I love these moments... these “beyond words” moments.. they catch you off guard and make you feel a certain way.
I love these moments... these “beyond words” moments.. they catch you off guard and make you feel a certain way. Surprised. Seen... that feeling like what you do and who you are matters. It gives you a moment of great pause in a world where we are always ON.
...like the times you send me your testimonials of how this work has impacted you 💕
... times where people just show up when they know it means something to you💕
...times where someone calls you out on the story you’re telling yourself 💕
...times where someone calls you out on the bad spelling and grammar for the stories you are telling 😂💕
... the time someone you like calls you “babe” for the first time 💕
... times when someone reaches out because they are inspired by your story and want to interview you on their podcast 🤯💕
Pause. Wow. Episode 18 is Available Now on Thrive Beyond Cancer Summit where I was interviewed by Tekquiree Chenell where we discuss Sound Therapy, Sound Baths, How Sound Therapy helps your body go into its own natural state of healing, how Sound Therapy makes you more aware and connected, how Sound Therapy creates an environment for you to be still, and how the sounds around you influence your well-being. Check out the link in her bio Thrive Beyond Cancer Summit to take a listen.
<3 Danielle
Looking forward to seeing you at tomorrow - Wednesday, March 6th - nights sound bath at The Center for Love and Light!!!
Looking forward to seeing you at tomorrow - Wednesday, March 6th - nights sound bath at The Center for Love and Light!!!
Doors open at 6:45pm
Close promptly at 7:10pm
Link in bio to Relax in Sound 💕
Thanks for this Pamela Barba I LOVE IT so much!!! ❤️
<3 Danielle
Entering my birthday month with a little R+R.
Entering my birthday month with a little R+R.
Time just seems to slow down here... and I am thinking I need more of this. Like, on the regular... taking this way of being back to Atlanta...I’m sure it a challenge you gave too... the days just seem to fly!!!
I could feel the burnout rising just before December’s Sound Bath at the planetarium. I was becoming extremely irritable, unable to focus, and not sleeping well.
Taking time for self care will give you more time. There are layers to it. It’s not only keeping your body in a state of health, but you look younger! Your mental focus is faster! You are able to find/keep a gratitude mindset more easily! And you feeling the spaciousness of time! (The list can really go on!)
I will be back in town just in time to support you in a little R+R. Wednesday, March 6th is the next sound bath. Hope to see you there to hug it out and take deep breathes together. I’m looking forward to it. 💕
<3 Danielle
MA N T R A is the use of the human voice to affect consciousness.
MA N T R A is the use of the human voice to affect consciousness. {Man = mind Tra = projection}
Everything in the universe, is in constant motion, vibrating. Vibration is pure energy.
One of the most beneficial technologies available to us is the science of sound, the Shabd Guru, "sound teacher."
The transformational Shabd, or sound, is composed of vibrations that shut off the ego, and take us from darkness to light.
When we chant a mantra we are choosing to invoke the positive power contained in those particular syllables.
Whether it's for prosperity, peace of mind, increasing intuition, or any other possible benefits inherent in mantras, simply by chanting them we are setting vibrations into motion that shall have an effect. It doesn't actually matter if we understand the meaning of the sounds or not.
Join me for an ATLANTA CHARITY EVENT - A powerful night of fun, expansion, connection and GIVING BACK! Pranic Soul will offer an experience of MANTRA as a way to set the vibration just right to receive a powerful quantum meditation from our lovely host Suzanne Adams. This is an evening of Quantum Leaping into the life of your dreams in Altanta on March 21st. And I will be there, accompanied by Sonido Sound and Mara Rosaria , to deepen the experience through sound healing.
The best part is — ALL PROCEEDS ARE GOING TO CHARITY!
Partnered with The Center for Love and Light we will receive the funds to continue our sound healing work in supporting Kate’s Club , an organization supporting children grieving from the loss of a parent.
If you want to give back, open your heart and network with the high vibe Atlanta community, then click the link in my bio and register for your ticket to give back today!
"Mantras are not small things, mantras have power. They are the mind vibration in relationship to the Cosmos. The science of mantra is based on the knowledge that sound is a form of energy having structure, power, and a definite predictable effect on the chakras and the human psyche." ~ Yogi Bhajan
Tag a friend in Atlanta that you know is ready to Quantum Leap into their dreams. (This post was written by Pranic Soul )
<3 Danielle
This is how the sky opened up today.
This is how the sky opened up today.
Sometimes I don’t know when to pause. I stayed here in meditation for... I don’t know how long. Tears streamed down my face as I looked out. It was as though my whole body sighed. I could hear the birds chirping. Some animals burrowing. And different bugs navigating their already long morning.
Pause.
It doesn’t mean to quit.
It doesn’t mean stop.
It means... allow.
It means to put on hold. Maybe for a minute... a day... And then you pick up up again, or not. Maybe you have a new perspective.
It’s hard for me to pause... Honestly, a couple friends keep me accountable. Otherwise, I will keep working... the accountability was put into place a couple of years ago because of an old fear that I will look up one day and realized that I worked my life away instead of truly living it! Sound familiar? I’m still not great at it... but I do know how I feel after a good Pause. Which is why I keep nudging you to find that that too. It’s life giving.
Maybe you can’t go on a trip right now... but you can carve out time everyday for stillness. Even once a month for a sound bath. Find moments to pause.
<3 Danielle
“I’m not going to fight against something. I’m going to fight for something.”
“I’m not going to fight against something. I’m going to fight for something.”
Sometimes I feel like my job is really to have conversations with people.. asking them questions about the things they are holding onto.
“Where are you giving your power away?”
“Are you happy in the job/relationship?”
“What about your health/body you struggling with?”
There is a belief system attached to all of these things. There is a perspective that they are holding on to that is keeping them trapped in the same pattern. Same health. Same relationships. THESE THINGS that they are fighting for and holding on to as their identities.
Yet, at any moment, we can decide to be someone new. We can choose to fight for something different. Something better. But it will take letting go of what’s comfortable and familiar, and step into a place you haven’t been.
It’s a choice to hold resentment.
It’s a choice to stay in the job.
It’s a choice to open your heart to love and stay, but it’s also a choice to love and to go.
It’s a choice to speak differently to yourself.
Dr Joe Dispenza’s research on shifting your belief is eye opening. If you can get to a place of experiencing pure consciousness your body, mind, and heart will shift and start to repair.
He says, “you can’t think your way out of thinking. You can’t ego your way out of ego.” It takes a lot of time. But getting to a place of pure consciousness is like the Sonic the Hedgehog fast track for your mind-body!
Sound baths a great way to help you get to that state. The next one is next week! Wednesday the 6th. I have opportunities for you on the Eastside, Westside, and East Cobb/Marietta. AND a special/INTENSE sound healing experience called Sound Journey on the 17th, as well as an epic experience through Quantum Meditation, Kundalini Yoga, and Sound Bath!(that one is a fundraiser, too!) That’s March 21!💕
March, is DOPE! I can’t wait to see you for one/all these experiences! Stop fighting against the life you don’t want... fight for the life YOU DO WANT. Link in bio for details and to sign up!
<3 Danielle
The path in front of me...
The path in front of me...
A mom tried to get me to influence her kid into going to college.. I ask him if he had an interest in anything. He said no. I turned to the mom and responded,” You’re not going to like my answer. I don’t think everyone needs to go to college. NOW you want to be a doctor, lawyer, go to college... otherwise go travel if you can, sleep on some couches, and find out who you are and what you’re passionate about.”
The mom wasn’t exactly happy about my response... but she was polite. 😅
We are fed so much from society, school, our families, and peers on who we should be, how we should act, what we should do... granted this is a gross over generalization, here, but for many people this is what life is. We get to 18 and we feel like we are suppose to have a plan and know what we want to do.
I didn’t know what I was going to do, so my back up plan to not knowing was to join the military and play saxophone in the military band. 😂 I just happened to go to a college fair where there was a sweet lady who talked me into trying for a scholarship at an art school... I got the scholarship, and got my BFA in Photographic Imaging instead! 10 years later I am working as a Sound Therapist! 🥰
The path in front of you is your choice to make. You can take the one readily available, the one you’re told to take, (which may be an area that actually interest you!) or, take out the machete and clear a new path!
I know some of you are struggling with purpose. It’s ok. Come to a sound bath, and connect inward. The answers are there. You just have to give yourself permission to see, do, and be YOU.
<3 Danielle
My month is coming to a close...
My month is coming to a close...
One more sound bath tomorrow (Sunday, Feb 24th). We have a small group for this one so if you have been looking for more time with me, tomorrow would be a great day to come!
“Sound Journey” is a bit different from “Relax in Sound”. I’m putting myself in a more vulnerable position. I allow myself to drop deep into the meditative state with you which means, I am putting a lot of trust into my guides to allow whatever needs to come out for you, come out. There is no outline. I don’t know what instruments will be played... and I don’t know where exactly I go!
This is a channeling. 💕
<3 Danielle
TONIGHT!
TONIGHT!
Are you north of Atlanta? Come check out this evenings sound bath at Bar Method Atlanta- East Cobb. Relax. Release. Rejuvenate... in sound.
Link in bio to sign up. See you tonight!
<3 Danielle
When it’s good… Hold on!
When it’s good… Hold on!
Remember why you came in the first place.
Remember what brought you back again and again.
A sound bath with me is a time to remember.
Remember the time when you felt good in your body?
Remember the time you were pain free?
That time the mind chatter didn’t run your life?
That time you felt rested?
…That time you felt peace… whole.
There are a few opportunities to come see me for a sound bath this week and this weekend, however, tonight’s (Wednesday, Feb 20th) sound bath at The center of Love and Light and tomorrows (Thursday, Feb 21st) at Bar Method Atlanta- East Cobb are meant to support you in not just remembering… but GET YOU BACK to how you felt when you didn’t feel so heavy, tired, or scattered.
Hold on! Because things are about to get REAL GOOD! See you soon.💋
<3 Danielle
C-L-I-F-F...
C-L-I-F-F…
“The statistics on how many people actually follow through and accomplish their New Year’s resolutions are rather grim. Studies have shown that less than 25% of people actually stay committed to their resolutions after just 30 days, and only 8% accomplish them. “ Well, thanks Forbes!
80% of New Year's resolutions fail by February (the Nielsen analytics firm)
Are you feeling yourself fall off the wagon?
C – Can’t find the time.
L – Lacking a game plan to keep you going.
I – Ignoring your commitment and falling into old patterns.
F – Frustrated with lack of early results.
F – Forgetting why you started.
(CLIFF brought to you by Golds Gym)
Don’t fall off the CLIFF! Don’t be part of that statistic!
Sure! Things happen! You have the gluten free chocolate cake with coconut ice cream from Barcelona Wine Bar even though you had it 3 nights in a row already! (YOU, too! It’s my favorite!) You impulse buy that extra gong from Dream Cymbals and Gongs instead of putting the money in your savings because you fell in love with its shimmer! (That shimmer, tho!) You go with the flow and let the night take you away in adventures even though you know you made an appointment to go to a gym class at 6:30am! 🤦🏼♀️ (Feel ALIVE!)
SO YOU LIVE LIFE! That doesn’t mean you completely stop your goals to improve and evolve your life and health for the better! Show yourself some compassion, finish that bite of cake, hit your gong, and be open to adventure!
Life is suppose to be joyful, full of love, laughter, adventure, and surprise! (At least it is to me!) And when it’s not, I look within.
What belief do I have about myself?
How am I talking to myself?
Whose voices/opinions am I allowing to make decisions for me?
Where can I empower myself in this situation?
Come to a sound bath and let’s see what’s really preventing you from moving forward with your goals? Then, we can help you stick to it! (Next Sound Bath is Wednesday, Feb 20th- link below for all available sound baths or visit About for more on Danielle -ME- and SoundEmbrace.com
<3 Danielle
Soooo... THIS IS HAPPENING!
Soooo... THIS IS HAPPENING!
Most of you know that I started the SoundEmbrace Give Back initiative last year with our first fundraiser at the Fernbank Science Center Planetarium. We raised just over $15,000 to bring Sound Healing Therapy into Kates Club AND Chris 180! While that was a GREAT start to begin our work in those programs, it is not enough to take us through the whole year.
Suzanne Adams reached out and expressed her interest in supporting this mission. She is producing an EPIC experience at the SCAD SHOW theater where ticket sales will go towards providing sound healing therapy at Kate's Club!!!
Throughout the evening you will go on a powerful journey mixed with kundalini meditation from Leigh Mallis from Leigh Mallis Kundalini, a quantum meditation from Suzzanne, and a powerful and healing sound bath immersion from me! SoundEmbrace!!!
Suzanne will also share a 5-step process that you can implement right away to Quantum Leap into the life of your dreams.
Please help me spread the word. It is Thursday, March 21rst
THANK YOU for supporting this mission.
Link in bio to sign up! 🥰
<3 Danielle
SoundEmbrace Episode 1 - Making Space: A love Story
Making Space.
With Valentines Day cruising right on by I am reminded of a talk I heard on giving your heart away. The speaker illustrated his view on love and suggested that rather than the perspective of “giving your heart away”, why not keep it, and, “make space” for them in your heart instead?
I LOVE THIS concept! And it is something I have adopted. Here is my version of this story.
Making Space: A Love Story.
I met a handsome guy. We “hugged it out” (because I hug everyone I meet) and we hit it off! Awesome! I felt a connection so I decided to let him into my heart… but not my whole heart! I welcome him in offering only the space of the meditation cushion I have designed JUST for him. Pretty SWEET, right!?
After he visits a few times I am shown by his actions that he really takes care of the space and totally digging my style for his meditation cushion! My trust in him grows so I decide I am going to give him a couch! After all! We both work hard and sometimes we really just like to just Netflix + Chill! A couch is waaaay more comfortable for that!
One day, I realize that I really like hanging out with him… like REALLY like hanging out with him. Of course the feeling is mutual because we are both awesome people! So… I decide I am going to make more space for him in my heart by giving him a condo! I let him decorate it however he wants, including having the latest’s Nintendo, PlayStation, and/or Xbox! Because lets face it! I am pretty independent and need my alone time from time to time! Moving on!
Some time goes by, we are having fun and talking about the future. My heart swells with so much love that it makes space to build him a mansion with a lake/ocean hybrid in the backyard for him to fish, jet ski, or ponder life’s mysteries!
I look around in awe of the space I have created and have entrusted to this person. Everything is beautiful! And I feel amazing as I take in the love all around me.
But then something happens.
It wasn’t planned.
I never saw it coming.
…We break up.
He moves out of house I built for him.
Anger fills my being and start trashing the place!
I tear down pictures!
I smash anything and everything!
And then I set the house on fire!
As I watch the house blaze up in smoke, I can feel the rise and fall of my chest as tears stream down my face. I think about the space I made for him. And I feel the void.
Although he has moved out of my heart, there is still this space that was left behind. So what now do I do with this space?
Its not like the space goes back to where it started. To become what it was it had to grown and to be stretched and molded!
I rebuild.
I clean up the broken pieces and ash and build something beautiful and healing in its place. Not to cover up where he had been or the hurt I felt, but to celebrate my capacity to love! For my courage to love!
Maybe I build the dopest dance floor!
Maybe I build radest water park!
Maybe I build the SWEETEST sound healing temple made with sacred geometry and crystal walls!
I build it to celebrate this beautiful space that represents my capacity to love and to love so, so, BIG! So that when I look across the landscape of my heart it is filled with beauty, and gratitude!
Eventually, it will happen again. I will meet someone new. He will be cute. We will hug it out… and I give it another shot. I will feel enough of a connection with him to make space in my heart. I will invite him in to sit on a meditation cushion made just for him. And with time, I will gain the confidence through his actions to make a little more space… and then a little more. Opening myself up little by little, to experience the most courageous thing any of us can ever do, LOVE.
<3
Danielle
Take a breath... this weeks schedule is OFF THE CHAIN!
Take a breath... this weeks schedule is OFF THE CHAIN!
It starts with ‘Relax in Sound’ this Wednesday, the 20th. I will be joined by Shawn Moore, M.S. and Deron Singh! It will be Shawn’s first Sound Bath where he will be co facilitating playing the bowls with me! He doesn’t even know it yet! (Ok, now he does! 🤣) But he is ready!
The following morning, Thursday the 21rst, I will be facilitating a private sound bath experience for Ron Clark Academy, and then shoot up to East Cobb/Marietta to provide a sound bath for you at Bar Method Atlanta- East Cobb that night! I am STOKED to have apprentice’s Allison Bienenfeld and Stress less with Snehaj joining me in the facilitation for you!
Friday the 22nd is a doozy! Starting off the morning with Sound and Science for a group of 4th graders at Briarlake Elementary School, then off to facilitate a team building sound immersion and drum circle for See Baby! Then! The same night, I have the pleasure of being a part of a series of experiential art exhibitions “If I Told you” where I am creating a sound bath experience called “Empowered”... EPIC!
Saturday the 23rd... rest. 🤣
Sunday the 24th, things get a little shamanic with ‘Sound Journey’!Joining me will be Pisces Dreamer, Yoga with Larry and Stress less with Snehaj. Bring your notebook for this one! Drumming, shakers, and gongs make this an epic experience. Especially when I bring voice in. 🔥 You would never guess that that voice came out of me... so I’m told. 💕
I’d love to see you at one (or all!) of these sound bath immersions. Sound Immersions have supported my clients and guests to relieve stress, reduce pain, elevate consciousness and so much more! I would love to connect with you around the potential this type of session can have in impacting your life. . Link in bio to sign up for all these great experiences!
<3 Danielle
Heart + Science
Heart + Science
The heart is actually part of our cognitive system, sending more messages to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Electrically, the heart is 40-60 times stronger than the brain and is many more times stronger than any other electrical impulse in the body.
“The sciences of psychology and medicine are in midst of a major paradigm shift as research findings have uncovered that the heart is a sensory organ that can learn, hold memory and make independent functional decisions. Even more surprising is the fact that the heart displays qualities of neuroplasticity and that it can reorganize itself by growing new neural connections, just as the brain can do.” – Applied Consciousness .
Many times we are experiencing these feelings beneath the surface of our consciousness, yet our body is still responding to the conflict between the brain and the heart.
Having this understanding helps in showing ourselves a little more compassion.
We know that sound and vibration can be used to change neuroplasticity within the brain. I would hypothesize that it can do the same for the heart! Whether attached or single hope to see you at the next weeks sound bath, Feb. 20th! Link in bio.❤️
<3 Danielle
2019 Grammys!
2019 Grammys!
Pretty incredible to have the opportunity to celebrate music in this way. What a powerful tool music is to bring people together, to change mood and perspective, a powerful tool for healing and transformation! Having all the feels over here! Loved seeing ATL represent with nominations and WIN some Grammy’s! I am so inspired! Kennard Garrett , Shaan Singh, Simone Torres and Kam Corvet. I hope the feeling carries on for you long past the event. I hope you carve out the time to take it in. Feel all of it! I hope this opens invisible doors to opportunities better than you can ever imagine! And that you are always surrounded by people who celebrate and love you through it all! ❤️
“Music is our shared global language.”
“Music reminds us where we can go.”
“Music helps us share ourselves and to invite others in.”
“Music Celebrates the greatness in all of us.”
<3 Danielle
How does your ego serve you?
How does your ego serve you? — for the facilitator, and the curious —
The topic of ego comes up all the time in the wellness space. And I was recently reminded of a podcast by Lewis Howes (EP 755 Mastering Your Ego) on the topic which sparked this post…
Somehow, you found me. Or, maybe I found you? In any case you decided to take a chance. You signed up for this thing called a ‘Sound Bath’. When you arrive you find yourself in line with about 39 other people holding blankets, pillows, and yoga mats. Its unlike anything you have seen… something that looks like a adult sleepover. With strangers... and Instruments you probably haven’t seen before...
People waiting in line to do NOTHING.
People waiting in line to do nothing while being ENVELOPED by sound and vibration.
People waiting in line to do nothing while being enveloped by sound and vibration TO FEEL something.
To release. To find relief. To find their way. To find hope. To _____
You are greeted with an embrace from me (the facilitator), you set up your space to get cozy, the lights dim, I sit behind my instruments and the shift happens... the attention goes from “Where do I go? What do I do? How do I setup?” To : head up, eyes forward, and present... I now having 40 pairs of eyes shift their attention and focus on me.
As a facilitator (as well as anyone performing or speaking) you can feel this shift in energy. People come to feel inspired, relieve pain, reduce stress, to feel whole, and for other reasons I may never have the opportunity to know. There is great responsibility as a facilitator. THIS is one of those moments you have a choice to make.
Serve others.
Or, be Self serving.
Know why you are there. Know why you are showing up. Know why you are facilitating. The ego has and still comes up for me just like anyone else. While the ego is not necessarily a bad thing, you actually get to choose when to listen to it. (Thanks for the post inspiration Chris Sweat.)
<3 Danielle
If I Told You...
If I Told You...
SoundEmbrace has been invited to be a part of a group exhibition called 'If I Told You…'
If I Told You… is a group exhibition consisting of work by female-identifying artists around themes of harassment, assault, violence and the treatment of the female body. This show will engage the community through a robust schedule of programming held in the space at The Beacon Atlanta
Each week of programming will revolve around a theme.
Themes to explore:
sexual health, domestic violence, healthy sexual relationships, hostile work environments (focus on arts community), trans women, youth/molestation, “being a good guy isn’t enough” – programs focused on men, self-care/healing
Check out the link below for more details. Grand opening for the series is February 14th and I will be providing a sound bath entitled EMPOWERED — setup looks the same, but the talk and the sounds will be very different. 😉— Sound Bath is Friday February 22nd! Hope to see you there! Thank you for the invite Pamela Barba and Medium Arts! What an honor!
<3 Danielle
Rain or shine!
Rain or shine!
I’m so excited to see you tonight! AND I will be joined/assistant by Shawn J. Moore and Deaundra Audrey Cash (The Soulful Yogi)! Both have gone to my SoundEmbrace Sound Healing 101 class and are now a part of the apprenticeship ! I am STOKED for you to meet them!
Pisces Dreamer, Yoga with Larry, Deron Singh, Drum Circle Dave, Allison Bienenfeld and Stressless with Snehaj are also part of the apprenticeship so you will get to meet them at different sessions as well!
Couple of spots still available! Link in bio to sign up! And I will see you tonight!
<3 Danielle
Among the many forms in which human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal.
“Among the many forms in which human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It symbolizes the yearning for harmony, with oneself and others, with nature and the spiritual and the sacred within us and around us. There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community—music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all over the globe.”
From His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama (From Song of the Spirit: The World of Sacred Music)
Join me tomorrow, Wednesday, February 6th for 'Relax in Sound'. A Sound Bath supporting inner awareness that leads to self empowerment. Transcending time and space.
<3 Danielle