Sounds Heal Podcast

With guest Michael Bettine, exploring his new books, ‘The Way of the Gong – Explorations and Observations in Sound’, and ‘Art As A Spiritual Practice’. Michael Bettine was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Besides being an active musician for over 50 years, he has also run drum shops, worked with musical instrument manufacturers, taught music and been a music journalist. He has contributed hundreds of articles to such magazines as: Modern Drummer, Down Beat, Rhythm, and many others. Since 2002, Michael has worked under the name, GONGTOPIA, presenting sound sessions and workshops, using gongs, singing bowls, bells and other percussion. Including his two new books, he is the author of ten books. Michael is also devoted to music education. Besides teaching privately, he has presented workshops on gongs at the prestigious Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in 2005 & 2012; at the 1st Gong Summit in 2019 and the online Gong Summits in 2020 & 21, at Gong Camp in 2021–23, at ‘Focus on sound therapy’

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, music producer, and educator. He is one of few published authorities in the emerging field of psychoacoustics - the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system, and bioacoustics - how human sound affects other living beings. He is the author of The Power of Sound, Sonic Alchemy, and Through A Dog's Ear. He is currently working on his next book, Soundwork on a Hot Rock. His application-specific soundtracks are used in homes, clinics, and classrooms around the world. He presents seminars, classes and presentations internationally. https://www.joshualeeds.com/ Photo credit: Jolene Monheim 2024 ISTA Wave Makers Conference https://istasounds.org/events-conferences Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om Shoppe.

Sound Healing News! Special episode of Sounds Heal Podcast, hosted by Natalie Brown. In this bonus episode, we explore developments in the sound healing and sound therapy fields. We explore recent sound healing research news, such as brainwave entrainment, sound therapy and neuroscience, sound healing and mental health. We delve into community sound healing initiatives, and upcoming events. Please touch base, I would love to hear what you think about this Sound Healing News episode!

Kayce Laine is a Certified Sound, Crystal and Reiki Practitioner based in Nashville, Tennessee. As a life-long musician with a degree in Music from The University of Virginia, she earned her certifications in Crystal and Usui Reiki Healing as well as a Diploma in Sound Healing with Crystal Bowls with the international Sound Healing Academy. She now serves as an Associate Teacher for the Sound Healing Academy, teaching workshops and training new sound healers across the world. Her clients have included The Recording Academy's MusiCares, Prescription Songs and Anacrusis Music and she’s facilitated in music venues including The Ryman Auditorium. She shared a sound bath to the cast of season 16 of the Lifetime Channel show, Married at First Sight and her work and insights have been featured in publications including DailyOm, Byrdie, Thrive Global, YouAligned, Verywell Mind and many more. https://kaycelaine.com/ https://kaycelaine.com/your-ultimate-crystal-singing-bowls-buying-guide/ https://www.academyofsoundheal

Jay Taylor is a musician, sound healer, shamanic practitioner, community builder, and urban farmer. Jay has had the opportunity to lead Sound Voyages for large and small groups, collaborate with yoga instructors, and utilize sound as a container for guided meditations. He believes that everyone is doing their best at any given moment and that expanding our version of 'best' can be accomplished through the release of stress, healing of trauma, and the loving consideration of the body. As a special education teacher in Chicago for the past 10 years, Jay understands that he must meet each person he works with right where they are in their consciousness. https://www.currentvibrations.com/ Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om Shoppe. The OM Shoppe & Spa offers a vast a

Sara Auster is a world-renowned sound therapist, meditation teacher, and author. She has spent the past decade introducing sound baths to diverse audiences and unique environments across the globe. Her transformative experiences and original teaching method have made her a leader in the health and wellness space, bringing deep listening and sound meditation to the mainstream. Named one of 50 Innovators Shaping the Future of Wellness by Sonima and recognized as a top meditation expert by Oprah magazine, she has also been featured in print, online, and on television, including Billboard, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, VICE, and Vogue.  Auster’s work explores how sound and listening transform space — both physically and psychologically — for the purpose of creating connection and healing. She has facilitated intimate sound bath events in public schools, hospitals, boardrooms, and nonprofits, and has guided large-scale mass meditations at sites like the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Central Park Summe

Jonathan Goldman is an international authority and founding pioneer in the field of sound healing. His many publications include The 7 Secrets Of Sound Healing and the best-selling The Humming Effect (co-authored with his wife, Andi Goldman), which won the 2018 Gold Visionary Award for health books. A special 30th anniversary edition of his classic Healing Sounds was released in 2022. Jonathan is director of the Sound Healers Association, president of Spirit Music in Boulder, Colorado, founder of World Sound Healing Day, and facilitates sound healing seminars at universities, hospitals, holistic health centers, and expos throughout the United States and Europe. He has studied Tibetan chanting and recorded sessions with Lama Tashi. A Grammy nominee, he has created more than 25 best-selling, award-winning recordings, including Chakra Chants, Frequencies: Sounds Of Healing, The Divine Name, and his latest, Colors Of Sound. Jonathan has been named as one of Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine’s 100 Most Spiritually

Dr. Thompson is the Founder/Director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research in Carlsbad, California, a research center which is actualizing its vision of “Healing the Body*Heart*Mind and Spirit through the Scientific Application of Sound.” Dr. Thompson is considered the world’s premier sound healing researcher, brainwave entrainment expert, and high-tech personal transformation innovator, motivator and futurist. He is a physician, musician, composer, inventor, educator and author. His work addresses harmony between the body/mind/spirit and is clinically proven to foster deep personal wellness and expansion of consciousness. Certified in multiple healthcare modalities, Dr. Thompson draws people nationally and internationally to his clinical practice and to his cutting-edge auditory, kinesthetic and visual therapeutic products and services. https://scientificsounds.com/ Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal

Peter May received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Michigan in 1988. In 1990, he began consulting on, designing, and building passive solar and bioharmonic structures. He is a meditation teacher, triathlete, natural alchemist, fire manager, wilderness guide, and Grammy award winning producer and musician. He teaches Conservation Biology and Spirituality at Colorado College. His work with Paul Winter and Richard Cooke on the album “Crestone”, which received a Grammy award in 2008, helped him refine his art of playing and recording music with animals out in nature. His current work is expanding to playing and recording music with the plant and mineral kingdoms. He has also been facilitating Paul Winter’s Adventures in SoundPlay sessions since 2006 and sound journeys since 2008. In 2006, Peter began distilling essential oil from several native Rocky Mountain plant species. He continues this distillation art and produces one of the finest piñon pine (Pinus edulis) oils in the world. P

Mandara Cromwell, D.C.M. (Doctorate of Cymatic Medicine), is an American woman entrepreneur and inventor, who is the CEO and President of Cyma Technologies, the manufacturing company for her own inventions – the AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence devices. The AMI 750, an advanced sound technology device, was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Fields of Science and Medicine in 2013. In 2002, she coined the term “Cymatherapy” to refer to wave therapy based on the work of Dr. Peter Guy Manners, with whom she studied extensively. She continues to promote sound as a healing modality throughout the world. As a way of forwarding the field of vibrational medicine (specifically sound therapy), Ms. Cromwell founded (ISTA) the International Sound Therapy Association. Since 2006, the organization has been producing conferences to bring new voices together in the field of “sound science.” Ongoing classes, trainings and programs are offered by ISTA and Cyma Technologies in numerous cities throughou

Joey McCune is a sound practitioner based in Tulum, Mexico.  Called to be in deeper service, Joey and her husband, Mitch, moved to the jungle of Tulum to build a Sound Temple.  An innovator in spiritual tourism, she curates private sound healing experiences in her jungle setting. She paved the way for the therapeutic use of sound to become a next level offering in both her Sound Temple and Water Temple.  Joey is credited with designing bespoke treatments for travelers wishing to relax, reconnect, and deepen their relationship with spirit. A gifted and intuitive sound weaver and a perpetual student of metaphysics, consciousness, and the effects of sound, vibration and frequency she works in service using sound and frequency to facilitate healing, strengthen intuition, access higher dimensions of self, and facilitate the recalibration & expansion of the mind, body and soul connection.  In solo concert, Joey weaves sound using alchemy crystal singing bowls, planetary gongs, marrying the magical sounds of the jun

After hearing Paul Horn play flute in the Taj Mahal, Bodhi Starwater knew, at 15, that the silver flute would be his lifelong companion. Over the years, he has added many other instruments to his collection, including exotic flutes from around the world, conch shell, charango, 12-string guitar, Tibetan bowls, feathers, harmonica, gong, drums, and rattles. Bodhi's been working with sound meditation, sound healing, and sacred sound journeys for over 40 years. He's studied with Tito La Rosa, Paul Horn, Allaudin Mathieu, and many other artists. Around the globe, his music is used in yoga studios, health spas, and health practitioners' offices. His music has had millions of plays on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming sites. Bodhi’s deep love for the natural world led him to work many years as a wilderness and river guide. Playing his flute in the forest, inspired by the sounds of nature, he developed his own unique style of improvisation within the healing music modalities. He's been a featured art

Jeremy Arndt has been fusing the mindfulness-based practices of yoga and meditation with his music for over a decade. Since 2009, he has traveled the globe, with music as his guide, studying different musical traditions and finding a consistent thread of inspiration for his own music. His journeys have taken him to performance stages around the world, in 25 countries and on 5 continents. With nearly 1,000 performances over the course of his career, he has collaborated with artists from the United States, Europe, Australia, West Africa, and Indonesia. His music currently has over 5 million streams on Spotify. With Nancy Grzeszak, he founded Settle Into Stillness; they met in 2011 and began traveling around the world together, sharing their passions of yoga and music through their Sound Journey events, retreats, and summer training sessions. Settle Into Stillness combines different world music instrumentation such as the handpan and didgeridoo with elements of gong baths and crystal singing bowls, creating an o

Lisa Schuster is a Munich-based Medical Doctor, Acupuncturist, Meditation Teacher, Mentor, Sound & Yoga Therapist.  Her work combines different holistic modalities and focuses on sound therapy to offer an integrative approach to healing. Lisa is known for her unique ability to support people in releasing unhealed traumas so that they can deeply relax and reconnect with their full potential.   Lisa has developed cutting edge sound healing techniques using crystal singing bowls and other high vibrational instruments that help people to find healing and live a life they truly love. Her internationally renowned Sound Bath Meditations are described as 'fluidly powerful' and 'sonically alive'.  Lisa is also the founder and director of the Sound Medicine Institute Germany, creator of the Crystal Bowl Brand AkashaBowls® and leads courses, workshops and keynotes all over the world. https://soundbyalizz.com/ https://www.instagram.com/soundbyalizz/ https://www.instagram.com/sound_medicine_institute Natalie Brown: http:

Erik Lawrence has toured the world as a saxophonist, flutist and composer, sometimes with his own original groups and often in support of a wide variety of legendary artists, from The Band, Levon Helm, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello to Chico Hamilton and Sonny Sharrock, from Tibetans Yungchen Lamo and Nawhang Khechog to poet Robert Pinsky, from David Amram to the Spin Doctors, My Morning Jacket, Roger Waters, Joan Osborne, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Aaron Neville, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Miles, Henry Butler, Big Chief Russell Moore and countless others. He’s currently a member of the legendary band Little Feat and Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra. In addition to a busy concert and recording schedule, Erik performs musically guided meditations, which he calls Sound Sanctuary. Often performed solo or with one, two or three other like minded musicians, these are intended to calm, uplift and respond to the listener and help them to attain a higher sense of peace and confidence. He also offers private ses

Michelle Pirret is a musician and Sound Practitioner based in New York City. Her multidisciplinary life as a performing artist has roots in classical ballet, theater, jazz vocals and musical composition. Michelle is a trailblazer in the world of luxury 5-star hotels, crafting wellness experiences that previously did not exist. She paved the way for the therapeutic use of sound to become a next level Spa offering at some of most iconic hotels worldwide. Michelle is credited with designing bespoke treatments while facilitating as the first Sound Therapist at Four Seasons NY Downtown, and at Sensei on the exclusive island of Lana’i, Hawaii. Additionally, she was Artist-in-Residence at the award winning Halekulani in Waikiki and The Palms Resort in Turks & Caicos. In solo concert, Michelle cultivates arrangements of repertoire from The Great American Songbook using Alchemy crystal singing bowls as harmonic accompaniment to her vocals. As a composer, she also utilizes gongs and hand percussion. Her original musi

Rick Plautz is an intuitive sound bath practitioner, incorporating crystal bowls, meditative music and vocal toning. He is influenced by the use of isochronic tones, binaural beats and the voice for relaxation. He is a motion designer and creates mesmerizing visuals to accompany his sound meditations. Along with our discussion about his journey, philosophy, and the field of sound healing, you’ll enjoy a sound meditation from Rick at the end of this episode. You can watch the interview and meditation here: https://youtu.be/w1H1b1OGOSs Rick's links: https://thebell.garden/ https://www.youtube.com/@thebellgarden Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om Shoppe. The OM Shoppe & Spa offers a vast array of Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine tools for serious professiona

Welcome to our 50th episode and also 4 year anniversary of Sounds Heal Podcast! Enjoy this conversation and sound meditation with Jeralyn Glass. Jeralyn Glass is an internationally known singer, professor, sound healing practitioner, and crystal singing bowl master alchemist. We discuss her background as a Broadway and opera singer, to using sound for her own healing and growth after the loss of her only child. Jeralyn is passionate about music as as tool for healing and self-discovery, we explore her own transformation, and all that she is offering to others. We are blessed to also experience a sound meditation with Jeralyn’s alchemy bowls at the end of this podcast. http://www.crystalcadence.com http://www.jeralynglass.com Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om

Susy Markoe Schieffelin is an internationally recognized sound healer, yoga teacher, and mentor. After years struggling with anxiety, addiction, and depression, her life was transformed when she discovered the therapeutic benefits of sound healing, reiki, yoga, and meditation. After her own healing and recovery, she felt called to help others experience the power of these practices. She began training and eventually left her career in marketing and luxury lifestyle management to create The Copper Vessel, which aims to help people live their happiest, healthiest, most radiant lives. She wants to help people heal and open their hearts to a new understanding of self-love. She is also the founder of Sound Healer’s Academy, a sound healing certification program. Along with her experience with healing modalities, Susy holds a double degree in East Asian studies and religious studies, is a certified yoga instructor, and a Usui/Holy Fire II Reiki Master. She has studied many forms of meditation and mindfulness, inclu

Ben Carroll is a gifted and intuitive sound worker. As a former full time touring musician and Universal Recording Artist with album sales reaching the hundreds of thousands, Ben has quite a unique background. As a perpetual student of metaphysics, consciousness, and the effect of sound & vibration on the body & mind, the transition from rock star to sound healer wasn't as far of a leap as one may imagine. For several years now Ben's focus has been on using sound coupled with group energy to strengthen intuition, facilitate healing, access higher dimensions of self, and facilitate the recalibration & expansion of the mind/body/soul connection. His Sound Healing Journeywork events have had a profound effect on many that have had the opportunity to experience them. http://www.innerselfsustained.com/ Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & He