“I heard a gong for the first time 15 or 16 years ago,” says Jamie Ford.
She’d heard a gong strike before, obviously—“I’d seen the Gong Show”—but this gong, in a 2000 kundalini yoga class, was the first one she’d ever heard.
“I heard it and I was just—I went to another place,” Ford tells Quartz. “I was calm. I could travel. Everything just expanded.”
At the time, Ford was a biologist studying the desert tortoise. The gong marked the start of a new career path, one that led to a room in LA’s Grassell Park neighborhood filled with crystals, tuning forks, and 12 brass-hued gongs the size of big-rig tires.
Ford, 39, is a sound healer and owner of the Sound Space. In 30 minutes her year-old studio, will fill with 10 strangers who will lie on the floor while the vibrations of her improvised gong concert wash over them. Ford also does private sessions. About 75% of the people who come to her are dealing with anxiety, stress, and depression.
[For more of this story, written by Corinne Purtill, go to http://qz.com/595315/turns-out...tually-well-healing/]
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