Empower Your Birth with the Healing Power of Sound

Discover how crystal singing bowls and vocal toning can transform your birth experience - from fearful to calm, confident and connected

SoundBirth was created to inspire and educate women, birth partners and professionals on how to use sound as a powerful tool for relaxation, connection and empowerment during birth. Through simple yet profound practices using a crystal singing bowl and vocal toning, we help create a birthing experience rooted in confidence, connection and presence.

Who is SoundBirth For?

Pregnant Women

Are you looking for a way to stay calm, centred and confident during labour? SoundBirth teaches you how to use vocal toning and a crystal singing bowl to:

  • Reduce fear and anxiety by creating a sense of safety and trust in your body.

  • Support natural pain relief through vocal toning and sound vibrations that release tension and allow the body to open.

  • Stay focused and present during contractions, guiding your body through each stage of labour with ease.

  • Deepen your connection with your baby through sound and breath, creating a more intuitive and gentle birth experience.

Birth Partners

Do you want to actively support your partner during labour but aren’t sure how? Soundbirth provides a simple yet powerful way for birth partners to be involved, offering:

  • A practical tool (a crystal singing bowl and vocal sounds) to help your partner stay calm and focused.

  • A way to stay connected throughout labour by creating a shared rhythm and energy.

  • Confidence in your role as a birth supporter, helping you feel useful and engaged in the process.

  • A peaceful presence that reassures and grounds the birthing mother.

Doulas, Midwives & Birth Workers

Want to add a unique and transformative tool to your birth support work? SoundBirth training equips doulas, midwives and other birth workers with the knowledge and skills to:

  • Introduce sound as a natural birth tool to help labouring women stay focused and in their parasympathetic (relaxed) state.

  • Use a crystal singing bowl and other sound tools, to create a calming environment before, during and after the birth.

  • Support uninhibited vocal toning to help birthing women to relax, open and feel the strength they need to birth their baby.

  • Offer a unique service that enhances birth experiences for your clients.

5 Benefits of Having a SoundBirth

  • Women often feel safer, more confident, and more at ease when using their voice accompanied by the resonant tones of a crystal singing bowl.

    1. When a bowl is played in time with a woman’s contractions she feels heard and connected no matter where she ends up giving birth.  Plus, it gives the partner a supportive role to play in the birth process!

  • Uninhibited vocalisation relaxes and opens the larynx which in turn relaxes and opens the cervix. When the cervix is relaxed it can prevent tearing and assists with dilation. 

  • The resonant, pure sound of a crystal singing bowl gives a birthing woman something to focus on rather than pain, or unhelpful thoughts

  • When a woman uses her voice without inhibition, she experiences the physical benefits such as lower blood pressure, less pain, increase in oxygen, release of oxytocin, endorphins, melatonin, serotonin and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system.

Products & Services

  • SoundBirth Doula Training

    For birth workers who want to learn how to use sound as a supportive tool before, during and after the birth!

    Learn more!
  • Sound Healing Workshop

    Sound Integration Workshop

    Learn about the art and science of sound and how you can integrate this powerful tool into your life at one of our interactive workshops!

    Find out more

  • SoundBirth for Expectant Couples

    Learn how to use the sound of a crystal singing bowl and your voice as a supportive tool before, during and after the birth!

    Book Here

  • 1:1 Mentoring

    Learn anything about facilitating sound journeys by working with me 1:1 at my home in Leeming, Perth or via Zoom!

    Book a Session

  • Sound Journeys

    Share this deeply relaxing and unique experience with your co-workers or loved ones by hosting an event at your work place or home!

    Book here!
  • Crystal singing bowls

    Crystal Singing Bowls

    Let me help you choose you bowl or set of bowls to suit your sound healing goals! 99.99% frosted, coloured, clear, 432Hz, all sizes and pitches.

    Take a look!

What People are Saying …

  • Toni Cronk - Mother of 2, Homebirth

    “I never thought, "I can't do this" or "I need drugs" or "take me to the hospital" because the bowl kept me present and grounded. I felt safe and calm during the contractions. I truly believe without the crystal singing bowl my labour would have been unbearable. I am generally an over thinker but as I said the bowl and toning gave me a singular present focus. I also love the sound the crystal singing bowl makes.”

  • Susan Krachler - Midwife

    “It would be worth investigating what the crystal singing bowl could do for you, not only in labour but for pregnancy relaxation and vitality. I think that perhaps it is also great for life in general.”

  • Trina Stacey - Mother of 2, Author

    “Since the workshop I have really embraced increasing the amount of music in our home. I have created a little lullaby and have been singing it and playing along on the piano every day, I have also acknowledged my fear of making strange noises during labour. ”

  • Sarcha Thurston - Owner of Yogahub

    “​Yogahub has been working with Nicole Lloyd since 2016. Together we have produced a unique sound and yoga experience that has become a favourite among our clients and a mainstay on our programme. Collaborating with Nicole has been a fantastic experience. Nicole teaches that sound is both a science and an art. Nicole holds a university degree in music so her performance skills are exceptional. As a sound therapist, performer and friend, Nicole has our full support and admiration.”

  • Diane Baldwin - Sound Healer, "Starbee Artistry"

    “In 2020 I met Nicole and was a part of her Sound Facilitators Program. It absolutely opened my eyes to sound and the beautiful flow and connection I can have in being playful and rediscover myself. Connecting other sound healers and creators in the process also allowed me to discover play and find what works for me. My discovery and play hasn’t stopped, opening up to creating my own instruments and myself. Nicole is a wealth of knowledge and connection I would highly recommend her courses who are also supported with IICT insurance. And as well Nicole’s vibrance for life and her own unique connection to everything she does, it just opens doors.”

  • Kathryn Chivers - Sound Healer "Blind Kat"

    “I LOVED Nicole's Sound Facilitator Training! The sessions were fun, informative, encouraging, and gave me the skills and confidence I needed to be an effective sound facilitator. And best of all, I made a new friend in Nicole! Thanks Babe!”

  • Walt

    “I just recently ordered my first crystal singing bowl, through Nicole and was blown away with the process! She was a wealth of knowledge and helped tremendously in my decision making process to match me to this beautiful instrument. On top of that, the speed of delivery to my front door really made it an effortless experience. Highly recommend and will definitely be back to order more!”

  • Anita Emor

    In 2020 I started my journey into sound to share with others for healing and meditation ✨

    I love love love music and from developing a regular meditation practice wanted to know more about the science and musicality of the sound bath sessions.

    I met Nicole who was facilitating a sound healing event at a soulful community-oriented space, Yogahub.

    After having lessons with Nicole I felt the buzz and awe of playing the instruments and finding my way!

    Here’s to the various group lessons and 1:1 mentoring sessions I have had with Nicole and the words of encouragement and support from my community; family and friends.

    Always grateful for those who have led, guided, taught, mentored and continue to as we flow, play and create.

Hear Nicole Talk About “SoundBirth”

 

I created “SoundBirth” in 2011 after my profound birthing experience in 2009 when I used my voice at the birth of my third daughter during each contraction while being accompanied by a resonant crystal singing bowl. This gave me “permission” to use my voice without inhibition leading to a gentle and powerful birth experience.

If you are pregnant or work in the birth world, I would LOVE to share what I have learnt about sound and the use of one’s voice during labour, so that you too can feel empowered to use this effective and supportive tool during one of life’s biggest transitions. Book your FREE Call to get started!

I was recently interviewed by Mumma Mae on her “Nature of Sound” Podcast about my journey into “SoundBirth” and sound healing. Hear all about it below!

 

Join the SoundBirth Movement!

At SoundBirth we believe that ALL women deserve to feel powerful, connected, safe, relaxed and fully ALIVE during this massive transformation called BIRTH.  

Fathers/other support people also deserve to feel confident about supporting a woman during labour and SoundBirth is a tool that helps anyone feel connected with the birth process.

All babies coming into the world deserve to enter GENTLY while feeling safe and nurtured.

And birth workers need to have more tools up their sleeve for their pregnant women that are natural, effective and supportive.

Be one of the FIRST in the world to be using the SoundBirth tools!

I look forward to sharing SoundBirth with you!

Nicole xx