What is a Sound Journey?

A Sound Journey with Settle Into Stillness is an invitation to pause the outer world and step into your inner world, guided gently by sound, stillness, and presence. People often arrive searching for a sound bath, yet what they discover is something deeper, more intentional, and uniquely ours.

This is not just an offering of sound.

It is a carefully cultivated experience, a story told without words, where each tone, rhythm, and texture helps you follow the thread of your own awareness.

More Than a Sound Bath…

Many people discover our work through terms like sound bath, sound meditation, or even sound healing. While those words are useful to connect with our work, what we offer is distinct and so much more than just a sound bath:

A Sound Journey is not simply lying down while instruments wash over you.
It is a deep introspective voyage, guided intentionally from start to finish.

In the middle of each experience, yes, there is a sound bath that is spacious, resonant, formless, and immersive. But with Settle Into Stillness, you are guided into it and guided back out, supported the entire way by skilled practitioners who understand the flow, arc, and emotional contour of a true journey.

Guided by 15+ Years of Immersion, Study & Craft

In recent years, the world of sound healing and sound baths has grown rapidly. New practitioners appear every day, certificates can be earned in a weekend, and it has become easy to buy a set of instruments off Amazon and step into the field looking “ready.” We’ve witnessed our work be mimicked, our approach copied, and our aesthetic borrowed.

But there is no substitute for an original.

A Settle Into Stillness Sound Journey is shaped by more than a decade and a half of slow, intentional growth—rooted not in trend, but in devotion.

Our work comes from:

• Studying music, instruments, and traditions from cultures across the world

• Performing and facilitating experiences for thousands of people in countless environments

• Developing an embodied understanding of how sound holds emotion, memory, and meaning

• Traveling, listening, learning, and refining the art of guiding people inward

• Years of relationship-building with artisans, teachers, cultural lineages, and intentional venues

• Handmaking our music through direct, intimate connection with each instrument we play

This depth cannot be rushed.
It cannot be replicated by simply purchasing beautiful instruments.
It cannot be captured in a quick training or a checklist of techniques.

What we offer is not a playlist of tones or a decorative sound bath arrangement.
It is a living practice—grown through time, experience, humility, and deep listening to the world around us and to the thousands of people who have shared space with us.

This is why our Sound Journeys feel different.
They come from passion, not fashion. They come from the pursuit of a life’s purpose.

A Journey Toward Your Inner Landscape

Our intention is not to offer you healing, answers, or interpretations.
Instead, we create a space where your own inner guide becomes easier to hear.

During a Sound Journey, many people experience:

• A settling of the mind

• A return to their own rhythm

• A softening into clarity or insight

• A deep rest they haven’t felt in some time

The sound is the doorway.
What you find on the other side is uniquely yours.

A Global Tapestry of Sound

Our Sound Journeys weave together instruments that carry our stories, our years of global travel, and our passion.

Each instrument its own invitation inward.

From the ancient lands of western North America, to the musical heart of West Africa, to the Saharan Sands of Morocco, the mystical center of Australia, to the lush jungles of Bali, the spiritual heart of India, the deep blue waters of the Aegean, the shimmering shores of Lake Atitlan, the mysterious pyramids of Egypt, the ancient lands of the Druids and Celts, and the emerald rainforests of the Amazon, our sound is inspired by a relentless pursuit of something greater than ourselves. Our journey is inspired by connecting with humans around the globe, on 6 continents, through the universal language of music.

Handpans - Soaring melodies and deep emotion
Their shimmering harmonics drift through the space, carrying both tenderness and intensity. They speak directly to the heart, lifting, softening, revealing.

Didgeridoos - Primordial tones of the Earth
Their low, resonant vibrations travel through the body like an ancient memory. A grounding presence. A reminder of the deep roots we all share.

Gongs - Deep, inward journeying
Played with restraint and deep listening, our gongs open gentle, expansive fields rather than overwhelming the senses. No crashing. No force. Just a doorway into vast inner landscapes.

Crystal Singing Bowls - Luminous tones of clarity and resonance
Their pure, shimmering frequencies create an atmosphere of openness and spaciousness. Gentle yet powerful, they invite stillness and allow the mind to settle into quiet, reflective places.

Strings - Carrying the songs of cultures around the world
These instruments bring warmth, lineage, and a story. They sing with the voices of the places we’ve studied, traveled, and people we’ve learned from.

Flutes - Elevating the spirit
Their breathy, soaring tones, call your awareness upward, like the effortless flight of an eagle.

World Percussion - The heartbeat of humanity
Rhythms from global traditions connect us to something universal. A reminder that beneath our differences, we share one pulse, one rhythm, one human story.

Soft drones - An anchor into Stillness
Warm, steady tones designed to quiet the mind and draw the attention inward. A sonic foundation for reflection, rest, and inner clarity.

Together, these sounds form a landscape, alive, intimate, and deeply human. Not a collection of notes, but a world you step into.

Why People Choose Settle Into Stillness

Again and again, guests tell us:

“I’ve been to sound baths before… but this felt like something entirely different.”

What sets our work apart is the journey itself
The way the sound unfolds, the care in its pacing, the musical intuition that comes only from long study and countless hours of playing for real people in real spaces.

Our Sound Journeys are:

• Poetic yet grounded

• Musical yet spacious

• Intentionally designed but never rigid

• Guided yet always honoring your experience

There is a sense of being held, not by us, but by the sound itself.

Come experience for yourself why many have said that a Sound Journey with Settle Into Stillness is the best sound bath they’ve ever been to…

Lovingly Handmade, Just Like the Music

At the heart of every Sound Journey we offer is something simple and rare:

Our music is handmade.

We choose instruments built by artisans, people who shape metal, wood, and string with intention, and devotion. The majority of our instruments are created in small workshops, not factories. Our instruments that carry the fingerprints of the maker and the love of human hands.

From handpans tuned one note at a time,
to gongs forged by fire and hammers,
to flutes carved from woods sustainably harvested from forests around the globe,
to didgeridoos crafted with honor to tens of thousands of years of tradition,
to strings crafted by master luthiers
Every sound you hear comes from something made with care.

And in turn, we play them with that same care.

No backing tracks.
No shortcuts.

Just the living relationship between musician, instrument, and listener.

Our Sound Journeys are shaped by the warmth, nuance, and emotion that only handcrafted instruments can hold, and only years of dedicated practice can release. Every tone is created in the moment.

This is sound made by humans, for humans*.

*and for the occasional elephant or other animals