Corporate Wellness and Team Building

Hello! I am Maria. I am the owner of mvrhealing.com

I work with companies and organizations to help reduce stress and burnout by incorporating Sound Healing sessions into wellness plans and staff events. I have been a certified Sound Healing practitioner since 2020 and an Energy Healer since 2016. I am a Reiki Master since 2021. I have been practicing meditation since 2010 and I continue to expand my knowledge and skills.

The Impact of Stress in Business- and how to reduce it with Sound Healing

The corporate and business worlds often demand long hours, high expectations and constant change. This contributes to elevated stress levels among employees. Work-related stress can lead to burnout, decreased productivity, and even physical health issues. There is a way to reduce the constant pressure of stress, and forward-thinking companies are turning to alternative wellness approaches. Sound Healing has emerged as a potent wellness tool in workplaces and organizations. Sound healing is an ancient practice that utilizes resonant frequencies and vibrations to induce relaxation and promote overall well-being. The vibrations from specific Sound Healing instruments promote physical, emotional and spiritual healing. This allows people to feel a new sense of inner peace, relaxation and healing.

The incorporation of Sound Healing into business settings offers a holistic approach to stress management. This practice provides employees with a safe and rejuvenating space to unwind, recalibrate, and release accumulated stress. Sound Healing is a proven tool for employee well-being and the integration of Sound Healing into corporate settings is a harmonious solution. By addressing the root causes of stress through the gentle power of sound, businesses can create a nurturing environment where employees thrive mentally, emotionally, and physically. Sound Healing is non-invasive and suitable for everyone.

Who is choosing Sound Healing for their Staff?

Major companies such as Google, General Mills, Intel, Aetna, Goldman Sachs, Astra Zenica, Fidelity Investments, Nike, and the staff of the TODAY Show on NBC have utilized Sound Healing. These companies report great success offering Sound Healing to their employees and I am confident it will benefit your organization as well.

How Sound Healing Works

Everything in the Universe has a vibrational frequency and those vibrations interact with every cell in the physical body and the entire energy body. The vibrations and frequencies from the Sound Healing instruments promote physical, emotional and spiritual healing. This allows people to feel a new sense of inner peace, relaxation and harmony. It helps calm the mind, body, and soul by reducing stress and anxiety, increases focus and clarity, boosts mood, reduces feelings of anger, improves sleep, promotes emotional well-being, and strengthens the immune system. Through this holistic approach, individuals are empowered to reclaim their well-being and unlock their full potential.

Different sound frequencies bring order, pattern and healing to different parts of our energy and physical body. Sound Healing allows our brain waves to slow down, moving from Gamma (30-80 Hz—high focus and concentration) and Beta (12 to 35 Hz—active, high arousal) to Alpha (8 to 12 Hz—rest, reflect). Some people move to Theta (4-9 Hz—deeply relaxed, inward focused, flow of creative ideas) and even to Delta (0.5-4 Hz) which is the dream state accessing our extremely creative unconscious.

Records show that Sound Healing has been used for more than 40,000 years. The indigenous Australians used instruments in healing rituals and ancient Egyptians used Sound Healing in the pyramids to create sound chambers for healing.  Sound Healers use instruments like Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowls, Gongs, Rainsticks, Tingsha, Ocean Drums, and Chimes to create soothing auditory landscapes that guide listeners into a state of tranquility. These gentle vibrations penetrate deep into the body, relieving tension, and soothing frazzled nerves.

What to expect during a Group Sound Healing Session

Group Sound healing is a gentle, relaxing and meditative experience that lasts for ninety minutes. I begin with a short, guided meditation and then I select from a various Sound Healing instruments depending on the group including; Drums, Crystal and Tibetan Bowls, Gongs, Rainsticks, Ocean Drums, Chimes and Tingsha, as needed. The sound does the work. Participants are asked to lay or sit down and relax while the sounds wash over them releasing tension, rebalancing the nervous system, and revitalizing body and mind. Some people daydream, others take a nap, there is no right or wrong during the sound session—the healing will continue to work either way. Many participants report feeling calmer, more relaxed, in better spirits with better sleep. Sound Healing helps create a positive and productive work environment while increasing staff performance, creativity and, ultimately, increasing your profitability.

Here’s how Sound Healing works

• Reduces cortisol levels: Cortisol, commonly known as the stress hormone, is released in response to stressors. Elevated cortisol levels can lead to chronic stress. Sound Healing sessions trigger the relaxation response, reducing cortisol levels and promoting a sense of calm.

• Enhances Mindfulness and Focus: Sound Healing encourages mindfulness—a state of present moment awareness. This heightened mindfulness translates into improved focus and concentration, allowing employees to tackle tasks with clarity and efficiency.

• Promotes relaxation and emotional well-being: The soothing sounds of Sound Healing sessions create a serene atmosphere, fostering emotional balance and relaxation. This can help employees manage emotional stressors and maintain a positive outlook.

• Fosters positive work relationships: Group Sound Healing sessions provide a shared experience for employees, fostering a sense of unity and promoting positive interactions among team members. This can significantly contribute to a more harmonious work environment.

• Changes brave wave states: Sound Healing can change brainwave states from active Gamma and Beta to relaxed Alpha and Theta which induces a sense of calm and healing within the body.

• Makes you feel good: Sound Healing triggers the release of endorphins, oxytocin, dopamine feel-good hormones and neurotransmitters that improve mood.

• Creates a meditative state: Sound Healing has similar effect on the body and mind as meditation with minimal effort from the receiver.

• Deep relaxation of the nervous systems: Sound Healing improves digestion, mood and sleep, helping us move from flight or fight to rest and digest.

• More creativity and focus

• Increased energy

• Pain-relieving: Sound Healing boosts the production of pain-relieving hormones in the body

• Boosts the immune system

Healing Benefits of Sound Healing Instruments

Healing benefits of Drums

Accelerates physical healing, boosts the immune system, helps release emotional trauma, induces deep relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety, produces feelings of well-being and happiness, and can help lower blood pressure

Healing benefits of the Tibetan Singing Bowls

Invokes deep relaxation, promotes muscle regeneration, relieves pain in joints, muscle, and shoulders, releases sciatic pain, relaxes the digestive system, releases headache and migraine pain by improving circulation and releasing tension

Healing benefits of Crystal Singing Bowls

Reduces stress and anxiety, stimulates the immune system allowing and encouraging it to heal the body naturally, lowers blood pressure, invokes deep relaxation, reduces physical pain and anger, assists in balancing and cleansing your chakras, helps calm overactive adrenal glands, improves sleep, increases mental and emotional clarity

Healing benefits of the Gong

Reduces stress, releases emotional blockages, repairs our cells and promotes healing on all levels (mind, body and soul), enhances feelings of happiness

Healing benefits of the Rainstick & Ocean Drum

The Rainstick shaker has been used for centuries by Shamans in ceremonies as a means to break up and remove stuck or stagnant energies in the body.  It can also be used to clear any unwanted energy attachments.  The Ocean Drum creates gentle rolling waves that help you relax by bringing you into a tranquil state with the soothing sounds of the ocean

Healing benefits of the Tingsha & Chimes

Tingsha bells slow a racing mind by releasing anxieties bringing peace and calmness to the mind, helps release depression or grief, release stress and clear your space. Chimes bring in more positive energy and healing, releases any unwanted energies, balances and aligns chakras, brings in clarity, efficiency and joy, clears mental brain fog, promotes relaxation, releases stress and anxiety, encourages inner peace and opens up creativity.

Integrating Sound Healing into Corporate Wellness Programs

When you introduce the healing power of sound to your corporate or business wellness program you take your wellness program to a new level with the transformative benefits of Sound Healing.

• Would you like to reduce stress and burnout in your team?

• Would you like to help your team to relax and recharge in a safe way?

• Would you like to help increase your team’s motivation and inspirations?

• Would you like to enhance your team’s creativity and overall performance?

Sound Healing Benefits for your Team

• Unique team building experience - an activity to do with colleagues unrelated to work

• Improves mental alertness - work smarter not harder

• Equality - the entire team will experience sound healing together

• Creates a better working atmosphere - even if not everyone can attend, there is a positive effect which in turn positively affects the rest of the team

• Supports mental well-being - this activity is a preventative mental health strategy

• Natural anti-depressant - the body responds to sound by releasing the hormones and neurotransmitters, endorphins, serotonin and oxytocin which make you feel good

• Pain-relieving - boost the production of pain-relieving hormones in the body

• Boosts the immune system- resulting in fewer sick days

• Deep relaxation of the nervous systems - which improves digestion, mood and sleep. Helping participants move from flight or fight to rest and digest

• Increased energy - like a power nap, staff will increase their energy levels

• Creativity - allows people to be more creative and focused

Here’s how to get Started

• Partner with me, a certified Sound Healer, to design effective and tailored Sound Healing sessions for your employees

• Offer regular sessions—incorporate regular Sound Healing sessions into your wellness program to provide your employees consistent stress relief

• Educate employees by hosting workshops and informational sessions to educate them about the benefits of Sound Healing

• Document results by monitoring employee stress levels, engagement and experience with Sound Healing

Pricing

Group Sound Healing pricing is based on group size and travel distance. I need 45 minutes to unpack and set up for an event. I will need 30 minutes at the end of the event to tear down and reload. The event itself will last for 90 minutes. Total 2 hours and 45 minutes for this event. Email me at maria@mvrhealing.com for a quote.

I am truly passionate about the work I do! If you are looking for a proven way to improve your workplace wellness environment, please contact me and learn how this ancient practice can revolutionize stress management and well-being in your workplace.