Gong Meditation with Audante Love
I had no idea what I was getting into when a friend invited us to Audante Love's home for some good old fashioned Friday night sound healing. I just said 'yes'.
It was only an hour. How bad could it be, right? The answer: not remotely bad and everything good.
The Space
Audante Love's private oasis is a room that hangs off the back of her home and, from the moment you walk in, you know you're in the right place because of the sensory overload that manifests. Incense fills your nose, colored lighting permeates the room, and Audante's delicate voice is there to greet you.
Pervasive gongs one meter high are affixed to bespoke scaffolding. Individual bedrolls with pillows and blankets wait for us. And decorative illuminations in the form of holiday string lights and trippy projections are cast on the ceiling. There is so much to take in, I don’t know where to start.
How about the acoustic guitar lying in the center of the room that will, shortly later, deliver on its promise of the soul-soothing chords Audante will strum? Or the myriad other musical trinkets she’s either made or collected, which are dangling on strings or placed on the floor? The woolen rugs set in the few spaces between her instruments remind me of a college dorm room beneath the whale art hanging on the wall above.
Audante Love
“Relax the nose. Relax the eyes. Relax the head.”
Our journey
Six beds line the floor, half of them electrically heated. Audante guides us to ours. When everyone is settled, she brings a basket to each of us and invites us to select which crystals we want to accompany our journey. I chose calcite and selenite for the healing properties because there’s just so much of that to do. Next, comes another basket with weighted eye masks to help us focus only on the sounds. I am so overwhelmed with what’s happening, that I forget to put mine on.
The music begins.
Audante starts with a full body meditation to help us relax into the experience. It's hard for me to keep my eyes closed after that because I want to know what every instrument Audante Love is playing and to see her singing and finger the guitar. And what was that electrical pulse I just felt on the bottom of my feet? I find out later it's the vibrations of a tuning fork and now I have to have one. I also want a room like this at home and to have Audante Love come over sometimes so we can repeat this there.
The melodic and enchanting calls of rain and whales singing fill my ears. Or am I traveling through time and space? I'm unsure because it feels like I'm underwater, in a downpour, and floating through the cosmos all at once, and I like it.
The sounds summon some dark energy as well and I feel compelled to apply my recently-acquired meditation techniques to quell it before I remember I'm not supposed to, and to accept without judgement instead.
Somehow, the hour is up because Audante Love is bringing us back from the meditation. “Wait. We just started,” I want to complain. But it's over and we haven't. Audante serves us tea made by the friend who invited us and we depart rested, mindful, and impatient for next Friday so we can do it all again.
Book your experience with Audante
For more information on Audante Love's gong meditations and other wide range of services, including massage, kinesiology, bio-resonance, light therapy, and more, check out her website at bioresonancehealing.com.au. She’s also on social media here:
Facebook: @goddessofthegongs
Instagram: @sonic_kahuna_deva