Today we’d like to introduce you to Kyle Lam.
Hi Kyle, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My story behind sound healing stems from my childhood, where I played piano for ten years as well as clarinet for eight in symphony orchestra and marching band.
There has always had a love of not only performing music but really understanding the emotions behind music as well.
I’ve always believed that music has a way to share a story, not just through lyrics and melodies but also how the performer interprets that particular composition emotionally. It’s always fascinated me how music can influence our lives.
With sound healing in particular, it began as a casual endeavor in 2016. Funny enough, when I first started, I never had serious intentions on becoming a professional sound healer.
My introduction to sound baths was through my practice of Kundalini Yoga. The gong is synonymous with Kundalini Yoga, and as my practice developed, so did my love and appreciation of the gong.
Fast forward a couple of years, I ended up going to a few sound baths, falling in love with them, and becoming connected with two notable sound healers in the Los Angeles area at the time. Not only did I become good friends with them, I became part of their team in the production side as well.
That gave me a lot of good experience in not only understanding about sound healing, how it works within myself, but also how it works within other people, too, as I was always engaging with attendees and listening to them share about their experience.
I held my first sound bath in 2016 just for fun, and eventually, it grew into a consistent offering to the community.
2019 was when I started to become pretty serious about sound healing.
At the time, I was exploring different career opportunities from a corporate standpoint, but my success in sound healing was growing, even though it was just a side business. Once I made it my official business and invested all my time and energy into it, it grew exponentially.
The pandemic also skyrocketed my business, as I was fortunate to be able to continue to hosting sound baths while expanding my outreach to the community not just in person but also online as well.
Currently, I am proud to say that I do between 20-25 public events a month, reaching over 11 different cities throughout Orange County as well as being in Corona once a month too. I offer private training programs for beginner and intermediate sound healers and have partnerships with private organizations throughout Orange County to do sound baths for their members and residents.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
With any type of entrepreneurship, it has its ups and downs. The initial struggle being the fact that when you first start a business, you’re responsible for wearing all the hats in running business (accounting, marketing, sales, production, etc.).
That ate up a lot of time that I could’ve spent with family and friends, but now I’m fortunate to have an excellent team to assist with the majority of the tasks, giving me more freedom and flexibility with my time.
I’d say the biggest struggle that I’ve had was figuring out who I work well with in terms of partnerships and collaborations. It’s a lot of trial and error to not only figure out what kind of work a person or organization does but whether that compliments or synchronizes with yours and whether that partnership can be sustainable for the long term.
I’ve had to end partnerships and collaborations with close friends, which unfortunately also ended that friendship alongside it. In this line of work, we make close connections, but creating a boundary between what is personal and what is business was something that took me a while to hone in on.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’ve always described my work as an opportunity for you to connect with your inner essence and develop a deeper understanding of who you are.
Since I come from a musical background, I put an emphasis on how the elements of music can be utilized for inner transformation.
Particularly, our sound baths are known for having a vast setup. We usually bringing about 10-12 crystal bowls and 4-5 gongs for our setup alongside an array of accessory instruments as well.
Our sound baths are set to be accessible for anyone in the community, regardless of their meditation experience or experience in sound baths.
We have beginner sound baths geared towards relaxation and restoration with minimal intensity from the instruments that put the body, mind, and heart into a state of serenity. We have intermediate sound bath experiences that carry more intensity, bringing about an emotional healing experience that purges out any emotional or energetic wounds we may be holding onto within our body. We also have advanced sound bath events collaborating with energy healers that provide a stronger spiritual connection to the higher realms.
Our events provide an opportunity to not only explore and understand your inner complexities but to help you fall back in love with yourself as well.
What I’m most proud of is creating a safe environment for like-minded individuals to come together and building a stronger community in the process. I often tell people what I love most about our sound baths is not really the sound bath itself but the community that comes together.
I know of many friendships and relationships that have been made through coming to my events, with even a couple who are about to get married this year!
In the end, it’s not just the sound bath itself that makes the experience incredible; it’s the people within the event that make it exceptional as well.
Now, every sound healer, sound artist, and sound practitioner has a uniqueness of their own based on their style and production. That being said, my musical background does give me an edge over other sound healers, especially those without any experience in music. What makes a sound bath is the use of musical instruments to facilitate a healing experience, and my ability and understanding of how to combine specific notes together to create unique harmonies and melodies is the main reason for what my sound baths are known for.
What do you think about happiness?
Happiness for me is witnessings the awakening of someone to their potential.
I’ve done this long enough to see a lot of people transform and augment their lives in many ways, and it’s through the awareness that they’ve built coming to our events and from dedicating a meditation mindfulness practice for themselves back home.
I believe in order to create a healthy and prosperous community; we first have to create healthy and prosperous individuals. Sound baths are my way of contributing to the betterment of our world, and if I can inspire one person to reach their potential and help them elevate to that potential, I know that person will inspire others to do the same too.
Pricing:
- $25-88 for our Public Sound Bath Events
- $900 for our Private Level 1 Sound Bath Training Program
- $1100 for our Private Level 2 Sound Healer Training Program
- $300-1000 for Private Sound Bath Events
Contact Info:
- Website: www.kylelamsoundhealing.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylelamsoundhealing/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kylelamsoundhealing7342
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/kyle-lam-sound-healing-irvine
Image Credits
Twin Flame Photography
