Tickets went on sale September 1st for the only Cymatics Conference in the world, to be held this October 17th in Atlanta, Georgia. Mandara Cromwell is the organizer and sponsor of this special event.

This year’s conference includes presentations on sound healing, vibrational biophysics, healing with light, and harnessing the power of sound, light and color. Most presentations are given by M.D.’s or Ph.D.’s and the level of credible and enlightening information at this conference is very high.

Whether you are interested in cymatics from a personal, scientific, medical or artistic point of view, the Cymatics Conference is not to be missed!

Reserve your ticket here today.

Sound healing is closely tied to cymatics, and in fact I met several M.D. practitioners of sound healing at the Cymatics Conference in Atlanta.

Sound healing practitioners use cymatics, not necessarily in the sense that they are making sound visible (as with cymatics and art), but in that they apply sound to matter in order to shape and change it. For example a sound healing practitioner might use sound applied to the human body, and in recent years there has been an emphasis on scientifically record and report on the results achieved using cymatics for sound healing.

These sound healing practitioners range from doctors to chiropractors to yoga teachers, who state that using cymatics for sound healing often generates results that no other therapy could achieve. Some use highly researched frequencies stored and generated on a machine with specific frequencies recommended for specific diagnoses; others use their own voice and a more intuitive approach to sound healing.

If you are interested in learning more about cymatics and sound healing, here are three good places to start. I met all three of the following practitioners in person at the Cymatics Conference in 2008 and they are great resources for sound healing information:

John Beaulieu is the author of “Music and Sound in the Healing Arts” and uses tuning forks among other techniques for sound healing. Dr. Beaulieu also has a “BioSonics sound school” where you can learn about sound healing yourself. Watch my video interview with Dr. Beaulieu here.

Dr. June Leslie Wieder, Doctor of Chiropractic and author of “Sound of the Spine,” focuses on the “resonance of the spine” and applying specific vibrational frequencies directly to the vertebrae. Watch my video interview with Dr. Wieder here.

Mandara Cromwell is President of Cymatherapy® International, and Director of the Board of the International Sound Therapy Association (ISTA), and director of the International Conference on Cymatics. Her focus is the use of a machine called the Cyma®1000, which generates specific sound frequencies. You can learn more about Mandara Cromwell’s work here.

This is a clip that John Stuart Reid just sent me of a cymatics demonstration at the International Sound Healing Conference. Watch it and you will see the cymatics form of throat singing (overtone singing), a dove, a coyote, and a cello, as well as others.

In the video John is doing the speaking, and Erik Larson can be seen standing to his left. John and Erik are co-creators of the world’s first CymaScope, which you can also see in front of the film screen.

You may remember from previous posts that John Stuart Reid is working to create a “dolphin alphabet” using images from cymatics. He has also informed me that he has recently completed an image of the “song of the sun” which was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft, then transferred to the CymaScope to create the image. I will be featuring this image soon so keep your eye out!

P.S. You can build your own DIY cymatics device to see sounds similar to the footage you see here in about 30 minutes. Download free instructions here.

I was just re-reading a wonderful piece on writing on cymatics – it’s called a “Commentary on Cymatics” by John Beaulieu, N.D. Ph.D. – and it reminded me that both our “right and left brains” become engaged when we watch cymatics, and both are hungry to be “fed” with their own kind of cymatics information.

As Dr. Beaulieu reminded me, our right brain wants to see cymatics images, create cymatics experiments and feel the vibration personally; our left brain wants to understand why cymatics works.

So today, I have some cymatics for both your right and your left brain to enjoy:

1. Cymatics For Your Right Brain:

Get your hands and eyes involved by building your own simple cymatics device using my free cymatics instructions here. You won’t need to spend more than $20, you can build your device in under 20 minutes, and you will be able to see your voice making amazing cymatics patterns right before your eyes.

2. Cymatics For Your Left Brain:

Go read Dr. John Beaulieu’s excellent introduction to Hans Jenny’s “Cymatics” book here. It’s a great cymatics read, and will give you a good, solid introduction to the ideas, hopes and principles underlying cymatics. To get you started, here’s an excerpt:

“I first became aware of Dr. Jenny’s work in 1974 when I was working at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City as Supervisor of Music Therapy. A fellow therapist placed a copy of Cymatics, Vol. I on my desk. I remember the joy of looking at the cymatic sound patterns, and the wonderful sense of “Yes!” that rippled through my being. Each picture was worth at least a thousand words and I felt as though I were reading volumes in just a few minutes...Source

–Jodina

Evan Grant on TED

Recently a brief talk on Cymatics was given by Evan Grant. His presentation was based on research and documentation conducted by John Reid and Eric Larson, who have continued the investigation of cymatics begun in the 60’s by Hans Jenny.

The most exciting thing about this talk for me is that it was showcased on TED – which means that Cymatics will reach thousands more people through their already far-reaching network of listeners.

Watch the video, and also note the high level of interest in cymatics in the comments on the page.

One commentator wondered about the use of cymatics with people who cannot speak or hear in the usual way…

In fact, this is exactly what the Tonascope is used for, and has been for years – hearing impaired people look at the shapes formed on a Tonascope by voices saying letters, then are able to form sounds more precisely themselves by recreating the visual patterns.

You can learn how to build your own Tonascope (what I call a Cymatic Sounder) with 3 simple objects HERE

Find more videos like this on School of Cymatics

Dr. June Weider is a self-described ‘bone toner’ I met at the Cymatics Conference in Atlanta this year.

Here she talks about her fascinating work ‘toning’ the bones of the human spine with sound, which you can read about in more detail in her book, Song of the Spine.

She talks about the frequencies of our spine, and how she has learned to bring them back into ‘tune’ with their original frequencies when they become what can be called ‘out of tune.’

She was kind enough to give me a longer interview about her work, how exactly it works and how she learned to do it, so if you you are intrigued by what she says in this video, keep your eyes open and I will be making that interview available soon…

I flew out to the Cymatics Conference in Atlanta this past weekend. This is the third year of the conference which was started by Mandara Cromwell.

The emphasis this year was on research, documentation and substantiation of cymatics as used in healing. The Atlanta conference is focused on healing with cymatics rather than “pure science” or cymatic art.

However there were several researchers, doctors and scientists there that had some very interesting things to say (which they could back up with clinical studies) about the work they were doing with cymatics.

 One of the speakers, John Beaulieu, Ph.D. is one of the foremost philosophers and major innovators in sound healing today.  I was fortunate to be able to talk with John about his work with cymatics and Nitric Oxide. I will be publishing a short interview with him in a later post…