Why 'Sound Healing' makes us feel good with Natalie Gond
What is this wellness practice and how lying down and letting the sound healing you work.
Deep relaxation, mental clarity, emotional release, better sleep… Here would be the few benefits of listening to gongs, chimes, bells and singing bowls. Getting your aches healed and letting the unconscious travel without having to do anything, just lying down with your eyes closed and your ears wide open? I love it! Meet the sound healer Natalie Gond who knows well how to lull us into a peaceful deep meditation.
Where does your interest in well-being come from?
I have always had an interest in wellness and well-being, but for a number of years, shortly after I had my two children, I was caught up in society and the demands of life, where I ignored my well-being for a number of years. It was after a true burnout that I knew I needed deep healing and started to give myself proper attention through different wellness practices.
How did you discover sound healing?
First, I think from my friend from NY, Sara Auster, who is a well known sound healer in the States, and since I am a singer and studied music it really resonated with me. I then learned and studied sound yoga, the practice of using one’s voice to bring healing through vocal toning and mantras. That eventually led me to train in sound massage.
How would you describe this practice to someone who knows nothing about it?Either participating in a sound bath or receiving a sound massage is a deeply relaxing experience. No one gets wet! The term bath is used because one is bathed in sound. Using either Tibetan or crystal singing bowls, gongs, and other healing instruments, the participant receives different beautiful sounds and frequencies that align the energy centers (chakras) and penetrate the body, allowing all the cells and organs to return to their natural rhythm thus procuring a feeling of serenity and alignment.
What are the primary qualities required to practice sound healing?
Anyone can practice sound healing. A good training is all one needs.
How did you train?
I trained with Zen and Sounds (for sound massage) and Patrick Torre and Emmanuelle Cueff for sound yoga (using the voice to heal and transcend).
Do you have a signature?
I am not convinced it’s a signature, but I do use my voice and sing into the bowls during the sound baths. This not only energizes the sound of the bowls, but allows my voice to blend with the frequency the bowl emits.
How do you think of each session?
Before each session I place the intention requesting guidance to fully support each individual person who attends. Then I work intuitively. No two sound baths will be the same. For sound massage, there is a specific protocol that I adjust based on the person's needs.
How does it work?
For a sound bath - everyone lies down comfortably with a pillow and blanket if they desire and all the participants have to do is allow the soft hum of the bowls and instruments to lull them into a peaceful deep meditation. The participants receive fully in this practice.
For a sound massage, the participant will lie down on a massage table, I will place the therapeutic bowls on the body and make them vibrate. I also use tuning forks and other sound healing instruments around the body
Who is it for?
It is for anyone and everyone, especially in these times. For those who have a hard time slowing their mind down. For those needing deep rest and comfort.
What are the benefits?
This is a short list:
Deep Relaxation – Calms the nervous system and reduces stress.
Mental Clarity – Helps clear mental fog and improve focus.
Emotional Release – Supports processing and releasing stored emotions.
Better Sleep – Promotes deeper, more restful sleep.
Energetic Balance – Helps realign and harmonize the body's energy.
Physical Well-being – May reduce tension, pain, and fatigue.
Heightened Awareness – Enhances mindfulness and spiritual connection.
What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned from this practice?
It's that I never feel tired after giving sound massage or sound baths. Although the bowls and gongs get heavy after a while, it fills me with energy!
Your most memorable experience since you started?
A two-person Sound Bath in the Sahara Desert created with my co-host for a retreat.
What are the biggest misconceptions about it?
That this is new-age “out there” type of treatment. Firstly, it’s science, and then of course, much more. Sound Massage has been proven to increase the production of nitric oxide, which improves cardiac health, enhances performance during exercise, improves healing, reduces high blood pressure and improves respiratory response.
What are the most rewarding aspects?
It’s helping people the way that other people helped me when I needed to reconstruct myself. I would’ve loved to find this type of treatment, especially when I was a new mom, full time worker, and completely exhausted from life.
And the most difficult?
It’s probably lugging all of the material from place to place but it’s OK.
What do you like most about this practice?
It's very simple and yet very profound.
At home: 3 self-tips to practice to relieve 3 everyday ailments?
1.I would suggest first using your voice to simply hum with your ears plugged and your eyes closed for a few minutes on different tones, and one can already see how that can positively affect the body and mind.
2.Listening to sacred frequencies such as 528 hz is quite powerful as is listening to binaural beats.
3.Investing in a quality singing bowl and using it every morning already can make a significant difference.
Tips for tips: The therapist(s) in Paris you would recommend to everyone ?
The Reiki Master and sound healer Charlotte Sinnassamy, the sound therapist Lydéric Auclair and the Reiki healer Cori de Ricard.
Informations:
Natalie Gond - Sound massage, sound bath and ayurvedic facial massage.
»» Sound bath every Monday at 8pm at Bandha Yoga Studio.
www.nataliegond.com