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
