Who I am
My name is Jaz. I was raised on classic rock, danced all through my childhood, and grew up playing in rock and indie bands. Sound has been the biggest constant in my life.
I pursued a career in music management and administration, but I soon reached a point of toxic productivity and burn-out after three years of study and almost two years working in the industry. After leaving my job with no back up plan, I applied for job after job in the music world, still chasing the very path that took me to this point. After one last rejection letter, I decided to look at things differently.
My mother is an energy healer, and has been for all of my life. Being on the receiving end of her and her beautiful circle of healer friends all my life was a major source of support in all of my pursuits. I loved being a part of their magic, but I never saw myself creating the magic with them.
At the end of my tether with the endless job applications in an industry that felt so thankless to me, a thought crept into my head about using music to help people.
What if I married two massive parts of my life, sound and healing. Long story short, I became a qualified sound and energy healer within the month.
Since then, I’ve been honing my practice, picking up new skills through some beautiful collaborations, offering monthly Sound Bath healings in multiple locations, and training in more exciting modalities, to expand my healing and space-holding toolbox! The future is bright. I’m endlessly grateful that I’ve found a career that brings joy and healing to my clients, my community, my collaborators, my mentors, and myself.
Sound healing has altered my life for the better, and it is my intention to facilitate the same profound shifts for others.
What I work with
It’s only right that I also introduce you to my coworker, SOUND.
Sound is everywhere. Have you ever seen the videos where they wire up the leaves and trees to sing? Every living thing has a vibration, including the earth itself, including each and every one of us.
In the womb, the first sense we develop is hearing. We are soothed by the heartbeats of our mothers, a constant, resonant drum. We grow so used to sound in this time, our first true outside influence. When we go forward into life, sound has a massive bearing on our wellbeing, it is something we can always count on to alter our state of being. Our entire body is receptive to sound vibrations, it is just our ears that can process and interpret them. So when I work with sound, it is not just being received via the ears, but via the entire body. Every ripple finds the most resonant home in the receiver, wherever their system needs it most.
As individuals, we could see ourselves as a musical composition. Every piece of you has their own part to play, like an orchestra. Some pieces of you may work in harmony and lift each other up, other parts of you may work in dissonance, clashing and diluting both sounds. Any trauma, whether it be physical, emotional or mental can change our vibrational output.
What is important is to come back to our most basic instinct of listening, to reap the restorative benefits. There is no correct way to receive Sound Healing, if you simply show up to receive it, the work is being done.
Sound Healing can help with stress, tension, mental or learning disorders, sleep issues, migraines, chronic pain, trauma, among many other things.
So, when I introduce you to my coworker, Sound, know that you’re meeting an ancient, unseen ally—one that remembers who you are, even when you forget.