11/23/2025
🎵 Soothing the Savage Beast — The Nature of Sound Therapies
What began as a young teacher’s creative way to calm her restless Friday afternoon students became a lifelong exploration of one of humanity’s oldest medicines — sound.
In Soothing the Savage Beast — The Nature of Sound Therapies (November/December 2025 issue of Energy Magazine – Celebrating Energy Medicine Around the World), Jeannette Nienaber traces her journey from that early classroom moment to the modern evidence-based world of music and sound therapy.
Across time and culture, sound has been used to restore balance — from the lullabies of mothers to the chants of yogis. Today, research continues to affirm what ancient traditions already knew: sound can soothe the nervous system, regulate the vagus nerve, and even ease chronic pain.
✨ In this illuminating article, you’ll discover:
🎶 How rhythm, pitch, and harmony can calm the body and awaken emotion
🩵 Evidence showing music therapy rivals opioids in pain management
👶 How newborns and trauma survivors benefit from the healing power of sound
🕊️ Why sound is one of our most accessible and transformative healing tools
As Jeannette writes, “Music can emote a plethora of experiences — joyous ecstasy, transcendent calm, crushing grief, inspiration — simply through rhythm, pitch, and harmony.”
📖 Read the full article in Energy Magazine.
➡️ Let the sound of healing move through you.
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