Last week I saw an ad on Facebook for a Solfeggio 528 hz tuning fork- supposedly the “love frequency”. It is not the first time I have seen this type of advertising- far from it. I’m over it. I have to speak up.

Really??? Just no.

No.

Sorry. I’m seriously sorry to disappoint you. There is no one frequency of love. Anyone who tries to tell you this is just trying to sell you something. They might actually believe it. They have been misinformed at best. This kind of marketing is simply annoying.

Who would try to harness, limit and monetize our best reason for existence - the thing we all live for and that which gives us life? That which binds together all of creation… Love is so much bigger than any of us. It is ever expanding and all encompassing. How can anyone in their right mind think it can be narrowed down to a specific frequency? And what about all the forms, all the nuances - all the sweetest, most poignant, most compassionate, most intense, most devout appearances of love?

This kind of misinformation just gives sound healing (and sound healers) a bad name and degrades the field of soundwork.

That brings me to “notes for the chakras.” There are none. I have asked every teacher of Nada Yoga that I have had over a timeline of 30 years. No. There are mantras, there are colours, there are seed sound sounds (bija mantras, which are potent vibrational frequencies) associated with the chakras. Knowledge of the chakra system came through the Vedas, the oldest text of Hinduism, between 1500 and 500 BC. The idea that there are tones for the chakras that are based on the contemporary Western scale is just wrong. There are no instruments or bowls (crystal or Himalayan or otherwise ) that will “open” specific chakras. (Btw, the word is pronounced “chakra”- not “shakra”.)

And then there is the subject of intention - no small subject. If you believe that a C note will somehow activate your root chakra… well, it might. Or if you follow a different system you may believe that the F note will activate your root chakra… Okay. More likely it will take a lot more work than imagining or visualizing that a particular note will activate, unblock, clear or “heal” any chakra. Chakras are part of our subtle anatomy. I don’t want to get carried away on this topic because over the years, especially after working with my teacher Shyam Bhatnagar, I realize that I honestly know very little about the subtle body.

While writing this little dissertation, I was looking for some particular information on the chakra system and came across this informative article by David Frawley. I was brought up early on in the New Age western idea of chakras - specific sounds, certain colours, relating to certain parts of the body. Years ago I learned that almost everything I thought I knew was wrong. Frawley’s article explains and clarifies a lot. Click here to read David Frawley’s article on “Opening the Chakras”.

Over 20 years ago my partner, Henry Steffes, and I made a CD together. It was a healing sound journey and we set the intention that it was “for the world,” which became the title of the CD. He wrote these liner notes which to me say everything about the power of intention, the power of sound and the power of love.

~What is a Healing Sound?~

Making any sound with a loving intention will produce a healing effect.

The sound of the simple little 4-hole flute with vibrato talking to the didgeridoo of love brings a healing.

The sounds of love and healing.

Perfect rhythm or perfect pitch is not necessary. Only the intention of pure love is necessary to produce a healing.

It sometimes happens that a Sound Journey will produce profound effects. Remember, always remember, whatever the experience is, we are here together. We are all connected together, and we are all helping each other. And we are all truly subjects of love. Love is always free flowing among us and between us and through us. Love is everywhere at all times and no times. Within without, surrounding all of us, all of who we are.

What is a Healing Sound? That’s easy: it’s a sound you hear with your heart. It sounds like Love. And in fact it is in every sound. It is only more or less perceived. But it is there--in sound always!!

And the question What’s that sound? Becomes the statement--Feel that sound!!

We are frequency.

Henry Steffes Jr