Musical Monochord Healing
Experience a most transformative sound healing instrument, affectionately named Mona, intuitively played by Katharine, the monochord sound table. Tune into the healing harmonic vibration of ‘oneness’ to balance your being.
Harmonic Touch Tune-Up
A 60 minute session combining musical tones, subtle touch and vocal toning designed to access the areas ‘within’ that seek attention and relief. Heighten your whole being…receive, and just ‘be’ in the healing moment.
What is involved in a Harmonic Touch Tune-Up?
• We begin with a brief conversation.
• Then, fully clothed, you simply settle back and relax on the musical monochord table and experience the ancient use of sound to heal, with a 10-15 minute healing sound session.
• After that, you will transfer (fully clothed) onto the bodywork table to receive ‘hands-on’ subtle energy and vocal toning healing.
What are the benefits you are likely to experience?
• A sense of cleansing, clearing, rejuvenation and peace.
• An all-around heightened and deeper perspective of life.
• New awareness of solutions to current blockages and issues; leaving you feeling like ‘a million bucks’.
• Feeling fully integrated and balanced in body, mind and spirit.
A 50% non-refundable deposit will be required when your appointment is scheduled.
A 48 hour notice is required should you need to reschedule.
Your deposit will be applied to your rescheduled session.
“The musical monochord sound table was by far the most unique experience I’ve ever had! Katharine’s intuition guides
her in playing a personal musical improvisation that sends vibrations throughout the room and your body.
The music clears your mind and brings your body into a deep state of relaxation.
This is an experience I would recommend to everyone!”
Lauren Langton, BNI Director
To learn about the origin and evolution of this unique healing instrument, sometimes referred to as a “sound bed”, click here.
Musical Massage Strikes a Chord
By Alice C. Elwell
Enterprise Correspondent
THE ENTERPRISE, Monday February 23, 2015
Photographs by Marc Vasconcellos
A Middleborough therapist heals with the harp and massages with musical notes. Body therapist Katharine Gilpin uses a full range of techniques to heal, from Reiki and sound therapy to traditional body massages. Her use of the ‘harp’ to strum away anxiety is rooted in the ancient use of sound to heal by many cultures.
Gilpin’s 55-string custom-made ‘harp’ is tuned to C-Sharp, which is considered a healing tone and used when chanting Om, a mystical sound with Hindu origins. The ‘harp’ is mounted to the bottom of a sound table which allows the notes to vibrate up and through the client’s body. “I love that thing,” said Karen A. Blair, manager of the Middleborough Farmers Market. “I could feel the rhythm going through me like a pulse. It flowed through me.”
Sound therapy is nothing new to mothers who have long used lullabies to soothe their babies.
Using sound as an alternative therapy is embraced by many, according to the Chopra Center for Well-being, founded by Dr. Deepak Chopra, “With the right sounds, you can align yourself with the vibrations that foster health, happiness, and unity.” Jeffrey Thompson, founder of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research, says different frequencies target the various densities in the body and vibration massages can elevate the body’s cells to a super-healing state.
Recently Gilpin allowed the Enterprise to observe a sound massage. Her client lay on top of the table while Gilpin nimbly slipped under her sound table, and lying on her back began plucking notes on the ‘harp’.
Gilpin has had no formal training as a musician, she holds a Bachelor’s in both Drama and French from Tufts University. Her first career was in the New York City theatre but, in 1990, she left the city and got her license as a massage/ bodywork therapist.
During a sound massage, Gilpin lets the harp take her to where it needs to go; she follows along in an effort to heal. She says the music is always different and heals her as well. “It’s intuitive; I’m guided by what my being senses the client needs to hear.” Gilpin said.
As Gilpin played a personal sonata for her client the chords boomed and reverberated through the room. “The wave took me. It was very powerful,” Gilpin said. The powerful chords were followed with soft tinkling notes reminiscent of a gentle brook.
Once the sound massage is complete, Gilpin instructs the client to stay on the table and with palms up, Gilpin lets out several deep cleansing breaths. Blair, who had a sound massage on a different occasion, said the ‘harp’ released her built-up tension, “Not only in my body, it hit every sense in my brain. It made me feel like I was drifting with the clouds,”she said. “It moved my mind, like a dance, but my body was still.”
Gilpin works from her Listening Hands’ studio in South Middleborough, on the web at https://www.katharinegilpin.com/
“If you are seeking to feel a connection to yourself, or a re-connection, Katharine Gilpin’s monochord sound table is designed to do just that. The sound table experience is unlike any other you will have pertaining to connecting your mind, body and spirit. You literally feel the music in your core; the music that is inspired by that exact moment in your life. Katharine is the catalyst that brings it to life; through her intuitive playing she realizes the vibrations, pitch, volume and pace, all of which come directly from you.”
Lauren Leduc Lemieux, ACC, CPCC
Whole Life Coach
LaurenLemieux.com
To learn about Integrative Sound Body Therapy click HERE.