Sound Healing, Sound Medicine

At some point in the acupuncture treatments I give, I almost always include a brief sound healing session, what I like to call “a tune-up”. Activating special tuning forks to produce specific sounds and vibrations, I place the forks onto carefully chosen acupuncture points or channels. Vibrations travel through the body, and the hum of the tuning forks fills the room. It feels wonderful and my patients love it - but often ask me, “What is it doing?”

Think about the multitude of ways that sound affects us daily. Sound has the ability to shift our mood, our energy, and our nervous system. When you see your favorite artist perform or throw on a record you love and you hear that one song that gets you every time, gives you goosebumps, and pulses your heart rate, this is sound frequency impacting your body. These moments can bring you to tears, or create that beautiful connection, euphoric feeling of being alive and inspired again - this is sound healing!

When doing sound healing treatments I use the tuning forks that create frequencies to activate your parasympathetic nervous system- the opposite of the stress, fight or flight response. The tuning forks help to slow down your breath, heart rate, and even your brainwaves, putting you in a very calm and restorative state. This activates your body’s self-healing system. It allows your body and brain the space to sync up and re-pattern, to fully relax, to organize your thoughts, and give more opportunity for clarity.

Over time, tuning fork treatments can improve your sleep, allow for more calm and peace of mind, and make you more resilient overall. Everyone’s experience of tuning fork sound therapy is unique. I know in my experience, I feel much more grounded, able to focus better, and more myself in the best way when I get “tuned up”.

Every patient I treat is getting their own personalized, curated sound healing session. We each have a unique vibration. The tuning forks are placed to create a healing tune-up specifically for you. It’s an important time and space for you to reconnect and remind your body how to stay in its own unique, lovely, and best vibration.  

Sound Healing with Amanda is available to Energy Matters patients as a stand-alone 30 minute session, or as an extension to your acupuncture appointment, for a cost of $80. Book online or call our front desk at 510-597-9923.