Sound Bath to Enjoy at Home

A 'Sound Bath' or 'Gong Bath' is a meditative artform as old as the hills where a practitioner uses a range of instruments and their intuition to create sounds that resonate with your whole body. Better sleep, deep relaxation and enhanced creativity are widely reported, and enjoying a sound bath after a Yoga session is an effective way to ease tension.

Our bodies naturally hold tension and can build trauma within as we internalise the difficulties of stressful situations. Holding onto this tension can lead to long term effects and a gong bath can help remove emotional blockages and work towards deep relaxation and increased inner strength.

What TO EXPECT FROM A SOUNDBATH

You can expect a series of gongs, sound bowls and percussive instruments artfully and evocatively played by an artist who creates sounds that our brains tune in to very quickly to reach a meditative state.

Any stable frequency evokes a cortal (brain) response and the brain synchronises at that frequency. The instruments and sounds played here are deliberately at a frequency that induces a beautiful dream like, meditative state. You might even fall asleep. There is no danger and there is no hocus pocus. You are not hypnotised and you not permanently altered.

Many people say that the chance to slow down and relax has given an opportunity for ideas and creative breakthroughs to happen.

5 TIPS TO ENJOY A SOUND BATH

• Try not to drink alcohol before a gong bath
• Turn off all gadgets
• Be comfortable
• Time it so you can fully relax afterwards
• Regular sessions have a cumulative effect

Cathy Eastburn Founder of 'Sarasa Sound', is a London-based sound therapist and musician. Cathy recorded a beautiful meditation for us to share with you, in the form of a Gong Bath in 2020. This incredible experience involves nothing more for you than turning the lights down, finding a quiet warm space and pressing play on the link below. So slip into something comfortable, grab some headphones and give us 60 minutes of your time to listen to the ethereal and healing sounds that Cathy plays.

Listen here:

Sri Lanka Sound Bath at Kalukanda House

Sri Lankan based sound healer Rachel Chanmugum suggests we should think of "sound as moving to you and through you. Let it move you, let it transform you, let it play with you, like the most caring mother would play with her child…

Trust and surrender are needed at a mind’s level, but a lot of things are indeed moving with the sound into your body at a microscopic level: your meridians and chakras are getting cleared of blockages, your nervous system is balanced, your blood flow is enhanced, your cells are revitalized, your brain waves are optimized, your heart beats becomes more coherent…

Although people usually relate to sound healing as a passive relaxation - done lying down without moving, it is a great practice to let the body loose and express itself the ways it wants. The body, via the subconscious, knows! For example, try to feel the micro-movements, which could be felt as a tingling or heating sensation, or as a wave of emotion rising for example.

It is also important and quite gratifying to connect with and follow what your intuition is whispering to you at any point of time and space. It could express itself from anything like a jolt of energy bolting from your left heel, to feeling like standing, dancing, humming, stretching, sneezing or crying (the list is not exhaustive!)"

Tune in here to Cathy Eastburn : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1uE8P2IgI&feature=youtu.be

About Cathy Eastburn

Cathy Eastburn, Founder of Sarasa Sound, is a London-based sound therapist and musician. She runs therapeutic gong baths and chanting sessions in London, both for groups and individuals.

“Gong baths are an immediate and effective way to achieve deep relaxation and enhance well-being. All you have to do is lie back and enjoy the healing sounds of magnificent large gongs, played alongside Himalayan singing bowls, quartz crystal singing bowls and Javanese bronze percussion.”

Cathy offers more "bite sized calm sessions" https://www.sarasasound.com/bitesizecalm