Book into one of our sessions here: Book A Session.
If you are located in Murarrie, Cannon Hill, Morningside, Balmoral, or Tingalpa, please stop by our yoga studio at 16 Queensport Road South, Murarrie.
