Swiss Sound Therapy

04/06/2026

02/06/2026

When I was at uni in Paris, I used to live in a cool house with friends from Italy and Argentina. Since I was living with artists and philosophers, we used to invite a lot of people and sit around the table, drink wine and talk about many subjects…so Parisian!

In one of those discussions, I remember looking at those 15 mondaine false-burgoeis guys and girls seriously talking about politics and the meaning of life whilst I was fiddling with my glass getting bored to death. After 15 minutes or so, just for the sake of it, I got up, banged my fist on the table and said “I disagree”.

Everybody stopped stopped talking and awkwardly staring at me, like “what the hell is wrong with this fu*** up guy?”

I remember feeling stupid afterwards. because, once again, I was trying to fit somewhere I didn’t actually want to be. Instead of listening to myself and admitting that I was bored out of my mind, I stayed there pretending to be interested until my body finally rebelled and announced its disagreement on my behalf.

The funny thing is that I spent years doing that. Staying in conversations I didn’t enjoy. Following ideas that didn’t make sense to me. Listening to everybody except myself.

Sound helped me notice that pattern. Not because the gong gave me the answer to the meaning of life. Thankfully. There are already enough people on the internet claiming that.

It simply gave me enough quiet to notice when something felt true and when it didn’t.

Nowadays, when a room becomes too intellectual for me, I usually leave and go for a walk. Twenty-five-year-old Othman would have stayed for three more hours trying to look clever. Fifty-year-old Othman goes home.

26/05/2026

For a very long time I believed that if I just thought hard enough, eventually I would find the answer.

Whenever I felt stressed, confused or overwhelmed, I analysed everything to death. I replayed conversations in my head. I imagined every possible outcome. I tried to understand what I was feeling and why I was feeling it. The result was usually the same: more thinking, more confusion and very little clarity.

Looking back, some of the biggest decisions in my life were made when I stopped trying to force an answer. Leaving IT. Becoming a sound therapist. Moving countries. Even some important decisions in my relationships. The harder I pushed my mind to solve them, the more trapped I felt.

What surprised me was that clarity rarely arrived while I was sitting there trying to think my way through a problem. It usually appeared somewhere completely different.

Sometimes while dancing for hours in a nightclub in Paris. Sometimes during a long walk. Sometimes after playing the drum or humming for a while. Sometimes simply sitting in silence and feeling what was happening in my body.

I do not think movement magically solves anything. If only it were that easy. What I noticed however is that rhythm, breathing and movement seem to organise my system in a way that thinking never could. The mental noise settles a little. My attention drops from my head into my body. Then things that felt impossibly complicated often become surprisingly obvious.

These days, when I catch myself going around in circles mentally, I try something very simple. I stop looking for the answer. I move. I walk. I make some sounds. I breathe slowly. Then I ask myself a question that I spent most of my life avoiding:

What am I actually feeling right now?

The answer is not always comfortable, but it is usually far more useful than another hour of thinking.

This simple shift became one of the foundations of Swiss Sound Therapy.

23/05/2026

Many people learn to play instruments.

Far fewer know how to observe a nervous system.

In my experience, effective sound work rarely involves playing more instruments or creating larger experiences.

It focuses on learning to listen.

It involves recognising when someone needs more rhythm, more repetition, more space, more grounding, or simply more silence.

That level of facilitation requires practice, guidance, and experience.

This is one of the foundations of our Sound Bath Facilitator Training in Italy this October.

The instrument is just part of the work.

Understanding how to use it responsibly is where the real training starts.

Italy
16–24 October

More information in bio.

21/05/2026

For many years, I dealt with severe lower back pain. I wore a metallic belt around my waist for over a decade just to get by. The pain was not just physical. My entire system was tense against life.

I grew up surrounded by fear, violence, and hypervigilance. I constantly felt the need to defend myself, survive, and prove my worth. Even when people showed me love, my body often didn’t know how to relax.

What surprised me was how much healing changed when I finally felt emotionally safe with someone. I didn’t feel “saved” or magically healed. I just felt safe enough for my nervous system to ease more. Safe enough to stop fighting all the time.

Safe to go deeper into using this love to explore the effects of sound on mind and body with even more structure and precision.

I believe love can create a space where we hear ourselves more clearly. It doesn’t mean another person heals us. It means that safety allows us to listen. When we truly start listening to ourselves-physically, emotionally, and internally-healing can go much deeper.

19/05/2026

When I was younger, dancing was one of the only times I felt free inside my body.

Not confident.
Not “healed”.
Not enlightened.

Just… free for a moment.

I grew up with a lot of fear, tension and hypervigilance in my system.
My mind was constantly comparing, anticipating, defending, overthinking.

But when I danced for hours to repetitive rhythms, especially trance music in Paris during my university years, something changed.

The noise would quiet down.

The tension would soften.

I stopped trying to become somebody for a while.

Honestly, looking back now, I think those moments taught me something important:

Sometimes the body knows how to move toward healing before the mind understands what is happening.

That’s one of the reasons I care so much about rhythm, sound and deep listening today.

Not because they help us escape life.

But because they can help us finally feel it again.

17/05/2026

People see me driving now.
They don’t see the years my body spent in survival mode.

I got my driving licence at 47.

Because trauma keeps the body tense, hypervigilant and exhausted.

Even learning how to drive felt dangerous to my nervous system.

Today, when I feel anxiety rising while driving, I do two simple things:

Breathe in through the nose for 2.
Exhale slowly through the mouth for 8.

And I hum softly with classical music.

It relaxes my body.
It gives my nervous system something safe to follow.

Sometimes healing is not becoming fearless.

Sometimes it is finally teaching the body:
“You are allowed to relax now.”

20/12/2025

Sound is more than something we hear.
It is something we enter.

Through overtone singing, the voice creates multiple frequencies at once. These vibrations speak directly to the nervous system, bypass the analytical mind, and invite the body into a different state of being.

You do not need to understand it.
You only need to feel it.

Allow the sound to move through you, soften inner tension, and reconnect you to a deeper, more coherent inner space.

This is sound used intentionally — as a tool for regulation, presence, and inner alignment.





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07/12/2025

A simple 20-minute sound session brought a remarkable shift.
By placing my leg between two singing bowls and striking them gently, the vibration travelled through the tissues, calming the nerves and releasing natural endorphins.
The pain eased, my body relaxed, and I could finally breathe again.

One session is helpful.
A series of three sessions, one week apart, supports deeper and longer-lasting relief.

13/11/2025

Even a few seconds of toning can awaken sensitivity in your body and reconnect you to your natural energy flow.

Try it now: close your eyes, make a gentle tone, and feel the vibration inside.

🎧 Sound is the shortcut to presence.