No matter how experienced a facilitator may be, they cannot feel what you feel. They cannot sense your edges. They cannot track your capacity. They cannot know what safety means inside your nervous system. Only you can. This is not a responsibility to perform well. It is a permission to decide.

When the mind is overloaded and the heart feels adrift, sound healing offers a pathway beyond words. A Neptune Gong Bath is a deeply immersive sound healing experience guided by Sound Alchemist Julie Jewels Smoot, inviting participants into states of profound rest, emotional softening, and spiritual stillness. Neptune—the planet of dreams, mysticism, compassion, and the subconscious—works through dissolution rather than force. This gong bath is not about setting intentions

In trauma-informed and somatic frameworks, it is understood that regulation often follows activation. The nervous system may need to recognize and move through held patterns before settling. Sound can catalyze this process. For someone accustomed to dissociation, relaxation can feel unsafe. Stillness may bring awareness that was previously avoided. In these cases, discomfort is not a sign of harm—it is a sign of contact.