Singing bowls and gongs
It has been quite some years now that I first got exposed to singing bowls. I discovered how their natural vibrations have a benificial effect on me. Completely different from the mechanical vibrations that have been very stressful to me for years. Soon I bought my first bowl and from that my collection is slowly growing - and expanded with some gongs and other stuff. I often put a bowl somewhere on my body if that feels the right thing to do, of I just play a bit for myself.
A short while ago I also had the pleasure to play my singing bowls a few times for a group of family and friends. Not only did I like it, it was also well recieved. It might even be the birth of a new passion!
It is fun to see how the same session is so different for the recievers. One prefers the cristal bowls, the other likes the metal ones better. Some really enjoy the gong, while others find it to much. The experience itself changes from person to person and from session to session. Sometimes it is pure relaxation; sometimes blocked energy starts to move and sometimes limiting believes show themselves. The one time this is experiened as nice, other times as annoying. Anyway: it always does something!
Some responses from participants:
Every player of bowls and gongs brings their own flavor to the Sound. Bonne Pier creates a rich landscape of Sound, which reflects his own depth of grounding in Silence.
The experience with crystal bowls was light and sublime, taking me on a journey inwards to my truest, pure self. By contrast, the metal bowls and gong were a voyage into space, the enormity of the Sounds sparking images of universes being created.
Bonne Pier is very gifted and his Sound Bath offerings are not to be missed.
Caz Davies, UK, psychotherapist
Sound baths by Bonne Pier activate the recipient, physically and/or on a level of consciousness. One time subtle, the other time more clear. There is always movement though and therefore growth. The effect of the sound bath doesn't stop when finished as the recipient is given time to receive the aftereffect (both lying or sitting).
The first session I felt more and more relaxed and even fell asleep. The second time I was more alert and felt the (singing bowl)waves flow through my body. Which continued for hours, while I felt introverted. I liked that very much! It was a special experience leaving me wanting more. Both times I lost track of time and I would have loved the sound bath to be continued.
Bonne Pier is a talented sound worker who senses which sound bath serves the recipient/group. In addition he can choose between different sound intruments: gongs, copper and crystal singing bowls.
Elise Put, province of Utrecht, lover of ethnic music(al intruments)
(translated from Dutch)
The session with the cristal bowls was amazing. The introduction by Bonne Pier with the do's and don'ts is very reassuring en trustworthy. I feel I'm in the hands of an experienced person.
When the first tones come a rest comes to me. My ears focus on the subtleties in the sounds. And when the other pithes come in, the 'bubbles' (that's how I experience these sounds) expand wider and wider. Softness and rest expand within me. While I listen to the many sounds, it becomes more still within. The sounds enter, embrace me and take me to more relaxation in my body and fantasy in my head. Daydreams come as associations of the varied sounds. I notice that around me that rest is also spreading among the others. Except from the sound of the cristal bowls it is quiet as a mouse. There is no nead for an end, as far as I'm concerned, but ofcourse it happens. And when the moment arrives to get up, when I think that is possible, it appears that my body has a different opinion. Another full hour my whole body is recovering from that deep, intense and grounded relaxation to becomming fully awake again.
A delightful feeling stays.
An experience I recommend to everybody.
Keesjan
(translated from Dutch)
