followed by our minds, and then our hearts.

So, we're gonna take some time to get them all here.

Knowing that this is your anchor throughout this experience and that there's no other way to be than how you are right now in this moment.

(singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) (singing bowl humming continues) Reality is, is that not a lot of studies have been done on sound bathing in particular, but it's kind of like the cross section of benefits of meditation and music therapy.

So, combining those two things really makes a good outcome for a person.

(singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) (singing bowl humming continues) The history of sound bathing is a little precarious just because there are a lot of different cultures that have integrated sound into their healing exercises.

Native Americans definitely use drums and like flutes, all sorts of other instruments.

Whereas Asian cultures, we see the singing crystal bowls, we start seeing the Tibetan metal bowls.

(singing bowl humming) Pythagoras was actually the first person to prescribe music as medicine.

All of these cultures kind of integrated sound from their own experience at their own time.

(singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) (singing bowl humming continues) The actual experience for people have been vastly different depending on how you enter the sound bath and just the mind frame that you're in.

Our minds are racing of what happened right before, what happened throughout the day, or you're thinking about in that problem you're trying to solve.

The real goal of a sound bath is to quiet all of that and to really make meditation approachable.

(singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) One thing that I think about as I'm going through my bath is just like creating a natural experience.

And sometimes I'm thinking about like a trip to a beach.

When I grew up next to the Sakonnet River, I would hear the buoys while I woke up and they sound similar, to me, like the bowls that I'm chiming my mallet against.

(tuning fork clinks) (singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) (tuning fork clinks) I use ocean drums at times, ocean drums for a lot of people, especially in Rhode Island, they feel comforted by other people, feel like they're a little pellets of stress (chuckles) that they're listening to instead of an ocean drum.

So, everybody is really experiencing the sound in a different way, which is very interesting and part of the human experience.

(gong clanging) (gong clanging continues) Sound is like one of the first senses that we have as children.

And then, they're one of the last senses to go when we're passing away.

So, it's kind of ingrained in our experience.

And when we're sound-bathing, literally, there is a potential to change you at a molecular level.

(gong clanging) (gong clanging continues) (gong clanging continues) (xylophone chiming) (xylophone chiming continues) Sound bathing itself can feel like a very individual experience.

And the reality is, is when you come to a sound bath, it is about community too.

(xylophone chiming) (xylophone chiming continues) (xylophone chiming continues) (instrument humming) (instrument humming continues) (instrument humming continues) (instrument humming continues) (singing bowl humming) When you go to an art class, you come back with something obtainable.

You go to a welding class, again, you do something obtainable.

We don't have like an actual permanent product when we do sound bathing.

However, that permanent product is right here (pounds chest) (singing bowl humming) (singing bowl humming continues) (singing bowl humming continues) (singing bowl humming continues) Place your hands over your heart.

(inhales) We are taking residence in this moment as you are right now.

Thank you so much for joining me for this sound bath.

(static crackling) - [Presenter] Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on "ART inc."