Shakers
I use this simple egg shaped shaker with different rhythm patterns and volumes to awaken the senses and shift the mood and energy in the room. This helps to gently bring you back into a more alert state of consciousness and to ground you again before travelling home.
Charlie’s shaker
Sometimes the best sounds are homemade. This is a lovely soft sounding shaker I use made by someone special and given to me when he died. I especially like to use this in the studio as it was his guitar making studio before I began using it.
Rainstick
Rainsticks have been used for centuries across the world. Indigenous cultures believed the sound of rain would encourage rainfall for their crops. The instrument is usually made from a long, hollow tube filled with pebbles or beads. Nails, cactus needles or something similar are placed in the walls of the tube When the stick is turned over, the beads or pebbles fall through the gaps and produce the an evocative sound of falling rain.
I use this to gently stir you from your relaxed state at the end of a session or to cleanse, enliven and shift the energetic space around you.