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OrangeObserver.com
JULY 2018
Danielle Hendrix
Stormy Lake, pictured with two of her three gongs, loves helping her clients through sound therapy and gong-bath healing sessions.
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A holistic-healing practitioner is sharing her knowledge of sound. DANIELLE HENDRIX BLACK TIE EDITOR
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The first time Stormy Lake played a gong, the connection was instant. “Two years ago I went to a gem show and saw the gongs and knew of them but had never played them,” Lake said. “When I did, it lit me up. … The sound of the gong was such a spiritual uplifting movement, I almost cried. I bought my first gong then right on the spot.” Lake, a sound therapist, is Creek Indian and Italian. As a native Floridian and Creek Indian, she was raised immersed in domesticated Native American culture — one with an emphasis on the earth, as well as holistic medicine and healing. “I was raised Native American, so everything about my life has been of the earth, one with the earth, innocence in the earth, giving back and restoring,” Lake said. “I never saw a doctor, my mom was the doctor. Everything about the holistic world is how I was raised.” Having been raised with the emphasis on holistic, it was natural that she would one day practicing holistic healing herself. “I just knew I wanted to not be the mundane nine-to-five,” she said. “My passion is to help peo-
ple find joy and wake up. Everything we do inspires personal growth.” As a traveling holistic-healing and Eden Energy Medicine practitioner, she has experience with multiple realms of healing, including crystal bowls, native drumming and crystal and gemstone therapy. “I love sound because sound is an art form not controlled by the mind,” she said. “Sound carries us into our natural place of being, and that’s why I love it. We can go back to the innocence we were born and created to be in.” Lake uses gongs in her soundtherapy sessions, which are called gong baths. This is because the gong’s vibrations cause an emotional release — a cleanse of sorts, bathing in vibration. “Vibration transforms our physical DNA to release what is unconscious and held within our body as humans,” she said. “This could be any trauma or emotion not dominated by the mind. Vibration moves to emotions through the water into the (body’s) meridians, which stimulate the organs. We emotionally release. A gong bath, Lake said, helps purge the body to release what no longer serves it. Humans tend to hold on to everything, whereas the gong bath is a holistic healing method that encourages the body to let them go. Lake offers the hourlong gong-bath sessions in both private and group settings. “Healing hurts like hell, but it’s a beautiful journey,” Lake said.