Sound healing is a powerful therapy that combines different healing sounds, instruments, and musical elements, aimed to bring about a sense of calm and inner equilibrium. The vibrational sounds affect the body, mind, and nervous system because everything, including our cells, organs, and brainwaves, has a natural vibrational frequency too.

With the use if frequency-specific instruments, sound healers will use their outlet in order to heal both spiritual, mental and/or physical ailments.

Within our everyday lives, our natural rhythms can become dysregulated due to stress of stored emotions. Sound healing introduces external, coherent frequencies that the body can gently sync back into, penetratating our subtle body where emotions are stored into our make up. The use of sound frequency can be used to positively impact our brain and nervous systems so that we can reregulate and recalibrate once more.

Sound healing roots originate all the way back to ancient civilisations such as within Ancient Africa, the Americas, Australia, Asia, Greece, Egypt, and India.

In Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (c. 3000–1500 BCE), temples were designed and built with acoustic resonance, and Egyptians used instruments such as a 'sistra' to clear energy. In Mesopotamia they believed musical incantations could be an effective way to treat illness and often used chanting incantations alongside prescribed herbal and physical remedies.

Indigenous Native American tribes used drums, rattles and chanting to induce trance, regulate group rhythm, and call in healing powers.

In the ancient Indian (c. 1500 BCE – present), the practice of 'nada' yoga uses sound vibrations to ease the mind. Using Sanskrit mantras, sacred syllables such as 'Om', and 'japa' (chanting), practitioners were and are able to regulate the mind-body-spirit, balance subtle energies, and align with cosmic consciousness.

In China and Tibet (c. 1000 BCE – present), sound was linked to medicine. The five tones corresponded to the five elements and organs, with certain tones used to strengthen and heal specific organs, restoring balance of 'Qi'. Tibetan singing bowls, bells, and overtone chanting were and are used to aid meditation, ritual, and healing.

Within the ancient Greek period (c. 600–300 BCE), philosopher Pythagoras prescribed music as medicine. Using instruments such as sound bowls, gongs, wind chimes, kalimbas, tuning forks, flutes and many more, the 'music of the spheres' - specific frequencies and vibrations - were used in order to regulate mood, sleep, and balance.

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