DELAND, Fla. — In a Volusia County warehouse, you can learn to calm your senses by laying on yoga mats and listening to the soothing vibrations of sound healing. 

What You Need To Know

  • Experience the power of sound healing in DeLand

  • Sound healing uses music, often created by crystal bowls

  • Jill Jordan holds public and private sessions

  • Its origins trace back to India, Egypt, and China

Sound healing is an ancient wellness practice used for relaxation, healing, and self-care.

Sound healing involves lying down on in a comfortable setting, closing your eyes, and focusing on sounds made from crystal bowls.

Jill Jordan has been holding sound healing, or sound bath classes, as it’s known, for the past decade.

“Sound healing is like vibrational medicine,” said Jordan.

Jordan says it’s medicine that she believes can change a person’s life.

“It is using sound to relax the mind, relax the body. And when we do that, it assists the body to be able to do what the body does, which is heal itself,” said Jordan.

She performs both group and private sessions around Central Florida.

There are a variety of ways to perform the sounds.

Jordan makes her sounds using large colorful crystal bowls that she gently swirls a wooden mallet on the outer edge of the bowls, sending sounds and vibrations across a room.

Sandee Ames, a lead logistics specialist for NASA, attended the group session in DeLand to use the power of sound healing.

“You know, I have a very stressful job. We have a lot going on. So just dealing with the daily stressful stuff is always a challenge,” said Ames.

Ames has attended several of Jordan’s sound healing classes and believes in the science when it comes to the use of sound for therapy. 

“When you look at the actual science behind it, there is evidence it does help. And there are things that it is doing,” said Ames.

Jordan says don’t be intimidated by the look and appearance of sound healing. She believes it can help people at all ends of the healing spectrum.

“New people and experienced people. And that’s the thing about sound baths — anyone can come. And a lot of people come repeatedly because they get more and more benefit out of it,” she said.

The cost for a group sound healing session is $35 per person and private sound healing sessions are also available.