Vedic sound healing uses sound frequencies, mantras and vibrations to restore balance, promote healing and facilitate spiritual growth. Rooted in ancient Indian Vedic traditions, it incorporates ancient wisdom, sacred sounds and mantras to provide a unique opportunity to experience deep relaxation, cultivate mindfulness and foster spiritual growth.

It harnesses the power of sound waves, sacred chants, and vibrational energies to restore balance, encourage well-being, and advance spiritual development. Deriving from ancient Indian Vedic practices, it merges ancestral knowledge with sacred tones and mantras, offering a distinctive path to profound relaxation, heightened awareness, and spiritual growth.

One of the most exciting names in Vedic Sound Healing, Nevita shares everything you need to know about incorporating this healing practice into your life.

How does Vedic sound healing work? 

Vedic sound healing uses musical and vocal vibrations to influence and rectify the body’s vibrations through a process known as energy entrainment. Entrainment is the natural process of a rhythmic pattern, which stimulates other systems to fall into the same rhythm. Vedic sound healing operates on the principle of entrainment. For example, when we hear music, we tap our feet to the rhythm. In sound healing, it is used to entrain brainwaves to a slower rhythm, to help bring about a state of deep relaxation where it can realign its frequencies and return to its natural state of harmony.

The human body is made of seven different energy centres, known as chakras. Each chakra corresponds to a particular sound frequency that, when stimulated, helps balance and unblock the flow of energy throughout the body. When these frequencies deviate from their natural state, for example during times of stress, it causes cellular changes, disrupting the body’s fluid energy flow. This disruption can lead to mental wellbeing issues, physical ailments and even disease. Vedic sound healing aligns these chakras to support physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Vedic sound healing uses instrumental and vocal vibrations to influence and rectify the body’s vibrations through a process known as energy entrainment. Entrainment is the natural process of a rhythmic pattern, which stimulates other systems to fall into the same rhythm. Vedic sound healing operates on the principle of entrainment. For example, when we hear music, we tap our feet to the rhythm. In sound healing, it is used to entrain brainwaves to a slower rhythm, to help bring about a state of deep relaxation where it can realign its frequencies and return to its natural state of harmony.

The human body is made of seven different energy centres, known as chakras. Each chakra corresponds to a particular sound frequency that, when stimulated, helps balance and unblock the flow of energy throughout the body. When these frequencies deviate from their natural state, for example during times of stress, it causes cellular changes, disrupting the body’s fluid energy flow. This disruption can lead to mental wellbeing issues, physical ailments and even disease. Vedic sound healing aligns these chakras, allowing certain emotions to rise to the surface and enter one’s awareness to be purified by the sound. Stagnant waters become dirty, but movement cleanses them. As the stagnant energy within an individual’s system is stirred by the sound, one begins to purify physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

How does it help and support people’s wellbeing?

Altering the vibration and energetic state of a person through sound healing offers a multitude of emotional, mental, physical, energetic and spiritual health benefits including:

Physical healing: reduces inflammation, boosts the immune system and relaxes tissues.

Mental healing: promotes relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety by removing blockages and restoring balance and also increases energy to improve mental clarity and focus.

Emotional healing: sound evokes feeling and Vedic sound healing can bring emotions to the surface to help with emotional processing.

Energetic healing: Vedic sound healing is used to align the seven chakras (or energy centres) of the body helping to balance and unblock the flow of energy throughout the body so it can move freely.

Spiritual healing: sound healing encourages our thoughts and conditionings to dissipate into a dream-like nothingness, opening up the space to access expanded states of consciousness, and connecting us to truth, bliss and peace within.

The soothing sounds of the shruti (Indian harmonium instrument), healing vocal tones and devotional music, paired with a unique blend of breathwork, meditation and affirmations, helps people to feel energetically balanced, emotionally liberated, less stressed and more relaxed. You’ll also feel more connected to your heart and spirit, and have more clarity, confidence and inner peace around your values and what’s important to you. Vedic sound healing is also used to revitalise energy, to dismantle harmful conditioning, to help reprogram neural pathways, process and release emotional trauma. 

What’s the difference between Vedic sound healing and regular sound healing?

The Vedas, ancient Indian texts in Sanskrit, form the basis of Vedic sound healing. These sacred scriptures cover various aspects of life, including spirituality, philosophy, and healing practices. Central to Vedic sound healing is the concept of ‘Nada Brahma,’ meaning ‘the world is sound.’ This idea emphasises the interconnectedness of all things through vibrations and frequencies, paving the way for using sound as a powerful healing tool.

Use of sacred mantras: Vedic sound healing often incorporates mantras (sacred syllables or phrases) derived from the Vedic scriptures. These mantras are considered to carry powerful energetic vibrations and are believed to have specific healing properties.

Emphasis on Sanskrit: The language used in the Vedas is Sanskrit, a language believed to be vibrational in nature. The sounds and chants used in Vedic sound healing, often derived from Sanskrit words, are thought to resonate with the body’s energy centres or chakras, to promote healing and balance.

Spiritual and philosophical context: Vedic sound healing is not just about the physical and mental aspects of healing, but also has a strong spiritual and philosophical component. It is seen as a way to align oneself with the cosmos and attain higher states of consciousness. Many participants have shared that Vedic sound healing leads to unique experiences. They often describe feeling as if they’ve been taken to a different level of consciousness beyond their normal understanding. This suggests that the practice can help people connect deeply with themselves and the wider universe.

Use of specific instruments: While many sound healing practices use tools like singing bowls and gongs, Vedic sound healing also includes traditional Indian instruments like the harmonium, shruti and others known for their resonating and healing frequencies. The shruti is used predominantly in my sessions and I lovingly describe it as the strings of my heart.

Intention: The primary aspect of most sound-healing modalities is intention. Sound plus intention equals sound healing. I began my studies of the Vedas in 2015 and have continued to study them to this day. “Vedas” means ‘knowledge’. It represents the knowledge of your ultimate Self—a Self that resides within each of us, an energy that binds us all. This energy lays the foundation for our egos and our individualities. As I vocalise the varied frequencies and recite the distinct mantras, I connect with this energy, with this unity. The listeners, even if just for a moment, can permit themselves to immerse in this unity, in this bliss.

Respect for the tradition: When I studied in India, I was taught how to chant and pronounce the mantras correctly by a Carnatic-trained musician. I believe that chanting the mantras correctly adds immense power to these ancient sound technologies, making them more potent. Essentially, these are chants passed down from generation to generation by the sages in the Himalayan mountains. I try to treat them with the utmost respect by chanting them as correctly as I can.

Vocal technique: My voice forms a significant part of the Vedic sound sessions and is utilised throughout. I began singing when I was three and started performing publicly at the age of 9. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of learning from many esteemed teachers who taught me how to harness my voice and utilize specific vocal techniques. A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of working with Anthony Wade, Doctor Voice, who has collaborated with artists like Sam Smith. He truly assisted me in unblocking and freeing my voice. I now incorporate all these techniques into the sessions, delivering the message of the Vedas powerfully and melodiously to all who wish to hear.

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