Rest your
nervous system.
Not just your
mind.

Small group and one-to-one sound sessions with crystal singing bowls. This is a simple, immersive hour that guides your body out of stress mode and into real rest.

A simpler kind of rest

Most of us spend the day with the accelerator pressed down. We're alert, busy, "on." A sound session is a direct way to take your foot off the pedal.You lie down, get comfortable, and listen. There's nothing to learn and nothing to do. As the tones fill the room, your breathing slows, the mental chatter quiets, and your body gets a real chance to shift into recovery.

The science, briefly

Your body has a built-in "rest and recover" setting - the parasympathetic nervous system. For most of us it isn't broken; it just rarely gets a turn.Steady, immersive sound is unusually good at giving it one: it hands the mind a single, focus that makes no demands of you, interrupting the loop of racing thoughts so the relaxation response can take over.

Sound work isn't a cure or a substitute for medical care. Think of it as a well-designed hour of guided restoration and a good complement to the other ways you look after yourself.

That's one way to describe what happens; the language of nerves and breath. But long before anyone had mapped the nervous system, people described these same shifts in a different vocabulary: as energy moving, settling, clearing.You don't have to choose between the two. You can experience a session as your body downshifting out of stress, or as something loosening and flowing, we're describing the same 'thing' through different lenses.You are welcome to hold whichever language feels more comfortable to you.

And another way to describe it

In the older languages - Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and more - the body is read as a series of energy centres a.k.a. the chakras! They run from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each is associated with different qualities: grounding and safety, creativity and feeling, confidence, love and connection, expression, insight, and a sense of something larger.When life leaves us tense or scattered, these centres are said to 'fall out of alignment'.The crystal bowls are tuned to resonate with each chakra centre and as the sound moves through the body, the intention is to loosen what feels stuck and let energy flow freely through the chakra system again.The aim is to leave you more balanced and at ease.

How to prepare

  • Hydrate in the days leading up to your session - drink water!

  • Bring a yoga mat to lie on and a small cushion for your head.

  • Avoid taking any stimulants before the session as these will definitely disrupt your experience - caffeine especially will prevent you from relaxing!

What a session looks like

ONE
A short, relaxed chat about how you're arriving and what you'd like from the session.

TWO
A guided meditation, up to 15 minutes, to let your body and attention come to rest.

THREE
30-40 minutes of crystal singing bowls. Nothing to do but lie back and listen.

Sessions take place in the comfort of your own home. I bring everything to you.
Currently available across North London.

Please note: You must read the contraindications and precautions notice!

What people tend to notice

  • Sleeping more deeply that night

  • A quieter, less reactive mind

  • Physical tension easing

  • A sense of clarity that carries into the next day

Everyone's experience is different, which is exactly why these sessions are one-to-one.

About

Hello, I'm Cate

I've spent most of my life trying to understand the same two things from different angles: how the body works, and how people change.That began in science with research into how the breath, the heart and the nervous system are wired together and how the body holds onto stress and learns to let it go. In time, that knowledge led me to the mat, where I trained as a yoga teacher and began paying as much attention to how people feel as to how they function.Running underneath all of it has been the same pull: helping people through change. Sound is where those threads meet - the science of how the nervous system settles, and the very human work of giving someone an hour to come back to themselves.So when I talk about what sound does to the body, I'm just as interested in how the hour feels for you as in why it works.

Give your nervous system an hour off.

Whether you're ready or curious, I'd love to hear from you.

contact: [email protected]
Sessions currently offered across North London