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What is Acoustic Resonance Technology™ (ART)?

Acoustic Resonance Technology provides an environment for the body/mind to able to experience the benefits of sound healing in a more integrative way. Feeling the music you hear provides an opportunity for us to come into harmony physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and environmentally through stimulating our feeling sense. This entrainment of our body/mind also often expands our awareness. When we begin to listen and feel the music we naturally relax into the harmonic flow.
• a·cous·tic (-kstk); adj. also a·cous·ti·cal (-st-kl): Of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing, or the science of sound. Designed to carry sound.
• Resonance comes from the Latin verb resonare, meaning to "return to sound". In physics, “the response of an object or a system that vibrates in step with an externally applied vibration.”

The brain sends and receives messages from the rest of the body constantly. Our brains and all the systems of our body are in a communication dance. The brain is constantly receiving information from the nerve cells and our hormones. The stress hormone, simply put, limits the communication and eventually inhibits the functioning of the immune system. Therefore if we stay in a continual state of stress, we reduce our ability to fight disease. When we relax and move into a state of listening, and feeling joy, we stimulate pleasure hormones or endorphins that strengthen the energy dance within us.

Acoustic Resonance Technology helps stimulate the natural relaxed state of body/mind. It “re-minds” us of our natural Harmonic state.

What is Vibrational Medicine?

All of Life Wiggles. Everything vibrates…. Our body, mind, thoughts, emotions. Vitamins, minerals, herbs, food, plants and animals all vibrate at particular frequencies. Music is also vibration.

We have all heard the phrase "Bird's of a feather stick together". The field of Vibrational Medicine is based upon the scientific principle that all matter vibrates at particular frequencies, including our physical, mental and emotional bodies. The "matter that is with us" is dynamic. When we resonate with frequencies of health, we stay healthy. When we become stressed, "dis-eased" or "out of tune", we are limiting the range of frequencies we are resonating with and thus
become "unhealthy". Similar to a piano, when one string is out of tune or not resonating in harmony with the rest, the entire song is affected.

Vibrational Medicine uses various techniques to bring "the matter that is with us" back into balance or harmony. Below is a short list of more commonly practiced forms of vibrational medicine.
o Acupuncture
o Reiki
o Healing Touch
o Cranial Sacral
o Sound Therapy
o Aroma Therapy
o Light Therapy

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What is Sound Healing?

Sound and music have long been recognized and utilized as a key element in the healing process throughout multiple cultures for thousands of years. Music has also been considered the "language of angels" or a direct link to the divine. It was a predominant part of early teachings of the Greeks, Chinese, East Indians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Native Americans, Mayas, Aztecs and more.

IF you have ever experienced a piece of music that has shifted you mentally, emotionally and/or physically, back in time and space; or felt the chiming of church bells or Tibetan bowls ring through you (as if for a moment you were part of the wave), then you innately understand the basis of sound healing.

Sound is a carrier wave of intention. Sound Healing is simply applying the therapeutic frequencies of sound and/or music to the body/mind of a person with the intention of bringing them into a state of harmony. The dictionary defines ‘harmony’ as ‘congruity of parts to their whole or to one another’.

When we are in harmony. We feel energized, aligned, inspired, relaxed, and resourceful. We feel a sense of mental, emotional, physical and environmental peace. We feel Healthy.

When we are in dis-harmony. We feel separated, isolated, tense and combative. We feel like a part of us is “out of tune”, "out of sync". We feel a sense of ‘dis-ease’ physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and/or environmentally. Learn more….

What music works best?

While any music can be used with the SO Sound products, some is going to resonate with you and through you better than others. Because music is a carrier wave of intention, some music is going to be more healing than others. We at SO Sound are passionate about researching, testing, and developing musical programs that will provide the best opportunity for health and well-being. We invite you to check out SO Tunes, our musical programs specifically orchestrated for targeted health and wellness goals. You can also see our music recommendations list.

Can I use my own music?

Yes, you can. We encourage you to try music you like, with the understanding that some music will resonate more fully than others. Music that has been highly processed electronically will typically not resonate as well as music that is well balanced harmonically or acoustically. Plug a live bass or guitar into one of our products and you will be amazed at how great it feels, which makes them a natural fit for musicians and music therapists.

We also encourage you to check out SO Tunes, programs orchestrated specifically for our products and designed to support various bio-energetic, health and wellness goals. We also offer a list of musical programs that we have tested and recommend, please contact us for more information.

Is it safe for everyone?

Like anything else it is always good to check with your preferred health care provider before engaging in the use of any new products or programs. People with pace makers are advised not to use the products, due to the electro-magnetics involved. We also recommend that pregnant women use the product at a very low level of resonance and volume.

How do the products work?

The heartbeat of these phenomenal musical massage “instruments” is the SO SoundHeart® technology. Attached at specific locations, the SO Sound System uses an amplified audio signal to resonate the surface of the chair, treatment table, pad, floor, bed or other products. The use of advanced light and moldable materials integrated into the design encourages consistent resonance. This unprecedented harmonically intelligent design is leading the industry in Bio Acoustic delivery and is promising innovations not seen or felt in any other products.

To Listen and feel your favorite CD or one of SO Sound’s special music journeys (SO Tunes); you simply plug in your CD player, iPod, MP3 stereo system or DVD player into the amplifier that comes with each product.

You will notice that you can adjust the level of volume you hear through your external speakers or headphones and the level of resonance your feel through the SO Sound product, separately.


Where can I go to experience it?

Please contact us for list spas, clinics, fitness studios and other places in your area.

Feeling is Knowing

When consumers use a SO Sound product for the first time, they are “WOWED” by the fact that this technology allows them to actually become immersed in every note of the music being played in a truly harmonic way. Many say...."I feel like I become the music"!

People also often share that for the first time they have an understanding of what it is like to meditate. They are amazed at how much more aware they are of breathing patterns, patterns of stress or dis-ease, and how to make simple adjustments that promote deeper circulation, relaxation…. better health and well being.

We believe that “feeling is knowing” and that knowing empowers us to make response-able chooses in our life experience. Once you experience the benefits of SO Sounds unsurpassed Hi-Fidelity Musical Touch Technology™, you will know the difference.

Discover Harmonic Intelligence®

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If you have ever felt irritated, disconnected or not able to communicate clearly; you know what dis-harmony is. On the contrary, if you have ever experienced a sense of effortless flow, grace, coherent communication or a feeling of “being in the state of love”, you also know what harmony is.

The term harmony originates in the Greek harmonía, meaning "joint, agreement, concord". In Ancient Greek music, the term was used to define the combination of contrasted elements: a higher and lower note.

At SO Sound we promote the creation of environments that enable us to “tune-in” and discover how to find Harmony no matter what is going on around us or moving through us. Learn more…


Discover Harmonic Intelligence™ Course Description

As we explore cultures of ancient times, we discover that many used Music & Sound as a key ingredient for creating & maintaining optimal health or Harmony. Discussions of using music and sound as a potent medical application can be found in ancient text throughout Greece, Egypt, Central & South America, Australia, Asia and Rome.
Within the Mayan culture, the Tzolkin, the Mayan sacred calendar, or count of days, is regarded as a universal, 'periodic table of the harmonics of time-space,' that continually and comprehensively expresses every possible permutation of the manifest Divine Spirit, throughout Creation. Pythagoras has been acknowledged as one of the first to share his perception of the universe as a vast musical instrument. He talked about his ability to hear the “music of the spheres”. Through his and the teachings of others, many came to appreciate that the body was a “sounding board” which responded immediately to the vibrations surrounding it. Therefore, music could be used to restore equilibrium and “relax the soul from excess, mental, emotional or physical trauma”. Which is why in ancient Mayan, Egyptian and Greek cultures music was used in the healing temples. ”. The theory that all things are constructed upon frequencies and/or harmonic patterns continues to advance.
Today, quantum physicists are proving that our universe is made up of patterns of frequency as well. Everything that exists in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual realms vibrates, which is obvious if you consider that electrons are always moving and vibrating. SO when we ask, “what is the matter with you”…. we are actually speaking quite scientifically. All matter, including our body, herbs, food and its accompanying vitamins, minerals and other nutrients could be examined from a frequency perspective which may explain their biological effects.
Like Pythagoras, we believe that each of us individually and collectively have a “response-ability” to Discover Harmonic Intelligence…as he shared “a man must select his food wisely and so in philosophy, art and music, we must discriminate if we wish to enjoy peace of mind, body and soul. For music and all its phases of vibration dramatically alter the state of the neuro-psychic centers in man”.