How Sound Therapy Works

Sound therapy is the practice of using sound waves to positively affect our health. Historical and ongoing scientific studies reveal that sound baths can decrease blood pressure, heart rate, cortisol levels, reduce pain, ease anxiety, and decrease brain wave speed. Cultures throughout the ages and around the world have recognized these benefits, and physics explains why it works.

Everything that exists is in a state of vibration, and that includes the cells in our bodies. Sound wave vibrations don't just hit our eardrums resulting in our ability to hear sounds, sound waves also hit our bodies, causing cells throughout our entire bodies to vibrate. During a soothing sound bath, parts of our bodies that might be stressed, injured, in pain, neglected, or disconnected from our health are vibrated by the sound waves, which makes our central nervous system and brain more aware of them. This awareness allows the body to focus healing where it is needed. The vibrations of the soothing and harmonic sound waves during a sound bath travel from one cell to another, through the organs, body systems and brain, and the effect is that the whole body becomes synchronized, more connected with itself, spreading the health of natural resonances throughout all organs and systems. These soothing connections that travel through our bodies also apply to what’s in our minds, and they can soothe fears and emotional pain or grief, bring clarity to confusion, or elevate our level of consciousness, and peace and well-being.

Rebecca Wierks uses her Sound Therapy education from Sound Medicine Academy as well as her background as a Nurse Practitioner and Musician to apply the principals of physics, sound and healing to her sound baths and sound therapy sessions with clients and participants.