![]() Preferring to incorporate some “shamanistic stuff,” he asks me to think of a word that represents something I need to work on. “You don’t even have to think about it the sound just does it electrically.” Sound therapy is a beacon to change our DNA coding, McElderry says. Starting a few feet away and slowly working toward me, he occasionally asks things like, “What happened when you were 4 … 17?” and “What’s your relationship with your mother?” The forks can also read ancestral information and pinpoint stressful times going all the way back to birth. RELATED: We Let a Reiki Master in Pike Creek Work Her Magic on Us Lying across a blanketed treatment table in his Rockland home studio, I’ve opted to go barefoot and bare-armed, as if less clothing will erase any barrier between myself and the healing vibrations. In general, sound balancing employs various instruments-gongs, crystals, Tibetan bowls-but McElderry uses tuning forks, as well as other shamanistic tools in his mixed-modality healing. Afterward, I feel a sense of spaciousness and a desire to connect more intimately with nature and the world around me.” ![]() Just being heard by someone who is paying attention is therapeutic in and of itself. “I always feel light and airy and at peace even while sharing emotional pains. While sound therapy alone cannot cure illness, it has been shown to benefit those suffering from such ailments as PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, digestive hullabaloo and headaches. Just as the different areas of our brain are responsible for specific functions, areas of our biofield hold information related to certain emotions or relationships. It is based on the premise, she writes, that our biofield-stretching about 5 feet from both sides of the body and 3 feet above the head and below the feet-contains the records of all our memories, embedded as energy and information in standing waves within structure. In her book Tuning the Human Biofield (Healing Arts Press, 2014), Eileen Day McKusick defines sound therapy, or “balancing,” as a therapeutic method that makes use of the frequencies produced by tuning forks to detect and correct imbalances within the biomagnetic energy field, or biofield, that surrounds the human body. (She also swears the tool, when used habitually, offers a noninvasive face-lift.) Intrigued, she agreed to become McElderry’s practice client while he finished his practicum, and she has since become convinced of the forks’ ability to both heal her aches and pains, and induce intense relaxation. Gilbert felt foolish for believing there might be something to this, but after a few minutes, she couldn’t deny the obvious. I was skeptical-until the soft vibrational sensations resonated down my arm.” ![]() One day he brought in a set of tuning forks (two-pronged devices that vibrate when struck) and offered to use them on me. ![]() “The one area that John was also studying that was unfamiliar to me was sound therapy. Gilbert and McElderry earned their Yoga Alliance teacher training credentials together, and “shared a passion for all things holistic,” Gilbert tells me. And recently, when my colleague Ruth Gilbert told me about this ancient acoustic modality, which she discovered from McElderry, I was eager to go under the tuning forks. When Berklee-trained musician and yogi John McElderry suffered a head injury many years ago, he relied on sound therapy to help him heal. Sound therapist John McElderry can read energy, and move it, with special tuning forks./ Joe del Tufo/Moonloop Photography Get health and wellness news delivered to your inbox by signing up for our FREE email newsletter here. ![]()
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