SOUND HEALING
My Sound Healing Journey
I am an artist and sound healer who has been working with the transformational powers of the voice for many years; exploring incantation and prayer, spoken word poetry, storytelling, singing and improvisational sounding through my artistic practice.
My performance art was initially born from an impulse to understand and integrate my own mixed ancestral heritage. This led me to start searching for ways to heal intergenerational wounds and liberate the self. My Sound Healing work initially evolved from my own need to be able to transform some of the difficult material that I work with and through in my artistic practice such as questions of identity, colonisation, intergenerational trauma.
My mentor and vocal coach Simone Niles and I had already been working together for some years when she began teaching the “Sound Healing with the Voice” training program with the College of Sound Healing, London. It felt like a natural and aligned step for me to train and qualify as a Sound Healer under her trusted guidance.
Integrative Process
The best healers and therapists I know draw on a range of skills that they have studied and developed mastery in over time. This allows them to be responsive and dexterous in their approach working with my mind, body, soul and spirit in tandem to catalyse healing.
Having a wide range of therapeutic tools to draw on expands this capacity in the healer and/or therapist. Integrative healing work (where multiple modalities are woven into any given session as needed) is an exciting, effective and holistic way of navigating deep soul-level healing journeys.
My artistic practice is already deeply integrative, drawing on many different media and approaches as needed. I am committed to developing a healing practice with a similarly expansive approach.
The following are the trainings, tools, frameworks and approaches I have in my own medicine cabinet to draw on thus far :
Sound Healing with the Voice ; Certified practitioner with the College of Sound Healing, London. Evolutionary Astrology Intensive and Diviner with teacher and guide Sabrina Monarch. Tarot ; Thresholds; a decolonial tarot course taught by Christopher Marmolejo. Essence ; an embodied movement immersion course with Joan Davis drawing on Mind Body Centring & Authentic Movement principals.
1:1 Sound Healing Sessions
Private sessions take place IRL at Oscailt Integrative Health Centre or Online. If you would like a 1:1 session with me I’d love to hear from you, email me at maianunesstudio@gmail.com to enquire.
Voice-led Sound Baths
Voice Baths are a version of the better known ‘sound bath’ wherein the human voice is used as the primary healing instrument. Other instruments (shruti box, drum, rattles, cymbals, chimes, tuning forks etc.) are used to support the vocalist, layering other healing tones and frequencies in order to augment the therapeutic experience.
During a voice bath a group of attendees lie comfortably on yoga mats, covered in blankets, absorbing the healing vibrations created by the sound healer.
I like to create Voice Bath experiences that respond to the lunar cycles, changes in seasons, eclipses and other astrological transits. I have offered Voice Bath experiences at a variety of venues & groups including at The Space Between (Beyond the Pale Festival), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Repose Yoga Studio & Fringe Lab (Dublin Fringe Festival), Sage & Sky Yoga Studio on Ballymann Road, The Deerstone.
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