My sound baths offer a trauma-informed, immersive experience that eases stress and cultivates deep rest and relaxation.
I blend spiritual and somatic practices with a wide variety of instruments, singing, and soundscapes that support people in experiencing:
Slower brain waves and heart rate leading to reductions in stress and anxiety.
Improved focus, attention, and clarity.
Deep states of consciousness, introspection, nourishing rest, and connection with the body, mind, and spirit.
People leave my sound baths with a quieted mind, open heart, and a profound sense of connection to themselves and the world around them.
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I offer a unique sound bath experience — I don’t work with only singing bowls, but a wide array of instruments, including crystal singing bowls and pyramids, chimes, a shruti box, rattles, tongue drums, and traditional drums. I also incorporate breathwork, singing, chanting, poetry, as well as guided meditation and visualization.
Learn more about me and my training.
I offer sound baths for:
rites of passage and life transitions
company and employee wellness experiences
weddings and bachelorette gatherings
mother blessings
home blessings
birthdays
seasonal and cyclical gatherings
grief ceremonies and funerals
some of my clients include:
University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, McIntire School of Commerce, Department of Chemistry, & Contemplative Sciences Center
The Boar’s Head Resort and Wintergreen Resort
Common House
Swannanoa
IX Art Park
Camp Friendship
The Wool Factory
SUN/SETS event series hosted by the Tom Tom Foundation
the science of sound
Since the beginning of humanity, people have been using sound, vibration, and frequency as medicine. Think back to hearing a peaceful song, and you’ll likely remember that while listening, you also felt peaceful. Sound has the ability to help your nervous system go from sympathetic (fight or flight) to parasympathetic (rest and relaxation). In this relaxed state, your blood pressure and heart rate drop, along with your cortisol levels (stress hormones).
As you likely know, up to 60% to 70% of the human body is water. Sound healing is so powerful because the soundscapes, vibrations, and frequencies are heard not only in your ears but felt throughout your body, traveling along the river of your inner waters. In typical waking life, we are often in a beta brainwave state, which is active and alert. When we are more relaxed but still have some focus, we enter alpha. When we are deeply relaxed or, more commonly, sleeping, we are in the healing and restorative theta brainwave state.
The sounds, vibrations, and frequencies created during sound baths can bring us into this restful and restorative theta brainwave state without us doing anything at all. Sound baths offer us an easily accessible, deeply nourishing experience of rest and relaxation.
Modern science is proving what ancient wisdom has always known about sound healing
A study found in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine found that:
As compared with pre-meditation, following the sound meditation, participants reported significantly less tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood.
A feeling of spiritual well-being significantly increased across all participants.
Sound meditation has shown promise in inducing the relaxation response and helping alleviate anxiety and improve well-being. The relaxation response is the body’s physiological response in relaxation, including lowered blood pressure to counter the fight-or-flight response and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system.
FAQs
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All sound baths are one hour long unless discussed otherwise with Waverly.
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1:1 & PRIVATE GROUPS
1 to 5 participants | $220
6 to 15 participants | $250
16 to 30 participants | $280
Groups with over 31 participants | custom pricing
PUBLIC EVENTS
Public event sound bath pricing varies. To get more information about hosting a sound bath at your public event, please complete this form: sound bath collaboration form
TRAVEL FEES
There is no travel fee for locations within 20 miles (round trip) of Crozet, VA.
For locations beyond 20 miles (round trip), the first 20 miles are free. A travel fee of 72.5 cents per additional mile (based on the federal mileage rate) will apply. If applicable, I will email an invoice for the travel fee.
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Sound baths are held at your place of choice (homes, offices, Airbnbs, etc.).
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You will need space for each participant to lie down or sit comfortably with their back and neck supported.
All participants will need a yoga mat, blanket, or something comfortable to lie or sit on, I do not bring props with me.
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Children are welcome to attend! As a mother of young twins, I know that for some kiddos, being quiet and still can be challenging. Lots of movement, fidgeting, or talking during the sound bath is disruptive to other participants so please consider this when bringing children. Thank you!
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All sound baths are non-refundable, and rescheduling is only permitted with 48+ hours’ notice.
“Wow, Waverly, thank you so much for this sound experience. Towards the end of the rainsticks, it brought me back to my happy place - Silver Falls State Park in Oregon - and the rushing and falling water of the largest waterfall in the park. The sandpaper and whooshing noises made me feel as though I was the water flowing against the rocks, slowly eroding and making changes as I went.
I wasn’t sure where I was for a while, but then the chimes reminded me that I had gone to the ocean and was being lifted up through evaporation into the clouds, where the rain doesn’t choose where it falls, and it offers grace to the dry places.
I honestly couldn’t have imagined that this is where it would take me, but I appreciated the journey immensely. I will return to this sound bath often and visualize the river, water, and clouds to help me center, focus, find forward motion, and offer grace once again. Thank you!”
— Madison
“We are all just blown away by your incredible work!! Thank you so so so so so much, we are all still beaming from your sound bath! What a powerful memory as well as serendipitous connections! Your Om Mani Padme Hum chant will live in me! Thank you, thank you!”