Alistair Smith | Sound Healing | Vocal Tai Chi | London
About
Sound vibrates the body, moves the emotions, inspires the mind and touches the spirit. It is deeply relaxing, meditative and transformative.
With sound we can look after our inner world, aid our physical healing and health and balance our energetic system.
The properties of sound effect us on all levels; clearing, shifting and promoting harmony, balance and alignment. After a brief consultation, I will create a treatment tailor-made to you and where you are on your healing journey.
Sound healing can help with stress, tension, anxiety, depression, grief, motivation, concentration, sleep, life purpose, creativity, meditation and spiritual growth.
I have also worked with people suffering from chronic illness to support their treatment and recovery, and run sessions with several cancer support groups and the NHS.
I use tuning forks, gongs, singing bowls, voice, harp, and pure therapeutic frequencies and harmonics. I also run soundbaths, workshops and retreats.
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I qualified with the College of Sound Healing in 2014 and as a tutor for the College in 2017. I have attended courses with leading figures in the field of sound healing including: Fabian Maman, Jill Purce, Simon Heather, Jenni Roditi, Nikki Slade and Eileen Day McKusick. I am privileged to be one of the first trained Vocal Tai Chi practitioners. I also have over 5 years experience of care work in hospitals, nursing homes and a hospice and have attended a course in trauma awareness. I have been a musician for more than 25 years, am a published composer and teacher. I studied music at Goldsmiths University where I graduated with first class honours in 2007, winning the Barnard and Hails prize for music.
I gained my Masters in composition at Goldsmiths in 2009.
Sound Healing
1:1 Sessions
Treatments are tailor-made to you, depending on why you have come and what is needed for you at this time. We will have a chat when you arrive and can set a clear intention for the session.
I will make sure you are completely comfortable and lead you through a short guided relaxation before the sound begins.
I use theory and methods learned from The College of Sound Healing as a foundation for my sessions.
I practice from my home in Crouch End, North London.
I am fully insured with Holistic Insurance Services and am a member of The College of Sound Healing.
Sound Healing - £60
Sessions last 1 hour
What happens in a treatment?
Sound may be used to scan over and around your body to pick up areas of imbalance, dissonance or restriction. Various sounds can be used to activate, unbind and shift these areas. Harmonic sounds will then be used to balance, harmonise and align. With a heartfelt loving intention and deep Earth connection I will tailor-make a treatment just for you, in honour and communion with your highest self.
Voice is used intuitively with certain pitches, vowels or harmonics. Wind, Sun and Symphonic gongs, as well as singing bowls may be used throughout the session. Tuning forks provide specific pure frequencies.
Sometimes, with your approval, sound is applied directly to the body.
After the sound there will be a short period of silence for you to integrate the sound, followed by grounding. This involves the use of low sounds played or sung whilst I hold your feet.
At the end of the session we will have another chat about your experiences during the treatment. I will make sure you feel clear and grounded before you leave.
Vocal Tai Chi
What is Vocal Tai Chi?
This wonderful practice is a way of working with the self through the relationship to one's own voice. Our voice contains everything we are: our identity, origin, our mental, emotional and physical states, and even our ancestry. Connecting with the flow of energy in breath and body, I will guide you through ways to engage and open your voice. From grounded, centred presence, you will initiate an ever deepening exploration of yourself within your sound. Vocal Tai Chi is a highly intuitive embodied practice, welcoming all sounds as valuable parts of us to be witnessed and honoured. It truly is liberating and can open us up to new levels of truth, expression, release, healing and integration.
Vocal Tai Chi was developed by vocal improvisor and composer Jenni Roditi. It is described as a "voice life practice for the whole self" and as "moving the voice between Heaven and Earth". It is routed in the principals of Tai Chi, voice movement therapy, meditation, and improvisation. Its scope is vast and highly individual. In this way there are no forms - it is a "formless form" or rather, the form unfolds from the participants process in the moment. This makes it highly creative and spontaneous with an immediacy and potency that has profound and far reaching effects.
1:1 Sessions
(Group sessions available)
In each session we begin by connecting to ground and finding centre. I will guide you through ways to open the voice, using the body and breath, all the while listening and feeling into what emerges, and what arises within the sound, mind, emotions and body. This may initiate a point of departure, or open into a field of exploration and enquiry.
What we are looking for in Vocal Tai Chi (and in life) is not 'a good performance' but rather something much more powerful: authentic expression of who and where you are in that moment; a deeper level of truth and embodied being.
Imagine being given the opportunity to express and share anything, in ways that are not constrained by words, convention or conditioning. Imagine this being welcome, received and honoured with unconditional positive regard.
Vocal Tai Chi - £60
Sessions last between 1 to 1.5 hours
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Palace Road, Crouch End, London, N8