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Approach Liana Thompson uses singing bowls to ‘quiet mind and body’
By Ken Mammarella
Simply Sound Vibrations owner Liana Thompson says her sessions reduce stress and increase spiritual well-being.
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he good vibrations of the sound massage dominated over all my other senses. The room was toasty, with a blanket swaddling me. The lights were dim, with the face rest of the massage table covering my eyes. The only sounds were the comforting tones from the therapeutic-grade singing bowls that Simply Sound Vibrations owner Liana Thompson was activating on my body. The vibrations coursing through my body continued to command my attention even when my cell phone rang. And they pleasingly lingered long after the bowls were removed. “I’m the facilitator of your health,” she said after my sampling of her sound massage. “You need to quiet your mind and body and let go.” Thompson opened her sound vibration therapy business last fall in Independence Mall, on Concord Pike in Brandywine Hundred. “I started this journey of
healing with herbs and slowly transitioned to sound healing,” she writes on SimplySoundVibrations. com. Her work email ends with this tagline: “where massage meets meditation.” The Delaware native returned to the First State in 1997 and for many years was a receptionist for Friess Associates in Greenville. She is now working part time at FranksWine in Wilmington while she establishes her therapeutic business. Her passion for herbs led her into certification in flower therapy, and she has essential oils if clients ask for aromatherapy. And she is a level II Reiki practitioner. “I study lots of modalities,” she said. “Tibetan singing bowl meditation may be a feasible low-cost, low-technology intervention for reducing feelings of tension, anxiety, and depression, and increasing spiritual well-being,” according to a 2017 observational study posted on the National Center for Biotechnology Information. ► MAY 2022 | OUTANDABOUTNOW.COM 43
