Sound bathing is exactly what it sounds like: “When we bathe, water touches every part of the body. Similarly, in a sound bath, sound vibrations and frequencies touch every cell in the body,” says Devanshi Sharma, founder of Svana Healing Sounds. “You’re immersing your body and mind in the frequencies of sound.” An offshoot of meditative yoga, sound bathing takes many names—sound immersion, sound healing, sound meditation—but the underlying principle is the same: to connect with and impact the body’s own sound frequencies.

Sound bathing has been practised as a form of meditation across cultures for centuries. In the north-eastern states of the country, and in areas of Tibet and Nepal, where the metallic Tibetan sound bowls get their name from, monks ritualised it. Recently, however, sound healing which is more personal and individualistic in nature, is being used in conjunction with yoga and even as a form of psychotherapy to treat psychological issues like anxiety.