I have the honor of being a person who many of my friends and community turn to when they’re seeking to push the healing needle forward, and they crave an integrated, whole being experience. Recently I received a request to administer a sound session for a long-time friend. When she arrived, as friends do, we got caught up in chatting a bit before starting – but secretly I was also feeling into her energy, reading what was behind what she was saying, noting where I sensed her openness and her resistances, noticing evidence of patterns and emotional “parts”.

We proceeded with the sound session, but thanks to knowing she trusted me as her friend, and as a practitioner, I prompted her with cues I use with my coaching clients. Because she’s very proactive and can give voice to what she’s experiencing or feels she needs, she could lead me with information and requests. During that first session, complimented by a dash of essential oils, mild breath work & heart coherence + reiki, she had very profound responses in parts of her body that had been painful for years. Not surprisingly, following that session, her emotions significantly leveled to a previously unattainable calm and contentedness and her physical stamina and energy catapulted.

Here’s her testimonial:

"Tara's personal sound healing session had a powerful impact on my gallbladder. Tara used verbal prompts to show me how to release the tension and to welcome the part of myself I was not appreciating. She placed singing bowls on my gallbladder meridian and I could feel the tension leave! I now actively love this part of myself and the pain has not returned. This reaction was more effective than massage, therapy and dietary changes over many years. I look forward to experiencing the positive changes this will have in all areas of my life."

Yesterday she followed with another sound session, arriving with specific requests, and more informative conversation. Because of her trust and permission, I leaned in. I “coached” her before and after with ideas to help her reframe the troubling circumstances in her life by nurturing her own energetic relationship to them. During the session, in the quiet moments between the reverberating vibrations from the singing bowls, I prompted her to have curiosity about the troubling areas in her body. My intuition guided me to administer a cranio sacral technique. Together we acknowledged the preciousness of the emotional “parts” that have been working for her for so long, that she had viewed as adversaries and now realizes as protecting allies.

Today she sent me this message:

“My cup is full!... My future is full of color and joy and laughter. I can't thank you enough Tara! MY ENERGY IS SO AWESOME RIGHT NOW!”

This is the kind of outcome that happens when the person I’m working with is coming from a place of radical personal responsibility, is open with what they share with me, and trusts me to follow my intuition to access whatever I’m called to utilize from my cache of gifts & wisdoms. She booked “Sound Healing Sessions” but I could also call these coaching, or energy work, or even bodywork. Or, let’s call it what it is… transformation.