Sound you can feel.
Vibroacoustic Therapy (VAT) combines low-frequency sound, music, and gentle vibration to create an environment for somatic awareness and relaxation. My sound offering is exclusively vibroacoustic music medicine, drawing on my degree in music and counselling experience.
Rather than viewing vibration as a treatment or cure, I use it as an invitation to become more aware of your body.
Many of us spend much of our lives thinking about ourselves while remaining disconnected from what is happening within us. This practice offers an opportunity to slow down, shift attention inward, and explore the relationship between bodily sensation, emotions, and awareness.
Through specialised transducers embedded within the table, low-frequency sound can be experienced as gentle vibration throughout the body, combining listening with feeling.
There is no right experience.
For some people this leads to relaxation. Others notice changes in breathing, muscle tension, body awareness, emotional responses, or a greater sense of presence. There is no particular outcome that should occur and no experience that is considered “right.” The intention is not to force change, but to create conditions for curiosity, awareness, and exploration.
Within my practice, VAT is used as a complementary somatic approach alongside counselling where appropriate. It is not presented as a medical treatment or cure.
What happens during a session?
Your 60-minute appointment includes time to settle, experience the music and vibration, and reflect. You rest comfortably, fully clothed, on a vibroacoustic table while listening to carefully selected music and experiencing gentle low-frequency vibration.
You may choose guided or silent attention to bodily sensations, breathing, and internal awareness. There is time at the end to talk about your experience if you wish. Comfort and intensity are discussed together, and you can ask to pause at any point.
There is nothing to achieve and nothing to force. The invitation is simply to slow down, listen, and become more familiar with the body's own experience.
The research
Research into vibroacoustic therapy is developing. A 2022 scoping review by Kantor and colleagues explored studies involving adults experiencing pain. The authors highlighted varied methods and the need for stronger research; this is not evidence of a guaranteed benefit for an individual.
Read Kantor et al. (2022): Exploring vibroacoustic therapy in adults experiencing pain
Interested? Watch this.
Dr Lee Bartel discusses music and vibration in Music Medicine: Sound at a Cellular Level. The talk is an introduction to his perspective, rather than a promise of results from a session.