Some people meditate. Others paint, walk, or write to return to themselves. For me, the way back to center has been, and continues to be, sound, the steady vibration that brings me home to the present.
I'm not speaking about music in the usual sense. I'm speaking about vibration, frequencies you feel on your skin, in your bones, throughout your emotional field.
I met my partner Carlos in Pucón, a small city in southern Chile surrounded by native forests, volcanoes, hot springs and rivers that run wild. A place where water sounds different, the earth smells wet and heaven is painted in unusual shapes.
After a walk together along the Minetue River, Carlos showed me his luthier workshop. It was full of noble woods, tools, musical strings, sandpaper and unmistakable smell of fresh sawdust. There he built medicinal instruments: monocordios, harmonic beds, drums, flutes...
After explaining that all 50 strings of his harmonic bed were tunes to 432 Hz — a frequency that, according to studies in neuroacoustics and quantum physics, supports deep relaxation and brainwave synchronization, he invited me to lie down on it.
I had actively involved in in the world of yoga, meditation and spiritual search for 15 years, but I felt something was missing. Yes, sound had begun to touch me, to wake me up, but I still didn't understand how to integrate it... until then.
What I felt that first time on the harmonic bed, and everytime since, cannot really be put into words. I closed my eyes and time stopped. I was sustained, hugged by a vibratory field that I not only listened to, but was breathed into me.
My whole body began to vibrate. For the first time in a long time, my mind surrendered. I gave myself to something larger, as if all cells align in a single song. I cried, not from sadness, but from relief. There was return and recognition.
From that small city in southern Chile, with some stops along the way, three months ago, Carlos and I arrived here in San Miguel de Allende. Carlos had been invited to participate in a residency workshop at Taller 30 (Workshop 30), a community space of collective creation where art, science and technology cross, on Calle Esperanza in colonia San Antonio. There we built our first Mexican harmonic bed, and began offering individual Sonotherapy sessions.
There we made our first Mexican hamonic bed and began to offer individual Sonotherapy sessions.
We are inspired by many sources: Pythagoras taught that the soul is tuned like an instrument. Jacobo Grinberg talked about the universe as a vibratory network where everything is interconnected. Fabien Maman showed that human cells react to sound, reorganizing or even disintegrating before certain frequencies. Contemporary music therapy is validated by science and used in hospitals, therapies, mental health centers.
Sonosfera works with a simple conviction: sound can heal, unlock emotions, relieve pain, quiet the mind, undo tensions, open memories, and reconnect the soul with its center. And best of all, you don't need to "do" anything. Just lie down, listen and let yourself vibrate.
Each cord of his harmonic bed vibrates in resonance with the body, allowing you to listen beyond the ears. Sometimes we augment the session with musical bowls, flutes or ancestral instruments.
Sound can touch the invisible. Sound is medicine.
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Monocordios: Sounds of the Universe, Soul Vibrations
Workshop in English
Thursday, July 3, 10:30am
Sala Quetzal, Biblioteca
$330
One attendee will be chosen to participate in the demonstration, to lie on the bed.
(Español 5:30pm - Monocordios: Sonidos del universo, vibraciones del alma)
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Sessions at Taller 30
Throughout June and July, we are offering individual sessions with the harmonic bed at Taller 30 on Calle La Esperanza
Margarita Sepúlveda is Chilean, a lover of sound and silence, of trees, water, earth, air, and fire. She loves to listen, observe, and let herself be guided by her intuition. For more than 15 years, she has explored paths of self-knowledge and healing that now converge in Sonosfera, a project she shares with her partner, where art, vibration, and presence are transformed into medicine.
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