I used to think meditation was only about sitting quietly and clearing the mind, to cultivate the elusive feeling of “peace.”

This never felt inspiring to me, in fact I perceived it as immensely boring, impossible, scary, and, ironically, inauthentic.

So I never tried it. I stayed away from meditation, and I would not listen to anyone who talked about it.

All of this changed about 10 years ago…

I attended my first sound bath 5.5 years ago. I was away at a special yoga teacher training in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and on one of the final days, a sound healer came to deliver a sound bath for us. I knew nothing about sound at the time, in fact that training was the first time I’d ever worked with yogic mantras, and I truly hated them at the time…