CHOOSING A TEACHER
Red flags in sound healing
Five things worth noticing before you book a session or pay for a training. The term itself is the first one.
Five things worth noticing before you book a session or pay for a training. The term itself is the first one.
The instruments hold your attention. The rest is yours.
Nobody in the room can promise one.
So is sound journey. Both say what happens.
You do this with your eyes closed.
None of these proves anything by itself. Each one is a reason to ask another question.
Healing names an outcome. Put it in front of sound and you have claimed that the sound heals you, or that the person holding the mallet does.
People get there three ways. They never questioned the word. They questioned it and kept it, because the search traffic is there. Or they believe it, and that is the one to walk away from.
A healer needs somebody to be healed. Set that up and the person lying down is a passive recipient. Alexandre Tannous makes the same case in his own piece on the term.
One practitioner using the word is one decision. A training using it hands that decision to everybody who pays.
Yoga Alliance will not take it either. Submit an outline carrying therapy or healing and the system rejects it. I have tried. So a sound healing training claiming Yoga Alliance approval is claiming something that cannot be true.
Teach the word, by all means. Students meet it the day they leave. Ten minutes of a course. That it is missing from most of them is the flag.
Seven bowls, C at the root and up the scale to B at the crown. It is on every chart and every label.
The chakra traditions are old. Equal temperament is about a hundred years into general use. The pairing was made in living memory, by people selling sets of seven.
Teaching the arrangement is fine, because students meet it everywhere. Teaching it as something somebody discovered is the flag.
There is a great deal more to where these bowls come from and how a set of seven gets assembled. Read what a crystal bowl is
A loop pedal records a phrase and repeats it on a fixed cycle. It fills a room inside thirty seconds.
A repeating cycle gives the mind something to predict. The deep states arrive when there is nothing left to predict, so people stay near the surface. They often enjoy it, which is why the pedal keeps selling.
There is presumably a way to use one well. I have not heard it.
Sound is taken in with the eyes closed. Everything arranged for you to look at stops working the moment the session starts.
When the robes and the styling are carrying the presentation, ask what is carrying the session.
An instrument earns its place by what it does to the air. Buy fewer and better. Two you know completely will hold a room that eight will not.
Ordinary clothes, an ordinary floor, and instruments chosen for what they do to the air in a room.
The opposite of all of the above is somebody who calls it what it is and puts the work back where it belongs, which is with you.
Anybody who has thought about it has an answer ready, and the answer tells you more than the question does.
A practitioner who cannot name a limit anywhere in their own lineage has not looked at it.
This is the one that separates people. Learn from somebody who knows enough to know they do not know enough.
The quickest way to know what this is when nobody is performing at you is to lie down in a room while it happens. Gatherings run around Phoenix most months.
The trainings and the online course are on the sound page, and every one of them spends time on this.