Private
Sound & energy session
Reiki, sound and pranic healing. You rest; I work with bowl, harmonium, drum, voice and hands.
Sound · Stillness · Practice
The Soul & the Scale
Courses, sound baths and energy work for resting, listening, and coming back to yourself, made with real bowls, harmonium, drum and voice.
In person in West Michigan. Courses online, anywhere. The free doors are open now.
2 : 1 · the octave
Headphones help.
That was a practice.
As I sit here
doing absolutely nothing,
witness to an afternoon sky.
An old voice says,
Stop wasting time!
But now I say,
You go and waste it!
I am savoring it.
Day one of Begin here is the same thing, a little longer, with six days after it. It’s free, and what you write stays on your own device.
Start free
Three doors, open now.
No card, nothing to buy. What you write stays on your own device. The Returning Voice also has its own page you can install.
In Practice · 7 days
Begin here
Seven short days, three to ten minutes each: a few long breaths, waking the palms, a bowl tone, the sweep. The on-ramp for everything else.
Start day one → Free course · echoismThe Returning Voice
For people who find it hard to take up space, ask for what they need, or be heard. Built on Donna Christina Savery's Echoism. An evening, or a month of return.
Open in Practice → Free tools · 5 minutesSmall doors in
Find your note, plan a sunrise sit, or a gentle check-in on how you imagine or how you use your voice.
Try one tonight →The Circle · opens February 18, 2027
When you want to go further.
This winter I'm building a home for the deeper work, slowly and by hand. A small private beta opens January 9. The Circle opens Thursday, February 18, with a live sound bath that evening.
- Circle, $49 a month: all of Grade I in Practice, weekly meditations, sound baths and journeys, and distance Reiki on Zoom
- The founding ring: the first 50 Circle members pay $24 a month for as long as they stay, and their names go in the ring
Sangha, for Grade II and up, is by application only.
Membership in fullIn person
Sound and energy work, in the room.
In West Michigan. Booking is simple: send a request and I'll reply by email to set a time.
Group
Sound bath
For friends, families, teams, birthdays and retreats, at your place or a quiet space by arrangement.
Gatherings
Sound baths and circles
Public evenings of sound, breath and stillness. Dates go up on the events page as they're set.
Events
Upcoming gatherings.
Public sound baths and circles, in person and online.
No public dates right now
New sound baths and circles are posted here, and the list hears first. You can also host one for your own group.
About me
I'm Nick. I started playing drums at four, studied jazz at Indiana University, and have played everything from soul bands and batá to steel pan, congas and, these days, the mṛdaṅga.
Now I lead sound baths and teach meditation to help people get back in touch with their nervous system. I have a particular passion for people in recovery and people with ADHD: finding ways to turn the drive and intensity that can work against you into something that works for you.
The Soul & the Scale is where that work lives now: courses, sound baths, Reiki and energy sessions, and writing on Substack.
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