Sound Healing Ceremony & Benefits

What Is Sound Healing ?

Sound Therapy is effective in not only achieving a state of relaxation but it also has a way of moving through blockages in the body. 

Sound Therapy has been known to help treat such conditions as stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, sleep disorders and pain.

It is a healing modality that dates way back, from vocal chanting to instruments such as Tibetan singing bowls, shamanic drums, and more, you will find some form of sound healing in every culture on Earth.

How does it work?

During a sound healing session, also known as a sound bath, you'll typically lie down on the floor or a yoga mat, perhaps cuddle up with a cozy blanket, and simply listen up as a practitioner plays

Sound Healing Benefits -

Super-relaxing
Deep relaxation is one of the most significant and universal benefits of sound therapy.

Sound healing helps clears energetic blockages body, mind and spirit.

Some people experience deep healing during sound therapy as the sound vibrations open, clear, and balance their chakras and release stuck energy. 

Boosts Your Health
That's right—it's not completely woo-woo. Research has already demonstrated that sound healing can be incredibly beneficial. Watch the Netflix documentary HEAL for more information of research.

Benefits may include improved sleep, reduction of chronic pain and blood pressure, lowered cholesterol, and a decreased risk of heart disease, supports mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being

It also heals on the mental and emotional levels. 

Sound healing helps reduce

• stress

• anxiety

• depression

It balances and clears the mind, and leads to a renewed sense of purpose, well-being, calm, and happiness.

What to expect from a sound healing session....

Like with most alternative healing modalities and meditative practices, everyone's experience is different, and new things may come up in each session. 

Most people will feel very relaxed and peaceful during a sound healing; some might have visualizations, receive creative downloads, or have an emotional breakthrough.

Others may go to a mental state in which you are not quite awake and not quite asleep. It often feels like you're floating peacefully through time and space.

Each experience is unique.

Sound bath
Attending a sound bath is a great way to snag the benefits of the practice with a group. 

During a sound bath, you lie down and relax comfortably while you are bathed in healing vibrations of sound.

Surround yourself in nature and come join us at The River Retreat House for a special sound healing ceremony.

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About The River Retreat House 

The River Retreat House is a sacred green sanctuary nook. 

Waterfront property surrounded by nature, with access to the Tchefuncte River in Louisiana.

This recently renovated house with plenty of outdoors space and a boat deck, has been created with healing in mind.

Enjoy the sound of the crickets under the stars.

Disconnect from the world in a quiet sanctuary for exploring our thoughts, spirituality, creativity, inner silence and peace.

Only 50 minutes from New Orleans.

Conveniently located 15 minutes from downtown Covington.

The surrounded by water property provides fresh air 
to heal your spirit and calm your mind.


This holistic home is intentionally designed to heal.

The Shungite Aghora Crystals Collection

T H E   S H U N G I T E  C O L L E C T I O N

Shungite stone crystal has a unique composition. It's a natural mineral with powerful healing properties.

Shungite uplifts your space, protects you from EMF radiation and 5G. 

Known for its ability help you navigate harmful electromagnetic radiation (as found in cell phones, computers, televisions and microwaves), by causing the subtle fields in the environment to become more bio compatible. Absorbs and eliminates everything that imposes a hazard to life, but restores all that is beneficial.

Shungite is a catalyst for positive change and growth with its incredible ability to ground. 

This is a powerful energetically healing stone for you to add to your healing art collection to beautify your home or as an altar piece. 

This stone is pure magic.

Aghora Crystals one of a kind shungite pieces have been intentionally energized by me ( Nathalie Croix), in meditations, reiki, rituals, ceremonies by the river, fire, under trees, sun and stars for several months.

THESE STONES ARE SO POWERFUL I SUGGEST THEM AS AN ALTAR PIECE. 

How to clear my Aghora Crystal raw natural shungite ?

Do not place in in water. Energize your shungite on the ground, on grass, by a tree, under the night sky, moon, stars and with sun. Sun is the favorite method to re-charge your shungite. You can also place it by a selenite crystal for a couple of days and this too is a favorite method.

My shungite altar piece loves to sunbathe outdoors under a tree for hours.

Zazhoginsky field is one of the richest Russian fields of Shungite on the territory of the Republic of Karelia.

ZAZHOGINSKY mine is the world's best quality Shungite. 

100% raw authentic Shungite is a rare find and exclusive to our new AGHORA CRYSTALS collection.

THE PROPERTIES OF THIS CRYSTAL COULDN’T BE MORE NEEDED IN CURRENT TIMES.

It is recommended you place a 100% authentic Shungite near your computer or electronics for EMF neutrality and protection.

Shungite also assists you with dream work and grounding. If you want to go deep into astral travel during your sleep at night and come forth with many revelations, place your shungite by your bed stand at night or under your bed. I recommend you do this no more than three times a week. This is a powerful stone and we need to ask for all healing and soul evolution to happen in the organic LIGHT CODE, in divine timing and for the highest good of everyone involved. If you need further guidance connect to your Highest Self, for your Highest Self has the most insight to all your answers, or you can book a distance energy healing session with me.

I am sending you so much love !

May all the portals of awakening clear all the paths for your soul evolution in harmony and peace.

Nathalie Croix

4 Easy Ways To Make Shower & Bath Time Sacred

Creating sacred space in our lives is always a topic of interest for us at Shanti Yoga Training School and LIFE ON EARTH PODCAST

Today we have a special guest blog on 4 Easy Ways To Make Shower& Bath Time Sacred by one of our beloved yogini's 200 Hour Shanti Yoga Training School graduate Sonja Haile, who is the founder of Satya Sage - Sonja creates beautiful candles, oils and smudge blends. Visit her website www.satyasage.com and treat yourself.

4 Easy Ways To Make Shower & Bath Time Sacred

Often times a busy schedule can deter you from slowing down and enjoying little things in life. We have to cleanse ourselves in the shower or bath, though… Why not be a little extra and make the most of it? Below I’ve put together a few suggestions that will bring your inner goddess out during bath time:

Clean Space – A clean, uncluttered space is the ultimate foundation of a clear mind. Take the time to recycle empty shower gel bottles or anything that no longer serves you in your bathroom space. Wipe off the bathroom countertops and sink, sweep the floor, and make sure everything is sparkling before you step into the tub.

Palo Santo – Palo Santo is an ancient practice used to remove negative energy and invite good vibes into your space. Light Palo Santo before you shower to clear the space. See our Smudging with White Sage post for details on how to smudge your house. As a bonus, Palo Santo has an amazing woodsy sweet scent. It’s one of my favorite smells, ever.

Candles – It’s not a mood if a candle isn’t involved! You can also use diffused essential oils to create a relaxing, goddess-worthy energy. Lighting candles creates a distinct ceremonial vibe when added to bath time.

Plants – Think eucalyptus, dry roses, and lavender. There’s something about the rich color of plants that’s sure to enhance your relaxation. I love to add roses or lavender around the bathtub, or hang eucalyptus from the shower head for a refreshing aroma while I shower.

From my sacred space to yours, 

Sonja

All About Distance Healing

WHAT IS DISTANCE HEALING?



Distance healing is used to describe any kind of energy that is directed or sent across space and time which has a healing effect on the recipient. This is different from in-person healing in that the healer & recipient do not need to be close together in distance in order for the healing to take effect. Distance healing can be done over the phone, for example, or at a special time set aside by healer & energy receiver.

In energy healing and holistic medicine therapies, the healer is working with the physical, emotional and mental aspects of the client by accessing their subtle and energy body. This subtle energy body can be accessed from anywhere, anytime.

The subtle body is what, we yogis, access each day when we practice.

It includes the chakras, meridians, nadis, the koshas and evergy fields such as aura.

HOW DOES DISTANCE HEALING WORK?

It can be challenging at first to understand how distance healing works due to our perceptions of physical reality – or time & space. It is most easy for us to perceive space as separating physical objects by distance, and that time moves in a linear, forward direction. However, many holistic healers say that time is an “illusion”. When we open up our perceptions of how energy moves across our universe we open ourselves up to more ability to experience healing and manifest change.

When energy healers conduct distance healings they move outside of our perception of space time. There are several techniques for doing this but they mostly center arround the healer navigating “space-time” by focusing their awareness from a state of altered perception where they can immediately “transmit” healing energy to the client.

Have you every thought of someone who lives far and that person called you that same day? That is essencially the same principles of distant healing.

SCIENTIFIC UNDERPINNINGS

Holistic healers & shamans have practiced distance healing for milennia that may not be explainable by modern science. However, recent advancements in the realm of quantum physics align & support the scientific underpinnings for distance healing. Quantum physics shows that in theory, time is fluid and flows both forwards and backwards simultaneously. There is no past and no future, only the present moment. This concept is based on “quantum entanglement” where scientists showed that two photons created by dividing a single photon into two “twins” act and behave as if they are still one and the same, or as if they had never been separated. Einstein famously called this phenomenon “spooky action at a distance”. In other words, if our whole universe was created from and made of the same matter then we’re never truly separated, which is how distance healing can work.

Even in modern medicine, we are not sure how prescription drugs work. We have a rough model, but it is not necessarily the truth. Not all models that we use to make sense of our world are sufficient, and we should not completely stop using them, but opening ourselves up to healing models that we don’t fully yet understand can be both fun & highly beneficial!

I have been practicing distance healing now for a few years, working on individuals across the Globe, Skype or Zoom or telefone and I have countless successful stories and have witness people’s lives change – as much through teaching yoga, as through energy healing.

I feel honored to hold space for transformation.