Finishing my Integral Sound Healing Diploma felt like a milestone. But the most important learning didn't land in the coursework. It landed in the spaces between the sounds.
The training asked me to listen in ways I wasn't used to. Not just with my ears, but with my whole body. With my attention. With my presence. And, at times, with a willingness to be wrong.
I learned that bowls aren't really played. They're met. They respond as much to the state you bring with you as to the technique of the strike.
I learned that silence carries just as much weight as sound, and sometimes more.
And perhaps most importantly, I learned that people don't come to sound sessions for the sound alone. They come to feel safe. To soften. To loosen their grip on things for a while. To be held without expectation.
That part of the work isn't written in manuals.
It's the part I'm most grateful for.
— Douglas