21st Century Healer Series--Myrrh de Marmion
Whole Music Experience: As far as sound healers go, you appear traditional with the sound healing tools including voice, but you offer other modalities that derive from ancient musical practices and other art disciplines. Please describe your overall work with sound as a healing tool.
Myrrh de Marmion: In my younger years, I was classically
trained in music in piano, guitar, drums, and voice, also a trained dancer
for many years as well. So I have that training. However, I went through a
period of about 35 years where I did nothing with my training actively, and I was
mainstream. In 1998, I began formal study of energy healing modalities,
mysticism, Ancient Egyptian and other ancient practices. Soon
after my Reiki Master/Teacher attunement, I experienced a number of awakenings between
2001 and 2007 that sent me on a roller coaster ride of remembering downloads of
information, activations and initiations. And since 2007 it has been a period
of integration of information, study, practice and the formal training in
energy modalities that has formed the basis of my vibrational work.
It isn’t just sound for me anymore. We’re all vibration and I
see that vibration shows up in different forms, but it is all the same. I work
with sound/vibration in many ways – in large group meditations; in groups with specific
needs such as cancer/catastrophic health issues, anxiety and depression, etc.; in
interactive grief circles to help individuals give voice to loss while essentially
resurrecting the ancient practice of keening; with individuals who are in their
life transition, as a way of helping them relax and let go; and in private
sessions. I also teach workshops in sound/vibration/energy – from very basic
introductory classes to advanced workshops to help healers/therapists/body workers
integrate these vibrational tools effectively into their work. I am working on
getting these certified for CEUs.
Our Divine Heart (heart chakra) is the biggest generator of
love because we’re all essentially very powerful generators and when we begin,
intend, and run intentional sound through love, it becomes an incredibly potent
fuel. Because we are all vibration, when we produce sound through the intention
of love it has an immensely powerful effect on and in an individual’s energy
field and various levels of body. While
I accompany myself on various other instruments, such as Tibetan bowls and
percussion, my main tool is my voice. I am one of those that sees energy and I
also hear the sounds to make. I turn my
voice over to whatever shows up, spiritual improv I guess. These are word sounds and probably most
similar to Tom Kenyon’s work. When in private sessions, I also run these same
frequencies through my fingers into various points and ley lines on the body. I see a light grid in an individual, and
breaks show up as flashes of light needing sound/vibration.
WME: A quote on your
website captured my attention, “The human voice is the highest vibrational
healing tool available to us.” You also mention that people are afraid of their
own voice. How do you teach your clients how to tone and work with this
powerful tool?
MM: Because we are
all vibration, I know without a doubt that we all have the ability to bring
ourselves back into tune with our voices. I know that in almost all dis-eases
and dis-orders, there is a vibration that is missing or out of whack. A denser something that is holding imbalance
in place. The lost chord. And the thing is, it is in the
hearing/feeling/experiencing of that vibration that does it. Because vibration is us and our vibration changes
with our every thought and yet we each have a predominant vibrational bandwidth
set point that we flow within as a general rule. We can use the vibration of our voice and run
through our Divine Heart, as I mentioned above to change that bandwidth. From say anxiety to peace, or whatever.
That vibration doesn’t necessarily need to be out loud. I did a lot of experimentation with what I call silent sound on public buses, among other places, while I lived in Boulder. I would tap into the predominant feeling on the bus, which was usually pretty ookey, and I would hear a vibration of more expansive feeling and start generating that – silently. I could hear the sound in my mind so I just let my vibration expand to engulf the bus. And pretty soon, everyone was smiling and cracking jokes, etc. It was intentional vibration, which is where I am now going with my work. Way outside the box, without tools. More of a state of calibrating our being-ness through our vibration.
That vibration doesn’t necessarily need to be out loud. I did a lot of experimentation with what I call silent sound on public buses, among other places, while I lived in Boulder. I would tap into the predominant feeling on the bus, which was usually pretty ookey, and I would hear a vibration of more expansive feeling and start generating that – silently. I could hear the sound in my mind so I just let my vibration expand to engulf the bus. And pretty soon, everyone was smiling and cracking jokes, etc. It was intentional vibration, which is where I am now going with my work. Way outside the box, without tools. More of a state of calibrating our being-ness through our vibration.
Yes, I do believe that many individuals are afraid of their
voice. As a classically trained
vocalist, I was trained to use my voice to sing. And yet, being of the generation that was
taught children should be seen and not heard, along with all the other garbage
programming that we all get around communication, self-expression, and self-worth,
I’ve gone through periods of deep inner work when I absolutely could not sing
or sound, was terrified of singing, of being heard. And it had nothing to do with singing. How many are told at a young age in choir in
school that they can’t sing? Tone
deaf? Off key? People naturally equate Sounding with
singing. Yet it is making the sounds you
are guided to hear. I help people feel
the difference and experience their own powerful sound through a beautiful
exercise that I lead people through in all of my workshops. We take a journey through our bodies and make
the sounds of all our feelings.
Years ago, I read about Alfred Wolfson, who was a singing
teacher who healed himself from PTSD that he experienced in the war (hearing the
artillery fire and the cries of the wounded and dying). He was guided to start making the sounds of
what he heard and that is how he healed himself. And he went on to incorporate that technique
with individuals who were afraid to sing by making the sounds of their
fears. When I say that we can heal ourselves
with sound/vibration I mean that it is partly
through making the sound of the imbalances within us. In the exercise I offer, when we move through
the garbage sounds, everything becomes angelic, and people are quite amazed at
the sounds they create.
WME: On your blog you
cite a story about a woman who had Stage 3 breast cancer and after several
sessions toning with you, the tumor shrunk. You mention Dr. Mitchell Gaynor as
an advocate for using sound to treat cancer patients. This is new to me so would you please
elaborate about how sound waves shrink tumors?
Your client also
cleared emotional issues that found roots in earlier life events. Did the toning bring up those memories so she
could release them?
MM: Let me clarify
that in the case of the woman I worked with who healed herself of breast
cancer, it was not the sound waves that shrunk the tumor. Referring to the exercise I mentioned above -
of making the sounds of feelings and imbalances within us, this is exactly what
this woman did. We did three sessions
together that were two weeks apart. During our first session, this woman
unearthed the memories of childhood sexual abuse that she had buried. The memories were very traumatic for her, so
I guided her through making the sounds of the feelings of everything.
The sessions were taped, so she could work
with the exercises between sessions.
Knowing what I know about vibration and the density of various emotions,
I sense in her case that she dissolved the density of the vibration of the
emotions residing in her energy field by giving voice to them and created a new
vibrational output, so to speak, that was too high for the cancer to reside
in.
The same weekend that this woman informed me that her cancer
was completely gone, I heard about Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, who is an Integrative
Oncologist in New York. He was being
interviewed on NPR about using Sound for Cancer treatment. He also has written books about sound therapy
and cancer. I don’t remember the exact
statistics, but he has a patient remission (cure) rate of upwards of 95%. He integrates a lot of different natural
therapies in his protocol including, nutrition, supplements, etc.
But one of the main therapies he encourages
his patients to integrate that he actually teaches are meditation using sound, Tibetan
Bowls, chant, etc. If for no other
reason that these practices ease the mind, induce a state a peace and
tranquility, a state of rest where, when the body is aligned with that, can
begin its natural healing capacities. Dr.
Gaynor has quite a few YouTube videos that deal with sound. And his website: (Dr. Mitchell Gaynor)
talks about his work with sound and other therapies, as well.
WME: Finally, you
work with several tools including Tibetan bowls, and as mentioned earlier, the
powerful human voice, what other instruments do you work with? Which is your
favorite tool? I’m guessing its voice.
MM: Thank you. Yes,
my voice is my favorite and also I feel the most powerful tool as well. I accompany myself with Tibetan Bowls, bells,
percussion, etc. They help to take
individuals deeper into themselves during a private session or an
Immersion. And I use a wind gong many
times to clear stagnant energy within the energy body. But I feel strongly that the voice – my voice
– other peoples’ voices, when used with intention through the Heart, is the
most powerful inner tool we have. Maybe
it has the ability to talk to individuals on a different level regardless of
what it sounds like at the time.
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