Integratron?

I asked my hubby if he wanted to visit the Integratron with me to kick off 2013.

“What?  Where are you taking me?  Is this some “ooga booga” crazy place?” , he asked after we travelled for over an hour in the desolate, cactus-spotted desert while visiting Nana this year.

No worries, I did not find this place via some random web search but actually I clipped an article from Vanity Fair a year ago about these “Sound Baths” with pure quartz crystal singing bowls.  My hubby has always wanted one of those bowls for our home, so I thought awesome, lets go to this one of a kind, all-wood douglas fir Dome apparently located at an intersection of strong geomagnetic forces in the Mojave Desert.  I figured, good, that will really kick things up to start off the year.  I am up for testing anything non-invasive and eco that is meant to rejuvenate me!!  This world famous (even listed on the Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2009 Hot List.  Bands record songs in the acoustically sound dome too), circa 1950’s Dome is located above the intersection of 3 flowing underground rivers, hence the strong geomagnetic forces, which focus and amplify sound and energy within the 55 foot round Integratron.  Across the desert road was actually a huge orchid greenhouse, I guess getting their water to grow from those rivers.

So for 30 minutes we lay relaxed on the desert blankets above with our heads pointing towards the bowls and the centre of the dome while we listened live to the separate sound of each one of the 14 singing bowls, keyed harmonically to the body, (we were told each note resonates with a particular one of the 7 Chakras but I can not recall which note is best for which one).  Have you ever been to the Manitoba Legislative building and stood in the basement right under its dome?  When you speak in that spot your voice is super amplified, even a whisper.  That is exactly what it sounded like from where I was standing in the above picture.

Wow, those bowls were intense!  As the postcard noted, “Imagine being “bathed” in beautiful and powerful sound waves.”  They claim it is “nutrition for the nervous system with the result being waves of peace, increased balance and awareness as well as deep relaxation for the mind & body.”  One of the owners, who played the bowls for us, said it is almost like “clearing out your cache” on your laptop.  This experience clears out all the unnecessary junk saved in your mind computer.

I loved the experience!  The sound of each bowl was wildly whipping in one ear and circling out the other.  I felt vibration through my body of some of the notes. Some people even see colors while they listen to the bowls.  I was totally relaxed after my private sound bath, to the point I simply went to bed within 2 hours.  For a number of days afterwards, I had nothing floating around in my head in the sense of “to-do lists”, “remember this lists”, etc.  Clear almost like when the meditation tapes suggest you think of nothing or black outer space which I find impossible to do.  Yet, after the sound bath, my mind just was in that state of being. Yahoo!

Given that I am game for and have tried heaps of different types of complimentary/alternative medicine, my love of such an experience is not surprising!!  However, what did surprise me were my husband’s comments post-Integratron:  “The session was like a massage for your brain… not a head or scalp massage, but actually your brain. It provided a sense of clarity, objectivity and confidence in thought and decision-making, the effects of which I still have some reminiscence of today, a month later. I would like to go regularly just like one would go to a massage therapist or chiropractor. We should all experience and benefit from this!!!”

If anyone knows of any singing quartz bowl experts in Winnipeg, please do post their info below.  We would love to hear more singing bowl meditations!

For more info or if you are ever in Palm Springs, California do go visit http://www.integratron.com