Healing Modalities: Part 1 - Bio Tuning & Meditation

Welcome to Light Work, a space where two sisters on the path of healing explore powerful and transformative healing modalities.

This week's episode is the start of our multi-part series on Healing Modalities.

Through sharing our personal experiences and insights from spiritual practice, we dive into the many ways people can reconnect with their true essence, release what no longer serves them, and step into a greater wholeness that allows them to be of service to themselves and their communities.

From shamanic journeying, reiki, and plant medicine to the sacred art of presence and self-healing, we'll share authentic stories and practical wisdom to support your own healing journey.

This week we're discussing Bio Tuning & Meditation and their significance in promoting wellness and emotional balance as well as emphasising the importance of presence and personal experience in meditation. This conversation highlights the interconnectedness of different healing approaches and we hope it will encourage all listeners to find what modalities resonates with them.

Whether you’re a seeker, a healer, or simply curious about expanding your understanding of what’s possible, we invite you to join us as we walk this path together.

As always, love, light & good night 🤍

Transcript

Lisa (00:11)
Welcome to Lightwork. It's an extension of Dear Patriarchy podcast and we are exploring spiritual work through joy practices and various healing modalities in order to be of service and to be of better use to our communities. That's the goal, that's the aim. Come along on the ride.

Jen (00:29)
Let's do it!

the next few episodes of the podcast are going to be exploring different healing modalities that we are currently using that we're finding helpful and that we were really excited about discovering or putting into practice. And so

I think today we're going to talk about bio-tuning and meditation.

Lisa (00:48)
tuning and meditation.

But can I just interject and say for people that are listening to this and are like maybe biotuning's not for me, maybe meditation's not for me, we're also gonna be talking about plant medicine, so psychedelics, herbs, essential oils, stuff like that. We're gonna be talking about shamanic journeying. We're gonna be talking about sound healing. We're gonna be talking about Reiki. We're gonna be talking about yoga. We're gonna be talking about movement medicine. We're gonna be talking about CBT. We're gonna be talking about lots of different healing modalities over this series. So if biotuning and meditation are not your jam,

but maybe listen and see if they could be your jam, then there will be other healing modalities explored in the following episodes.

Jen (01:29)
Well done.

Biotuning. Or should we start with meditation?

Lisa (01:32)
Do bio-tuning, because I would like to learn, because I don't know.

Jen (01:35)
Okay, biotuning as a healing modality is an alternative sound therapy that uses carefully tuned frequencies and vibrations to promote balance and wellness in the body. The idea behind biotuning is that every body has its own vibrational frequency. Imbalances or disharmonies in these frequencies are thought to contribute to physical, emotional, or energetic issues. By using specific sound frequencies,

often generated by tuning forks, resonant instruments, or other sound devices practitioners, aimed to tune the body much like one would tune a musical instrument.

So I found biotuning because it was offered as an add-on for an ayahuasca retreat that I went on.

I felt very drawn to it even though I had no idea what it was. And when I went into the treatment room and there was an amazing woman there and she told me that your energy is in rings, like outside of your body and where the rings are kind of.

the rings that are farther out are from your past and the rings that are closer to your body are like your current energy. And so she started with her, like she had like an array of tuning forks and she kind of started the therapy like standing off from my body a little bit and then like hit the fork.

And then as she hit the fork, she moved closer and closer to me. And there were a couple of times where she stopped and she said, what happened when you were this age? What happened when you were this age? I'm feeling something here. And every single time she said something, was like, it was like my body knew what she was talking about. like the answer to what was happening was right on the tip of my tongue. And she pulled up some pretty major

pockets of trauma that I had forgotten about and she got all of them. So it was a super heavy session. But as I spoke through them and as I like explained them to her, were, it was like they were the energy of them, the heaviness of them was cleared. And so honestly, and I was in a really heavy place at that kind of the start of this

Lisa (03:16)
well.

Hmm.

Wow.

Jen (03:35)
like really diving deep and really intentionally doing some major healing, not just therapy, which therapy works for some people. For me, It hasn't been as effective. so honestly, this bio tuning session, speaking through the places where there were pockets of disharmony, if we're to use the, you know, the verbiage that we just read, like actually intentionally, like speaking through those with someone, having the sound frequencies, which were very clearing and very

releasing was just one of the most amazing therapy sessions I ever had. And it was just releasing that. And then the second time I did it, it was also on as an add on a retreat, I had just had a massage. So I was very relaxed. it was a luxurious day. I was very lucky. And

the next woman that did the biotuning didn't have the same approach. She just kind of, she used the tuning forks rather than using like what I was envisioning as concentric circles of differing energy. She actually just kind of swept my form, swept my body with the fork. And when she felt a disharmony, she asked me about it.

And one of the things that happened was at one point she moved the tuning fork across basically the area of my hip bones, from

right to left. and it was incredibly painful. it honestly felt like 50 bees stung my uterus at once. it was an incredibly painful moment. And I said, I felt that. And she said, I kind of felt it too. She's like, I'm trying to bring your feminine and masculine energies together. And

how she explained it was that a lot of times she said especially with single moms they're so focused on doing that their masculine side is very strong and dominant and their female side that nurturing caring

side is a little bit weaker. And so I physically could feel how those two energies were not aligned. So anyway, that's my bio tuning overview of what I've had. I found it incredibly effective. And in both instances, so healing and so illuminating.

Lisa (05:34)
that sounds really powerful.

Jen (05:36)
Yeah, it's good. mean, it's it's just like all these other healing modalities, right? it's kind of weird. it's weird that someone's laying in tuning forks around you and expecting something to happen like to clear your chakras or whatever. But I it had a real world impact for me.

Lisa (05:41)
Yeah.

That's incredible. Now, I know that there's like maybe one or two places that I can see in the UK that do biofield tuning. I'm guessing that's what it is. Do you think it's more popular in America?

Jen (06:04)
I'm not sure because I hadn't really heard about it before this.

So if you have the opportunity to do it, if you see it somewhere, I would say go for it.

Lisa (06:12)
love the sound of that and I also think it has, with the idea of the concentric circles of energy around the body, although it doesn't quite tie up with the Reiki stuff because the Reiki doesn't do like oldest to newest, but it does talk about concentric circles around the body and that's something that really ties in. So a lot of these, I'm sure as we talk about them more, we're gonna find more synergies, but there's a lot of.

Jen (06:25)
Mm-hmm.

Lisa (06:36)
synergistic components between all these different healing modalities. They tie into each other and complement each other, don't they? A lot.

Jen (06:45)
Yeah, actually it also says on here, biotuning is often used in conjunction with other holistic approaches like meditation, massage, or energy work forming a part of a broader integrative strategy to support health and wellbeing.

Lisa (06:57)
Yeah, I can see that. I can see those things resting really neatly together. And that actually is a really good segue for meditation, right? Because...

Jen (07:04)
Mm-hmm.

Lisa (07:10)
We wanted to talk about meditation in this episode and meditation is something that definitely I thought I could never do because the idea of meditation is like sitting in one place with your eyes closed, not moving for a very long period of time. Jen, you mentioned when we were speaking about this before, like controlling your thoughts or emptying your mind.

I think that there's a lot of preconceived notions about what meditation is and what it looks like. And I think since you and I started meditating in our own different ways, and I know for me personally, I don't always meditate the same way every day. And I know that you and I probably approach it differently. But there have been so many different ways I've found that are meditative. And it really actually

is in one sense of looking at it, it's presence practice, right? It's being really present in the moment. So like, if you're someone like us who has a busy body and a busy brain, presence practice, if you want to refer to it as that instead of meditation, it's literally just focusing on what's happening now instead of future projecting or living in the past, which is very brain driven and very ego driven.

but presence practice is about the body sensations. meditation as a whole, however you do it, has got to have the most mixed up and confusing reputation out of any healing modality, I think, because we expect it to look like one thing.

We hear a lot, I hear a lot, I know you hear it as well, Jen, people saying that they don't know how to meditate and they couldn't meditate. But if you look at meditation as really focusing on something when you're doing it like something like washing the dishes or taking steps outside, walking in barefoot in the grass is like a beautiful grounding and meditation practice, feeling the grass on your feet or taking...

a minute of time where you focus on five breaths going into your nose, obviously breathing, not just... But like taking five sets of breaths of like feeling it go really cold in your nose as you breathe in your nose and then feeling it come really warm out your mouth as you breathe out your mouth. That's an excellent presence practice, meditation practice, and it is regenerative. It's one of those things where if you feel exhausted, emotionally exhausted, physically exhausted, and you take...

those five breaths to reset yourself, it does feel like you had a break, had a rest. And sometimes you can close your eyes with those breathing practices and it feels like when you open your eyes, you're coming from really far away back into the room, right?

Jen (09:42)
Yeah, that's the breath work is really powerful as far as like a meditation tool. I often have the kids do fire breaths, fire breathing when they're having hard emotions or stuff that's kind of stuck.

Lisa (09:54)
And what does that look like?

Jen (09:56)
So you

take a deep breath in, you fill up your lungs as much as you can, and then you blow it out as you blow all of that air out as hard and as fast as you can, like you're blowing out a candle. You're trying to create as much force with that breath. And so it's breathing in the light and breathing out anything that's dark or stuck or whatever. But I do want to say I'm going to skip over from breath work for a second.

I think I have heard a lot of people say that they can't meditate because they can't clear their mind and they can't sit still for so long. And I know Lisa kind of hit over that, but it really is all about presence. really is just kind of clearing your mind and being in that still silent place. And yes, you can use things like insight timer or moonly.

or these are apps that you can use that'll give you meditations, that'll give you sound healing, that'll give you a guided kind of voice to listen to. Lisa doesn't like those. I personally do like those at times. And so that's a great way to start with the Moonly app. I love it because it's kind of like hippie dippy, it's got like the tarot cards and the runes in it. And it talks about like the phases of the moon. But in the healing portion, there's like mantras, audio affirmations, prayers.

sound healing, which we'll get to, but you can kind of choose which meditation you want to do. And then they have kind of the timeframes of them. Insight timer is the same way of just being able to choose practitioners to work with who will lead you on these like guided meditations.

Lisa (11:23)
when Jen's talking about guided meditation, that's usually where you are guided by someone telling you exactly what to do, like lying down usually or sitting up you can do and closing your eyes and listening to the voice. And some people really get along with that and some people that's not for them. But it's great to try both because both are great guides.

Jen (11:43)
Uh-huh.

Another thing I like to do is when you is to do like a walking meditation. So basically just go for a walk in a beautiful place or wherever you are and just be as present as possible, not be on your phone, not be like distracted by anything else. And one thing that I like to do is use the chakra frequencies. If I'm feeling stuck or blocked somewhere like each chakra has its own frequency. And so for the heart, it's 528 Hertz.

And so a lot of my healing work right now is working on my heart and my throat chakras. And so I'll listen to that when I go on my walking meditations, I'll listen to 528 Hertz as like a heart clearing, heart opening frequency. And I find that very calming. And often when I'm overwhelmed,

with the kids or just kind of with life in general and I need a moment of silence. I'll go into my room. I'll put some clary sage or some lavender, sandalwood.

I'll put a whatever type of essential oil I'm feeling like I need the energy of. I'll put that in my diffuser and then I have a Himalayan salt lamp and I'll put that on with my 528 Hertz music and just have like a moment of solitude. And I find that very clearing and relaxing as well and an easy way to kind of meditate or kind of clear that energy.

Lisa (13:06)
That's fantastic. And I mean, just as a rule, no matter how you're meditating, no matter how your presence practice goes, the benefits of meditation are stress reduction, obviously, improve focus and attention, enhanced emotional regulation, get better sleep, and potentially pain relief as well. what we're trying to do, and especially Jenny made a good point of, you want to try and do this

as far away or without your phone if you possibly can. Obviously if you use a guided meditation you're going to have to use something like that or if you're using frequencies you're going to have to use that but we want to be calming our mind and body so that we don't get stuck in the parasympathetic. We don't want to be stuck in that stressed out, cortisol high situation because we mostly exist from this place.

even if you feel like you don't have a really stressful life, a lot of the inundation of sensory stuff, light, sound, taste, all of our different sensory inputs are gonna be giving us a lot of information. We live in a really, really highly flavored world that's noisy and busy and it doesn't value calmness and quietness. So.

These practices are ideal for calming everything down, quieting everything down, and making sure you incorporate quiet time into your life is key. It's very, very important.

so, for me, having ADHD and other sensory stuff going on, having moments of quiet and focusing on breathing and sitting out in nature. So the way that I practice my meditation is I go out in the morning with my cacao, which is something we'll talk about.

in another episode because it has its own conversation around cacao ceremony. But having that time in the morning with my bare feet on the grass if the weather allows and being in nature, listening to the birds, looking up into the sky, looking at the trees, being really present, and then also focusing on breathing and just

giving myself time to be quiet and to connect, really, really important for keeping me regulated and keeping me balanced.

And it's important with overload as well, right? Like information overload, you watch the news or you are on social media and it's like doom scrolling and all of that stuff going on. When you feel that getting really heavy on you and sitting really on you, just taking time to get outside if you possibly can, get in nature if you possibly can.

Jen (15:24)
you

Lisa (15:37)
Just get yourself into a place where you can have quiet and focus on your breathing is going to give you that reset and that regenerative restorative feeling. And the more moments you can make in your day where you're incorporating that, the better you're going to feel over time. The longer your fuse is going to be as well. if you struggle with anxiety and then that sparks into anger and you kind of get into that angsty.

tightly wound place. However you meditate, it's a great way to lengthen your fuse, calm you down, get you out of fight or flight, and just let your body rebalance itself. Because one thing I've learned from all of these healing modalities, and Jen, I'm sure you've felt this, these healing modalities, your body wants to be balanced. Your body wants to find equilibrium.

we're trying to get ourselves back to equilibrium as much as we possibly can throughout the day with these practices that we're going to talk about.

Jen (16:29)
Yeah, and I think that Lisa's touching on something like even if you take out like all the spirituality out of this and like the hippie dippy stuff, meditation and the moments of presence and moments of just quiet and calm. Like Lisa said, they'll get you out of fight or flight because it's a moment for your nervous system to reset. Because if you think about the way that we live our lives, we're constantly going, going, going, going, going. And then when we take the time to decompress and relax, a lot of times we're scrolling through our phone, which is

dopamine hits and we're watching television, which is the same and we're still taxing our bodies. We're not stopping we're still going we're still requiring our brain and our emotions to be involved in this and whatever we're doing even if it feels like it's a sedentary thing You're still requiring movement and thought from your mind And so just stopping

has a very restorative and healing effect. Anything can be a meditation. Ram Dass was told a story about once about a woman who said she didn't have time to meditate because she had kids and he said,

Lisa (17:24)
Also, like, no, it.

kids are your meditation.

Jen (17:38)
your kids,

your children are your meditation. And while there is my gut says, of course a man's gonna say that because he doesn't have childless man is gonna say that because kids don't feel like a meditation. But I do feel as I've kind of grappled with him saying that in one of the podcasts we listened to, Lisa and I really liked the Ram Dass here and now. Is that what it's called? Yes, yeah.

Lisa (17:46)
Mmmmm

Jen (18:03)
As I grappled with that, have noticed when there are times when I'm super present with my kids and very, very like, and my focus is like my heart opening and like being a loving presence. Like there have been some really beautiful moments with my kids that don't necessarily feel like meditation, but like they are in their own way as long as you're just in that moment where you're present and there's the intention.

So I feel like people are people that say that they can't to bring it around full circle. People that say that they can't meditate or they like don't know how to do it or can't clear their mind. Like you probably are meditating. You're just requiring too much of yourself. So my advice would be for meditation, like as you embark on a meditation journey, Lisa and I will obviously post links to the things that we're mentioning, but figure out what works for you. people buy me journals all the time and tell me I need to be journaling because I am a writer.

but I hate journaling. I hate it. It doesn't work for me. I don't operate in that way. So give yourself the freedom to figure out what meditation looks like for you. You might live in the city, you might live in New York City and just throwing in headphones, listening to 528 hertz, walking down, I don't know, 14th, although that's an ugly walk, but whatever.

do that. Whatever tools you have, use those. Your meditation doesn't have to look like mine. Doesn't have to look like Lisa's. Ours certainly don't resemble each other's at all. And the way that we approach spirituality, plant medicine, all of that, like we have very different approaches, but we're usually pretty aligned in the impact that we're seeing from it. So yeah, with all of these things, let it be your song.

Lisa (19:22)
Yeah.

Yeah.

and the intentions that we have.

Jen (19:42)
let this be your dance. what's the thing you say all the time? life can be...

Lisa (19:47)
can be a weight or

it can be part of the dance. So you either let it really sit heavy on you and it feels like a weight or an anchor or you can just let it be part of the dance.

Jen (19:56)
Yeah, so that is, that is bio tuning. There's more to sound healing, we'll get to that. But like that's, so that's bio tuning and meditation. So short little blip, short little podcast.

Lisa (19:57)
with that.

Jen (20:07)
But we're so happy to be on this journey. So happy to have you listening. Thank you. It's so neat to see everyone downloading now that we're starting to record again. So thank you for sticking with us. Our book is still for sale at places where books are sold. So dear patriarchy, if you want some help navigating that corporate setting and we'll be back soon. We're figuring out that we're going to figure out the cadence of this. might not be weekly, but we'll figure out.

Lisa (20:18)
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Jen (20:34)
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Lisa (20:50)

Love, light and good night.

Jen (20:52)
Good night!