Every now and then at the end of the season my yoga teacher decides to do something different apart from yoga classes. She brings out her incredible amount of singing bowls and with that we make something like a 'sound journey'.
All of this does sound a bit too much on the alternative side for me, but on the other hand it does make a lot of sense. The human body is made around 90% out of fluid, so when you bring in sounds (aka vibrations, because that is all that sounds are...vibrations in the air) it is not that strange that your body will react into it in some kind of way.
The cool thing what she does in these classes is walking about with these singing bowls and all other kinds of instruments. And especially those other instruments were the ones that I was impressed by the most.
The classic bowls
These are the ones you know from lot of meditation of yogi kind of sessions. You can activate them with a more firm stick of with a fluffy one, dependent on how sharp you want the sound to be.
Also walking around with them is easy and you can activate the sound closer to someones head. And that gives a ton of extra effect in there!
The gong
But my teacher also had a ton of other stuff with her. For instance this gigantic gong. The cool thing about this is that you always think this will just turn into a big 'boommmmm', but the more interesting this is that you can change the sounds in there.
The are slow and they are deep and they sound like the sounds the whale would make underwater if you ask me.
These are the different types of 'tool's you can use for this. Every stick making a totally different sound.
This dude explains it really well on how this works with making the sounds and I just find this really cool. The intensity of this sounds when you are in a room is really just something else.
Intense I would call it.
Sonic Energy steel tongue drum
What she also brought along was one of these steel tongue drums. A lot less deeper sound, but as she told me it was 430 Herz and is just the sounds that brings the most relaxation if you ask me. You also have those in higher tones for getting more energetic, but those are not for me at all.
Here you can see a bit of the options in sound in there. Again really chill!
With the combination of all of these instruments and even more this whole sounds session was super intense. The disclaimer here is that you shouldn't do all of this with someone who is just randomly hacking these instruments. The vibrations really can have effect on the body and how you feel and that means it also can cause some harm even.
So handle with care! But my experience here was that this something fantastic to do for a big reset every now and then if you are a fan of sounds and are willing to give it some time to let it all sink in entirely.