It’s 11 a.m. The sitting is about to start. About twenty people have stretched out in silence, in the darkness of a room scented with incense. We are here for our first collective “gong bath”. “A unique journey for everyone”, promises Ely Goa, the co-founder of the Zen & Sounds studio in Paris. For more than an hour, she is the one who will play with the resonance of gongs, moon bowls from Nepal, Koshi chimes, rain sticks and others.
Their vibrations will emit more or less acute tones and diffuse waves supposed to immerse us in “an altered state of consciousness”. A deep relaxation, similar to that of a good night’s sleep, intended to regenerate internal energies.
Cléa and Iris, 30, came to experience it on the advice of a friend. “She had infertility issues but after three sessions she felt her body ‘move’ and she got pregnant,” says Clea. Iris is more dubious: “If I could get rid of this stress that I carry around at work, it would already be a miracle. And who knows, maybe I’ll be able to unblock some emotions…”
The clicking of a chime interrupts the exchange: it announces the first sound of a gong, deaf, deep, which triggers in us a striking wave of cold. Ely Goa warned: “The ear may be insensitive to certain frequencies, but our body is made up of 60% water, which will shiver to the rhythm of these vibes.
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