With a wildflower meadow on one side and a private woodland on the other, the old coach house at Wildhive Callow Hall is the perfect base for a holistic, healing sound journey. This relaxing, sunlit studio is where Sarah Sims starts your sound healing journey, using Tibetan singing bowls, ancient gongs, shamanic drums to envelop you in celestial sounds.

Never tried a sound bath? Not as woo-woo as it might sound. It’s an ancient practice and works through a process of sympathetic resonance – when your brain gets in synch with the rate of vibrations produced by the gongs and bowls, allowing it to relax. The brain switches from a beta-dominant brainwave state (concentrating) to a restful alpha-dominant brainwave state. And all you have to do is lie down. It’s like meditation without the effort.

Devotees say immersion in these sounds acts as a powerful vibratory medicine and can reduce stress, ease pain and anxiety, and improve sleep. Along with breathwork and meditation, all those vibrations and different frequencies send you into a zen-like state of meditation.

Sarah’s sessions do all of the above but are a little different to your standard sound bath. She guides the session with her voice and moves sound around you, before helping you play an active role in setting your intention for the session. As well as group introductory classes, Sarah offers private 1:1s (and 1:2s). She also organises bespoke corporate and group sound journeys both in the day and evening, as well as add on packages for hen dos, weddings and girls’ days out.

Mainly based in the beautiful wellbeing studio at Wildhive Callow Hall, she also runs regular sound journeys in Belper and Draycott. A 2 hour introductory class costs £65.