Sound Healing Offerings

Classes

Located in the heart of Shadyside, Monique’s Sound Healing studio at the Awareness & Wellness Center offers a spa-like environment and ultimate comfort for your sound healing experience. Monique’s warmth and artistry infuse every tone with healing energy.

Explore the class schedule.

Private Sessions

An expert listener, Monique tailors each private sound healing session to your needs, whether it be a personal journey, anniversary, or a team-building event. Private bookings are available for individuals, couples, or groups of up to 16.

Book a private session  or contact Monique for flexible scheduling.

Training

Offering the gold standard in musical training, Monique brings the expertise of her professional life as a violinist, professor, and entrepreneur combined with a lifetime of spiritual practice to offer a rich and nurturing learning experience unlike any other. Her hands-on approach puts powerful healing techniques at your fingertips.

Learn more about Workshops and Practitioner Training 

If you’re looking for a unique gift that will be fondly remembered, browse our sound bath menu or private sessions and choose the “gift” option. You’ll be able to choose the date your gift will be sent, and they’ll have the freedom to book their session whenever it’s convenient.

We also have gift cards for studio credit toward any sound healing session, workshop, or training.

Gift Cards

Special Events

Events
Free Sound Bath at Juniper Village
Jan 21
Free Sound Bath at Juniper Village

Juniper Village in Forest Hills invites you explore wellbeing in new ways by offering free admission to a sound bath event with Monique Mead.

RSVP required. Contact Juniper at (412) 244-9901.

Candlelight Sound Bath
Jan 26
Candlelight Sound Bath

Relax in the glimmer of 100+ candles as you’re immersed in healing sound vibration and Monique’s violin.

Free Community Sound Bath
Jan 27
Free Community Sound Bath

Carnegie Library East Liberty hosts a free community sound bath with Monique. Enjoy this immersive experience of pure sound vibration that induces deep relaxation and activates the body's natural healing power. You'll lie comfortably as Monique guides you to stillness with singing bowls, ocean drum and beautiful violin serenades. 

We ask that you bring your own comfort items for lying on the floor, such as a mat, pillow, blanket and eye cover.

Playlist

Explore meditative soundscapes with a playlist of short guided meditations and a full-length sound bath. Headphones recommended.

Browse playlist

News

Featured
A 90-minute reprieve from a world gone crazy
A 90-minute reprieve from a world gone crazy

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

PittMed Students Study the Healing Power of Sound
PittMed Students Study the Healing Power of Sound

Peyton Groves was struggling to cope with the stress of medical school when she first moved to Oakland to attend the University of Pittsburgh.

“I grew up in California and I had a pretty hard transition coming to Pittsburgh,” Groves said. “I was kind of just looking for things to make me feel better.”

That’s when she came across a sound healing studio in Shadyside. She was intrigued. She was familiar with the idea of a “sound bath” but she didn’t expect the woman leading the session to be a world-renowned musician…

Take a sound bath with Monique
Take a sound bath with Monique

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Lawrence McCullough for a feature in Next Pittsburgh. We chatted about the healing power of music, Leonard Bernstein's influence, student mental health, and how sound healing weaves into my musical life. 

I’m a scientist…and this experience completely blew my mind!

— Jamie