00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Sound and music has always been a big part of my life.
00:19 And about seven years ago, I volunteered
00:22 to be a guinea pig in a holistic space
00:26 where people were demonstrating tuning forks.
00:28 And I felt an amazing difference on my knee
00:32 where I had a snowboard accident previously.
00:35 And the interest sort of stemmed from there.
00:37 And I gained more and more.
00:40 And then bringing my other sound experience
00:43 into the space at the same time, I
00:44 was able to then start facilitating sound journeys
00:47 or gong bats.
00:49 The way the sound meditation works
00:51 is that it creates enough of a space for people
00:54 to focus on without having to go into extra thoughts
00:58 of what they might have been doing yesterday,
01:00 or what they might have been having to do tomorrow,
01:02 or what they could be doing in this present moment.
01:04 It allows them to sort of let go of other things
01:08 and just be present in that pure focus, which is meditation.
01:13 Generally, for me, the overall aim
01:16 is to hold a space of stillness for at least 50 minutes.
01:20 The journeys tend to be about an hour and 15, an hour and 20
01:23 minutes.
01:25 But to be able to facilitate a space where people can just
01:28 stop and be still for that amount of time.
01:32 OK, so these are some of the bowls
01:33 that I use to bring people into the beginning of the meditation.
01:38 And they sound like this.
01:39 [GONG BATS]
01:43 So this one here is a wind gong, or a fen gong, like feng shui.
01:55 And it's 30 inches.
01:58 And it's handmade in Nepal.
02:00 [GONG BATS]
02:03 OK, so this one is a chao gong.
02:10 The difference is that they have a lip that
02:13 goes round on the sides.
02:16 And it's also handmade in Nepal.
02:18 It's 42 inches.
02:20 [GONG BATS]
02:23 (air whooshing)
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