Healing Sounds

Healing Sounds

We had an English sound healer Rama Inacio

at Unity of Chattanooga on Sunday

for a workshop.

He led a group of us

through a five-stage healing process with sound.

He opened with a prayer

and asked us just to be open to whatever happened

and to keep our eyes closed.

Commenting how we didn’t have to think.

We could just sit there listening
and experiencing the sound

and turn off our thinking minds.

He started with an aura cleanse

using a giant gong.

This gong could be felt as well as heard.

As he worked his way around the room,

you could sense where it was coming from

and feel it in different ways as he moved around.

We sat in the silence for a bit when it ended

just checking in with our senses

and noticing how much these gong sounds

had affected us.

Then he told us we would start the healing stage

and it was necessary to go to each person

and play notes from a didgeridoo

based on that persons needs.

These didgeridoo notes

in themselves were so moving

as they went from side to side

and front to back

and here and there and back, again and again.

We moved on the balancing portion

of the healing.

Rama brought out a flute

and played and chanted.

By then at times I felt as if I was the sound.

Fascinating how into the pure aspect of the sounds I was

not just listening with my ears

but experiencing them with my whole body.

We moved into raising our vibrations

after the balancing.

For me, this was beyond anything I had experienced.

Rama told us he would come around

and tap each one of us on our foot.

At that point, we were to open our mouths

and just let our soul sound come forth

for an entire breath.

Then inhale and just keep on doing it

over and over.

Mine started as an Om like sound,

very long and drawn out.

Gradually we began raising the volume of it.

He told us to keep doing that.

It was most remarkable.

I heard the other soul sounds

of those around me,

four or five at least
and one who seemed to be chanting words

that I could not comprehend.

The sound emanating from me increased

and with it the feeling

that it was filling my chest

and resonating in my whole upper torso

even expanding it.

At times I would feel an increase in the sound,

and it was changing as if seeking to match

or harmonize with the other sounds,

changing all on its own without

my mental or thinking assistance.

As if seeking to work in concert

with the others in the room.

Those individual soul sounds

I heard around me began blending with mine,

and in doing so, they lost their individuality.

As we kept this up,

the louder we got,

the more blending that seemed to occur
the fuller my soul sound felt 

until the whole group seemed to

seamlessly flow somehow into one harmonic reverberation.

We were one as this sound,

all of us.
Again and again
blending as one sound.

An incredible experience
that I am here hours later
just basking in the utter beauty of it.

To me, it was truly
a transformational experience.

The last thing we did was integration.

Rama played this angelic music

and told us just to respond
or not however we wanted.

To integrate our experience into

the Universe, the All That Is,

whatever name you choose.

I found this rhythm flowing in the music

and just fell into humming

in this stepped cadence along with it,

again over and over this went.

He closed the session prayerfully,

and a few spoke of their unique experiences.

I just sat there basking in mine.

No telling what some

of the others would say
to what I write here.

I’m sure others experienced things

far different than mine.

But I am confident we all share a connection,

a oneness with each other,

that is far stronger now

then it was when the day started.

All My Love Always, Keith