Singing healer Johanna Sheehan plays bones

Jan 3 2009 by Paul Loraine, The Journal

Hypnotic experience

FACE down on a massage table, I was unsure what to expect from my sound therapy session.

Naturally sceptical about just about everything, I was not, perhaps, Johannas perfect patient.

Very quickly though, the relaxing effects of the therapy were working their charms on me.

Johanna started at my feet, holding them as she made low noises. At one point she held a vibrating tuning fork against them, sending a bizarre shooting sensation through my body.

She made higher sounds near my head, a strangely hypnotic experience which left me feeling almost as if I was in a trance.

At the end, I was expecting Johanna to point out a minor problem in an otherwise youthful and healthy body. Instead she told me the whole right side of my body was in need of attention. Oh dear.

She also said my shoulder, lower back and ankle were giving off funny vibrations.

So, all in all, I found out I was a 24-year-old wreck.

But I left feeling completely relaxed and surprisingly happy, given Johannas verdict on my wellbeing.