Sound healing is the latest frontier in luxury wellness

For City AM The Magazine, Autumn edition , Adam Bloodworth explores the ways real-world sound is transforming the wellness industry

I’m lying on my back with my eyes closed, listening to the sounds of the Outer Hebrides. I can hear water trickling into rock pools and great thunderous waves. I couldn’t feel further away from my desk in London. But I’m not really on some far-flung remote isle: I’m having a newfangled wellness experience in a posh spa in Edinburgh.

The Swell Studio at the Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel claims to be the world’s first dedicated “sound wellness” studio. Stressed workers can leave the office and, minutes later, be experiencing the sounds of Scotland’s Western Isles. Cuddled up under a duvet with an eye

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