The New Moon symbolises 'New Beginnings'! This magical phase provides a reset where ideas and dreams can be renewed, desires explored, and new intentions can be set, if that is your wish.
Creating a regular practice of setting new moon intentions is a mindful way to commit to your dreams and support your goals. It will also allow you to stay in touch with the Divine Feminine energy of the moon and the rhythm and cycles of the earth.
GONG MEDITATIONSThis will be a gentle, reflectie and instinctive Gong Meditation primarily to support you at this time to trigger your own self-healing capacity, and to bring balance and clarity. As the Moon cycle moves around the relevant planets each month I will make use of this energy on a practical level to create a beautiful Gong experience.
At each NEW MOON I will be using guided visualisations to guide you forward and will include...
- Identifying what the current and New Moon/linked planet is sharing with us .
- Look at how you can best utilise this energy
- Include simple giveaway tips to help utilise and ground this energy.
Guided meditation/visualisation is used to set intentions. Intentions work in harmony with Sound Therapy. Your intention is the motivation you bring to the work. This relates to your thoughts, feelings, words, deeds and actions. Energy follows thought so its a way of crystallising this energy into being.
Setting intentions as part of this process can become the driving force behind higher conscious manifestation. Without an intention there is no map, a bit like driving down a road with no destination in mind.
This is not the same as goal setting where you are attached to the outcome or there to evaluate. Setting an intention can be as simple as looking at what matters most to you in this moment, or what you would you like to build, create, or nurture in your life?
This is a feeling and heart driven experience. This energy can become the driving force as it connects you to a whole other level of being and becomes the creative force that channels the energy in your desired direction.
Sound Therapy works mightily well with intention as they are both creative vibrational energies that allows for the flow of synchronicities to come into being for the highest good and from the heart with the gentle force of harmonic resonance.
When that connection with the highest vibrational energy of love is made anything is possible. Your intention can be likened to an arrow and the bow can be likened to the healing sounds. It will support you in your journey as it propels you forward on an energetic, harmonic, vibrational and spiritual level where all things become possible.
The New Moon refers to the first visible crescent, (part of the Lunar phase and is symbolically the astrological symbol for the Moon) of the Moon, after conjunction (same ecliptic longitude) with the Sun. This takes place over the western horizon in a brief period between sunset and moonset,
Astrologers believe that our energy begins to build at the new moon, then peaks two weeks later at the full moon. In many cultures, farmers have planted by the new moon and harvested by the full moon. Each new moon falls in a specific zodiac sign. Then, six months later, a full moon occurs in that same zodiac sign.
New moons are the perfect time to kick off any new project or idea. To lay the groundwork for what you want to manifest in the coming six months. Fresh starts of any kind are favoured by the new moon.
GONGS HEAL AND EMPOWER- Gongs are powerful tools for change. It is the sound of the AUM or Om, which is the sound of the universe, all that is, and the sound of the soul. It carries the sounds of total resonance, incorporating all the tones and harmonics on the sound spectrum, the range of which is phenomenally mind boggling.
- Gongs make sounds beyond our human hearing capacity but your body will nevertheless feel its vibration, frequency and energy. Our bodies are what is known as an ideophone where our cells hear everything.
- The gong will shut down your chattering mind in seconds, immediately taking you into a meditative state. In this meditative state your mind and body become most receptive to healing.
- The gong will mix the senses and take to into a world of dreams, magic and possibilities. It will unlock your creativity as it shuts down the left brain in favour of the the more creative right side of the brain.
- The gong in ancient times has been used as a scared instrument in religious ceremony, rituals and for spiritual awakening. As a tool it will affect us emotionally, mentally, physically as well as spiritually.
You really do not need to do anything other than book, come to the event, lie down and relax. Cushions, blankets and mats are provided. Please feel free to bring your own if you wish. Newcomers are alwasy welcome but please do check out the guidelines outlined below.
The experience can be deeply relaxing and may leave you wanting to be teleported to your bed:) Please wear comfortable clothes as you will be lying down on a mat throughout the whole experience.
Please observe the guidelines below
- NB/precautions
- Kindly arrive on time so as not to disturb the class.
- The sessions are for 16+only unless accompanied by a responsible adult.
- Not advisable during pregnancy
- If you have a pre-existing illness or metal implants (pins,screws, pacemaker etc) please ensure you consult your GP before attending. It can resonate the metal or change the rhythm of the pacemaker.
- Recent surgery - within the last 6 six weeks.
- If you have a history of serious psychological/mental disturbance, please consult your GP before attending.
- Any condition that is sound sensitive can be triggered by sound – tinnitus, Ménière’s disease, epilepsy. Please seek your doctors advice before attending
- No claims for the curing of any illness is made.
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOUND THERAPY
"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music." Albert Einstein
First let me welcome you to this fascinating form of vibrational medicine known as Sound Therapy. Imagine an orchestra playing and then see this as being representative of the human body. If one or more musician plays a dud note, or plays off key, this will affect the whole orchestra. If not corrected the entire organism will become discordant as a result. In order to restore balance and harmony, a conductor becomes necessary.
The conductor can be likened to healing frequencies. These healing frequencies may come from the human voice, a gong, didgeridoo, tuning forks or any other form of sound that holds harmonic frequencies. Sound has the ability to trigger and support the body's own innate natural self-healing potential. It can help to effectively re-harmonise, re-energise, help restore order and balance to the body, mind and spirit.
ANCIENT BEGINNINGS
Sound Healing is considered by many to be the oldest form of healing, the Ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt, Rome, Greece, Tibet, India and other places of learning, even the Aztecs, and Mayas, knowledge of sound was a highly refined science based on an understanding of vibration as the primary instrument in the creation of the universe. It appeals to our primal senses and goes back to our earliest memories of existence.
The Aboriginal People of Australia used the didgeridoo (yidaki) for at least 40,000 years to heal broken bones, muscle tears and all kinds of illnesses. It has been also now shown that the sounds emitted by the digeridoo fall in alignment with the modern sound healing technology. Tuning Forks can be found and inscribed in Ancient Egyptian artwork. Tuning forks are single frequency sound tools and are also used to tune instruments.
Drumming is an essential part of the African healing dance experience where the energy of the drums forms an important triad of music, dance and song. The music played is to heal the mind, body and the spirit and where the energy comes up from the earth through the drummer and out through the drums to convey its message. There is a heartbeat that you feel when you connect to the rhythm of the drum, synchronising your breath to the force of life. It becomes a worship with the body as you connect with the inner world, you feel the whole world in your body. The drum can speed up your heartbeat and slow it down just as easily as it entrains you to its rhythm.
THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND
Priests and magicians were often musicians, as were great scientists throughout history who also appeared well versed in esoteric information that may be better understood today. Sound Therapy draws on science and spirituality to explain how sound can be a very healing and a powerful tool used for personal transformation.
Sound Healing can alter brain wave frequencies and in particular enable you to enter such deep states of relaxation that it will bring you to the alpha-theta ( (7.8Hz) range. This is the optimal brain wave frequency for the triggering of self-healing to take place.
There is now a mass of research into the benefits of ultrasound, and this includes its ability to break up kidney stones and even shrink tumours. It is now understood that infrasound (low frequency sound waves less than 20Hz and below human hearing), and audible sound has enormous healing properties.
Like many holistic therapies, it is being rediscovered, and is now poised to reveal the intricacies of healing both at the cellular and psychological levels.
In the words of Edgar Cayce.. `Sound will be the medicine of the future.’
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