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the idea behind this treatment really is
to help you listen to what's going on
within you really deep point of
stillness it was I think it's the
deepest we've been musically and in
terms of the actual way we've used sound
and even the word that comes to mind is
meditation and kind of the holistic idea
that what's going on around you and what
you were experiencing is a reflection of
what's happening within you
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for most people the vast majority of
sounds is something you filter out you
know sounds is there's so much sound
pollution now you know to the point you
go into a supermarket and they're
playing background music so in a way
sound has become degraded it's just the
padding behind everyday life so what we
want to do is just really take people to
voice if the pure sound
it's an incredible treatment encompasses
lots of different things really that
have been brought together to make a
really powerful experience
the time you come in you're given this
incredible box to open what's the
mystery is you've got your eat meat and
drink me so it's just like Alice in
Wonderland really and this helps take
you off and then we go down into the
treatment room
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the massage is to do with being able to
tune in to your hearing and tune in to
sound by relaxing all the muscles in the
whole area of your body that's quite
often tensed up to the point that it's
almost acting as a acoustic baffle it's
almost as if you're walking around with
a balaclava on there's lots of massage
on the face to help clear the sinuses
and I lovely head massage it out really
clear your head and literally pull your
troubles out of your ears a lot of the
sounds are actually played by the
therapist as if she was a musician in
the room with you so the therapist is
using particularly tuning forks the same
tuning forks are used in the music is a
unique therapy called sono puncture and
it's really powerful they put you in the
same deep state of relaxation in three
seconds as if you've been doing an
hour's meditation or yoga so the sound
actually helps stimulate the flow clear
all the meridians so we use them on the
sinus points on the face and on around
different points on the ears
play them and also on the heart chakra
and on the forehead so when you're
having the treatment you're kind of the
lost in this wonderful soundscape it
just carries you into a different space
all together really you're not really
aware if what's going on is it is
happening around you or oh the therapist
or if it's happening on the soundtrack
or actually if it's your imagination so
whereas in the synesthesia you're the
middle of a ballet in this case you're
almost the instrument being played I
think would be the right way to describe
the central part of the spa is having
the ear candles they weren't really
gently we get you to lie on your side
and we actually do one ear at a time we
pop the ear candle in and light the
other end and they don't drip like
normal candles or burn like a normal
flame word they kind of just evaporate
what they do is create a really warming
comforting sensation inside the ear this
just helped kickstart is natural kind of
cleansing action
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extraordinaire sense of being aglow you
know you sense the heat of the candle
and the light and so we wrote a song
called a globe which is really the
central part of the experience for me
and that was inspired by my daughter who
come back from a forest school camp
that's you 30 and she was explaining
this incredible feeling you get when
you're sitting around the campfire at
night looking up at the sky and just
feeling absolutely at peace but part of
the you know of the universe
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that's just you know the full expanse a
massive dome and you can see the Milky
Way and then you've got the warmth from
the fire and you close your eyes and you
can sense the heat but also you feel and
sense the glow of the fire the orange
and then the point where the ear candles
come out we wanted that do the sonic
equivalent of having a blindfold lifted
off so suddenly the sounds become like
super bright colors and you're tuning
and hearing becomes super sensitive so
after we take the ear candles out you
have a really lovely head massage and at
the point the music really changes in
kind of deepens and you can hear the
beautiful singing bulbs these are
recorded for us by Frank Perry I think
you could call it the sound Serapis I
don't know what he calls himself but he
certainly has a really deep profound
understanding of how sound and how
textures of vibrations can affect people
well they traditionally it's said that
they're used for meditation and for
healing so when you put them all
together when you play four or five you
have a lovely cloud of sound which you
could not get any other way
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when we recorded them we borrowed this
incredibly expensive recording sound
microphone setup that mark has called an
oi Minh head I've got this head at the
head which is a naman microphone it's a
7,000 pound microphone it's completely
formed as a head and it's got little
ears and what we did was we put the head
on the couch exactly where your head
would be and then we played or they
played an array of gongs and bells
around that if as close as you can get
to 360 degrees what's called binaural
sound so exactly where your head is in
exactly the position your head's going
to be this head the thing was recorded I
used them as if I was giving a healing
session and so basically I treated that
dummy head as if it was a human being
that was having a sound hearing
treatment when I put the micro put the
headphones on and listen to it I I
couldn't believe how well it worked
you could really you can't really hear
the deep bells down here and then the
picture climbing up until there are ones
above your head and I was I was amazed
that it worked quite as well as it had I
don't think any of us expected it to
work quite that well after that is a
really beautiful track as well with a
missel thrush
the flute and it sounds like they're
talking back to each other
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myself Richard actually sat down and
started composing and playing around the
birds on it so we were basically jamming
along to a missile fracture in the blue
throat as opposed to writing the music
and then finding ways of fitting the
birds in so it really kind of gently
brings you back to like
you come out just feeling completely not
just completely at peace with yourself
but at peace was the world in a way
we're hoping that people will start
hearing sound in a completely new way or
fresh way so it's almost like reeducate
the mind to hear all the sounds and all
the frequencies that we tend to tune out
I mean it's incredibly relaxing but if
you consider that it gives you clarity
of thought as well I think that you
really get the nub of it because you do
get relaxed by it but you can be relaxed
by most most massages or even listening
to beautiful music but this gives you a
clarity of thought it's very rare that
in our day-to-day life we go to a place
where you can just let your mind and
your imagination leave your body and go
into freefall and where all your
intentions and your wills and your
anxieties just go and I think that's I
think that's what's key about this
treatment it's a bit like by the time
you've been on a holiday if you're lucky
enough to have two weeks together we've
just really started to wind down and
just completely chill out and let
everything go before you start to worry
about you know going back to work or
everything you have to do when you go
home and I think that's such a precious
gift to be able to give somebody
you