Sounds Heal Podcast: Sound Healing & Wellness

Mandara Cromwell, D.C.M. (Doctorate of Cymatic Medicine), is an American woman entrepreneur and inventor, who is the CEO and President of Cyma Technologies, the manufacturing company for her own inventions – the AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence devices. The AMI 750, an advanced sound technology device, was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Fields of Science and Medicine...

Joey McCune is a sound practitioner based in Tulum, Mexico.  Called to be in deeper service, Joey and her husband, Mitch, moved to the jungle of Tulum to build a Sound Temple.  An innovator in spiritual tourism, she curates private sound healing experiences in her jungle setting. She paved the way for the therapeutic use of sound to become a next level offering in both her Sound Temple and Water T...

After hearing Paul Horn play flute in the Taj Mahal, Bodhi Starwater knew, at 15, that the silver flute would be his lifelong companion. Over the years, he has added many other instruments to his collection, including exotic flutes from around the world, conch shell, charango, 12-string guitar, Tibetan bowls, feathers, harmonica, gong, drums, and rattles. Bodhi's been working with sound meditation...

Jeremy Arndt has been fusing the mindfulness-based practices of yoga and meditation with his music for over a decade. Since 2009, he has traveled the globe, with music as his guide, studying different musical traditions and finding a consistent thread of inspiration for his own music. His journeys have taken him to performance stages around the world, in 25 countries and on 5 continents. With near...

Lisa Schuster is a Munich-based Medical Doctor, Acupuncturist, Meditation Teacher, Mentor, Sound & Yoga Therapist.  Her work combines different holistic modalities and focuses on sound therapy to offer an integrative approach to healing. Lisa is known for her unique ability to support people in releasing unhealed traumas so that they can deeply relax and reconnect with their full potential.   Lisa...

Erik Lawrence has toured the world as a saxophonist, flutist and composer, sometimes with his own original groups and often in support of a wide variety of legendary artists, from The Band, Levon Helm, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello to Chico Hamilton and Sonny Sharrock, from Tibetans Yungchen Lamo and Nawhang Khechog to poet Robert Pinsky, from David Amram to the Spin Doctors, My Morning Jacket, Rog...

Michelle Pirret is a musician and Sound Practitioner based in New York City. Her multidisciplinary life as a performing artist has roots in classical ballet, theater, jazz vocals and musical composition. Michelle is a trailblazer in the world of luxury 5-star hotels, crafting wellness experiences that previously did not exist. She paved the way for the therapeutic use of sound to become a next lev...

Rick Plautz is an intuitive sound bath practitioner, incorporating crystal bowls, meditative music and vocal toning. He is influenced by the use of isochronic tones, binaural beats and the voice for relaxation. He is a motion designer and creates mesmerizing visuals to accompany his sound meditations. Along with our discussion about his journey, philosophy, and the field of sound healing, you’ll e...

Welcome to our 50th episode and also 4 year anniversary of Sounds Heal Podcast! Enjoy this conversation and sound meditation with Jeralyn Glass. Jeralyn Glass is an internationally known singer, professor, sound healing practitioner, and crystal singing bowl master alchemist. We discuss her background as a Broadway and opera singer, to using sound for her own healing and growth after the loss of h...

Susy Markoe Schieffelin is an internationally recognized sound healer, yoga teacher, and mentor. After years struggling with anxiety, addiction, and depression, her life was transformed when she discovered the therapeutic benefits of sound healing, reiki, yoga, and meditation. After her own healing and recovery, she felt called to help others experience the power of these practices. She began trai...

Ben Carroll is a gifted and intuitive sound worker. As a former full time touring musician and Universal Recording Artist with album sales reaching the hundreds of thousands, Ben has quite a unique background. As a perpetual student of metaphysics, consciousness, and the effect of sound & vibration on the body & mind, the transition from rock star to sound healer wasn't as far of a leap as one may...

Dustin Selva is the creator of Elemental Flutes and creates one of a kind flutes using local and exotic woods. Dustin discovered the flutes after being drawn to travel the world and explore his own self-healing. When he worked with healing ceremonies in the Peruvian Amazon and sound healing ceremonies on the Hawaiian Islands, Dustin's passions of sound and spirit merged. His unique flute creations...

John Yost has studied with master drummers in Africa, Japan, and the US and has a degree in percussion and a certificate in a Leadership and Organization Change, both from Northeastern University in Illinois. With his company Rhythm Revolution, he has been leading rhythm-based events for more than 30 years. He is certified as a drum circle facilitator by the Drum Circle Facilitator’s Guild and Vil...

Crystanium Gongs founder, Ross Barrable, has been building sound sculptures for more than 40 years. His journey into building sound sculptures and instruments began with his discovering the melody his folk harp produced as the wind strummed the strings when he was playing outdoors. This inspired him to learn how to listen to sound and harmonics. He has evolved his sonic art form to develop innovat...

Jason Snell is a multidisciplinary artist who performs electronic music with biosensors and builds generative art installations. His performances use biofeedback loops to explore consciousness and the line between cause and effect. His installations explore the nature of authorship, requiring the presence of visitors to generate the art. These projects use live data from the body and mind to compo...

“As far back as I can remember, music has been a vital part of my life. I always followed my own path, building a career as an independent musician and composer. Over the years, as my meditation practice deepened, I began to see how my musical and contemplative selves were intertwined. Once I discovered the power of Deep Listening® (with Pauline Oliveros) and followed in the footsteps of my teache...

Jim Doble is a designer, instrument maker, sound healing practitioner, and owner of Elemental Design, a studio that handcrafts unique musical instruments for professionals, schools, science and children's museums, playgrounds, music therapy centers, sound healing practitioners and novices. Elemental Design creates instruments for sound therapy and healing, as well as large unique sound experiences...

Founded by Madhava Carrara and Margherita Cioffi, Grotta Sonora (“Sonorous Cave"), designs and constructs hand-crafted experimental musical instruments, drawing on their personal experimentation with sound, using different types of metals. Madhava is a musician, percussionist and artisan who was brought up in an environment strongly influenced by Indian culture. He has been experimenting for years...

Shawn Aceto is a self-taught and independent gong maker. He creates dynamic gongs that offer a full spectrum of sounds. The inspiration for his work ranges from the esoteric, to science and ancient iconography. We discuss his path to gong creation, his gong making process, philosophy and insights on gong playing and our sound community. “To achieve harmony between music, design, & craftsmanship is...

Peter Blum has practiced and taught hypnosis to tens of thousands of people for more than 35 years. He has cofacilitated hypnosis and storytelling workshops with Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona (author of Coyote Medicine) and hypnosis and sound workshops with Creative Music Studio founder Dr. Karl Hans Berger. A lifelong musician, Peter has studied music and sound healing with Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya, Pa...

Paul Cardall is a man born with only half a heart who is one of today’s most listened to pianists. His miracle story and music inspire many. Paul is an 11-time No. 1 Billboard recording artist with millions of fans in more than 160 nations. He had a heart transplant 11 years ago and his journey has given him a unique outlook on life. We discuss his hardships, triumphs and the transformative power...

Fran Bak discovered the power of the gongs through her own spiritual journey and her life has been transformed. She is now bringing Western gongs to Bhutan and she is the only tourist that has been given permission to enter Bhutan since before the pandemic. In this podcast, we learn more about Fran, her background, how the gong has been a mirror of her own inner journey as well as her mission in b...

Mehtab Benton began his yoga career in 1973 in San Rafael California where he used the techniques of Kundalini Yoga in the ashram’s drug rehabilitation program. As a Kundalini Yoga Lead teacher trainer, he has trained hundreds of Kundalini Yoga teachers across the United States. Mehtab received the Kundalini Yoga Teacher of the Year Award as well as the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers’ Assoc...

Marla Leigh Goldstein is one of the few female professional frame drummers in the world today. She is a Grammy-nominated percussionist and flautist, and an internationally-recognized educator, performer and composer.   As a classically trained-musician, Marla began playing at the age of three and never stopped. With a BFA and MFA in Percussion from California Institute of Arts, she studied under t...

Jens Zygar’s early experiences—living his first decade in Liberia, then moving to the North Sea coast of Germany to attend boarding school—have given him a multicultural perspective on musical language. He began his professional exploration of sound as a guitarist in the Hamburg-based new wave band Große Freiheit (Great Freedom). In the early 1980s, Swiss author and scientist Hans Cousto introduce...