My invitation to you…
Through sound, I invite you to experience yourself and your world differently.
When we think about sound, often we think about music —something pleasing to listen to, that relaxes us, inspires our mood or entertains us. Of course sound can be all those things…but sound actually goes far deeper…
Sound is a creative, harmonizing, energetic force that brings structure, patterns and processes into form.
In other words, Sound is the primordial field of in-formation.
Information, or in-formation is the process of bringing new potentialities and connections into being. This process is kinetic and vibratory in nature. And that which vibrates makes sound.
Sound has the power to bring potentialities aligned with your highest wellbeing into form. And it has the power to shift stuck energy, transmute, reorganize and reform it into healthy patterns.
I invite you to join me on an energy and paradigm-shifting journey through sound to connect the depths and heights of your heart-centered possibility.
Why should sound matter to you?
Sound is not just something you hear. It is a pulsing pressure wave that you feel. Sound energy can penetrate material form and cellular tissue bringing relief, nourishment, and realignment to physical structures, patterns and processes.
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Likewise, it offers the same healing benefits to subtler energetic patterns and processes of consciousness, that immerse, surround and extend from connected physical processes. These include things like the emotions, thoughts, intuitions and our sense of connection or purpose.
Just as as this collection of vibratory patterns and processes is nested within you, you also are nested within a collection of similar vibratory patterns and processes in the world around you.
This collection of vibratory patterns and processes that immerses and surrounds you is continually pushing and pulling as it tries to establish harmony and coherence.
Episodes of clashing or dissonance in this vibrating field of in-formation may be sensed as discomfort or disease on some level. Easing and realigning vibratory coherence through healing sounds which contain a spectrum of frequencies may bring relief and healing to energies both material and subtle.
Sound is healing you can experience directly
When we put this vibratory knowledge in context of ourselves, it becomes impossible to see ourselves or our world in separate fragments that have no relationship to one another.
Through knowing about and experiencing sound, we become increasingly aware that our body is not separate from our emotions, thoughts, intuitions or dreams.
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All of these vibratory frequencies from subtle to material are continually flowing, oscillating, and intertwining — gaining and losing density as they go. This vibratory process continually forms, transmutes and reforms the realities and perceptions of your holistic experience: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Nor are we separate from our world. Through knowledge and experience of sound, you expand your awareness that this same vibratory pattern is at play from microcosmic to macrocosmic levels. Vibratory processes that create subatomic particles perpetually scale up and gain complexity. Eventually they create atoms, molecules, cells, organ systems, beings, communities and so on and so forth until we get to cosmological levels. In harmonious, connected systems, complexity may increase — but connection to the fundamental pattern and pulse remains the same.
Through sound, phrases such as “it’s all connected,” suddenly become quite tangible. In fact, it is when this connection is lost, separated or fragmented, that patterns of dissonance or dis-ease can establish. Sometimes this may be referred to as “a block.” And that is exactly what it is. There is a block in the connected, harmonious flow of the system. Although nothing is static, depending on how habitual these patterns of dissonance have become over a given space or time, they may become harder to shift. As vibratory patterns repeat, they becomes stronger and more material. Another way of viewing them is like a groove or a rut that becomes deeper over time. The deeper it becomes, the harder it is to re-establish alignment.
But sound still offers a powerful, yet gentle, non-invasive modality to work with these patterns whether material or subtle, long-standing or fairly new.
How does sound work?
Sonic vibrations entrain one another. Meaning, they pull other vibrations of a similar frequency into alignment. (To see an example of this in action, watch how metronomes in a room that pulse at different rates at first begin to tick in synchrony.)
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Higher, or subtler frequencies of sound can work with the subtler aspects of the consciousness — like the mind or emotions — to transmute vibratory blocks that may eventually contribute or manifest into physical discomfort or dis-ease. Lower, slower or more intense frequencies of sound can work effectively with slower moving aspects of the field like the physical body. Sound energy can penetrate cellular tissue and reform crystalline structures of water in the body to nourish and harmonize physical structures and processes.
Like patterned energies of the bio-field (a term that encompasses the collective energies of body, emotions, mind, soul and spirit), sounds also are a collection of repeating patterns.
Each tone that you hear contains a repeating geometric sequence of sine waves . These nested sequences of sine waves include overtones and undertones which are layers of higher and lower frequencies within and around each pitch in a predictable geometric pattern. As a tone is played to focus on a particular area of the bio field, the connected subtler and denser energies around this area can be entrained by frequencies of the overtones and undertones.
My Approach
Sound is profoundly ecological. And that is the way I strive to work.
Ecology is all about the study of relationships and connections between things.
When we work together I aim to see you as a whole, I care about the details and I help you connect the dots and interweave the different aspects of you on your journey of well-being. I don’t see your emotions, physicality, thoughts, day-to-day circumstances, and past events as fragmented pieces that don’t interrelate. Sound teaches that all of these things interweave and all of these things matter.
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When I help facilitate a healing journey with you, I lead with curiosity about where you are, where you’ve been and where you want to go. I strive to hold all these aspects in reverence and encourage you to do the same.
Through different aspects of my training, I will offer you many different lenses through which to see yourself and your circumstances and I will offer you many different tools to help empower you. I am here to hold space, expand awareness, provide sound expertise and tools, but at the end of the day, you are sovereign in your own healing journey.
Just as sound connects us to ourselves and our environment, my practice is profoundly connected to the land on which it resides. (In fact my practice is named after the Goldfinches who flock to my garden! A flock of Goldfinches is known as a “Charm.”) I have worked overtime to build deep connections and relationships with the natural and more than human energies around my place of practice. As such, I use a great deal of elemental, nature-inspired and cosmological imagery in my meditations and guidance. I see these energies as foundational to harmonious alignment and encourage my clients to deepen their awareness of and relationship with vibratory patterns of nature as a part of their sound practice.
Training and Influences.
I am trained as a Level 2 Sound Healing Practitioner through the Sound Healing Academy International out of Bath, UK. But my love of sound as a medium for transformation grew from my studies in ecology and the field of consciousness. My work is inspired by cutting edge scientists and philosophers who bridge and integrate different disciplines in fields of physics, ecology, anthropology, music, consciousness studies, biology, spirituality and indigenous cosmologies.
While earning my Master’s Certificate in Ecology and Spirituality through the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, I was exposed to and continue to be inspired by the paradigm-shifting work of quantum and theoretical physics and some of its famous contributors like Albert Einstein, David Bohm and Werner Heisenberg. Other cross-disciplinary experts that are foundational to the way I perceive and work with sound are Rupert Sheldrake, Ervin Laszlo, Robin Wall Kimmerer, James Lovelock, Dean Radin and many, many more.
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The work of these pioneers break away from the convention of seeing the world as a collection of fragmented, static, machine-like ‘parts’ as proposed by scientific ideas over 400 years old. Instead, their discoveries, and vetted, peer-reviewed research show patterned tendencies toward connection, vibratory resonance and harmony throughout their different disciplines. The beautiful paradox is that many of these “cutting-edge” discoveries align with knowledge and practices held by ancient and indigenous cultures. Studying commonalities of some of these different cultures, their worldviews, practices and traditional ecological knowledge, how it aligns with some of the most cutting edge scientific theories and research, and how integration of this knowledge holds profound healing potential for people and the planet alike was the key question of this profound program.
Along with exploring various Indigenous cosmologies, through this program and other life experience I’ve explored traditions including Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Pantheism, Animism, Shamanism and Paganism. (Sound, vibration, resonance and harmony is a key presence in each of them). I draw from the beauty and wisdom these traditions have to offer and continue to study nature spirituality and indigenous Irish, Celtic beliefs and traditions with author, PhD candidate and Celtic Wisewoman, Danú Forest.
Services
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Transformational Sound Journeys
I specialize in individual Transformational Sound Journeys. These powerful sessions use the energy of sound to harmonize and integrate energies of the body, emotions, mind, soul and spirit. Sound works powerfully, yet non-invasively, to address many health challenges through all levels of the field enhancing coherence and wellbeing.
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Simply Sound Sessions
Simply Sound sessions offer deep relaxation and surrender through the energy of sound. Different from Transformational Sound Journeys, we won’t dive deeply to transform energetic patterns. Instead, you’re invited to simply relax and allow the sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, strings, drums, tuning forks and the voice to take you to where you want to go.
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Virtual Sound Reading & Recommendations
No appointment required! Using techniques gained from my training, i will assess your energy non-locally. Using these insights along with self-assessments you provide after, I will offer you a thorough reading including a card reading and customized sound recommendations to support your well-being.
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Sound Self-Care
I offer dozens of recordings and step-by-step guidance to help you learn and support your wellbeing with sound from the comfort of your own home.
Sessions at Charm are…
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Heart-opening
The heart emits the most powerful electromagnetic force in the body. Sound, like the heart, emits powerful energy. It can help transcend habits of mind, allowing the head to become aligned with the heart. When this happens, our individual vibrational signal becomes coherent and strong.
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Harmonizing
When our heart, mind, values, will, and actions are in tune — we thrive better at every level physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Life may push and pull us in many directions but sound energy can help bring us back into harmony.
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Unifying
Using the vibrations of sound — including intention — we’ll entrain and unify the energies of body, mind and soul into heart-centered coherence.
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Transforming
Pulse waves of sound help to release stuck energetic habits from the bio-field encouraging refreshed energetic flow inward and outward. Released energy is entrained, reformed and integrated to serve your highest intention for wellbeing.
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Fun facts about sound..
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Sound reduces stress.
Sound promotes a relaxation response which helps reduce stress and release repressed emotions. Ongoing stress and repressed emotions are a major factor in many chronic health conditions.
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Sound relaxes the brain waves.
Sound sessions help relax our brain frequency from beta to the alpha-theta zone. Alpha-theta zone is the optimum frequency for healing and creative thought.
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Sound promotes harmonious cell function.
Cell membrane receptors pick up on the vibrations of healing sounds plus intention. This affects the cell’s protein charge benefiting healthy function. Also, specific sounds and intervals stimulate the release of nitrous oxide, enhancing cell regeneration and the immune system response.
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Sound aligns & clarifies energy.
As an energy form that can be heard as well as felt, sound has the power to impact the denser energies of our physical form as well as the subtler energies of our thoughts and intuition. Colors, sensations or visions experienced during sound healing may reawaken us to our highest values.
