About Me
I’m probably not what you imagine when you think of a sound healing practitioner. A lifelong musician, classical piano was my first instrument - although you wouldn’t have known that when I was drumming in a punk band on the Warped Tour stage in the early aughts. As a creative, introverted kid growing up in the suburbs, I took refuge in music and the arts early on. I experienced first hand that music could transport and transform, and some part of me intuitively knew it could heal although I was years away from understanding how to channel that energy. I also knew that something transcendent happens when you connect people with sound - whether it’s getting lost in the music in your headphones, jamming with a band, or rocking out in a crowd at a concert - sound - connects us to each other and to something bigger than ourselves.
Several years ago, I went to a sound bath at the Integratron (you should check it out sometime.) I’m a detail oriented over-thinker by nature, and as I lay on the floor with a bunch of strangers in the desert, the resonant vibrations of pure tonal sound reverberated through my skull and body and I actually experienced a meditative state. I was utterly relaxed, fully aware, and yet suspended in reality and consciousness, outside of time. This was my introduction to sound healing, and the peace it has to offer.
Despite the profound experience I had, sound healing didn’t occur to me in the years that followed that day in the desert. Life and the world continued to unfold. The pandemic came and went, taking with it the old paradigm of life. My partner and I began our life together in a new city, I started working from home, and continued making music. My life was rich and full…and yet, I felt a sense of disconnection that I couldn’t explain or shake off. One day while working on some new music I’d been struggling with, deep in that feeling of disconnection, I revisited some research I had done on the psychology of music. I rediscovered the effects different notes, scales, and keys have on humans (and living organisms overall) at a cellular level, and it all just fell into place - the dots connected and I remembered the power of that first sound bath. I knew how to get back to feeling connected and purposeful: sound healing. And so after studying and training with the Sound Healing Academy, I became a sound healing practitioner. Working with crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks, gongs, and voice, I guide others to peace and wellness in the present with sound.