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December 17, 2025

My Last Sound Bath of the Year: How Sound Found Me, Why I Chose Alchemy Singing Bowls, and the Science Behind Deep Healing

A Pause at the End of the Year

Today feels tender, reflective, and quietly powerful. As I prepare to host my last sound bath of the year, I find myself pausing. Not out of sadness, but out of deep reverence. There is something profoundly meaningful about an ending to a year. It invites us to reflect, integrate, and honour what has unfolded.

This final 2025 sound bath is not simply another date in the calendar. It is a threshold. A moment to look back at how sound entered my life, how it wove itself through Reiki, energy work, and ceremony, and how it eventually became one of the most powerful healing modalities I offer through I AM BEING sound baths.

Sound has been a teacher, a mirror, and a medicine. It has held me in moments where words fell short, and it has carried others into states of rest, remembrance, and reconnection. I wanted to share that journey both personally, spiritually, and scientifically, and explain why I choose alchemy singing bowls over other bowl teachings, and why sound baths remain at the heart of the work I offer.

How Sound First Entered My Life

Sound did not arrive suddenly or dramatically. It arrived gently, almost quietly, through my Reiki practice.

When I first trained in Reiki, I was taught to listen, not just with my ears, but with my whole being. To listen to energy. To listen to the subtle shifts in breath, emotion, sensation, and silence. Reiki attuned me to frequency before I ever consciously thought about sound as a healing tool.

During sessions, I noticed something curious. Certain moments felt louder energetically than others, even in silence. A release would ripple through the body. A deep exhale would arrive. Sometimes there would be tears, sometimes laughter, sometimes nothing at all; yet something had clearly shifted.

This taught me an early truth: healing is vibrational.

Everything we experience: thoughts, emotions, memories, trauma carries frequency. Reiki works by supporting the body’s energetic field to return to balance. Sound does something remarkably similar, but through audible vibration.

Over time, I became increasingly drawn to sound, not as performance, but as presence.

Reiki and Sound: A Deep Energetic Relationship

Reiki and sound are deeply intertwined. Both work beyond logic, beyond language, and beyond the thinking mind. They speak directly to the nervous system, the energetic body, and the subconscious.

In Reiki, we talk about byosen, the areas of energetic imbalance. In sound healing, those same areas often respond instinctively to vibration. A bowl hums near the heart and suddenly emotion moves. A low frequency resonates near the hips and the body softens.

This is not accidental.

From an energetic perspective:

  • Reiki restores flow where energy has stagnated
  • Sound introduces vibration where energy has become dense

Together, they create space.

As my Reiki practice deepened, sound naturally followed. I began to explore chimes, tuning forks, voice, and eventually singing bowls. What I noticed immediately was how sound accelerated the body’s ability to let go.

People dropped into meditation faster. Breath deepened more naturally. Minds quietened without force.

Sound didn’t replace Reiki. Infact, it expanded it.

Why I Was Drawn to Singing Bowls

Singing bowls felt ancient to me. Even before understanding their origins, I sensed their familiarity. The way they vibrate through bone and tissue, the way they bypass mental resistance, the way they invite surrender.

However, as I explored different teachings and traditions, I realised not all bowls are the same.

Some approaches felt overly rigid, overly intellectual, or disconnected from intuition. Others focused heavily on performance rather than presence. I knew that whatever bowls I worked with needed to honour energy, intention, and the body’s innate intelligence.

That is when alchemy singing bowls entered my life.

Why I Choose Alchemy Singing Bowls Over Other Teachings

Alchemy singing bowls are unlike traditional metal bowls. They are made from high-purity quartz and infused with precious metals, minerals, crystals, and earth elements. Each bowl carries a distinct energetic signature.

What drew me to alchemy bowls was not just their sound; it was their consciousness.

1. Frequency Over Technique

Many bowl teachings prioritise technique: how to strike, how to play, how to perform. Alchemy bowls ask something different.

They ask the practitioner to become an instrument.

The sound responds to presence, breath, and intention. You cannot rush them. You cannot dominate them. You must listen and collaborate.

This aligned perfectly with my Reiki training, where the practitioner does not impose healing, but creates space for it.

2. Energetic Precision

Each alchemy bowl works with specific areas of the body and energetic fiel. From the nervous system and endocrine system to emotional processing and cellular memory.

This allows me to intuitively guide I AM BEING sound baths based on what is needed in the room, rather than following a fixed script.

3. Depth Rather Than Volume

Alchemy bowls are powerful without being aggressive. They do not overwhelm the nervous system. Instead, they invite it into coherence.

This is especially important for people who are sensitive, burnt out, anxious, or carrying trauma, which is true for so many of us.

The Science Behind Sound Healing

While sound healing is ancient, modern science is now catching up with what many cultures have known for centuries.

Sound and the Nervous System

Sound directly affects the autonomic nervous system. Slow, harmonic frequencies support the shift from sympathetic (fight or flight) to parasympathetic (rest and digest) states.

During a sound bath:

  • Heart rate often slows
  • Breathing deepens
  • Muscle tension reduces
  • Stress hormones such as cortisol decrease

This is why people often feel deeply relaxed (or even sleepy) during a session.

Brainwave Entrainment

Sound can guide the brain into different wave states:

  • Beta (thinking, doing)
  • Alpha (relaxed awareness)
  • Theta (meditative, subconscious)
  • Delta (deep rest and restoration)

Alchemy singing bowls are particularly effective at supporting alpha and theta states, which are associated with creativity, emotional processing, and healing.

Cellular and Vibrational Effects

The human body is approximately 60–70% water, and water is an excellent conductor of sound. Vibrations travel through tissue, bone, and fluid, creating subtle cellular movement.

This can:

  • Support circulation and lymphatic flow
  • Encourage release of stored tension
  • Promote a sense of internal spaciousness

Emotional Regulation

Sound bypasses the analytical mind and communicates directly with the emotional brain. This is why emotions can surface unexpectedly during a sound bath and why the release often feels safe and contained.

Why Sound Baths Are So Needed Right Now

We live in a world of constant stimulation. Screens, notifications, responsibilities, expectations. Many people are functioning in survival mode without even realising it.

I AM BEING sound baths offer something radically simple: a space to stop.

To lie down. To breathe. To receive.

No fixing. No performing. No becoming.

Just being.

This is why sound baths have become such a vital part of modern wellbeing — not as a luxury, but as a necessity.

My Last Sound Bath of the Year: Why It Matters

This final sound bath of the year feels like a closing ceremony. A collective exhale. A moment to honour everything that has been felt, processed, and released.

Sound carries intention. When we gather at the end of a cycle, the vibrations help us integrate the year not just mentally, but somatically and energetically.

It is a pause. A resting note before the next movement. See you in 2026 for some more sound – or tonight by booking here!

Being,

Gizelle Renee xx