Listening With the Ground: How Movement and Sound Meet

A serene exploration of harmony between movement and sound, featuring a woman peacefully connecting with the ground alongside a resonating singing bowl.

My work begins with listening.

Before sound.

Before movement.

Before any invitation to change or release.

Listening With the Ground is an extension of the same philosophy that guides my sound healing work. It is not a technique layered on top of the body, but a way of being in relationship with it.

In sound healing, I do not use vibration to make something happen. I listen for how the body receives sound. I allow resonance to unfold at its own pace. I trust the intelligence of the nervous system to take what it needs and leave the rest.

Movement on the floor follows the same principle.

When the body meets the ground, it receives continuous feedback—pressure, support, contact. The floor becomes a listening surface, much like sound. Instead of asking the body to perform, I listen for how weight settles, how breath responds, how sensation shifts when nothing is being forced.

Sound and floor-based movement share a common language:

• Both work through vibration and resonance

• Both invite regulation through sensory contact

• Both prioritize choice, pacing, and safety

• Both honor the body’s timing

  
  

Neither requires relaxation. Neither demands transformation. Both offer space.

The Ground as Resonance

Just as sound waves travel through the body, gravity travels through bone, tissue, and breath. When I allow my weight to meet the floor, the body begins to organize itself naturally—much like it does when sound is allowed to move through without interference.

This is why floor-based movement belongs in my sound healing practice. The ground holds the body in the same way sound holds attention: without pressure, without expectation.

Listening With the Ground is not separate from sound work. It is another way of listening.

A Practice of Consent and Choice

In all of my work—sound, silence, movement, or stillness—consent comes first.

You are never required to lie down.

You are never required to move.

You are never required to feel calm.

The body decides what is safe. The body decides what is enough.

Listening With the Ground offers an option: to explore movement where support is constant and effort can soften. Just like sound, it can be engaged with actively or passively. You may move. You may rest. You may simply notice.

All of it counts.

One Listening Philosophy, Many Doorways

Whether through sound, breath, floor-based movement, or stillness, the intention remains the same: to create conditions where the body can listen to itself again.

Nothing is forced.

Nothing is extracted.

Nothing is required.

Listening With the Ground is one doorway into that practice. Sound is another. Silence is another still.

All are welcome.

All are optional. All are held within the same listening field.