By Kim Polvi, MLIS, HTCP

I was intro­duced to Healing Touch by a lit­tle gnome named Marsha Read. Some years ago I approached Marsha, who I knew through attend­ing her work­shops called “Sounds Wonderful To Me”. I asked her if she would guide me on my jour­ney to becom­ing a sound healer. Marsha, being Marsha, said “yes”. She told me, how­ever, that I also needed to learn about the human energy sys­tem and rec­om­mended an upcom­ing Level 1 Healing Touch class. I loved it and sub­se­quently went on to obtain certification.

I stud­ied sound heal­ing prac­tices as I was study­ing Healing Touch. I exper­i­mented with the Tuning Forks and the Spiral Meditation and called the ses­sion a “Tuned Spiral”. I added the sounds of the crys­tal or Tibetan bowls to the Chakra Connection. I used vocal ton­ing to bal­ance the chakras. As I prac­tised I noticed how quickly the energy shifted when Healing Touch was com­bined with sound. I real­ized that sound is the soap that scrubs away our “klin­gons” – those old habits, pat­terns and stuff that no longer serve us, yet keep hang­ing on – and Healing Touch is the rinse cycle. Both sound and Healing Touch have the power to move deeply into our phys­i­cal, emo­tional, men­tal and spir­i­tual bod­ies. The com­bi­na­tion of the two cre­ates a syn­er­gis­tic, res­onate fre­quency which can shift and trans­form old ener­gies into new.

Marsha and I are now busi­ness part­ners as well as friends. We prac­tice sound heal­ing using Natural Sound. We use nat­ural instru­ments such as our voice, drums, rat­tles, tun­ing forks, or crys­tal and metal singing bowls to remove blocks and restore har­mony and bal­ance to the energy sys­tem. Our bod­ies are nat­ural recep­tors for sound vibra­tions because we are 70% water and sound trav­els five times faster through water than it does through the air. The crys­talline struc­ture of our blood and bones bonds with the quartz matrix of the crys­tal bowls and the vibra­tions we cre­ate through vocal ton­ing set­tle deeply into the core of our being. When sound is com­bined with Healing Touch the ener­gies of both are amplified.

When I prac­tice a Chakra Connection I use the crys­tal bowls to open the ses­sion. I play the bowls for 2-3 min­utes and then allow them to silence. I do the steps of the Chakra Connection to the hips. I then play the bowls for another 2-3 min­utes and allow them to silence. I do the steps of the Chakra Connection to the high heart and then stop to play the bowls again, allow­ing them to come to silence in between. I play them twice more before clos­ing the ses­sion. I’ve learned that each suc­ces­sive round with the bowls takes the client deeper into relax­ation and calm.

Silence in sound heal­ing is essen­tial. When we cre­ate sound fre­quen­cies for heal­ing we want those fre­quen­cies to res­onate deeply into our cel­lu­lar struc­ture for it is deep within that change hap­pens. Silence is the key to allow­ing this change to occur.

When I com­bine tun­ing forks with Healing Touch I use the forks as an exten­sion of my fin­gers and hands. I often work with two forks and fol­low a Healing Touch sequence. As I work through the sequence I look for any dif­fer­ences in the vibra­tions between the forks. For exam­ple, does one fork hold the vibra­tion longer? Does the energy flow freely between the forks? How do the forks respond on dif­fer­ent sides of the body?

When I com­bine chakra chimes with the Chakra Spread the fre­quency cre­ated by the chimes matches each chakra. The added boost of the sound assists in open­ing the field and facil­i­tates deeper heal­ing. When I com­bine vocal ton­ing with Hands Still it can eas­ily shift a stub­born block­age. Adding sound to your Healing Touch prac­tice doesn’t need to be dif­fi­cult. Vocal ton­ing is a sim­ple tech­nique that costs noth­ing and can even be done silently. Some peo­ple have a Tibetan bowl they aren’t sure how to incor­po­rate into their heal­ing prac­tice. What about that set of mara­cas you brought back from Mexico last year? Don’t worry, just give it a try. Set your inten­tion and let go of the out­come. Give your­self PERMISSION. TRUST the expe­ri­ence. ALLOW the process to hap­pen.
Sound heal­ing is not music ther­apy. You don’t have to be a trained musi­cian to use this pow­er­ful heal­ing tool. Your voice, because it car­ries your con­scious­ness, can facil­i­tate your most pow­er­ful heal­ing. We’ve given away the power of our voice to pro­fes­sional musi­cians. We think if we can’t sing on key and per­fectly then we won’t sing at all. Well, I say, “POOF to that”! Sing when­ever you get the chance and make a joy­ous noise! But make sure if you are with a client that they have granted you permission.

The Healing Touch sequence teaches us to always talk to our client and ask their per­mis­sion for touch. This is a good time to talk about adding sound to the heal­ing ses­sion to deter­mine if they are open to the expe­ri­ence. Once you have agree­ment be gen­tle with your voice or your tools. No one wants an aggres­sive drum beat bring­ing them straight up off the table dur­ing the ses­sion! Remember to allow silence between sounds and lis­ten to what your tools are telling you about the energy.

Welcome to the PTA Club – Permission, Trust, Allow!!