About Us
OUR MISSION IS TO HELP OVEREXTENDED
WOMEN TURN OVERWHELM & SELF DOUBT INTO
Self-healing & Personal Mastery
If you’re like most of the women I’ve worked with, you live a full and busy life—making time for your friends, your family, your career and, of course, your personal growth and self-care.
Sure, you have a lot to do, but you've always been good at juggling your many responsibilities.
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You used to just push through. Stay up late. Take on one more task because, well, someone has to, right? And if not you, then who? But now, part of you is starting to realize that these strategies might not hold up forever.
A PART OF YOU IS WONDERING:
“How long can I go on like this?”
“Whatever happened to MY dreams?”
Valerie's Story
I didn't realize this until sometime in my fifth decade, but I had pursued a longstanding career of stifling my voice and twisting myself in knots trying to please the many difficult people in my life.
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And this is strange coming from a woman who made a living for 30 years as a professional actress!
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Even though everything looked great on the outside, inwardly I was miserable.
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A string of disastrous relationships left me feeling desperate and doubting everything about myself. I went into a total meltdown, where my only solace was stress-eating and binge-watching reruns of Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, I know.
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I thought I'd never find my way out of this box I had built for myself, until I had a life-changing experience where I discovered the incredible Healing Power of Sound...
AND I REALIZED THAT...
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The connections that matter most are the ones we cultivate with our own Self and with that which is Greater than our Self.
The powerful encounter I had set me on a course to learn everything I could about how to free myself from THE BOX where I had stuffed my hurts, my limiting beliefs, my desires and dreams, and my VOICE.
I discovered that for me—and for the hundreds of women I work with—freeing our voice gives us back our power, our health, our dignity, and our dreams.
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And I developed some amazing systems to help you out of your box.
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I'd love to share them with you.
What Folks Are Saying...
I'm flying high and bubbling over with love and joy… I feel fuller, more solid, and calmer. I feel a magnet—things that had been lost or forgotten are returning to me...”​
Cathye Cooke, CA
What I Remember
I always loved making sound as a kid. As a baby, I was fascinated by all the squishy, floppy, poppy sounds I could make with my new little body. With sound and movement, I was discovering the brand new world I now inhabited!
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And like most of us, I was trained out of this pretty quick.
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It's been so much fun to rediscover my own sound on this journey of sound healing. It's truly a playful path to healing and empowerment.
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And I love meeting new friends in my sonic playground!
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Won't you join me?
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What I Learned
From the moment I re-discovered the magical transformative potential of Sound, I embarked on several intensive internships in different modalities of healing:
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• Sound, Voice & Music Healing
• Shamanic Healing & Counseling
• Acutonics™ (Traditional Chinese Medicine with Tuning Forks)
• Yoga of the Voice
• Neuro-acoustic Brain Training
• The Art of Feminine Presence™
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How it looks on paper...​​
Welcome!
to our
Sonic Playground
About the
Vestibule Center for Sound Living
In my study of Sound and its profound effect on our wellbeing...
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I became fascinated by the vestibular system of the ear with its mysterious labyrinths and canals, minute bones, and tireless muscles. This system is responsible for so many of the ways we relate to the world: our sense of balance, our spatial orientation, our ability to move in any direction, and even our capacity to stand upright.
If all this can be contained in such a tiny chamber of the inner ear, what might be possible in our own Sound Living Vestibule? It became a metaphor for the healing work—a passageway between the outer door and the inner sanctum, a gateway to another dimension...
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Vestibule \ves-tÉ™-byül\ noun
Origin: L. vestibulum; antechamber, entrance court
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In architecture, a passage, hall or room between the outer door and the inner sanctum
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In anatomy, any of various bodily cavities serving as an entrance to another cavity or space: as the central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the membranous labyrinth it contains
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Figuratively used to denote a place of entrance that offers access (as to something new)
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In science fiction, a gateway to another dimension...
