Vickie Dodd, M.A., has been a sound healing therapist, bodyworker, workshop leader, musician, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years. She has collaborated with Don Campbell and is an adjunct faculty member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. Vickie lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

“Vickie Dodd is one of the true pioneering figures in the field of sound healing. Her work is brilliant—she is a monumental healer who uses sound and an exceptional teacher whose work embraces the true embodiment of sound. Now, finally, for those who know her extraordinary wisdom and abilities, she has produced a book. It’s what we’ve all been waiting for. Healing through Sound encompasses all the important aspects of how our own sounds can be used as a transformational and therapeutic modality. Enjoy this amazing journey into the world of sound healing with Vickie Dodd as your guide. You’ll be glad you did. Get this book now! It is a most important addition to anyone’s library.”

• Foreword by Rosemary GladstarPrefaceWhy We SoundSound as an Evolutionary Possibility | Seeds of Sound Frequency | Root PatternsIntroductionThe Lineage of Sound HealingThe Teachings of the Grandmothers | Grandma Baggott | A View from the Porch: Observing What Is in Front of Me | Do I See the Disconnect? | Seeing the World as Energy | Tapping the Emotional Rhythm | She’s Got the Nerves | Awakening to a Larger PurposeChapter 1It’s All in the ListeningThe Issues Are in the Tissues | The Formula Is Revealed | We Sound to Get Quiet Enough to Listen If | You Love Something Enough | Client Session: Mending the Body Is in the Listening | Trusting the Innate Wisdom of the Body | Listening and Sounding the Soul Signatures | Keys to Perception | Physicality of Codependency | The Teachings of the Trees | How to Mind My Own Business | Overview of the Oak Tree's Sacred TeachingsChapter 2The Power of the HumKeys to Accessing the Humming Voice | Acceptance of What Is—The Key to Transformation | The Hum Soothes and Reduces Stress | Go with the Flow! | Physical Benefits of Humming | The Hum as Resonance Protection | The Hum as Healer | Energetic Feng Shui | Hum as Meditation | Trust and Not Knowing Chapter 3 Vocabulary of Sounds The Wisdom of Vowels | The Sound Palette—The Vocabulary of Sounds | Client Session: Soothing Trauma | Aerobic Sounds—Sounding and Emptying the Inner NoiseChapter 4Emptying Whatever Is Unexpressed Runs the Show | When Do We Need to Empty? | The Jaw—The First Emptying Gate | The Hum as Integrator and Closing Sound | Sound Increases Our Capacity for Breathing | Exploring Sound and Breath Possibilities | Practice Reclaiming Our Exhale | Sound as a Prayer | Health Benefits of the Sounds of LaughterChapter 5Honoring the Body’s Innate WisdomThe Evolutionary Possibility of Bodywork | Our Fluid Body | Client Session: Listening to the Layers of Grief | Deep Listening | Sound and the Physical/Emotional BodyChapter 6Aligning and Tuning the BodySound Changes the Physical Form | Encodements of Forgotten Wisdom | Your Body as Your Teaching Laboratory | Growing Heartful Possibilities | Listening to the Rhythms | Keys for Listening to the Rhythms | The Physicality of Amnesia and Memory | Staying Alive and Humane | May I Become Good CompostChapter 7The Heart and the Gut of the MatterOur Energetic Roots in History | The Shaping of Our Listening | A Curved Listening | Plugging into Earth, Ground Force Reaction | Grounding and Stabilizing Our Circuitry | Let Your Feet Brain Talk to Your Heart Brain | Journey into the Inner Terrain | Client Session: The Language of the Heart | Surrender to Not Knowing | Client Session: Reconnection with the Inner Terrain | The Mysterious Nervous System | Parasympathetic Rhythms of Breath and Sound | Let Your Gut Brain Talk to Your Head Brain | Client Session: Myself, Shingles, and the Power of the Silent HumChapter 8Dissonance and Shadow WorkLove Songs to the Shadow | The Collective Shadow | Life Magazine | Sound Transforms the Blues to Gold | Emotional Wound | Revealing What Is Not Mine | Loving Self-Care Made Simple | The Accuracy of Sound as Bodywork | Harmonics to Dissonance | What Is Your Form of Perceiving? | Formulas for the Emotional Body | Client Session: Healing Deep TraumaChapter 9Sound as a Spiritual SolutionBali: Sing a Love Song to Your Shadow | Loving Our Many Characters | The Spiritual Significance of Music | The Power of Sound and Vibration Being Made VisibleEpilogueThe Mythology of Awakening the Feminine DivineAppendix 1Additional Sound VocabularyAppendix 2Dr. Joseph LissAppendix 3Rest Assured: Parasympathetic Resonance AlbumExercise OverviewReferencesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author

Vickie Dodd, M.A., has been a sound healing therapist, bodyworker, workshop leader, musician, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years. She has collaborated with Don Campbell and is an adjunct faculty member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. Vickie lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

“Vickie Dodd is one of the true pioneering figures in the field of sound healing. Her work is brilliant—she is a monumental healer who uses sound and an exceptional teacher whose work embraces the true embodiment of sound. Now, finally, for those who know her extraordinary wisdom and abilities, she has produced a book. It’s what we’ve all been waiting for. Healing through Sound encompasses all the important aspects of how our own sounds can be used as a transformational and therapeutic modality. Enjoy this amazing journey into the world of sound healing with Vickie Dodd as your guide. You’ll be glad you did. Get this book now! It is a most important addition to anyone’s library.”

• Foreword by Rosemary GladstarPrefaceWhy We SoundSound as an Evolutionary Possibility | Seeds of Sound Frequency | Root PatternsIntroductionThe Lineage of Sound HealingThe Teachings of the Grandmothers | Grandma Baggott | A View from the Porch: Observing What Is in Front of Me | Do I See the Disconnect? | Seeing the World as Energy | Tapping the Emotional Rhythm | She’s Got the Nerves | Awakening to a Larger PurposeChapter 1It’s All in the ListeningThe Issues Are in the Tissues | The Formula Is Revealed | We Sound to Get Quiet Enough to Listen If | You Love Something Enough | Client Session: Mending the Body Is in the Listening | Trusting the Innate Wisdom of the Body | Listening and Sounding the Soul Signatures | Keys to Perception | Physicality of Codependency | The Teachings of the Trees | How to Mind My Own Business | Overview of the Oak Tree's Sacred TeachingsChapter 2The Power of the HumKeys to Accessing the Humming Voice | Acceptance of What Is—The Key to Transformation | The Hum Soothes and Reduces Stress | Go with the Flow! | Physical Benefits of Humming | The Hum as Resonance Protection | The Hum as Healer | Energetic Feng Shui | Hum as Meditation | Trust and Not Knowing Chapter 3 Vocabulary of Sounds The Wisdom of Vowels | The Sound Palette—The Vocabulary of Sounds | Client Session: Soothing Trauma | Aerobic Sounds—Sounding and Emptying the Inner NoiseChapter 4Emptying Whatever Is Unexpressed Runs the Show | When Do We Need to Empty? | The Jaw—The First Emptying Gate | The Hum as Integrator and Closing Sound | Sound Increases Our Capacity for Breathing | Exploring Sound and Breath Possibilities | Practice Reclaiming Our Exhale | Sound as a Prayer | Health Benefits of the Sounds of LaughterChapter 5Honoring the Body’s Innate WisdomThe Evolutionary Possibility of Bodywork | Our Fluid Body | Client Session: Listening to the Layers of Grief | Deep Listening | Sound and the Physical/Emotional BodyChapter 6Aligning and Tuning the BodySound Changes the Physical Form | Encodements of Forgotten Wisdom | Your Body as Your Teaching Laboratory | Growing Heartful Possibilities | Listening to the Rhythms | Keys for Listening to the Rhythms | The Physicality of Amnesia and Memory | Staying Alive and Humane | May I Become Good CompostChapter 7The Heart and the Gut of the MatterOur Energetic Roots in History | The Shaping of Our Listening | A Curved Listening | Plugging into Earth, Ground Force Reaction | Grounding and Stabilizing Our Circuitry | Let Your Feet Brain Talk to Your Heart Brain | Journey into the Inner Terrain | Client Session: The Language of the Heart | Surrender to Not Knowing | Client Session: Reconnection with the Inner Terrain | The Mysterious Nervous System | Parasympathetic Rhythms of Breath and Sound | Let Your Gut Brain Talk to Your Head Brain | Client Session: Myself, Shingles, and the Power of the Silent HumChapter 8Dissonance and Shadow WorkLove Songs to the Shadow | The Collective Shadow | Life Magazine | Sound Transforms the Blues to Gold | Emotional Wound | Revealing What Is Not Mine | Loving Self-Care Made Simple | The Accuracy of Sound as Bodywork | Harmonics to Dissonance | What Is Your Form of Perceiving? | Formulas for the Emotional Body | Client Session: Healing Deep TraumaChapter 9Sound as a Spiritual SolutionBali: Sing a Love Song to Your Shadow | Loving Our Many Characters | The Spiritual Significance of Music | The Power of Sound and Vibration Being Made VisibleEpilogueThe Mythology of Awakening the Feminine DivineAppendix 1Additional Sound VocabularyAppendix 2Dr. Joseph LissAppendix 3Rest Assured: Parasympathetic Resonance AlbumExercise OverviewReferencesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author