What is Acutonics?
Acutonics is a Sound Healing System using Tuning Fork Therapy
When combined with acupressure and treatment of the traditional Chinese primary and special meridians, sound is a powerful stimulus to the body’s innate healing capacity. The ancient Chinese assigned a specific musical note to each of the five elements and to their associated organ systems and energy pathways to stimulate a certain emotion. Various forms of Qi Gong, or qi work, incorporated these sounds into a healing treatment through voice work and gongs.
The Acutonics system has combined the Asian understanding of qi and energy channels with Alexander the Great’s integration of Persian, Egyptian and Greek medicine during the Macedonian Empire beginning in 326 CE. From the time of the ancient Greeks, sound has been incorporated into healing regimens during healing retreats at various temples dedicated to the God Aesclepius, whose symbol of a staff twined with a snake has been incorporated into western medical symbology. For the ancient Greeks, receiving sound treatment during performances in mathematically engineered amphitheaters was pivotal to the emotional healing process.
Furthermore, the works of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle debated the theory of the Music of the Spheres which advocated for musical instruments to be tuned according the resonance of planetary bodies. German born, Johannes Kepler, later measured and recorded the frequency of each planetary body and calculated it into a specific hertz value. These historical influences were pivotal in the creation of the Acutonics tuning forks by founder Donna Carey, L.Ac., who ordered a set of tuning forks to be created according to the hertz frequencies of the luminary and planetary bodies for use in her acupuncture practice and as a substitute for energetic treatments with needles. Replicas of these tuning forks are now used in practice today.
In addition to treating most pathologies and complaints affected by acupuncture, applying sound vibration at specific acupoints has a profound emotional effect on those who receive soundtherapy.