Vibroacoustic Therapy

This session lives inside Capacity for Self VibroEnergetics™, the energetic pillar of my Capacity for Self Method™. If you searched for vibroacoustic therapy, you are in the right place. This is the same low-frequency table work, held inside a larger field of sound, breath and touch.

You lie on a table with low-frequency speakers built into it, so sound reaches you as vibration through whatever part of you is resting on it, and travels through your whole body. Crystal singing bowls sound close around you and may rest right on your body. My hands and your breath are part of the same field. Gongs are often a session of their own, and sometimes I bring them into this one too.

This is not a sound bath with a vibrating table added, and it is not three sessions stacked into one. The table, the bowls, my hands and your breath are one resonant field, reaching you at different frequencies at the same time. Some of it you feel. Some of it you hear.

Most people picture grounding the way meditation teaches it: settling, getting heavy, sending roots into the floor. On the table the pull runs both ways at once, down toward the center of the Earth and out toward something far larger than you.

The table's low tones come up from underneath you, and you feel them more than you hear them. When a bowl rests on you, its tone goes straight into the tissue underneath. A bowl above your head rings out into the room, and its overtones keep opening the space around you. When gongs are part of the session, that opening goes further still.

What I see on the table is simpler. Places that have been bracing find nothing to brace against. A vibration does not argue with you. It can reach places that words and touch alone do not, and human connection is still the ground this work stands on.

Sessions are 90 minutes, in my studio in Cotati. Every studio session begins with a conversation about what you are carrying and what your body needs.

• From below. The table's low tones begin underneath you, and your body sets the pace.
• On and around you. A session may begin face down, with a crystal singing bowl resting on your lower back, another behind your knees and a third on a stool above your head, each tuned to a harmonic note in the same or a complementary key.
• Sometimes, gongs. Gongs are often a session of their own. When they join a table session, they fill the air above you.
• Through you. I guide you into a continuous, flowing breath, the same breath at the heart of Capacity for Self Breathwork™. It opens space in the tissue that vibration can then move into.
• Hands. My hands come in where they are needed. If your body begins to move on its own, I steady the bowls so you never have to manage them.

All of it sounds at once, and the session follows your body rather than a script. You may turn over, face up, partway through. At the end there is time to come back slowly, at your own pace.

You can talk, stay quiet, ask me to change anything or stop at any point. Some people fall asleep. There is no right way to do it.

If you would like a longer walk through it, I wrote about what it actually feels like on the table.

People usually find their way to the table when something has stopped moving. Vitality that has gone flat. A tiredness that sleep and time off do not touch. A body that stays braced even when life is calm.

Some have done years of inner work and can feel themselves at a plateau. Some have talked about what they carry for as long as talking helps. Some are drawn to sound and want to feel it through the body, not only hear it.

If you are skeptical, you are welcome. Nothing here asks you to believe anything. The table only asks you to lie down and notice.

I do not diagnose, treat or cure any condition, and I am glad to work alongside your doctor and your other care rather than instead of it.

Table sessions happen in my studio in Cotati, California, between Rohnert Park and Petaluma, with Santa Rosa a short drive north. You can see the space on the studio session page.

In my practice, sound, vibration and energy are one continuum. Capacity for Self VibroEnergetics works with that whole continuum as a single field, and the table carries it lower, into tones you feel more than hear. It belongs to the Capacity for Self Method, which meets body, mind and spirit as one living system.

I am an integrative somatic practitioner, coach, and bodyworker. I do not move energy for you. I create conditions. The intelligence of your own system is more sophisticated than any map I could impose on it.

I also build and sell vibroacoustic tables. If you are curious about having one of your own, the tables page is the place to start, or you are welcome to send me a message.