Sound healing & Chakra Alignment

Maria Moment is holding a sound healing and chakra alignment session at Personal Studio on Saturday 31 October, following on from a similar session on Thursday 29 October. It's a long, slow afternoon: two to two and a half hours if you're going on your own, and two and a half to three hours if you're part of a group of up to four. Each one starts with a chat to get things sorted beforehand and finishes with some integration support afterwards, so it's not just a quick in-and-out.

The session itself is built around sound. Maria works with her voice, tuning forks, Tibetan and crystal sound bowls, and a shamanic drum, and she weaves in pressure point therapy. It's a mix of vibration and touch rather than a single thing, and the different instruments mean the sound shifts throughout the session.

Maria Moment works under the name Moment. She comes to this from a background in biomedical sciences, and she describes herself as a holistic practitioner, a creatrix, a medicine wombman, an energy healer, a sound healer and songstress, an herbalist, a yogini and a feminine priestess. That's a lot of labels for one person, but they point to the different ways she approaches the work.

Personal Studio is on Buckingham Drive in Reading, RG4. An individual session is £88, and group sessions of up to four work out at a lower price per person, with the overall cost ranging from £71.13 to £168.63. Home visits are also available if you'd rather have it come to you.