I specialise in Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, intuitive sound healing and practitioner training, but this wasn’t exactly a career I planned.
Before any of this, I worked in the corporate world. And even though there was nothing particularly wrong with the work I was doing, there was always this little voice inside me saying: this isn’t forever, this is just for now, there’s something more for you.
I didn’t necessarily know what that “more” was. I just knew I wasn’t going to stay on that path forever. So I listened.
In 2009 I began training and working as a massage therapist.
That opened the door to a completely different world, not only bodywork and healing, but meeting some beautifully gifted spiritual people who would help guide me along my own journey.
I began exploring Reiki, energy healing and spirituality, and in 2015 I opened my own business, Creating Balance Natural Therapies, here in Broome.
That’s where I really began bringing the different parts of my work together: massage, Reiki, energy and intuition.
And then something else started happening.
During energy healing sessions with clients, I sometimes felt this really strong urge to sing or make a vocal tone.
I couldn’t explain it. I didn’t know why I wanted to do it or what I was supposed to do with it. I just knew the feeling was compelling enough to want to understand more.
Around the same time, I found myself drawn to buying a Tibetan singing bowl.
I’d play it during sessions and became fascinated by what I was hearing and feeling. Different sounds, tones and vibrations seemed to emerge as I played, and rather than giving me answers, that little bowl gave me a whole lot more questions.
I wanted to know why? What was happening with sound when I played it for different people? How could it be used intentionally within healing?
That curiosity eventually led me to sound baths and, in 2019, to my mentor Heather Jean from the Oracle of Sound. I went on to complete all three levels of her sound healing training, and by the end of 2019 I was holding my own group sound baths. And then something clicked.
Over the years, sound gradually moved from being something I was exploring alongside my other work to becoming the work I felt most called to do.
I completed 300 hours of yoga teacher training and incorporated sound into my yoga classes, but eventually realised it wasn’t the yoga I was most excited about,it was the sound. So once again, I listened.
Today, that first Tibetan bowl has grown into a collection of 13 Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls by Crystal Tones, alongside my crystal harp, rain sticks, chimes, voice and other instruments I love weaving into my sessions.
Since 2019 I’ve facilitated hundreds of sound baths and thousands of participant experiences through weekly classes, private sessions, retreats, collaborations, corporate and community events and online sound baths.
I’ve continued learning along the way, studying with some of the most respected voices in sound healing internationally, and honestly I don’t think I’ll ever finish learning this work.
I love my bowls. A lot. You can never have enough, in my opinion!
My sound baths are intuitively guided rather than following the same formula every time. I listen to the bowls, the energy of the room and the people in front of me, allowing each experience to unfold a little differently.
You don’t need to know how to meditate. You don’t need to understand energy. And there’s nothing you need to achieve. You can simply arrive, get comfortable and receive.
For people who spend so much of their lives thinking, doing, organising, caring for others and holding everything together, there’s something pretty special about having an hour where none of that is required of you.
The sound gives you something to surrender into. And when some of the outside noise begins to soften, you may find there’s a little more space to hear yourself again.
I don’t believe I’m here to give you all the answers, because we all have our own intuition and inner guidance. Even if life sometimes gets so noisy that we can’t hear it.
My role is to create a space where you can slow down, receive and reconnect with yourself so that you can find the answers for yourself.
It’s also how I approach teaching sound healing.
I’m not interested in teaching practitioners to copy the way I play. I want people to understand the craft, care, energy and responsibility of holding space while developing their own intuition and relationship with sound.
Because whether you’re lying on the mat receiving or learning to hold that space for someone else, I keep coming back to the same thing: the person holding the space matters.
And it’s an absolute privilege to be that person.
Anna xx
When I’m Not Surrounded By Crystal Singing Bowls.
I’m a Mum, wife and slightly obsessed traveller living in beautiful Broome.
I love dark chocolate, chai lattes, pilates and dance classes, spirituality, oracle cards, adventures and conversations with girlfriends that somehow go from everyday life to the meaning of the universe within about five minutes.
I’ve walked 800 kilometres across Spain with my dad in his mid 70s, cycled the Gibb River Road three times and will almost always choose an adventure over sitting still for too long. Although apparently I’ll happily lie still for a sound bath.
My dream travel list includes South America, the Northern Lights and travelling Australia with my family in a van.
Oh, and my Human Design is Libra Sun, 1/3 Sacral Generator, in case you were wondering!
If you’re in Broome, join me for a SOUNDay Sound Bath, enquire about a private sound experience, or explore my Level 1 Sound Healing Practitioner Training.
And if you live further away, you can join me online.
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Hi I’m Anna
Sound Healing Practitioner & Educator
Broome, Western Australia + Online
Get quiet enough to hear yourself again.
Anna Hastie acknowledges the traditional owners, past, present and emerging, the Yawuru people, of the lands and waters in and around Rubibi (the town of Broome).
