Holistic Harmony
at
Carolina Thai Healing Arts

  • “Such a safe, serene, and healing space. Liz is very intuitive and made me feel so comfortable.”

    Clarrisa S, sound bath experience

  • “My experience was total relaxing and healing. After the class, I felt an overall sense of well being.”

    Clara H, sound bath experience

  • "Fantastic experience, very relaxing..would highly recommend!"

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Group sound bath for events and celebrations.
Singing bowls are placed on and around the body during therapy.

Therapeutic Sound
One-to-one sound therapy sessions

Nepalese singing bowls have deep auditory tones and vibrations. During your 1-hour sound therapy session, bowls are placed on your body and around your body. The Vibration of these amazing bowls travels through your body and harmonizes your cells, tissues, organs, and chakras too.
The sounds and vibrations of the bowls are deeply relaxing to your body and mind.

Sound bath in your living room.

Small to large group
sound baths and events.

Try a small group sound bath! Bring up to 6 people for your private sound therapy experience at Liz’s office. Host a sound bath at your home!

Liz holds sound baths at various locations, and you can book your sound bath for parties, events, and gatherings!

A sound bath is a meditative full-body listening experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves. These waves are produced by various healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, chimes, drums, and the voice.

The music doesn’t have a catchy melody or rhythm as you’d experience at a rock concert or symphony, but instead is a carefully selected wash of instruments that intentionally invite gentle yet powerful therapeutic and restorative processes for your mind and body.


1st Sunday Yoga & Sound Bath
2:30pm to 4pm

Cornwell Center
2001 Selwyn Ave, Charlotte NC

The yoga is very simple and gentle. 
The yoga movements before the sound bath are intended to softly warm up your body and are focused on becoming present and relaxed. 

  • Chaturanga free, very little time on hands or knees.

Breathwork, chanting (for our own inner sound therapy), standing poses and some seated before our long savasana and sound bath.

The intention of a sound bath is to create a state of harmony in the listener by using sound to clear discordance from the participants' energy fields, and the brainwave state is altered from the normal waking state of beta waves to the relaxed state of alpha waves, the dreamlike state of theta waves, and even the deeply restorative state of delta waves.

Thus, a sound bath not only reduces stress and anxiety by inducing a state of relaxation but sound baths also have physiological benefits that include reduction in pain, better sleep, and strengthening of the immune system.

Singing bowls speak the language of the brain: Frequency. Busy Beta brain waves have low amplitude but travel quickly at 15-40 (Hertz) cycles per second. Our brain produces them when we are awake and alert, but they can also get out of control when we are highly stressed. Alpha brain waves travel more slowly at 8-12 (Hertz) cycles per second. They are widely associated with meditation and altered states of consciousness. Still slower are the Theta at 3-8 Hertz and are produced during light sleep, dreams and daydreams. They can also occur with any repetitive activity such as knitting, painting a fence, or any task that has become so automatic you can mentally disengage from it.

The Alpha-Theta border of the brain waves is of greatest importance to healing the body, mind, and spirit and is also the goal of a singing bowl session. This narrow band of waves, known as the Schuman Resonance, produces waves that travel at 7-8 (Hertz) cycles per second. This is the precise frequency of the earth's electromagnetic field. When our brains produce alpha-theta waves, not only are we in sync with the heartbeat of planet earth, but intelligence, creativity, higher achievement in any area, and self-healing mechanisms of the body are activated. This is commonly referred to as "being in the zone." When our brains are in this state, the body is in a state of harmony, and the central nervous system reduces input from the peripheral nervous system, which allows it to expand its range of functioning.

This expansion of functioning, yet unstudied by scientists, is where the body's self-healing mechanisms are activated. Though science has yet to delineate and define the actual mechanisms by which the body heals itself, it is commonly understood and known from ancient medicine that the body can and does heal dis-ease when naturally supported to do so. Singing Bowl Therapy can effortlessly put you into this special brain wave state that supports your unique goal toward better health. Producing the Alpha-Theta brain wave state is the goal of Singing Bowl Therapy.

When the brain is exposed to the big circles of sound produced from the singing bowls, it will entrain or slow down to copy those waves, coming to a more relaxed state, effortlessly. People who hate to meditate will love how easily they can reach a meditative “no-mind” state by listening to singing bowls. This therapy is "just in time" to help us rebalance and begin to find our self-healing abilities again despite the pace of life today. Singing Bowl Therapy can help the individual to rebalance the brain wave patterns. This "re-education" of balanced brain wave function could be the most important step taken on a path of true balance back to health. 

Sound therapy & the brain


Sound therapy &
stress reduction

Dr. Hans Selye, known as "the father of stress," was an endocrinologist in 1950s who researched the response of organisms to stress. He determined that stress is the underlying cause of all illnesses and dis-ease. His research was taken a step further by Dr. Herbert Benson.

Dr. Benson of Harvard's Mind Body Institute has studied stress reduction for 35 years. He found that stress causes physical and emotional blockages and concluded that stress reduction was essential to creating health. He coined the phrase "relaxation response" and defines this as "a physical state of deep rest characterized by decreased heart rate, blood pressure and muscle tension, that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress." He also found that regular prompting of the relaxation response is an effective treatment for a wide range of stress-related disorders. In fact, to the extent that any disease is caused or made worse by stress, the relaxation response is essential to healing it.

Stress-related disorders are problems, both emotional and physical, that have been studied and determined to be either caused by or exacerbated by stress. Though not yet scientifically documented, but rapidly becoming understood by many professionals in the natural health care industry, stress is the root cause of all illnesses. One's perception of a situation or event as being stressful can be altered by singing bowl therapy. Because the singing bowls evoke a relaxation response, this form of therapy can have a profound healing influence on highly stressed people.

The sound travels first to the ear and into the brain to quickly change brainwave patterns from beta (waking state) to alpha/theta, where brain hemisphere synchronization can be obtained. In his book, "Thresholds of the Mind," author Bill Harris discusses how human brains generally live in an unbalanced state that creates stress. He relates that in virtually all people, the two halves of the brain are "lateralized." Brain lateralization means that the two hemispheres are not working in a synchronized, balanced state. The greater the lateralization, the greater the feelings of separation, fear, stress, anxiety, and isolation, which are the deeply rooted causes of physical and emotional disease. In its extreme form, a lateralized, unbalanced brain results in behavior commonly described as "dysfunctional" or addictive. The more the two halves of the brain are retrained to be synchronized, (increase in communication and therefore work in a balanced state), the more good health returns, and creativity, productivity, learning, and memory abilities increase.

It is a combination of the sound of the bowl through the ear, over the eardrum, and into the brain and the vibration of the bowl through the flesh of the body that causes the harmonizing, de-stressing effect of the bowls. The bowl practitioner taps the bowls in specific intervals and makes them sing with a tool rubbed along the edge of the bowl, creating entrancing energy. Each bowl will vibrate and sing a different predominate note from the music scale A, B, C, D, E, F, or G. Each note is coordinated with a specific chakra. Each chakra is directly associated with a certain endocrine gland. Further benefit from the bowls is received via the chakra system and then directly into the endocrine system. This causes balancing of the endocrine glands, which affect every body function.

Music Medicine: Sound At A Cellular Level | Dr. Lee Bartel | TEDxCollingwood