Sound Healing for Beginners: Using Vibration to Harmonize your Health and Wellness (Llewellyn's For Beginners, 44)

Very interesting book. There are many practical exercises and instructions are clear. Writers encourages reader to explore world of sound in creative ways and devise his/her own techniques if needed. All basics of use of voice in "esoteric way" are here: basic toning, chakra sounds, chanting in magics (very fine new method), mantras...Forward is written by Jonathan Goldman, enough said.Added 25.08.2015: No it's not enough, it seems that one person find it unhelpful also! So I will continue with descriptions of the chapters, one by one, also sorry for my possible English mistakes:In forward, preface and introduction there are already fine definitions about sound therapy, This kind a therapy is describd as a type of "energy medicine". There is already one practical exercise in which one is aware of sounds around him/her. Sound is with us much more than we usually think. Also we meet authors, according to text they are very skillful in sound matters.Chapters 1 and 2Here we have more clear definiton of sound and how it react with energy and matter. Nice and clear picture of ear is given with explanations of terms and theory how we hear. Also resonance (how we influence each other through sound) in sound is explained. Ancient theory about overtones or harmonics is covered and why it is important in music (new pictures). After this chapters one will better understand why sound healing is important and possible. Hints how to use music (yes, any music from rock to new age) in therapy are also provided. Sound frequency, mysticism and primordial sound. Story of Benedictine monks...recommended reading. Authors invite us to the adventure of listening.Chapter 3Very good chapter indeed. Here one will learn basics about listening in sound alchemy and how to tranform negative sounds and noise into something more better. Very fine exercises.Chapter 4In this chapter first glimpses into actual vocal therapy are given, and authors start with brief view on shamanism, and how shamans use their voice and instruments in order to achieve higher state of mind. Next, different states of mind are explored (alpha, beta...) and definitions given. There is one interesting practical exercises when one using his/her own voice as kinda a drum, for more energy and for more relaxation. This chapter is very informative.Chapter 5This chapter is real practical introduction into sound healing (use of sound to provoke healing vibrations in recepient), proper breathing is explored and practical techniques are given. Breathing is actually already one form of sound therapy. Exercies are very smooth and interesting to do.Chapter 6Finally, finally in this chapter authors give first vocal toning exercises. This chapter presents basic information for whole book. All exercises from previous chapters are mixed in one very elegant method, and after sound "mmm" one can start to intoning sound in easy manner, we start with sound "ah" in relaxed way and authors tell us that after some practice maybe we will receive "songs ow power" like ancient shamans. Important chapter and after these methods the rest of the book is filled with infos about specific energies and how to awake them. But this chapter is a "must"! Basic of basic!(I'll continue...)

I wish I could give more than 5 stars to this amazing piece of rare information. Loved it totally !

This is an amazing book for anyone interested in learning about sound healing. It is very concise and explains in an easily understood manner. I refer to it over and over ...

Helpful and insightful in using sound to heal the body. I use sound in my yoga classes, so this book gives me more tools to share with my students.

Easily a standard for Sound Enthusiasts of all levels! I enjoyed the book from the first conscious listening exercise. Thank you!

This is the best book on the subject I've seen!

The step #1 .The essentials.A must have in your library

Great book! I'm very interested in sound healing and this is a nice book for my collection.

There is something in this book for all levels . I found the first four chapters ( up to end of page 94 ) very interesting which deals with topics such as how we are already immersed in a world of sound , the human hearing bandwidth , resonance , entrainment , harmonics , music ,, Sound v Noise , listening , Shamanism , types of Brain Waves , Binaural Beats , exercises and lots more . Chapters 5 and 6 are mainly on exercises and I found this section a bit boring . Chapters 7 and 8 are based on the Five Elements , not a great read IMO . Chapter 9 ,I found interesting which is mainly about resonating the chakras . The rest of the book is about Mantras and the power of global spiritual gatherings with more exercise examples . A good book but for me too much of it is devoted to breathing , sound , humming and Mantra exercises to name just a few which really need to be practiced as well as read.

I’m doing a diploma in sound healing. This book is amazingly clear in its explanations but not overly simple. I’ve learned something on every page. An excellent read for all those interested in the therapeutic properties of sound.

So far so good. Not completed reading the whole book yet but pleased with it so far

Really intrigueing

Very informative for people new to all this