Holidays & Holy DaysHoliday sound baths & meditations
Live holiday sound baths and holy day meditations with crystal singing bowls tuned to 432 Hz, from Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day to All Saints Day and Christmas.
“Perhaps what is your magic is someone else's miracles; someone's miracle is someone's mystery.”
Holidays carry a lot of sound. Carols, church bells, the song that takes you straight back to a childhood kitchen. Music lights up memory and emotion together, which is why one familiar melody can carry us across decades in a single phrase. These sessions use that on purpose.
Each holiday brings its own landscape. On Valentine’s Day, stand at the edge of the ocean and breathe the scent of roses toward someone you love. On St. Patrick’s Day, step through a gate into an emerald land and find yourself in a patch of four-leaf clovers. As the veil thins at the end of October, honor the ancestors. At Christmas, take a winter’s walk at dusk to a cottage with a stag etched on its door, follow a lullaby to children singing by a campfire, and sit in the back pew of a little white chapel as the choir begins.
I draw on many traditions here, Christian, Celtic, ancient and modern, and offer each one with respect. Mysticism, religion, esoteric wisdom: we’re all saying aspects of the same four-letter word… love.
Holidays can bring glad tidings or a little bah humbug, and both are welcome here. Come for festive cheer or for quiet care. There is no right or wrong way to celebrate this time of year. We celebrate you, just as you are.
The Sessions
Holiday and holy day sound baths, 2022 to now
About holiday sound baths
Which holidays do these sessions mark?
Valentine's Day (which Charleene also honors as World Sound Healing Day), St. Patrick's Day, Easter, All Hallows' Eve, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, U.S. Thanksgiving Day, and the Christmas season, plus a few one-of-a-kind days like Leap Day.
Are these sessions religious?
They honor the holy days of several traditions, with respect and an open door. You don't need to share any belief to take part. Come for the music, the stillness or the meaning, whatever serves you.
What does science say about sacred music?
More than you might expect, and the findings cross cultures. Researchers who surveyed ethnographies from 315 societies (Mehr et al., Science, 2019) found music in every one, with ritual, healing, mourning and processions among the uses that recur worldwide. Sacred chant also shapes the body that sings it. In a 2001 BMJ study of 23 adults (Bernardi et al.), reciting the rosary's Ave Maria in Latin and chanting a yoga mantra both slowed breathing to about six breaths a minute and drew heart and blood pressure rhythms into step with the breath. At the University of Gothenburg, 15 singers who hummed, sang a hymn and chanted a slow mantra found their heart rates rising and falling together (Vickhoff et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 2013). Singing together also binds strangers: in a 2016 study, even a 232-voice choir of people who mostly didn't know one another felt measurably closer after singing (Weinstein et al., Evolution and Human Behavior). Sacred buildings were tuned for it, too. Hagia Sophia holds a sound for nearly eleven seconds, and Byzantine chant was written to bloom inside that dome (Stanford's Icons of Sound project). Holy days gather people to sing, and the singing, it turns out, gathers them.
Which session should I start with?
For Valentine's Day, start with Frequencies of Divine Love (2024), the most-watched session here. For Christmas, choose The Frequency of Christmas Songs (2024). For St. Patrick's Day, try Luck, Charm & Intuition (2024).
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