WHAT IS A SOUND JOURNEY?

Offering a mini-retreat from the busy outside world, typically lasting one hour, a  SOUND JOURNEY is a live improvised concert of ambient sound vibrations that shift the listener’s body and consciousness into deep relaxation and restorative biological states,  Many people attend sound journey’s to reduce the effects of stress and clear tension or blockages in the mind/body/emotions/spirit, in order to feel cleansed and replenished. Rafe Pearlman's sound journey’s currently include bronze bowls and vocal toning/voice activations, and sometimes additionally: gentle and potent sea-drums, gongs, rattles, or other ambient acoustic and electronic instruments, to take you into a meditative state to help creative and pleasurable experiences open up, and fundamentally, to help anxiety and stress fade and our bodies' natural restorative functions to flourish.

Typically, during a sound journey you will lie on the floor on yoga mats or blankets in a comfortable position. Wear comfortable clothing and bring anything that will help you feel more comfortable lying on the floor. 

Rafe's SOUND JOURNEY’S ARE GENERALLY HELD AT LOCAL YOGA STUDIOS or OTHER LOCATIONS. PLEASE FILL OUT  Rafe's CONTACT FORM AND NOTE THAT YOU'D LIKE TO BE INFORMED OF FUTURE SOUND JOURNEY’S. ALSO CHECK Rafe's EVENTS CALENDAR:) 

SOUNDHEALING SESSIONS WITH RAFE:

When we heal ourselves, our presence becomes more healing to those around us.

WHAT TO EXPECT: In a beautiful healing space, where you will sit on cushions or recline comfortably on the healing mat with blankets, Rafe will listen to your needs and goals and join in the Intention you are setting for the session. Then Rafe will channel celestial energies through his singing voice . His voice-activations will be specifically created uniquely for you, to help you release energetic blockages in mind, body, and spirit, and to manifest your intention. In addition to his voice, Rafe may also use Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, rattles, tuning forks, or gongs to create ambient acoustic sounds that soothe the nervous system and bring you into a deeply restorative state.  You will emerge lighter, brighter, and more grounded. Sessions with Rafe are truly transformative. 

LOGISTICS:
COME PREPARED: Wear Comfortable Clothing to be free to sit on cushions on the floor, or lay on the soundhealing mat. Eat lightly, be hydrated, avoid caffeine right before sessions. Rafe provides herbal tea or sparkling water if you forget your bottle or thermos. Arrive on time, but not early please: as there is Not a waiting room at the Soundhealing Studio: Therefore, please do Not knock on the door before your session time, as oftentimes Rafe has only ten minutes between clients, and may not be ready for you yet.  If you arrive late, the session still must end on time, to respect everyone’s schedules. Thank you!

STEP 1) PRE-PAY TO REGISTER for a session ($140/50 mins $210/75 mins)

SLIDING SCALE: If the regular rate poses a true financial hardship for you, please contact Rafe@Rafepearlman.com He offers a percentage of his clients a sliding scale rate.

STEP 2) Fill out Rafe’s “Soundhealing Client Intake Form”.  This info remains completely confidential, and is to  assess your needs, goals, health, and to make sure Rafe feels that his healing service is appropriate and would be beneficial for you. Email rafe@rafepearlman.com for a copy of the Intake Form.

STEP 3) Rafe will contact you via telephone or email to schedule your appointment.

Thank yourself for taking this step.....Rafe's soundhealing sessions are a powerful gift of healing to give yourself.

WHAT IS SOUNDHEALING:

SOUNDHEALING: Humans are genetically hardwired to respond to certain vibrations and rhythms that affect our nervous system positively and increase restorative responses including cellular cleansing and pleasurable, healing relaxation response.  Also, certain ambient sound, particularly of certain frequencies, combinations particular  rhythms, produces a state of consciousness that tends to be characterized by theta waves in the brain. Theta wave brain states are associated with increased brain-plasticity, restorative biological functions, stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system (calming), and increased creative functioning, as well as lucid dreaming. Therefore, when we set our intentions during a soundbath or soundhealing session, we use our conscious intention amplified by the effects of the sound, to clear the body-mind of blockages, to re-program and entrain the nervous system & brain. The soundhealer, Rafe Pearlman, creates the sounds that are designed to increase more theta activity in listener's brains, leaving you to feel more balanced, restored and refreshed. 

Soundhealing has its basis in ancient aboriginal arts worldwide and has at least fifty years of research in anthropological medicine and neuroscience that begins to explain some of what the shamans and mystics have known about the healing power of sound for centuries.  Our ancestors, no matter who we are, can be traced back to tribal people who used sound to heal: voice, drums, rattles, and even sophisticated soundhealing chambers such as those in Ancient Egypt. Our genes remember.