Singing bowls offer an intriguing combination of art and science, featuring soothing tones and vibrations said to align both left and right brain hemispheres for relaxation and mental clarity.
Stress causes our bodies to stop vibrating at their optimal frequency. Vibrational sound therapy retunes mind, body and spirit for peace and wellbeing.
Reduces Stress
Singing bowl vibrations resonate with our natural frequencies, creating harmony within and bringing our body back into balance. This allows both physical and emotional bodies to relax, relieving any stored tension that might prevent healing. When relaxed, immunity becomes stronger to fight off diseases or infections more effectively.
A singing bowl offers soothing vibrations to help reduce stress and promote relaxation, decreasing pain levels. As physical tension relaxes, energy pathways clear, allowing blocked energy to move more freely around the body resulting in better circulation, energy levels rising higher, improved sleep patterns, overall well-being benefits, as well as overall balance and well-being benefits.
At a sound therapy session, practitioners use a mallet to strike the singing bowl with a mallet before placing it on specific areas of the body known to store energy such as the forehead (healing chakra), heart (solar plexus) or abdomen where energy stores exist. An XL bowl session can especially helpful at relieving stress while strengthening vagus nerve connections and correcting sympathetic dominance that can cause chronic health complaints like fatigue, tight muscles and low immunity.
Combining singing bowls with binaural beats creates a powerful impact on the brain. By exposing two slightly different frequencies to each ear, your brain produces a third frequency which mimics relaxing waves. Together these soothing sounds of singing bowls and binaural beats can facilitate deep meditation and relaxation, helping reduce stress, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms.
Not everyone finds a session deeply relaxing; some may experience emotional lighterness or even euphoria afterward. Many report experiencing an overall sense of clarity after having their energy released from tight and stressed bodies to flow freely through chakras and aura, creating an overall sensation of relaxation and ease.
Improves Circulation
As your body begins to unwind, the sound and vibrations from the bowls stimulate blood flow around tight muscles or joints bringing fresh oxygen and nutrients directly to them, helping release any blockages and improve overall wellness.
Vibration therapy has also been shown to promote the parasympathetic nervous system and thus increase immune function, making vibration therapy an invaluable aid for combatting stress-induced health conditions like chronic pain, headaches and fatigue.
As well as improving overall wellness, this treatment has also been known to clear energy blocks and promote spiritual well-being. The sound waves produced by vibrating bowls can reach Theta brainwave frequencies associated with intuition and deep meditative states – this allows your mind and body to enter deep states of relaxation while relieving anxiety or anger and improving concentration, memory retention and sleep patterns.
Esther has been practicing music professionally for more than 35 years. When the Covid-19 lockdown forced her out of performance, Esther turned to vibrational sound therapy – learning from a master Tibetan singing bowl instructor how best to help others find physical and emotional healing through this ancient art form. Esther uses her classical musicianship and healing abilities in this profound sound-based relaxation service using vibration to promote holistic wellbeing on every level.
Vibratory bowls create harmonic resonance that penetrates deep into tissues and bones, stimulating your brain and body’s natural healing capabilities. A client lies comfortably on a massage table with eyes closed as bowls move over them soothingly – feeling their soothing vibrations move from one bowl to the next!
Each bowl possesses its own individual sound and harmonic frequency that can be tuned to specific areas of the body or chakras. A single bowl may be used, or multiple can be combined together for therapeutic sound therapy sessions. Our singing bowls are handmade by individual families in Northern India and Nepal using the closest adaptation of an ancient tradition; every bowl takes between 30 hours and more for production before being rigorously inspected for sound, pitch, timbre measurements thickness weight quality controls points etc.
Decreases Anxiety
The relaxing sounds of singing bowls help relieve feelings of anxiety. Your heart rate should begin to slow and cortisol production decrease, as does stress hormone production. Plus, singing bowls promote deep relaxation that may even bolster immunity systems!
According to the Academy of Sound Healing, vibrational sound therapy stimulates parasympathetic nerve activity while strengthening vagus nerve function; this combination may correct sympathetic dominance and associated health complaints (such as feeling wired but tired).
Studies have demonstrated the benefits of singing bowl meditation to reduce overall levels of tension, anxiety and depression as well as to decrease physical pain levels and enhance your mood. Furthermore, its resonating tones serve as an anchor point during meditation that makes entering and maintaining a state of meditation simpler and longer-lasting.
One study investigated the effects of singing bowl sound meditation on mood, tension, and anxiety among adults without prior experience with this form of mindfulness practice. Participants were divided into groups based on whether or not they had experienced singing bowl meditations previously (Bowl Experienced or Naive), with those reporting less tension pre- and posttreatment showing significant decreases on POMS Tension Scale as well as decreases on both HADS Anxiety Depression scores postmeditation.
In another study, cancer patients participated in a 20-minute Himalayan singing bowl meditation session and researchers discovered that its sound brought faster and deeper relaxation compared to simple supine relaxation techniques.
Himalayan singing bowls are ancient instruments crafted from an exotic combination of metals that when struck or played produces an intoxicating sound when struck or played upon. Used extensively throughout spiritual and healing practices for centuries, singing bowls remain an indispensable instrument.
While singing bowls offer numerous physical and mental advantages, there are certain precautions you should take prior to engaging in sound healing sessions with them. If you have metal implants such as pacemakers or coronary shunts that could be affected by vibrations from singing bowls (pacemaker/coronary shunt/pacemaker), singing bowls should be avoided due to vibration causing these to move or malfunction; similarly if you suffer from physical/emotional traumas like PTSD or TBI it’s wise to consult both doctors/therapists prior to engaging this treatment option.
Improves Sleep
Sound bowls, used as part of massage therapy, can help relieve tight muscles and release energy from specific parts of the body. Their vibrations are soothing enough to soothe your nervous system but strong enough to penetrate deep into bones to clear blockages you cannot reach with your hands. Furthermore, sound bowls create a harmonizing vibration that moves throughout your entire system, leading to overall well-being for mind, body, and spirit.
Studies into singing bowls as an aid for relaxation may not exist in abundance, yet those that have been completed show promising results. Researchers discovered that singing bowls use vibrations called “entrainment” to change our mental states from active, alert beta waves (beta waves) into more relaxing alpha waves and theta waves (alpha/theta waves), stimulating our parasympathetic nervous system responsible for rest and digestion functions in our body.
The bowl’s sound can provide the ideal acoustic backdrop to meditation, often combined with breathing exercises, stretches or yoga poses to further your relaxation. Meditation with bowl sounds has been shown to improve quality of sleep, reduce anxiety and depression levels, ease physical or psychological strain and promote spiritual well-being – plus lower blood pressure while helping asthmatics breathe easier!
One of the best ways to experience sound healing is through singing bowl meditation. This practice can easily fit into your weekly schedule: find a quiet and comfortable space, place the bowl before you and gently strike or rub a mallet over its rim to produce a resonating sound; close your eyes, take a deep breath and focus solely on that sound – letting any thoughts drift away while simultaneously returning your focus back on its vibrations.
Most people will benefit from using this technique, as it brings peace and deep relaxation. However, those with certain health conditions should be wary of potential side effects; those living with epilepsy should not undergo this therapy as it could trigger seizures.
