DDB Physiotherapy

Tibetan Bowl Sound Massage History

The most basic element of the human being is the cell. The simplest way of communicating with the cells is through vibration.

External vibrations cause a sympathetic resonance in the cells. When tapping a  singing bowl placed on the body which consists of more than 70% of water, the sound transmitted causes the cells to resonate. The sound waves spread, as the concentric waves from a stone dropped in a pond, into larger and larger circles through blood, flesh, organs and even bones, relaxing them and at the same time harmonizing and energizing them. In this way the more than 100 trillion cells that are the building blocks of the human body are receiving a gentle cell massage.

The bowl vibrations are soothing enough to calm the nervous system yet powerful enough to travel deep into the body to penetrate the bones. Vibrations can travel into places you could never touch with your hands, to effect a healing that would be very difficult to create otherwise.

How sound massage works

Sound therapy has long been used in the Far East, particularly in Nepal, India, and Tibet .The basis of the therapy is the effect that sound has on the body.

According to Indian mythology, man was created from sound, and therefore IS sound.

The practice of sound therapy was developed over five thousand years ago using what today are called Tibetan Singing Bowls. "Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but the antique bowls used today have a deep resonance, when struck properly."

Their vibrations are compared to a pebble dropped in the water. The singing bowls with their rich overtones are placed at various points on the fully clothed body or held near the body.

They are then struck in a particular sequence. Different body regions resonate to different frequencies, for example: the deeper sounding bowls are used with the lower body while the upper body and head benefit from the higher frequencies.

A skilled practitioner is able to bring about deep relaxation in a short time by the method and force with which he or she strikes the bowl.

Under such deep relaxation the body is able to absorb the benefits of the sound and physical variations that radiate out from the bowl.

 What is sound massage?

Sound massage with Tibetan singing bowls is a special sound-therapy. Singing bowls are placed directly upon the clothes or within the health aura and are softly touched with a mallet of felt.

Calming sounds and soft vibrations generated by the bowls care for increasing wellness and effective and in deep relaxing ('sound-relaxation').

This deep relaxation helps to put us back in touch with our natural confidence and trust.

When inner harmony is disturbed we lose our equilibrium. Every day stress makes us prone to illness and impairs our quality of life. Through sound massage such tensions and blockages in mind, body, and soul can be gently loosened. The sound massage therapy developed by the German engineer Peter Hess can stimulate and strengthen an individual’s self-healing powers.

• Sound massages and harmonizes every single cell of our body.

• Release of tensions and blockades of the body.

• Experiences of an oscillating body free of weight.

• Improvement of the body's own healing potential.

• Positive influence on self consciousness, creative powers and inspiration.

• Regain of cheer.

• Dissolve old patterns and re-order.