Healing through Sound

Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

Preface
Why We Sound

Sound as an Evolutionary Possibility | Seeds of Sound Frequency | Root Patterns

Introduction
The Lineage of Sound Healing

The Teachings of the Grandmothers | Grandma Baggott | A View from the Porch: Observing What Is in Front of Me | Do I See the Disconnect? | Seeing the World as Energy | Tapping the Emotional Rhythm | She’s Got the Nerves | Awakening to a Larger Purpose

Chapter 1
It’s All in the Listening

The Issues Are in the Tissues | The Formula Is Revealed | We Sound to Get Quiet Enough to Listen If | You Love Something Enough | Client Session: Mending the Body Is in the Listening | Trusting the Innate Wisdom of the Body | Listening and Sounding the Soul Signatures | Keys to Perception | Physicality of Codependency | The Teachings of the Trees | How to Mind My Own Business | Overview of the Oak Tree's Sacred Teachings

Chapter 2
The Power of the Hum

Keys to Accessing the Humming Voice | Acceptance of What Is—The Key to Transformation | The Hum Soothes and Reduces Stress | Go with the Flow! | Physical Benefits of Humming | The Hum as Resonance Protection | The Hum as Healer | Energetic Feng Shui | Hum as Meditation | Trust and Not Knowing

Chapter 3
Vocabulary of Sounds

The Wisdom of Vowels | The Sound Palette—The Vocabulary of Sounds | Client Session: Soothing Trauma | Aerobic Sounds—Sounding and Emptying the Inner Noise

Chapter 4
Emptying

Whatever Is Unexpressed Runs the Show | When Do We Need to Empty? | The Jaw—The First Emptying Gate | The Hum as Integrator and Closing Sound | Sound Increases Our Capacity for Breathing | Exploring Sound and Breath Possibilities | Practice Reclaiming Our Exhale | Sound as a Prayer | Health Benefits of the Sounds of Laughter

Chapter 5
Honoring the Body’s Innate Wisdom

The Evolutionary Possibility of Bodywork | Our Fluid Body | Client Session: Listening to the Layers of Grief | Deep Listening | Sound and the Physical/Emotional Body

Chapter 6
Aligning and Tuning the Body

Sound Changes the Physical Form | Encodements of Forgotten Wisdom | Your Body as Your Teaching Laboratory | Growing Heartful Possibilities | Listening to the Rhythms | Keys for Listening to the Rhythms | The Physicality of Amnesia and Memory | Staying Alive and Humane | May I Become Good Compost

Chapter 7
The Heart and the Gut of the Matter

Our Energetic Roots in History | The Shaping of Our Listening | A Curved Listening | Plugging into Earth, Ground Force Reaction | Grounding and Stabilizing Our Circuitry | Let Your Feet Brain Talk to Your Heart Brain | Journey into the Inner Terrain | Client Session: The Language of the Heart | Surrender to Not Knowing | Client Session: Reconnection with the Inner Terrain | The Mysterious Nervous System | Parasympathetic Rhythms of Breath and Sound | Let Your Gut Brain Talk to Your Head Brain | Client Session: Myself, Shingles, and the Power of the Silent Hum

Chapter 8
Dissonance and Shadow Work

Love Songs to the Shadow | The Collective Shadow | Life Magazine | Sound Transforms the Blues to Gold | Emotional Wound | Revealing What Is Not Mine | Loving Self-Care Made Simple | The Accuracy of Sound as Bodywork | Harmonics to Dissonance | What Is Your Form of Perceiving? | Formulas for the Emotional Body | Client Session: Healing Deep Trauma

Chapter 9
Sound as a Spiritual Solution

Bali: Sing a Love Song to Your Shadow | Loving Our Many Characters | The Spiritual Significance of Music | The Power of Sound and Vibration Being Made Visible

Epilogue
The Mythology of Awakening the Feminine Divine

Appendix 1
Additional Sound Vocabulary

Appendix 2
Dr. Joseph Liss

Appendix 3
Rest Assured: Parasympathetic Resonance Album

Exercise Overview

References

Acknowledgments

About the Author