David Key Music: Sound Therapy

Visit my Workshop Offerings page for my latest Zoom Sound Immersion offering, Friday, December 4.

For a limited time, I am offering a 60 minute private sound therapy session for $60, or a 30 minute session for $30. See my Private Sessions page for more info

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.

In support of the safety and health of all, Sound Immersions and live Private Sessions will be offered through the Zoom format only until further notice.
Please see the Workshop Offerings page for upcoming Sound Immersion offerings!

I am also offering private sound therapy sessions by phone or through the Zoom format. Visit my Private Sessions page for more information.

Feel free to contact me if you would like a private Sound Immersion, a Sound Immersion for a group, or private Sound Therapy Session. I can arrange a Zoom meeting for any of those options.

A video of me playing a beautiful African Rosewood Flute in C, made for me by Casey Burns. This is a meditative, less rhythmic version of "Both Sides Now", a song that has been resonating with me lately.
I trust that listening to this audio might bring some peace.

Buffalo Flute Sharing

An improvised flute "song" on my Native American style Buffalo flute. This flute was made for me by JP Gomez, Heartsong Flutes, Sedona, AZ, in 2001. I asked for the Medicine of the White Buffalo for the totem carving, as well as the choice of white cedar for the flute. I also requested 2 bands of pipestone at the bottom end, in honor of the Earth Mother, and as a connection to the root chakra, and 2 bands of turquoise near the top to represent Father Sky and the 5th chakra of expression. The total number of stone bands is 4, a sacred number.
These sounds are a prayer for the Earth Mother and all beings.
In a sacred way, let it be so.

C Flute improvisation

This video shows me playing a beautiful African Rosewood Flute in C, made for me by Casey Burns. It is an instrument I am still developing a relationship with for my work as a therapeutic musician. I asked for a simple system flute (no keywork), lower than the traditional one in D, for a deeper sound. With all of my therapeutic sound and therapeutic music instruments, I sometimes create sounds and music in the moment, just for myself. This video captures one of those moments. Think of it as "improvised sound therapy."

Visit my Audio Downloads page for an audio of me playing this Innate (a multichambered ocarina) along with drone frosted crystal bowls. You can listen at the site, or download the audio for your personal use.
Many find they shift into a deep meditative state with the vibrations of this sound offering.

A sound offering to help us feel our Wild Power
and find our Grounded Center recorded live in my home.
This is my own composition, inspired by horse, followed by some wild improvised vocables

HORSE DRUMMING SONG
As I run, I breathe.
With each breath, I burn.
With my sweat, I grieve.
With my strength, I return.

I am the Hawk in flight, I'm the Dolphin on Earth.
I'm burning Sunfire bright, I'm drumming from birth.
I am the Hawk in flight, I'm the Dolphin on Earth.
I'm burning Sunfire bright, I'm drumming from birth,
I'm drumming on the Earth.

In the Circle, we breathe.
With each breath, we burn.
With our tears, we grieve.
With our strength, we return.

I am the Hawk in flight, I'm the Dolphin on Earth.
I'm burning Sunfire bright, I'm drumming from birth.
I am the Hawk in flight, I'm the Dolphin on Earth.
I'm burning Sunfire bright, I'm drumming from birth,
I'm drumming on the Earth.

Moments From a sound immersion at braithe center

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.

David Key Music
17 Indigo Court
Hampstead, NC 28443
910.200.2820

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