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.

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

I recently created this video of my cymatic singing process for Bjork.

I am combining singing and cymatics by going out into the forest and singing the tones of objects such as a flower, a tree or a stone and recording it.

I then bring these ’songs’ back into the studio and sing them into a cymatic sounder to create the cymatic pattern of the object from the forest.

The sound in the video is of my voice ’singing a flower’ overlaid several times into one track.

Want to create your own cymatic sounder similar to the one in this video?

I have created some free step-by-step instructions, you can download them HERE

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…