Sound Healing with Sandy Duarte

ways.One of the things that you have created since picking up your very first crystal singing bowl is, uh, is, um, retreats that you do.

Mm-hmm.

You have retreats.

And are these specifically for cancer people, or are they for anybody?

These are for anybody.

Um, Leah, I started doing, uh... creating retreats out in Joshua Tree.

I live in California.

And, uh, this was before my diagnosis, and it's all women.

I've done some coed day retreats, but my focus is very much like, you know, all women, a weekend in the desert, and it's yoga, it's sound, it's walking through the desert in a walking meditation.

No talking, just being together in energy, but observing.

Um, yeah, and then now, um, I ju- just came back from a retreat in Costa Rica where we infused a lot of sound healing every night before bed, uh, getting washed by the crystal bowls and other elements like koshi chimes and, um, ocean drums and, and all of that.

So it's a joy.

I also have a, a retreat that is all weekend sound, so very much sound heavy.

Um, yeah, it's, it's, it's a real joy to see people light up from something that sometimes they've never experienced and go, "Wow, I, I did that.

I was able to sit back and, and dream in a different way without the busy mind." You know, meditation is like a magical dream, is how I feel it.

Feeling time stop and finding your timelessness in it, away from the suffering that sometimes thoughts can give you of wondering, "What's tomorrow? What's my plans this weekend? What's next month?" When you start thinking so ahead, you, "Oh," rather than just let life show me.

Sit back, and then all of a sudden, guess what? You get a call.

You get an invitation.

You get a, an opportunity.

You know? I- if that makes sense.

It's the surrender that is very powerful in the, all the beautiful doing that we gotta do in life.