David Key, M. Mus., is a Sound Therapist and a Certified Clinical Musician (CCM), accredited by the National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians. He facilitates group workshops and sound immersions, and offers private sound therapy sessions. As a CCM, David provides therapeutic music bedside for hospice patients and residents of memory care and assisted living facilities.
a recent sound immersion at the braithe center.photos by Bryn Blackinship
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Focusing on a singing bowl
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Shifting from crystal bowl to gong
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see the Workshop Offerings page for Details and to preregister
please see my private sessions page for information about individual sound therapy sessions
Music and sound have been used for healing in all cultures, for thousands of years. Those working with sound as a healing modality know that we respond at the cellular level to sound itself. The healing ability of the parasympathetic nervous system is engaged with intention-filled positive vibration. The number of scientific studies dealing with sound and the brain continues to grow. Many of those studies reinforce the understanding of sound therapists that our brains "entrain" to beats and frequencies, allowing sound to shift our brainwave state.
During a waking state, our brains vibrate at a frequency in the range of 14-30 Hertz (Hz), or cycles per second. When we sleep, our brains vibrate between .5 and 4 Hz. The brain's relaxed, healing states are Alpha (8-13 Hz), and Theta (4-8 Hz), which can be induced through the physical law of entrainment. When a rhythm or frequency is introduced, the brain will respond, vibrating at the same frequency. Your brain "gets in step" with that frequency, and there is a shift in brainwave state. A sound therapist uses this automatic response to facilitate these deeper states of awareness and relaxation.
Intention Breath Vibration
When we use intention and breath to create vibration,
we access the deep healing potential of sound and music.
When we use intention and breath to create vibration,
we access the deep healing potential of sound and music.
© 2020 David Key
David Key Music
17 Indigo Court
Hampstead, NC 28443
910.200.2820
17 Indigo Court
Hampstead, NC 28443
910.200.2820