Sound to Heal Your Soul!
Healing sound can release energy blockages throughout the mind, body, and spirit.”
Sound Bath Therapy
What particpants are saying about their experiences:
“Terence has a strong calming voice tone and the sound treatment was one of my best! I appreciated his prayer offering and focus on my wants/needs. I’m very particular and have followed other holistic healers. Thanks so much to Doc T”!
“OMG! I mean…I couldn’t believe it! Doc Elliott and the I Am HiM staff made me feel amazing! My sister and I were in town for the week and decided to get a sound healing treatment. I wanted to try something different than I had ever done. We connected with #docelliott57 on Instagram and were happy we did”!
“I have to admit, I’m a picky person and very particular how I spend my time. I saw #docelliott57 advertised on social media during my visit to the Bay Area and wanted to experience something unique, couldn’t be happier. I Am HiM team met us at where we were staying and the experience was amazing! Thanks for the new healing experience, which I have been wanting to do since I last visited the SF Bay Area. I’ve recommended Doc T Elliott to all my friends! Loved it”!
Cultural Drum Healing
Cultural healing drumming is an excellent way of bringing people together and promoting a safe, stress-free, and an edutainment environment to empower groups. Playing drums increases concentration and focus, helps develop communication skills, and encourages the listener to communicate effectively with one another. Drumming is often used in music therapy, especially played with bare hands. This therapeutic activity helps people express and address issues that otherwise are difficult to share. It allows each drummer to create an external and physical manifestation of whatever frustration they may be experiencing. More than any other instrument, one of the qualities of the hand drum is that it is easy to play and highly accessible to all participants.
Dr. Silas-Young (Assistant Physician In Chief; Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity). Kaiser Permanente –Napa Solano Service Area Celebrated Black History Month in a very special way this year. We hosted a community celebration right inside of our two medical centers in Vallejo and Vacaville on February 21st and 25th 2025. A group of seasoned Bay Area Musicians collectively known as Brothas of the Drum blessed us with West African Drumming and filled our medical centers with pure joy during the lunch hour. The Kaiser members and employees were all engaged in an interactive call and response healing activity that boosted everyone’s endorphins, added a bit of resilience in our day and educated us all on the origins and meanings of each musical piece to connect to our collective human roots from the Motherland of Africa. The “Bottom Up” Approach to Trauma and Healing focuses on movement of the body to regulate emotions and promote healing from stress and trauma and it is even more powerful and effective when done in community; and we did just that with Brothas of the Drum–Healed in Community! One participant said, “This was a Tiny Desk Concert for my Soul!”-Indeed it was.
Jamylle Carter, Ph.D. (Professor of Mathematics). “Nice to have the drums provided. Nice to be able to bring my dog. I felt powerful and connected to others and to the ancestors. One of the mantras was, “We’re here,” just as soon-to-be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in her confirmation speech on the White House South Lawn on Friday, April 8, 2022.”
Michael Cortez (Morehouse college student participant) recalls the drummer’s non-verbal activity “a collectivistic aspect of community and brotherhood…it motivates and helps to produce calming effects and bonds within yourself and the group.”
“…when we would play those djembe drums the vibration became higher. Just as being with each other, the safe space got cultivated through acceptance of who you are. It’s just wherever we went with the drumming, the space became sacred. The attention became turned on us and our healing. Again, we are the sacred space because the sacred space lives in our hearts, and it’s illuminated through our minds, actions, and voices.”
Joeretha Mayo (Diablo Valley College, Admissions & Records Assistant II). “I had fun and would be going back and buying a drum. Thanks, for inviting us! Blessings.”
Malik Bell (Fireman) The drum circles felt like a safe space being able to sit as Black men and talk about our frustrations, our feelings, our worries, our thoughts, our ambitions, and our everything. Being able to sit down and have drum circles tap into our West African origins. It helped with my healing and my overall schooling experience and my academic journey.”