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Sound Bath's best addresses for a rejuvenating sonic journey
Whether you're looking to calm your mind, improve your sleep or simply enjoy a unique sensory experience, sound baths offer a gentle, immersive approach to well-being. Oh My Cream reveals the best addresses for a sound journey with numerous benefits. All you have to do is let yourself be carried away...
Sound Bath, sound journey or sound massage - what's the difference?
There are many different sonotherapy practices, but the principle remains the same: the art of using sound and sound vibrations to promote health, well-being and relaxation.
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The sound bath is an immersion, which can be collective or individual, in a sound environment where the vibrations of the instruments envelop the participants for deep relaxation.
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The sound journey is similar to the sound bath, but generally includes a more immersive, narrative dimension, where sounds guide the imagination and encourage inner exploration.
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Sound massage is a more targeted approach where instruments, such as Tibetan bowls and therapeutic tuning forks, are placed directly on or near the body, allowing the vibrations to penetrate tissues and organs more directly.
The benefits of sound travel and massage
While the effects of sonotherapy can be felt on stress or sleep quality, sonotherapy acts on the physical, emotional and mental body at the same time. It helps :
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Deeply soothing the nervous system: sound vibrations help slow heart rate and breathing, promoting a state of lasting calm.
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Better management of stress and emotions: by promoting relaxation, sound baths help reduce anxiety and stress-related tension.
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Improved sleep: by inducing deep relaxation, they make it easier to fall asleep and improve sleep quality.
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Better concentration and mental clarity: sound vibrations impact brain waves and produce a harmonizing effect on the mind, helping to clarify ideas.
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Support for self-healing processes : sound baths help relieve pain and improve general well-being.
If you'd like to discover sound baths in Paris, we've put together a list of our best addresses, tried and tested!
Where to enjoy a sound bath or massage in Paris?
Riise's invigorating sound bath
The benchmark for letting go and low impact, Riise Studios Riise studios studios invite us to disconnect, to challenge our bodies and clear our minds through a combination of muscle strengthening and yoga. And twice a week, Riise invites us to take this letting go a step further, with a crystal bowl-based Sound Bath to round off the practice. Plunged into half-light, by candlelight and surrounded by the ambient fragrances of Palo Santo, these sessions are led by yoga enthusiast Ludivine (@yogiandwild) and give another taste of Savasana, that time of physical and mental relaxation and recuperation. The frequency of the bowls is rather low, allowing the vibrations to be felt throughout the body and inside the cells, promoting a pure state of relaxation.
What we liked best: If the course is challenging and the sensations strong, from the very first vibrations of the bowls, the sounds fill the whole space, the mind calms down, the body relaxes, thoughts fall silent, as if chased away by the vibrations. We immediately enter a meditative state of pure serenity. So light, our bodies hover in another dimension, as if the sequences we had practiced some time before had never existed. The moment is almost too short, but the effects are felt throughout the entire body, even hours later. The mind seems clearer and more rested. And even on the way home, you feel those little tickles in the head, the sign of a high-flying, endorphin-rich class.
Price: €19 for a trial session and €29 for a 50-minute session.
Riise Yoga + Soundbath, Mondays at 8.30pm at Studio Louvre and Thursdays at 8.15pm at Studio Charlot, with Ludivine.
Yin Yoga & Sound at Bloom Paris for a moment of pure relaxation
Founded by Eugenié Lambert, a former field journalist for CNN, Bloom is the meditation center that invites us to slow down to recharge and refocus. Eugenié discovered the power of meditation and sound baths while living in the United States and suffering from chronic, post-traumatic stress. The benefits were so powerful that she wanted to share this natural remedy that had helped her so much. She imagines Bloom as an escape from everyday life, a modern relaxation center (and mobile app) where people can learn to practice meditation alone in their pink salt room, or in a group. But Bloom also offers Yoga and Pilates classes and sound bath sessions, always with that all-important relaxation dimension.
What we liked best : While Bloom offers 30-minute sound relaxation sessions, it's also possible to discover sonotherapy during a 1-hour Yin Yoga session. A well-thought-out wellness combo that immerses our bodies in deep relaxation and a form of alternative meditation. For Yin Yoga is a practice inspired by traditional Chinese medicine that works on the deep muscles. The concept? Find comfort in discomfort: we remain in a posture for several breaths, concentrating on the comings and goings of the breath to relax the muscles and the mind. By the time the first sounds of the 7 crystal bowls are heard, the body is already totally relaxed and the mind quickly takes in the vibrations. Bloom invites us to introspect and concentrate solely on the sounds for a moment filled with gentleness.
Price: €28 for a 60-minute class and €19 for a 30-minute session.
Bloom Paris,
4 Rue Étienne Marcel 75002 Paris
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