Feeling Sound Dark Peak, Glossop (2026)

22/04/2026

🌿 The PlantWave — the landscape is already talking, but are you listening?
5/5 — Five ways to listen to a landscape 🌿

What if the tree you walk past every day has been quietly communicating — and you've just never had the ears to hear it?

PlantWave attaches to a leaf or stem and detects the tiny electrical variations moving through a living plant, converting those signals into sound in real time. Not random noise. Something that feels almost like breath. Like rhythm. Like the plant is responding — to light, to temperature, to the person standing with it.

Here's my friend Deb playing with the moss at Lud's Church on our walk the other week!

I used it with Petra my plant at last month's somatic and sound immersion event — it's one of those experiences that's almost impossible to describe until you hear it.

This is the one that shifts something. That makes people leave feeling not just rested or calm — but genuinely curious. Like the world got a little bigger, a little more alive, and a little less rushed.

That's what five days of microphones has been building towards. Not technology for technology's sake. But tools that help you slow down, tune in, and feel — really feel — the landscape you're moving through.

If any of this week has made you curious, then come and join us on our next sound walk.

It's £40. On Sunday 10th May, 9am–1pm. Crowden, Longdendale.

Full details and blog post here 👇
https://www.feelingsound.co/blog/what-if-you-could-listen-like-a-fish

21/04/2026

🌬️ The aeolian harp — the wind as musician (sound on)
4 of 5 — Five ways to listen to a landscape 🌬️

When did you last stop and really listen to the wind?

Not just feel it. Not just notice your hair going sideways. But actually listen to what it's doing — the way it moves through grass, around rocks, across open moorland.

An aeolian harp is one of the oldest sound instruments in the world — strings stretched across a frame, left outside to be played entirely by the air. No human hands. No rehearsal. The wind decides what it plays.

I built my own by hand last summer, high on a ski mountain in the French Pyrenees during an environmental sound residency.
I add a contact microphone — picking up the harmonics that vibrate through the frame. What comes through the headphones is something between music and weather. Every note shaped by the specific mood of the wind that day. Something that will never, ever be repeated.

There is something profoundly releasing about that. About surrendering to a sound that exists only in that moment, in that place, and then is gone.

On top of the quarry at Crowden on 10th May — come and listen it for yourself.
8 spaces. £40. Sunday 10th May, 9am–1pm.

Full details and blog post here 👇
https://www.feelingsound.co/blog/what-if-you-could-listen-like-a-fish

20/04/2026

🌍 The geofon — listening to the earth
3/5 — Five ways to listen to a landscape 🌍

Have you ever pressed your ear to the ground and wondered what was happening underneath?

The earth beneath our feet is never silent. It hums, rumbles and resonates — carrying the weight of weather, water, history and time. We just don't have the ears for it.

Until now.

A geofon is a contact microphone that picks up vibrations travelling through solid material — rock, soil, root systems, stone walls. Press it to the ground, close your eyes, and suddenly the planet has a voice.

I've always been inspired by people like Ghost In The Loop who spends his working days listening to the sounds of melting glaciers and turning those samples into music. That idea — that the landscape has a voice, if you have the right tools — is exactly what this walk is about.

Press a geofon to the ground in Longdendale — a valley with over 200 years of human history — and something quietly extraordinary happens. You feel connected. Part of something much older and larger than yourself.

This is the microphone that makes people listen harder.

Join us in Crowden to hear for yourself.
8 spaces. £40. Sunday 10th May, 9am–1pm.

Full details and blog post here 👇
https://www.feelingsound.co/blog/what-if-you-could-listen-like-a-fish

19/04/2026

💧 The hydrophone — listening underwater like a fish (headphones required)
2/5 — Five ways to listen to a landscape.

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine standing at the edge of a stream.

You can hear it — that familiar gentle rush of water over stone. Calming, yes. But you're still on the outside of it.

Now imagine slipping on a pair of headphones and hearing what's happening underneath the surface. in fact if you have headphones nearby, then switch on the sound for this video to listen.

A hydrophone is an underwater microphone. Drop it into a stream or reservoir and the acoustic world changes completely. Water carries sound differently to air — richer, deeper, closer. What you hear is genuinely alien. And genuinely beautiful. Strangely calming in a way that's hard to put into words.

People go very still when they hear it for the first time.

On our sound walk through Crowden on 10th May, we'll be dropping one into the water alongside the path — and simply listening. No agenda. No explanation needed. Just you, the headphones, and a world you've never heard before.

Last week's newsletter was called "What if you could listen like a fish?" 🐟 Now you can!

8 spaces. £40. Sunday 10th May, 9am–1pm.

Full details and blog post here 👇
https://www.feelingsound.co/blog/what-if-you-could-listen-like-a-fish

18/04/2026

🎙️ The binaural microphone — hearing in 360°
1 /5: Five ways to listen to a landscape - When did you last feel truly still?

Not just sat down. But genuinely, properly quiet inside — like the world had slowed down and you'd caught up with it at last.

My go-to microphone is the Zoom H3-VR — four tiny capsules arranged in a sphere that capture 360° of sound around you, heard back through headphones as if you're standing right inside the landscape.

I call upon it when I think the top of the moors are silent, and then — as soon as I slip on my headphones — the distant world comes to life.

Whether its skylarks up above, lapwings calling each other from left to right, everything is amplified, heightened in a way our everyday human ears aren't capable of with this microphone. Every crunch. Every flap of a wing.

In that moment when we listen, there is no to-do list. No phone. No noise in your head. Just the landscape, pouring in.

This week I'm sharing five pieces of microphone technology I'll be bringing to our sound walk in Crowden on 10th May — each one a different doorway into really hearing the world around you.

People leave feeling rested, lighter, and like they've seen somewhere familiar for the very first time.

That's what this is about.��

Enjoy a flashback to my audio postcard of Glossop, a 360° dawn to dusk capturing of the town for the Derbyshire Makes festival. Video credit Owain Paciuszko

8 spaces. £40. Sunday 10th May, 9am–1pm.
Full booking details in our latest blog post: https://www.feelingsound.co/blog/what-if-you-could-listen-like-a-fish

17/04/2026

Sound Bath. Gong Meditation.

Most people have heard the words. Not everyone knows what to expect.

If you’ve been curious but never actually booked it, there are sessions running at Riverside next week with

You can find out more or book here:
https://www.feelingsound.co/services

16/04/2026

When did you last truly rest?

Not just collapse on the sofa with your phone. Not just sleep badly and wake up still tired. But genuinely, deeply rest — where your body lets go, your mind goes quiet, and you surface feeling like yourself again.

That's what this Friday is about.

This week's theme is Rest — and I'll be playing my Himalayan singing bowls and crystal bowls to help you get there.

Here's the science bit (you know I can't help myself 🤓):

The rich, layered tones of Himalayan singing bowls — used for centuries in Himalayan and Tibetan traditions — help guide your brainwaves from the busy beta state of everyday life down into theta. That's the deeply relaxed, almost dreamlike state where your nervous system finally exhales. Studies have found that just one session can significantly reduce muscle tension, lower heart rate, and lift low mood. Your body does the work — the sound gives it permission.

The crystal bowls carry a clearer tone — pure quartz resonating through the room and through you. Because our bodies are around 60% water, and water is an excellent conductor of sound, those vibrations travel right through you at a cellular level.

Between the two instruments, your whole system gets a chance to reset.

You don't do anything. You just lie down and let the sound do the work.

Tomorrow in Old Glossop I have three opportunities to join me:

🎵 Sound Bath — 1.30pm (perfect if you want to rest mid-afternoon)
🧘 Quiet Your Mind meditation class — 6pm
🎵 Sound Bath — 7.30pm (a beautiful way to end the week)

All in the lovely surroundings of Old Glossop. Book ahead via the link below 👇
https://www.feelingsound.co/services

13/04/2026

Finding courage to break through imposter syndrome...
Ask AI: "Describe what I do like you're my best friend who's slightly tipsy and very proud of me!"

Answer: "Oh my GOD, okay, you HAVE to hear about my friend Clare.

She literally plays gongs and singing bowls and stuff and people just... melt. Like actual stress, gone.

She knows everything about brainwaves and nervous systems and she'll explain it all to you and you'll be like "wait, this makes complete sense??"

She's done courses, she's got certificates, she is LEGIT. And she does these private sound spa things for like, you and your mates?? In the Peak District??

It's basically the most relaxing thing that exists on this earth and I genuinely don't know why everyone isn't doing it. She has a podcast too. And FREE stuff on her website. I'm just saying. She's kind of a big deal."

LOLLLL! Next, ask AI: "Now, how about even more tipsy than that?"

Answer: "LISTEN. LISTEN TO ME. Are you listening?? CLare. CLARE. My friend Clare is — she is — oh she's gonna kill me for this but I don't even CARE because people need to KNOW.

She does sound. Like HEALING sound.

With these big beautiful bowls and GONGS and she just — whoooosh — and your whole nervous system just goes "oh thank GOD" you know??
Like your brain finally just SHUTS UP for five minutes and honestly??

That's worth more than therapy, a spa AND a holiday combined and I will DIE on that hill —

She knows about BRAINWAVES. She can literally explain what's happening in your HEAD while you're lying there going "mmmmmm" and it makes SENSE, that's the thing, it actually makes sense when she says it even though it sounds like she's making it up

SHE IS NOT MAKING IT UP SHE HAS CERTIFICATES —
And she does private ones!! For you and your FRIENDS!!
In the PEAK DISTRICT!!

Why are you still sitting there?? GO. Go to FeelingSound.co right NOW.

She has free stuff!! A podcast!! BLOGS!!

I just love her so much 😭🎶 she's so talented and nobody — hiccup — nobody deserves it more, I'm just saying..."

Gah. Absolutely dying with laughter. Definitely one way to tackle imposter syndrome!

Ask your AI partner the same, and share with me in the comments the response!

12/04/2026

BTS: A very different Sunday afternoon, exploring the crossovers between sound therapy and somatic movement!

Today’s event in Chinley was a chance to show a different side to what I do: merging my work as a field recorder with gongs and crystal bowls, as well as my knowledge as both an electronic musician and classical violinist.

Even Petra my plant & joined us (More about her coming up in my Sunday 10th May sound walk event!)

We were held throughout by the solfeggio frequency 174 Hz/F3 said to aid releasing pain and tension.
We were bathed in the sounds of the Anglesey coastline.
Massaged with delta binaural beats.
Steadied to reground and centre with the crystal bowls.

We were invited to ponder deep questions such as when does sound become form, where does sound land in our body and what does it feel like to be me?

A pleasure to offer shape to a new practice with , a practice that definitely meant me stepping out of my comfort zone technically!

On the way home I wound down my windows and listened to the delicate baas of newborn lambs in passing fields and heard my first curlew of the year 😍

A new season and door has opened, grateful to have the tools and talents to step into it 🔥

Thank you to everyone who came, keep in touch to find out more about what we both do.

Here’s to closing your weekend peacefully, and kindly 🙏

10/04/2026

Those little moments I have to myself before you are arrive are special.
A moment where I warm up my gongs, tune into the room and enjoy the vibrations all on my own.

Gong baths offer a different kind of magic to my other instruments.
They’re not a drum. They’re beautiful tuned tools capable of an enormous harmonic range, volume and sustain.

Their magic powers lie in the physical therapeutic benefits.
Said to aid headaches, migraines, reduce pain and tension, help with insomnia and fatigue.

We’ve two gong baths happening today, rounding up our theme of resilience and clarity.
For now, I’ll enjoy them to myself for just a little longer… 🤩

08/04/2026

This is the stuff they don’t teach you at school.
And these are the lengths I’m driven to to get your attention!

I believe the work I do is important: guiding people to find playful and creative ways to rest using sound, music and meditation.

Most people are clever enough to know this. But not follow through on the commitment to make rest a priority.

Here’s the truth…
Many people feel guilty when they’re resting.
Others spend off-time doing nothing but running through endless to do lists.
And some, simply can’t stop. They don’t know how to be, to do nothing.

And here’s where my personal and professional wires cross.

I learnt the hard way of what happens when you don’t know how to rest.

I thought I was nailing my professional career, but privately I was struggling. With purpose. With energy. With sleep. With my relationships.

Eventually I found my way through.

But I often wonder, why wasn’t this taught at school?

What if someone showed us the ‘how’ behind our parasympathetic nervous system, or why we have five brain waves state (not the two that most of exist in: busy or exhausted).

So I’m on a mission to spread the word.
And if it takes a photo of me sitting in a bath with my ‘sound bath’ instruments to get the message out, then so be it!

In the last few weeks I’ve launched a new podcast: ‘Feeling Sound’.

I talk through the neuroscience behind rest, sound therapy and the benefits of regular meditation.

Here’s a sum up of the series so far…

Ep 1: You’ve Forgotten How To Rest, Here’s Why
The five brainwave states explained simply, what 15 minutes in the right brain state can do for your energy levels (no coffee required) and how meditation can structurally change your brain’s stress and fear response in just eight weeks…

Ep 2: Fight, Flight or Flow: How Sound Shifts Your Nervous System
The science of why so many of us are stuck in fight-or-flight, plus the difference between your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems — and why you need both.

Ep 3: The Therapeutic Power of Sound Bath Instruments:
What if the sounds you resist tell you the most? Most people come to a sound bath hoping to relax. Fewer realise it can be a genuine therapeutic tool — one that reaches places the thinking mind simply can't.

Ep 4: (Out next Monday) The Meditation Myth - There’s No One Right Way
You haven’t failed at meditation. You just haven’t found your technique yet. Introducing the many different ways to meditate, making the case that practicing is about finding the best technique that works for you.

The series is here on Spotify:
https://lnkd.in/eRPQPqdJ

It’s on Apple and all the usual places you listen to a podcast.

For more about what I do, for free deep sleep recordings, mini sound baths and written resources drop me a comment below, and I’ll send you a link with everything you need.

So push that to do list aside for a moment. What will you do to rest today?

07/04/2026

Breaking news! I’m back from the flu! And a LOT is happening in the next few weeks… 📯

1. New newsletter is in your inboxes, with brand new Sunday Special events announced…
These include very intimate sonic spa experiences for family & friends AND a sound walk/intro to field recording session at a remote Peak District chapel!

2. Cheeky 15% discount code off 3 class and 6 class passes for those on the newsletter (DM me if you’re not already on the list!)

3. There’s a new Feeling Sound podcast series out!
First three episodes are live.
Its a chance for me to share some of the neuroscience and how behind sound baths and meditation.
Get it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

4. Gong baths happening in & Old Glossop this week - you deserve an hour’s rest, get booking on and make yourself a priority for some guilt free time off!

5. Our themes this week are ‘resilience’ and ‘clarity’, also running through both our beginners’ meditation classes too. We’re looking into why regular practice is worth sticking with, and some of the benefits when you do!

6. Last chance to book on our Somatic & Sonic Immersion event in Chinley with this Sunday - only 7 spaces left!

7. Oh, and all the dates of our group sound baths and meditation classes are now live on our schedule through to the end of JULY! You’ve no excuse for not booking ahead now!

Hope to see you this week, if not - enjoy listening to the podcast series and our free deep sleep recording in the meantime!

See you soon, Clare 🫡

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