Established Liverpool wellbeing practitioner Geniene Azalea is offering ‘sound baths’ to help with relaxation and is also putting on a course to enable people to become ‘sound therapists’. Tony McDonough reports

We live in a noisy world and often seek quiet moments to help us relax.

However, according to established Liverpool wellbeing practitioner Geniene Azalea, by utilising the right sounds we can find peace without the need for total silence.

From The Beatles to Bach, there is little doubt music and sound can impact on a deep level. Sound therapists use ‘vibrational instruments’ in what are called ‘sound baths’. They say such sessions can rebalance the body’s energy and nervous system.

Geniene has been performing Sound Baths for her stressed out clients at her city centre based studio. Sass and Self Help, since 2016. She claims they can stimulate feelings of “tranquility and bliss”.

She told LBN: “A recent study by the British Academy of Sound Therapy measured the effects of sound therapy on the autonomous nervous system by hooking up clients to a machine that measures stress responses.

“Every client that was monitored demonstrated a decrease in arousal of the nervous system compared to the control group. This suggests that sound healing therapy does work wonders for relaxation and stress relief.”

A sound bath is a session that involves a practitioner playing various ancient instruments to ‘bathe you in sound’. It aims to help relieve conditions such as anxiety and mood disorders, physical pain, fatigue and depression.

Geniene uses ancient instruments such as gongs, tuning forks, singing bowls, rattles, strings and chimes to lull her clients into deep rest.

“For me the writing is on the wall – even the busiest minds can be calmed with the vibrational instruments,” she added.

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“Having been a meditation teacher since 2013, I have noticed how much easier it is for me to get my clients into that calming state of meditation with the instruments than without.”

Geniene’s next sound bath takes place at the Sass and Self Help studio in Liverpool on Thursday, March 16. Click here for information and to book.

On Saturday, May 6, and Sunday, May 7, there will be a two-day course that will enable people to become sound healers and practitioner. Click here for more information.