You simply lay on a massage table, fully clothed and just relax. Your practitioner will place therapeutic-grade singing bowls and/or tuning forks on/around your body, then use a mallet to strike the instrument creating a sound vibration. Some people stay awake the whole time while others enter a deeper state of consciousness, some even fall asleep. Most clients begin to relax as soon as the session begins. Muscles relax, your heart rate and breathing will begin to slow down and your body will shift into a parasympathetic state. Some people compare it to getting a relaxing massage. 

Just like everything in the universe, our body is composed of energy-producing particles which are in constant motion or vibration. Any type of experience we have, whether trauma or happiness can affect the way your body and nervous system resonates. Researchers have found that the vibrations and the electromagnetic energy associated with them can cause changes in your cells and how your body functions. Where there is incoherent, or blocked energy, you can place a tuning fork on or around that distorted vibration. The tuning fork’s vibration will act in a way that entrains the energy and helps it become coherent by guiding your body back into its natural vibrational state and rhythm, creating harmony within the body and encouraging healing. 

Yes, there are so many benefits! While VST helps quiet the mind and helps to bring the energetic body back into balance, it creates a therapeutic atmosphere to promote deep rest. By introducing deep meditative states, VST can be useful for reducing stress and depression, helping to improve sleep quality, boosting creativity, releasing blockages, emotional and tension release, raising one's focus, boosting creativity as well as calming the mind, body, and spirit. VST has also been shown to release nitric oxide, which is a huge contributor for pain reduction and nervous system balancing. A VST session gives us a chance to be still, present, and realign with our body's innate wisdom, freeing us from worldly distractions and allowing an opportunity to hear our inner voice.