Sound as Synchronicity

As a studio owner, one of the benefits of my role is the opportunity to take classes and participate in programs offered by the instructors and facilitators who share their gifts in the space I’ve cultivated for movement, healing, and personal and professional growth.

As a lifelong learner, this opens my eyes and my mind to new approaches and ways of knowing. I learn and grow intellectually, somatically, and spiritually.

Instructors and facilitators introduce me to ideas and practices that send me down rabbit holes and into deep dives. They stoke my curiosity, and I willingly follow. I extend and expand, absorb and refine.

What is offered at Spiral Studio makes me better—in my teaching, my leadership, my scholarship, and my life. I experience firsthand the benefits we offer our clients and community.
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I am deeply aware of the privilege of having access to practices that help us move, breathe, connect, and transform. I try to pay that privilege forward in every way I can—from donating time, money, and space, to mentoring and collaboration, to program development, accessible pricing, and scholarships.

I often say that what I offer at Spiral Studio is inseparable from my own path of healing, exploration, and growth—my ongoing mind/body/spirit development, my somatic evolution. I walk this path alongside those I teach and serve, both at Spiral Studio and in my work as a professor of transdisciplinary cultural studies.

This work is deeply rewarding. And sometimes, it comes at a cost.

When I first opened the studio, I was both principled and naïve. I had a clear vision, but not the financial capacity—or the time—to fully build what I imagined. Some of the people who began teaching and supporting the business were invited by me; others simply found their way in.

In many ways, I was lucky. Talented, caring, generous instructors and facilitators found Spiral Studio, and together we grew and flourished. With support, we kept going—building the plane as we were flying it, as one trusted member of my leadership team once said.

Over time, I found firmer footing. I leaned more fully into the core values my business coach helped me articulate. I placed deep trust in my team and continued pushing toward a humble definition of success: breaking even, financially, with the distant hope that one day I might actually pay myself for my work.

That was never my primary goal. It wasn’t even close. It was simply the external pressure—the dominant narrative of what it means to be “successful” in business.

For me, other measures matter more. The quality of what we offer at Spiral Studio—grounded, authentic, innovative embodied practices offered with integrity and humility—matters far more than financial stability.
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Because I am someone who tends to give, and give, and give—often beyond my own capacity—the opportunity to receive what is offered at Spiral Studio is a necessity.

This is something my friends, students, and clients remind me of often. And yet, it remains challenging to carve out time just for myself. Our clients struggle with this, too, so it makes sense that I would as well.

Since 2025 has been a year of struggle in many ways, I have been intentionally making more space to receive what we offer at Spiral Studio. In that process, I’ve discovered that I genuinely enjoy Yin Yoga.

I’ve also found myself increasingly drawn to the transformative potential of sound. I've started to learn more through self-study, but some things aren't fully understood until they are experienced, embodied.
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At Lexi’s first biweekly sound bath, I experienced sound in a way I had not expected—clean, clear, grounded, and without pretense. When I returned a few days later for her deeper-dive mini-retreat, something entirely unexpected cracked open.

These experiences can be difficult to explain. Almost immediately, as her Rest, Restore, Renew sound bath began, I felt my heart space open and expand.

Through her framing and guidance—through both her words and the resonance of the crystal bowls—I experienced what I now understand, through study and practice, to be a common response to sound healing. As Vickie Gould of Life Changing Energy describes it, I felt “a sudden shift in perspective on life or a particular situation.”

I wasn’t alone.

Lexi guided us with intention, humility, and care, weaving sound and language aligned with the chakra energy centers. She held the space with grace—fully present, not above us or apart from us, but with us.

What I experienced was authenticity, vulnerability, and honesty; passion and compassion; responsiveness and presence; creativity, open-heartedness, open-mindedness, and a genuine desire to learn and grow.

During our post-bath sharing, I was struck by how often the words and insights that arose for me were echoed by others in the room. We had received something collective as well as personal.

Later, at home, that shift continued to unfold—into personal insights, a sense of being “in the zone,” renewed energy, and motivation. What followed could only be described as a spontaneous healing experience. (Again, benefits that Gould notes come along with sound healing.)

Through journaling and expressive arts, connections emerged that had been waiting to be made. Insights that had felt clouded came into focus. Emotions and energy that had been stuck began to move.

I found a clarity and peace that had eluded me—and experienced a significant breakthrough on my path of healing, growth, and self-compassion.
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What we offer at Spiral Studio is powerful. It meets us where we are—and takes us where we need to go.

We move stuck energy and trauma out of the body.
We breathe into new possibilities.

We reconnect with parts of ourselves we’ve forgotten.

We transform how we show up—for ourselves and for one another.

While these shifts can feel spontaneous, they are built on a foundation of choice and commitment: the decision to show up, to do the work, and to become more fully ourselves.

We don’t do this work alone.

We can’t do this work alone.

Come as you are.

Move as you need.
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You may be surprised by what emerges.