SOUND HEALING
Sound Healing involves the skillful application of sound (vibration and frequency) to the body with healing intention.
My Sound Healing practice allows me to harness the knowledge cultivated through my artistic practice and fortified by my Sound Healing qualification to support and serve my community.
As a sound therapist I channel the healing power of my voice to offer sound as a medicine that can target physical pain, remove energetic blockages and encourage emotional release to promote more balance, wholeness and harmony in my clients.
I take an integrative approach, weaving in various healing modalities as needed and in tandem with the growth of my healing capacities which are currently expanding to embrace embodiment practices, vocal coaching, Evolutionary Astrology & Tarot.
My Sound Healing Journey
I am an artist and sound healer who has been working with the transformational powers of the voice for many years; exploring incantation and prayer, spoken word poetry, storytelling, singing and improvisational sounding through my artistic practice.
My performance art was initially born from an impulse to know and integrate my own mixed ancestral heritage. This led me to start searching for ways to heal intergenerational wounds and liberate the self. My Sound Healing work initially evolved from my own need to be able to transform some of the more difficult and dense material that I work with and through in my artistic practice such as intergenerational trauma, colonisation, disconnection and identity crises.
My mentor Simone Niles (vocal coach & sound healer) and I had already been working together for some years when she began teaching the “Sound Healing with the Voice” training program with the College of Sound Healing, London. It felt like a natural and aligned step for me to train and qualify as a Sound Healer under her trusted guidance.
Integrative Process
The best healers and therapists I know draw on a range of skills that they have studied and developed mastery in over time. In my own healing journey I want to be guided by healing practitioners who are highly attuned and able to respond to my needs with skill and dexterity, working with my mind, body, soul and spirit in tandem to catalyse healing.
Having a wide range of therapeutic tools to draw on expands this capacity in the healer and/or therapist. Integrative healing work (where multiple modalities are woven into any given session as needed) is an exciting, effective and holistic way of navigating deep soul level healing journeys.
My artistic practice is already deeply integrative, drawing on many different media and approaches as needed. I am committed to developing a healing practice with a similarly expansive approach.
The following are the trainings, tools and approaches I have in my own medicine cabinet to draw on thus far :
Sound Healing with the Voice ; Certified practitioner with the College of Sound Healing, London. Evolutionary Astrology ; Diviner; Evolutionary Astrology with teacher and guide Sabrina Monarch. Tarot ; Thresholds; a decolonial tarot course taught by Christopher Marmolejo. Essence ; an embodied movement immersion course with Joan Davis drawing on Mind Body Centring & Authentic Movement principals.
SOUND HEALING OFFERS
Sessions take place IRL at Oscailt Integrative Health Centre, at my home in Wicklow or Online. I’d love to hear from you, email me at maianunesstudio@gmail.com to enquire.
Sound Healing Session
Duration : 1 hour / Investment : €66
This hour long session begins with a 5-10 minute consultation followed by a 45 minute sound healing session, closing with a 5-10 minute wrap up / check in. During the session I will use the healing power of my voice as well as variety of instruments (tuning forks, rattles, singing bowls etc.) to clear, align & harmonise your mind, body & spirit.
Astrological Sound Healing Session
Duration : 1.5 hours / Investment : €99
This unique offering is an integration of a 30 minute Astrological Birth Chart Reading feeding into an hour long sound healing session. During this combination session I will interpret your Natal chart as a map for identifying your specific physical, energetic & spiritual needs. I will then respond to these aspects using the healing power of my voice as well as variety of instruments (tuning forks, rattles, singing bowls etc.) to facilitate clearing, balance & re-alignment.
Elixir Program
Duration : 3 months of weekly 1 hour Sacred Sound Medicine Sessions / Investment : €180 per month
This three month sacred sound medicine jouney is for clients who wish to work with me in a consistent, intentional, long term way. Deep soul-level healing journey takes time and sound healing has a cumulative effect so the benefits of committing to 3 months of sound healing sessions are substantial.
***Because of my changeable schedule as an artist, Elixir is only available as online sessions.***
GROUP OFFER…
VOICE BATHS
Voice Baths are a version of the better known ‘sound bath’ wherein the human voice is used as the primary healing instrument. Other instruments (shruti box, drum, rattles, cymbals, chimes, tuning forks etc.) are used to support the vocalist, layering other healing tones and frequencies in order to augment the therapeutic experience.
During a voice bath a group of attendees lie comfortably on yoga mats, covered in blankets, absorbing the healing vibrations created by the sound healer.
THEMED VOICE BATHS
I like to create Voice Bath experiences that respond to the lunar cycles, changes in seasons, eclipses and other astrological transits. For these themed events I study the energetics of the moment & attune to this during my voice bath, using tones and frequencies that will help attendees to navigate life’s changes with more of a sense of balance, wholeness and clarity.
I run my own voice baths but I am also open to receiving requests to lead voice baths for new groups / at new venues. I have offered Voice Bath experiences at a variety of venues & groups including at The Space Between (Beyond the Pale Festival), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Repose Yoga Studio & Fringe Lab (Dublin Fringe Festival), Sage & Sky Yoga Studio on Ballyman Road, The Deerstone.
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