AAA Travel Magazine interviews CMU Professor Monique Mead and Yale Professor AZA Allsop on the benefits of sound therapy, current research, and how to find the right fit for you.

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Peyton Groves was a first-year medical student at Pitt with an overloaded schedule and a case of homesickness when she saw the sign hanging in an office window.

“Come relax and do a sound bath,” it read.

Relaxation sounded like just what Groves needed, so taking the sign as a sign, she attended a sound bath session led by Monique Mead, the renowned violinist and director of music entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University.

Groves noticed a profound change almost immediately. She felt calm, centered and able to process the emotions she’d been trying to push away for months.

“Sound can wipe an anxious mind clean,” Mead said. “It’s tremendously liberating.”

Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh hold weekly sound baths run by students who are passionate about improving mental health on campus. Read full article.

On a cold afternoon at Heinz Memorial Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh, violinist Monique Mead joined 15 musicians and others who played 60 crystal bowls. The goal: Create an immersive experience.

More than 200 people showed up for Sunday’s sold-out event toting blankets and pillows for snuggling in the oak pews, sitting in the shadow of the soaring stained-glass windows and bathing in healing sound. It was a 90-minute reprieve from winter and a world gone crazy.

“Welcome to the mega sound bath, the largest in Pittsburgh,” Ms. Mead told the crowd, the lights turned down low. “This is not a concert; it’s not about us. It’s about you and your experience.”

For Ms. Mead, the healing began seven years earlier during her own dark night of the soul — a time of pain, loss and doubt. That was when Beethoven spoke to her… Post Gazette article