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Relax as Jeff Volk tells you how the sound frequencies used in Cymatics can Tone up your Body and Tune up your Mind.

ou’re resting in a comfortable chair, soft As wonderful as this may seem, the Cymatique® beauty soothing music playing in the background as treatments are just one of many new therapeutic applications in a cosmetologist hovers dotingly overhead, the field of Cymatherapy which uses specific sound frequencies gracefully waving her magic wand about you. to stimulate muscles, organs, even bones, to their natural state You watch in amazement as years of life’s of resonance. Unlike ultrasound, which uses very high accumulated anguish vanishes from the frequencies to hyper-excite the cells in the body and can cause topography of your face like south-facing tissue damage if performed incorrectly, Cymatherapy employs snowflakes melting beneath springtime’s warming specific overlays of frequencies all within the audible range, and rays. After just one 45-minute session, you notice poses no such risk. In the example of our ‘sonic facelift’ waves that those stress marks around your eyes are not of sound emitted by a small, hand-held applicator ‘wand’ nearly as pronounced. The contracted skin around your lips gently penetrate the skin, stimulating blood and lymph has relaxed, and you look like you’ve just awakened from the circulation to help remove toxins, while toning and firming the most restful nap you’ve ever had. Perhaps it was a dream, facial muscles. The average 40 to 50 year-old should notice but it’s a dream you can step right into and walk out looking, significant and long-lasting results after 10 to 15 painless, and feeling like a new person! (See p15 to see the results). relaxing sessions – a far cry from the ‘nip and tuck’ option!

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A Closer Look at All matter Sound- r“esponds to vibration All is Vibration! in a unique way, Cymatherapy is based on a All matter exists at specific densities, or having its vibrational device originally designed looked at another way, at different rates of own by Peter Guy Manners, a British vibration. Therefore, each individual resonant osteopath who performed extensive particle, or collection of particles, will have clinical research at his Bretforton Hall its own unique resonant frequency. This is frequency Clinic from the 1970s until its close why you can make a wine glass or a upon his retirement in 2005. crystal bowl sing so brilliantly when you Contemporary research and further excite them within the narrow range of ‘signature’ clinical trials have been carried out in their natural resonant frequency. For the States in a variety of settings, several years medical scientists have been with applications ranging from dental using this principle to break up kidney A Brief Overview treatments to bone and muscle stones, and more recently, to excite the of Cymatics injuries. Some of the most dramatic individual cancerous cells within a tumor Cymatherapy is a therapeutic application” results include the rapid recovery of to the extent that they rupture, thus derived from the pioneering work of Swiss professional athletes from a variety destroying the tumour (2). scientist, D. Hans Jenny, who in the 1960s of injuries. Over many years of research in the coined the term Cymatics from the Greek 1940s and 50s Dr. Manners and his word for ‘wave’. Dr Jenny spent over 14 Sound of Body colleagues ascertained a large body of years documenting his experiments in One well-known 34 year-old Football ‘commutations’ for specific bodily organs great detail, publishing books and films League player, suffering from a and tissues. Because every person’s showing many intricate and elaborate ligament tear and bone chip in his anatomy is different, the same organ or forms which sound produced in various ankle, used Cymatherapy as his tissue in your body will have a slightly powders, pastes and liquids (3). Although primary treatment. His rapid recovery different resonant frequency than mine, but Jenny was a medical doctor, his primary amazed his doctors, with within a very narrow range. Manners interest was studying the way inanimate inflammation and even fibrotic scar solved this problem by using a tone matter responded to sound from a physical tissue resolving within the first two consisting of an overlay of five frequencies, perspective, rather than directly exploring weeks of treatment. producing a harmonic of the tissue. Five the therapeutic effects of sound. However, Full range of motion, muscle strength seemed to be the ‘magic number’, creating his extensive body of work did, in many and balance effortlessly returned a frequency signature precise enough to ways, lay the foundation for much of within four weeks of treatment. If stimulate the targeted bone, organ or today’s burgeoning field of sound healing, you’ve ever even slightly sprained muscle tissue, while at the same time vividly showing how sound can restructure your ankle, you know how long it enabling one generic setting to work matter into a more coherent form. A short normally takes to be ‘up and running effectively, despite individual variations. historical review may help to explain. again’. Yet within one month he was Why five frequencies? Various theories able to run and even turn on a have been put forth including that it relates Sound advice sixpence – a very stressful move for to the Chinese Theory of the 5 Elements, From his studies of the natural sciences the ankle – without any further which are themselves based on the and Anthroposophy, the mystical science difficulties from his injury. His esoteric principles of the five platonic of Rudolf Steiner, Jenny was well aware verdict? ‘My ankle feels as good as solids. A more biological interpretation that all matter responds to vibration in a it did prior to my injury.’ He is but might be that these frequencies are unique way, having its own resonant one of a growing number of athletes somehow related to the five main stages of frequency ‘signature’. He wished to show who uses Cymatherapy not simply the cell renewal process. Suffice to say this empirically, using simple materials and remedially, but as a part of his that this particular patterning of five protocols whose results could be readily general health maintenance regimen audible sound frequencies has been repeated. Jenny’s scientific rigour opened and to prepare his ‘psychological shown to effectively correspond with the a new chapter in the detailed study of edge’ for his demanding given tissue throughout a broad population sound patterns popularized in the early professional life (1). over several decades of clinical research 19th Century by ‘the Father of Acoustics’, Perhaps the most rewarding case and therapeutic application. Ernst Chladni. Whereas Chladni had to was that of the thoroughbred steady a small steel plate covered with racehorse, ‘Rarely Found’, who sand in his fingers while stroking it with a sustained a torn flexor tendon violin bow, Jenny had the advantage of (similar to our Achilles tendon). electronic equipment, giving him much Usually when this occurs, regardless greater control over his experiments. This of the amount of rest, massage, allowed him to recreate these vibrational acupuncture, electric shock and patterns at will by reproducing the same other therapies, the horse is unable frequency (pitch) and amplitude (loudness) to race again, due to the build-up of of the exciting signal. He used sand, scar tissue. His full recovery with no pastes, water, and a fine spherical scar tissue in only six weeks (as powder called lycopodium, which is very opposed to two to three years of responsive to vibration, allowing him to conventional treatment) amazed see the complex resonances created owner and veterinarians alike, and when a thin steel plate is vibrated at might very well have saved him from various frequencies. being put down.

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With subsequent advances in You’ll never look at electronics and engineering, sound the same again! contemporary researchers such as Perhaps the most frequent inquiry I’ve received over the past German photographer Alexander two decades has been, ‘How can I do this? How can I make Lauterwasser, and British acoustic these kinds of patterns; with my voice, with my harp, with engineer John Reid, are now able to our chant group? In Water Sound Images, Lauterwasser create precise ‘sound figures’ or shows a series of sound figures created in water using ‘CymaGlyphs’ in water, sand instruments as diverse as sitar and digeridoo, and with and lycopodium. music ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Skrijabin and Lauterwasser is the son of a Stockhausen. ‘But I want to see this for myself! How can I well-known portrait photographer, do it?’ so it’s no surprise that his focus, Well, thanks to the untiring efforts of ‘retired’ acoustic so to speak, has been to create engineer John Reid, I may finally be able to give a helpful and compile the most striking reply to that question. With the assistance of American collection of Cymatic photographs I inventor/designer Erik Larson, a greatly improved version of have seen in over 20 years the tonoscope, which Hans Jenny originally produced as a Vibration mimics documenting this field. His book, toy nearly 50 years ago, may soon be coming to a store tortoiseshell Water Sound, beautifully near you! The simple acoustic model, which portrays many of the Reid is calling the CymaScope Jr, is a infinite ways that small table-top instrument that up to sound can structure four people can sing into at once, matter. This fascinating array of to create multi-coloured, images shows how the mandala-shaped sand powder configures itself patterns on a vibrating along the node lines elastic membrane. A (areas of minimal prototype of the more vibration) of a steel complex electro- plate, clearly acoustic device, the mimicking naturally CymaScope SE, has occurring patterns already received such as zebra great acclaim in the stripes, leopard US, and will be spots, tortoise officially unveiled at shells, and even the the First complex structures International of the ectoskeletons Conference on of crustaceans. Cymatics: The Science of Sound and Sound wave Vibrational Healing in But for me, his most Atlanta, Georgia on awe-inspiring images are October 21 - 22, 2006 those created in samples (5). This unit features of water vibrated in a small precision engineered petri dish. As the sound waves components in phi ratio travel through the water, they proportions, to create the complex reflect off the walls of the container, sand figures, which Reid calls creating characteristic wave train CymaGlyphs, on a vibrating membrane. It patterns, again determined primarily by the accepts a variety of audio inputs, and a built-in frequency and amplitude of the sound signal. The water video camera will project these images onto a screen or sample is illuminated from above, and his camera is also video monitor. Specially designed membranes will also allow pointed straight down. So, as light reflects off the many water images to be projected. A smaller, high frequency wave crests on the surface of the water, the most delicate model enables the sounds of nature, such as bird songs, patterns appear with geometric precision. whale and dolphin sounds, to be rendered visible, opening a It’s important to note that these patterns are strictly the new window into acoustic analysis of animal communication. result of physical vibration; nothing is added to the water, nor are these images altered or digitally enhanced. While such figures could be derived using well-known formulas of (It’s) a bit like viewing physics, their similarity to patterns found throughout nature – from the structures of galaxies to the forms of single- movie celled animals and microscopic plants – is most striking. “a high-speed This raises some interesting conjecture as to the underlying vibrational nature of physical reality, and Lauterwasser of the development of quotes liberally from various creation myths and sacred scriptures to support this understanding. life itself! 14 kindredspirit ” [12-15] cymatics/jh 23/5/06 12:02 Page 15

Sound effect rigorously applied to a field which has come from?) unasked, no less Reid, who turned the ‘sarcophagus’ in been, for so long, relegated only to faith. unanswered. In the mean time, this the King’s Chamber of the Great To actually be able to observe, actuate diverse field is rapidly evolving in its Pyramid into a giant cymatic resonator and reproduce the creation of life-like own right, providing valuable by stretching a membrane over its figures from inert matter, and then to opportunities to peer into the invisible opening and applying electronic watch as these forms become more realms of creation, ‘hear’ and now. frequencies to set it into resonance, complex as the frequency increases, is a Perhaps even more promising than has his own theories of how sound bit like viewing a high-speed movie of the the potential that Cymatics holds as a development of life itself! therapeutic modality, is its power as a 1. 2. Perhaps the science of ‘living metaphor’ to inspire awe and Cymatics may even some day wonder, and to awaken that subtle help to unite two diametrically yearning within us to ‘return to the opposed ideological factions – Sound’ which gives rise to all form and the religious fundamentalists structure. When you look at the origin of who believe in a literal version the word ‘resonance’ in the light of of Genesis and the Cymatics, it’s easy to conceive of ‘fundamaterialists’ whose coming into attunement with a Universal views of evolution leave the Tone... a view which is music to my 1. Reid beside sarcophagus 2. The Cymatic ‘Sa-loop big question (Where did it all eyes, and sustenance for my soul! ks with (inset) the hieroglyph for protection moreinformation was essential to the beginning of life • Award-winning producer, Jeff Volk, lectures widely throughout North America. Jeff created a series of videos on on earth. He also believes that these Cymatics and re-published Dr. Hans Jenny’s groundbreaking Cymatics books, which scientifically demonstrate fundamental principles are encoded how audible sound creates harmonic, geometric patterns found in intricate life forms, and in the sacred art and architecture of the world’s Great Traditions. See Kindred Spirit’s mail order pages for some of these products. into the architectural design of the Further information may be found at www.cymaticsource.com Great Pyramid, most particularly in the • 1 For clinical documentation on this and similar case studies, see www.cymatherapy.com acoustic properties of the initiation • 2 The Role of Music in the 21st Century, Fabien Maman, see www.cymaticsource.com. Regarding further chambers and in the geometry of the research in the field of sound healing. Firstly, Drs Gimzewski and Pelling of UCL, concerning the field of sonocytology: www.darksideofcell.info/ An abstract of their original paper can be found at: enigmatic passageways leading up www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5687/1147/ from those chambers (6). Also the work of Gendel, in Northern Ireland, with their CEFUS technology (Combined Electric Field and Indeed, the formation of the world Ultrasound) can be found at: www.gendel.co.uk/ through sound is a theme that echoes • 3 See feature article in Kindred Spirit issue #60, Sept. ‘02 available on the Kindred Spirit website. through the sacred texts of all the world’s • 4 © 2002 Alexander Lauterwasser. English edition, MACROmedia Publishing, 2006. www.cymaticsource.com After August, this book will be available via Kindred Spirit magazine and website. great spiritual traditions, so it is especially • 5 See www.cymatherapy.com or www.cymaticsource.com for conference details. heartening to see the scientific method • 6 See Egyptian Sonics, by John Reid (c)2001, Sonic Age, UK.

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