Healing through Sound

by Vickie Dodd

• ISBN13: 9798888500316
• ISBN10: 8888500316
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2024-04-02
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Heal and align the body layer by layer through sound healing

• Shows how sound, even humming, can change the body’s tissues, rearrange posture, and release long-held emotional trauma and stress

• Explains how to listen deeply to the body and discover the rhythms of the areas to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing

• Offers practices to help you immediately release tension and explains how to use your voice to release emotional conflicts so your body can naturally heal

You are made of sound—listen deeply to the rhythms and stories of your audible body that ask to be noticed and integrated. With the power of the voice, you can heal your body layer by layer, awakening your cells while releasing long-held tensions, stress, and emotional trauma.

In this guide, pioneer sound healer Vickie Dodd shares her system for addressing trauma locked in the physical body with the potent healing quality of sound. Touching on the functions of the nervous system and the parasympathetic breath, she explains how sound travels the inner pathways of the body, eliciting responses from the memory of tissues and muscles while bypassing the mind. Sound can change the body’s tissues, rearrange posture, and release undigested emotional experiences. With experiential exercises, you can explore how to listen precisely and discover the rhythms of the areas of the body to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing—your unique soundprint. Singing love songs to your shadow, you will transform negative patterns into harmonious ones and discover the grace and peace that arise as your body’s tales and tissues come to rest. Sound truly allows you to dialogue effectively with your body for release, restoration, and renewed vitality.

Author Biography

Vickie Dodd, M.A., has been a sound healing therapist, body worker, workshop leader, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years. She co-founded the Institute of Music and Health in Boulder, Colorado, with Don Campbell and Jonathan Goldman, and has created sound school trainings around the world. Vickie offers residential retreats on sound at the NatureBridge Campus in Olympic National Park and is an adjunct faculty member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

Preface
Why We Sound

Sound as an Evolutionary Possibility | Seeds of Sound Frequency | Root Patterns

Introduction
The Lineage of Sound Healing

The Teachings of the Grandmothers | Grandma Baggott | A View from the Porch: Observing What Is in Front of Me | Do I See the Disconnect? | Seeing the World as Energy | Tapping the Emotional Rhythm | She’s Got the Nerves | Awakening to a Larger Purpose

Chapter 1
It’s All in the Listening

The Issues Are in the Tissues | The Formula Is Revealed | We Sound to Get Quiet Enough to Listen If | You Love Something Enough | Client Session: Mending the Body Is in the Listening | Trusting the Innate Wisdom of the Body | Listening and Sounding the Soul Signatures | Keys to Perception | Physicality of Codependency | The Teachings of the Trees | How to Mind My Own Business | Overview of the Oak Tree's Sacred Teachings

Chapter 2
The Power of the Hum

Keys to Accessing the Humming Voice | Acceptance of What Is—The Key to Transformation | The Hum Soothes and Reduces Stress | Go with the Flow! | Physical Benefits of Humming | The Hum as Resonance Protection | The Hum as Healer | Energetic Feng Shui | Hum as Meditation | Trust and Not Knowing

Chapter 3
Vocabulary of Sounds

The Wisdom of Vowels | The Sound Palette—The Vocabulary of Sounds | Client Session: Soothing Trauma | Aerobic Sounds—Sounding and Emptying the Inner Noise

Chapter 4
Emptying

Whatever Is Unexpressed Runs the Show | When Do We Need to Empty? | The Jaw—The First Emptying Gate | The Hum as Integrator and Closing Sound | Sound Increases Our Capacity for Breathing | Exploring Sound and Breath Possibilities | Practice Reclaiming Our Exhale | Sound as a Prayer | Health Benefits of the Sounds of Laughter

Chapter 5
Honoring the Body’s Innate Wisdom

The Evolutionary Possibility of Bodywork | Our Fluid Body | Client Session: Listening to the Layers of Grief | Deep Listening | Sound and the Physical/Emotional Body

Chapter 6
Aligning and Tuning the Body

Sound Changes the Physical Form | Encodements of Forgotten Wisdom | Your Body as Your Teaching Laboratory | Growing Heartful Possibilities | Listening to the Rhythms | Keys for Listening to the Rhythms | The Physicality of Amnesia and Memory | Staying Alive and Humane | May I Become Good Compost

Chapter 7
The Heart and the Gut of the Matter

Our Energetic Roots in History | The Shaping of Our Listening | A Curved Listening | Plugging into Earth, Ground Force Reaction | Grounding and Stabilizing Our Circuitry | Let Your Feet Brain Talk to Your Heart Brain | Journey into the Inner Terrain | Client Session: The Language of the Heart | Surrender to Not Knowing | Client Session: Reconnection with the Inner Terrain | The Mysterious Nervous System | Parasympathetic Rhythms of Breath and Sound | Let Your Gut Brain Talk to Your Head Brain | Client Session: Myself, Shingles, and the Power of the Silent Hum

Chapter 8
Dissonance and Shadow Work

Love Songs to the Shadow | The Collective Shadow | Life Magazine | Sound Transforms the Blues to Gold | Emotional Wound | Revealing What Is Not Mine | Loving Self-Care Made Simple | The Accuracy of Sound as Bodywork | Harmonics to Dissonance | What Is Your Form of Perceiving? | Formulas for the Emotional Body | Client Session: Healing Deep Trauma

Chapter 9
Sound as a Spiritual Solution

Bali: Sing a Love Song to Your Shadow | Loving Our Many Characters | The Spiritual Significance of Music | The Power of Sound and Vibration Being Made Visible

Epilogue
The Mythology of Awakening the Feminine Divine

Appendix 1
Additional Sound Vocabulary

Appendix 2
Dr. Joseph Liss

Appendix 3
Rest Assured: Parasympathetic Resonance Album

Exercise Overview

References

Acknowledgments

About the Author