Walking as a Bridge: My Journey as a Sound & Energy Healer of the Year 2025 Finalist

There are moments in life when the universe mirrors back to you something you've been holding quietly within. For me, that moment arrived when I learned I was named a finalist for Sound and Energy Healer of the Year 2025, one of thirty healers selected from hundreds of practitioners across the globe.

I paused when I saw my name among them.

Not because I doubted the work. But because being seen in this way, among a field of deeply skilled, devoted healers, felt like a validation of something I've been walking toward for years. A validation that the bridge I've been building between science and soul, between silence and sound, between logic and intuition, is not only real. It's needed.

What It Means to Be Among the Top 30

When you do work that exists at the edges, work that doesn't fit neatly into one category, you sometimes wonder if others can see what you see. If they can feel what you feel. If the language you're speaking is landing anywhere beyond your own experience.

To be recognized among hundreds of sound and energy healers from around the world is to receive a quiet affirmation: Yes. This matters. Keep going.

But more than that, it's a reminder that healing is not a solo path. It's a field we all contribute to. Every practitioner brings their own frequency, their own medicine, their own way of listening. And together, we create a resonance that reaches further than any one of us could alone.

This recognition isn't just about me. It's about the people who've trusted me enough to lie down, close their eyes, and let sound move through them. It's about the clients who've allowed me to witness their nervous systems soften, their voices return, their inner authority awaken. It's about every person who's ever asked, "Can healing really happen this way?" and then experienced it for themselves.

So yes, being a finalist is an honor. But what moves me most is knowing that this work, our work, is being seen, valued, and held by a global community that understands: healing happens in the spaces between words.

What Sound Healing Actually Is

If you're new to sound healing, let me offer you a doorway in.

Sound healing is not about listening to pretty music or relaxing to ambient noise. It's about using frequency as a tool for transformation. It's about recognizing that your body is not solid, it's vibration. Your cells, your nervous system, your thoughts, your emotions, all of it is moving, oscillating, resonating at different frequencies.

And when those frequencies become disrupted, through stress, trauma, inherited patterns, or simply the overwhelm of being human, your system falls out of coherence. You might feel anxious, stuck, disconnected, or like something inside you is humming at the wrong pitch.

Sound healing works by introducing intentional frequencies that help your nervous system remember its natural rhythm. It's not about imposing a new pattern. It's about inviting your body back into harmony with itself.

Think of it like tuning an instrument. When a guitar string is out of tune, you don't force it. You adjust the tension until it resonates clearly again. Sound healing does the same thing for your body, your mind, and your energy field.

Where My Work Lives

My approach is different because I don't separate science from soul. I can't. I am both.

As a professional linguist, I understand that language is frequency. Every word carries a vibration, a rhythm, a shape. As a master hypnotist, I know that the subconscious mind responds not to logic, but to pattern, repetition, and resonance. As a neuroscience coach, I work directly with the nervous system, the body's communication network, helping it shift from survival mode into safety, from reactivity into presence.

And as a sound alchemist, I bring all of this together.

I've pioneered what I call sound sigils, intentionally crafted sonic patterns using odd time signatures and 111 beats per minute. These aren't random choices. Odd time signatures create a disruption in the brain's predictive patterns, opening a window for new neural pathways to form. 111 BPM is a frequency that supports coherence, calm, and deep integration.

The result? Healing that doesn't just touch your thoughts. It re-patterns the rhythms of your body. It dissolves stress held in your tissues. It releases burdens you didn't even know you were carrying. It restores coherence to your inner world.

And perhaps most importantly, it awakens something within you that thought alone cannot reach: your imagination, your voice, your inner authority.

Because you are not your thoughts. You are the sound, the silence, and the stillness that remain.

Why This Recognition Matters

Being named a finalist in this global contest is more than personal acknowledgment. It's a signal.

It's a signal that the healing arts are expanding. That we're moving beyond one-size-fits-all approaches and into a field where innovation, intuition, and evidence can coexist. Where a linguist can also be a sound healer. Where a neuroscience coach can also work with frequency. Where the bridge between worlds isn't just possible, it's essential.

It's also a signal to anyone who's ever felt like they don't fit into one box. If you've ever been told you're "too much of this" or "not enough of that," I want you to know: You are the bridge too. Your multiplicity is not a problem. It's your medicine.

This recognition reminds me, and I hope it reminds you, that transformation is not about fitting in. It's about finding the frequency that allows you to be fully, unapologetically yourself. And then offering that frequency to the world.

The Journey From Here

The winners of the Sound and Energy Healer of the Year 2025 contest will be announced on November 1st. The last day to vote is October 31st.

If you feel called to cast a vote, I would be deeply honored. But I also want to say this: whether I win or not, the work continues. The bridge remains. The frequency doesn't stop.

If voting feels aligned for you, please do. If it doesn't, I invite you to simply hold space for whatever outcome serves the highest good. Both are beautiful. Both are enough.

What matters most to me is that you're here. That you're curious. That you're open to the possibility that healing can happen in ways you haven't yet imagined.

Walk With Me

If this work resonates with you, if you feel the pull toward sound, toward stillness, toward remembering who you are beneath the noise, I invite you to join our community.

We host sound and dance events throughout the year. Spaces where frequency meets movement, where your body is invited to release what words cannot carry, where your nervous system is held in a field of coherence and safety.

These aren't performances. They're transmissions. They're opportunities to experience what I've been describing, not as a concept, but as a felt sense in your body.

I would love to have you there.

A Final Reflection

There was a time I believed I had to choose. Choose between logic and intuition, language and silence, science and soul.

But over time, I realized: I am the bridge.

And so are you.

Thank you for walking this path with me. Thank you for being here. Thank you for remembering that you are not broken, not separate, not alone.

You are sound. You are silence. You are the stillness that holds it all.

And that is more than enough.

With deep gratitude and resonance,

Deni Van
Sound Alchemist | Neuroscience Coach | Master Hypnotist
Finalist, Sound and Energy Healer of the Year 2025

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To learn more about my work, visit deni-van.com.