The Sound Circle is a therapeutic expressive music group where we come together to explore connection, creativity, and healing through sound. In this safe and supportive space, we will engage in vocal expression, body movement, and spontaneous music-making using a variety of instruments—no musical experience required.

This is an invitation to play music—to tap into your natural sense of curiosity and intuition as we co-create music in the moment. Through deep listening and responsive interaction, we’ll build trust in ourselves and one another, fostering a sense of community and presence.

Rooted in free improvisation,  somatic and mindfulness-based music therapy practices, and ancient sound healing traditions, we will be singing, drumming, toning, and improvising as a group. This can open doorways to extraordinary states of consciousness such as creative flow, trance, or ecstatic awareness—each offering space for emotional expression, release, and self-healing.

All are welcome, regardless of musical background or skill. Bring your own instrument or use one of the many provided.

Lead by local somatic therapist / musician Chris Lott, LMHCA, who leads the band Wall of Ears. 

Chris Lott, LMHCA

To me, there is nothing more exhilarating than arriving at the razor’s edge of the present moment through music. When we examine the universe—from the vast spirals of galaxies to the tiniest atomic structures—we find an underlying order shaped by vibration, harmony, and resonance.

Music and sound allow us to channel emotional energy, access intuition, and express ourselves in an embodied way—beyond words and thought. I’ve been on a musical path since childhood, spending my twenties touring across the U.S. and beyond with various bands, looping in figure eights across the map.

Alongside creating music, I began teaching music, art, and film to youth, college students, and individuals with neurodiverse and autistic systems. It was through this work that I began to refine approaches for collective, improvisational music-making.

In my late thirties, I became a somatic therapist and found ways to integrate mindfulness-based modalities, expressive arts, ritual, and sound into group work—like Sound Circle and other offerings at Syzygy Psychotherapy Collective.

My deep interest in improvisation, musical expression, world music traditions, unique instruments, and the physics of sound continues to guide me. And it’s led me here—to play, to listen, and to respond to you.