New Liverpool Cathedral immersive experience to help you relax and recharge

A new immersive event will allow people to relax and recharge in one of the city’s most inspiring places, Liverpool Cathedral.

Christine Wylie, who leads the Twinkle Sound Bath experience sessions in the concert room of the city’s Anglican Cathedral, says they’ll allow people to press pause and reset.

Christine said:

“People come because they’ve got illnesses or things going on at home, or they have stressful lives and jobs,”

“When they leave, the say they feel they’ve had a weight lifted, that they can think clearly and feel rested,” she adds, “which is perhaps something many of us need in the busy lives we lead.”

“Experiencing a sound bath in the cathedral is really something special.

“As someone Liverpool born and bred, the cathedral is such a treasured monument, it’s part of the city’s identity and a truly peaceful place from the minute you walk in.

“So for me, immersing yourself in a sound bath in such an awe-inspiring building just supercharges the experience.”

A sound bath is a meditative experience where people are ‘bathed’ in sound waves and vibrations produced by instruments like crystal singing bowls, gongs, and chimes. 

Not only do you hear the sounds, says Christine, you feel the vibrations.

“It helps to induce relaxation and calm, and people experience it very differently. It depends on the person.”

The 45-year-old mum of two from Litherland became a sound practitioner around two and a half years ago after working as a personal trainer, and a yoga and Pilates teacher for 10 years.

For the last five years, she has focused on the latter, leading meditation too.

It’s a far cry from her previous career with easyJet, beginning as cabin crew before progressing into management with a staff of around 300.

“It was a busy role,” she admits. “I dealt with stress from above and below, but then I had children and my priorities and my mindset changed.

“I moved into fitness, becoming a PT and then into the holistic and wellbeing side.

“I was trying to get fulfilment. I wanted to teach people, and I wanted to change their lives – doing something with value and meaning.

“I feel it’s essential for people to have things like this in their lives. It’s important not just to look after your physical health, but to look after your emotional and mental health too.

“Sound baths induce a deep relaxation and can reduce stress.  We talk so often about getting that work/life balance, but what about the emotional balance too?

“They say 20-minutes of meditation is the equivalent of four hours of rest, so it really can help. The vibrations in a sound bath go into every part of your body, and they slow the brain waves down and move you into a really relaxed frame of mind.”

Christine begins each session by encouraging people to be in the present and focusing on breathing to ‘anchor them into the here and now’.

“Then I get people to connect with their bodies which can be tense, encouraging them to release and let go instead of staying in the fight or flight mode we’re all familiar with.  Then I begin the sound which rests the nervous system and allows people to rest and recharge.”

She adds:

“The acoustics in the cathedral are incredible and the room was made for sound baths because as soon as I strike a bowl, the sound travels through and around the room.

“Like I said, there is a sense of peace that enhances the whole experience.”

Christine has already run sessions in January, February and March, and will be holding six sessions in April, three each on Saturdays, April 11 and 25.

“I’ve got people coming from London, Newcastle, and Wales because it’s such a unique and beneficial experience, and I get people coming alone or in groups with friends and family,” says Christine.

“That’s nice because it brings communities together, and people go off for walks around the Albert Dock afterwards or the cathedral gardens, or they go for lunch or brunch, which is lovely.

“It’s quality time spent in a relaxed state and it’s such a pleasure and honour to hold that space for people and give them that time – during the sound bath sessions, and after.”

Find out more about Christine and Twinkle Sound Bath here.

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