Sonic Dreamscape — The Doors Open

In this moment, as I sit at Denpasar Airport in Bali awaiting my flight to Singapore, I feel as though I’ve just emerged back to the water’s surface, taking my first full breath of air after being underwater in an entirely different oceanic realm for the past month — immersed in sound healing training with Shervin Boloorian of Sound Healing Bali.

What I learned from his teachings is the power of softness, subtlety, and the silence of the space between.

If you’ve ever had the privilege of receiving one of his sound journeys in Bali, Singapore, or elsewhere in the world, you’ll know the deeply restorative space he holds. Through his gentle voice and the subtle resonance of the instruments — extensions of his own physical form — sound becomes a pure expression of the intention of his soul: to offer sensitive nervous systems a safe respite, a place to rest deeply within.

This intention transmits so potently.

So it was most unexpected when this immersive experience felt like taking the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland. Through the steady space-holding and gentle yet evocative sound journeys, I felt so much of my own deeper waters moving and shifting — energies dissolving, dissipating, releasing, being freed.

All without conscious cognitive processing.

That was the magic for me — something I had never fully allowed myself to rest into before.

In various somatic trainings, it used to grip at me when we did a practice and there wasn’t conscious psychoeducation or processing afterward: why we did what we did, what happened, what came up. These all belong to the realm of the conscious mind — the place I had relied upon as my loyal support for as long as I can remember. Cognitive understanding was a safe place to return to, again and again.

And yet I always knew there was a limitation to it. According to depth psychology, the conscious mind is only the very tip of the iceberg. Our subconscious and unconscious contain the vast majority of who we are.

My partner Cara often says to me whenever I ask her why, “I can’t possibly know why. It would be ridiculous to think I know the reason something happens or why something is. It would be reductive to even guess.”

For a long time, that drove me crazy.

But during this sound immersion, without trying, that part of me softened. There was a yielding into the felt experience of recognizing — or simply knowing — that processing was occurring without me needing to understand what, why, or how.

It was simply occurring.

What revealed this to me was noticing how differently I now respond to life. Situations that might have annoyed me in the past, I now meet with a lightness — and to my surprise, an embrace and acceptance.

That is how I know something within me has shifted, through the simple act of receiving these sound frequencies.

This is what I wish to bring forward: the power of subtle sound and the human voice — raw and present — to move the inner waters of our bodies.

To remember our true nature.

To remember that we are love.

To remember softness, slowness, and kindness.

To remember our divinity.

Community Sound Healing Journeys

From 9 March until 9 April, while I am in Singapore, I will be offering donation-based sound journeys and 1-to-1 sound therapy sessions, as a way for me to practice facilitating multi-instrumental sound healing journeys. 

If you would like to receive a group or private session, simply email journey@somapsychealchemy and I will send you the details personally.

I can’t wait to share the magic of subtle sound and voice with you this month in Singapore.

Until we meet in the sonic dreamscape,

Stephanie