On a trip to Brasil in January of 2014, my daughter Alaine and I hiked the Atlantic Rainforest surrounding Paranapiacaba, a tiny railroad town near São Paulo that has seen better days. Per State Park regulations, no one can enter the rainforest without a monitor ambiental (environmental monitor), and ours was a big, loquacious, adventuresome man named Marcos Vital. During our hike, Marcos asked what I “do” back in the United States, and Alaine explained some of the principles of sound therapy with tuning forks. We were standing near a cachoeira (waterfall) that emptied into a small stream when Marcos walked to the edge of the stream and picked up two river rocks, each rock having one rather flat side. Then he told us this story.
Where I come from in Brasil, we use vibrations to tell us where we have problems in our bodies. We wade into a stream or pond holding two rocks like these, one in each hand. When the water covers most of our body, we strike the two rocks together in the water, and this creates vibrations that the body absorbs where a problem exists. The vibrations go straight to those areas and you can feel them being taken in. I have problems with my legs from an old injury, and that’s where the vibrations go when I strike the rocks. The vibrations help heal the parts of the body that are weak.
Where I come from in Brasil, we use vibrations to tell us where we have problems in our bodies. We wade into a stream or pond holding two rocks like these, one in each hand. When the water covers most of our body, we strike the two rocks together in the water, and this creates vibrations that the body absorbs where a problem exists. The vibrations go straight to those areas and you can feel them being taken in. I have problems with my legs from an old injury, and that’s where the vibrations go when I strike the rocks. The vibrations help heal the parts of the body that are weak.
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