 Welcome back. If you are looking for a way to relax and unwind, if so, you're in luck because Sound Healer's Collective is hosting a community soundbath meditation experience which will benefit Yoga for Change tomorrow evening. Diana Vasquez, owner of Soundbath Jacks and the Sound Healer's Collective is here now with details with a preview. Diana, how are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm good. You bring in like amazing energy into the space. Thank you so much. I wish my listeners could smell, because it's like you smell so good. I just want you to stick around because like the studio never smells as good. Thank you. Yes. So tell me what a soundbath is. Well, a soundbath is basically a full body listening experience. The crystal singing bowls to bat and bowls, all these sacred beautiful instruments are washing over your body and affecting you in a cellular level to help relaxation. And so you play these instruments? Correct. We are laying down usually yoga mat or wherever is comfortable, really. And then we play the crystal singing bowls to bat and bowls, all the things in order to help your body fully relax. So when we have trouble meditating, the crystals are amazing to come into aid with that meditation to help you go deeper. Okay. Well, I got to hear this because I've never heard a soundbath before. Oh, okay. This is going to be a treat. So we have a couple of crystal bowls here today. I've got a metal bowl. Wow. That's nice. I am so relaxed. That was amazing. That was amazing. That was amazing. So just for our listeners who can't see what the setup is in the studio, like you've got two large glass, they're bowls, but they're kind of cylinder like correct. They are actually quartz crystal. 99.9% quartz crystal are these bowls. There are two particular notes here. Each note is associated with the chakra. So this is the root chakra and the heart chakra that I played. And then we had a metal Himalayan singing bowl and a little chime. And so I'm from Duval. You got to make it simple. Duval is getting up with it right now. No, I know. Like, look, like Malcolm said earlier, we're a little rough around the edges, but in the long term, we get it. So explain to me, well, A, like where this comes from? Like where did the sound bath start? Sound bath started thousands and thousands of years ago. We were talking, they started with metal bowls, Himalayan bowls. And then nobody actually knows the origin of the crystal bowls and where that started. But it was for everything from the metal bowls were made to bring food into village to healing to putting it directly on the body. So it actually relaxes the body on the cellular level. So it's been used for thousands of years. Jacksonville, I've been here about four years doing just singing bowls and sound baths. And Jacksonville has really received it. And it's really beautiful to see hundreds of people gathering for the one general purpose of relaxing ourselves physically, mentally and emotionally. We just we have a lot of baggage and, you know, I'm here to help release that a little bit. So I think people who are not familiar with this, they may be hesitant to go because they don't really understand like what's going to happen. And so can you kind of walk me through like how that works? So really, I tell everybody every sound bath is different. Every experience is different. It's truly what you bring to this container that will dictate how your experience is. So if you come in with an open heart and an open mind, you're going to have a beautiful experience. If you're resisting what you're feeling and or going through, not going to be as comfortable, but we don't grow from being comfortable. So ultimately what can you say that again for the people in the back, please? We definitely do not grow if we are comfortable. Uncomfort makes us learn from our experiences so that we can move through life and create better experiences for ourselves. So ultimately you're laying down and usually I guide you into a short guided meditation just to kind of settle the mind and bring you into a center. And then I play the crystal bowls for about 40 to 50 minutes. Some other instructors will add movement into it to kind of help. So there's a ton of different modalities, but ultimately it's letting go of that resistance to think about the grocery list, to think about the email you forgot to send or what you've got to do after and just allow yourself to be present in this very moment. And as a, as someone attending it, I don't know, I think that like, I can't remember what it was that I went to. It wasn't a sound bath, but it was something along these lines of relaxation. And I was there and I immediately began crying. And I had no idea where this emotion came from. It was just there and I was super embarrassed about it. And the facilitator was like, dude, everybody does that. Like, that's what happens. Yes, it's the ability to be in a safe space so that you can have that emotion. And the unfortunate part is we live in a society where we're not allowed to have these emotions because we're just going through life and going through all the things we've got going on. And so we suppress that. So when we're allowed a space to just be and in whatever that is, whatever that may be for you, that means an all out balling session. Then that's what it is. And it's OK. It's a welcomed in fact. That means that it was received in a way that your soul needed. You tell me exactly what is yoga for change? Yoga for change. This is a beautiful local organization that was founded here in Jacksonville. They offer yoga to incarcerated youth, mental health, veterans. They are just a beautiful organization that's so good in the community. And actually, one of the first companies that gave me an opportunity here in Jacksonville to perform a sound bath outside with them. And they're dear and dear to my heart and I will always support them. And this is one of the ways we do it. I created the Sound Healers Collective last year. It's about seven of us local Sound Healers and we do this big event where we bring in the community and we have all agreed to do this once a year in benefit of yoga for change. And last year we raised over seven thousand dollars for an amazing organization. Yeah. So now at this event, will you be playing with the other practitioners? Yes, we have. We do take a lot of time to create an experience that takes you through a journey. So each of us, we have a set list. We go for an hour at seven different instruments. I'm sorry, seven different practitioners and over 90 instruments that we're playing to create this beautiful container for you. Wow. And so give me the details again about the. So tomorrow's event is at the beautiful Friday Music Hall Theatre. And it's at six thirty p.m. We only have a handful of tickets left, which is amazing. The Sound Healers Collective, like I said, will have another event. We do this a couple of times a year. But tomorrow's Friday Music Hall, 100 percent of the proceeds are going to benefit yoga for change. We have some amazing silent auction items as well. Do you need to bring like a yoga mat when you come? Or it depends. We have a couple of premium seats available. So that way you just show up and we've got everything covered. But yeah, ticket sales start from $44 to go all the way to 77, depending on what kind of experience you want to have and what you want to bring. Diana Vasquez, owner of Sound Bath Jax and the Sound Healers Collective. Thanks so much. And as we go out, you're going to play us out, huh? All right. Yes, I will. All right, I've been looking forward to this.