Buffalo has never seen anything quite like it: a wooden egg-shaped chamber, glowing with light and pulsing with sound. Designed to heal the body and mind, it’s now at the center of a new wellness venture led by one woman who believes in it with all her heart and soul.
“The first time I went in it, the experience was so extraordinary,” said Amy van Osch, owner of Harmonic Egg Buffalo. “It was like an ‘aha.’ Like, oh, yeah, this is what I’m meant to do.”
It’s called the Harmonic Egg. Invented in Colorado in 2016 by a woman named Gail Lynn, it’s a patented device that uses light and sound within a dodecagon-shaped, resonant chamber to promote holistic healing and bring balance to the body’s energy fields. It is used to calm the nervous system, reduce stress, relieve pain and help along the body’s natural healing processes.
Van Osch was a client in Canada, where Harmonic Eggs are a big deal. She had used sound frequency treatments after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, and said the Harmonic Egg is a complement to traditional medicine, rather than a replacement.
Van Osch meets with clients before they step into the egg to pinpoint what they need help with, such as stress, pain, or anxiety; and together they set an intention for the session. Van Osch chooses from a selection of curated music depending on what instrument, song or frequency might be most beneficial, and decides on custom colors that will glow inside the chamber during the session to aid the process.
Clients recline in a zero-gravity chair inside the chamber with their eyes open or closed, soaking in the sound and light frequencies. Afterwards, clients typically feel a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing. If they’re not ready to go immediately back to reality, a meditation room is available for a more serene transition. After the session, van Osch spends time with the client debriefing and checking in on how the session went.
“Our bodies are amazing machines, and we can heal ourselves,” van Osch said. “Every night we heal ourselves (when we sleep).”
The shape of the chamber draws on sacred geometry – the belief that specific geometrical shapes and patterns are imbued with spiritual and mystical meaning, representing universal order, life, and divine creation – to enhance resonance and amplify energy.
If that sounds too out there for you, van Osch insists it is not.
“I’m not a woo woo,” she said. “For centuries and centuries, music has been used for healing. I mean, they used it to heal broken bones, everything. So there’s a lot of scientific research.”
Sound has been shown to shift brainwave states, synchronizing brainwaves by providing stable rhythm or frequency for them to align with. Music can cause cells to vibrate at the same frequency as the sounds they perceive. Instrument frequencies create sound waves that can move brainwaves from waking consciousness to the relaxation state, into the deep meditation state, and even to the healing waves that occur during deep sleep. The Harmonic Egg claims to gently move users into that restorative and healing state.
The light aims to aid in cellular regeneration and color is said to unblock energies.
In many ways, van Osch’s latest venture is a 180 from her previous career in the restaurant business.
You may remember Amy van Osch from the days she used her then-married name Amy McCarthy, and was co-founder of the popular Globe Market restaurant on Elmwood Avenue, which opened in 2003. After selling that restaurant to her partner, she opened the Lunch Box, a lunchtime stop which grew to four locations inside different business buildings, and Current Catering, which provided catering to such places as the Darwin Martin House. After selling to two employees, she retired, and spent a couple of winters sailing to the Caribbean.
But after trying the Harmonic Egg, she knew she had to bring it to Buffalo. So, out of retirement she came.
“With my whole journey with my health, I really learned a lot about my body and how incredible we can be if we’re working optimally,” van Osch said. “I’m not on a crusade or a mission or anything. I just want to give people a place to come.”
Until now, the closest Harmonic Egg has been in Sherkston, Ont. In the United States, the closest location was in Wickliffe, Ohio.
A single session in the Harmonic Egg is $125, but there are packages that bring the cost down to about $80 or $90 per per session. Sessions begin with an intake chat, which takes 15 to 20 minutes. Clients spend 50 minutes in the egg, which consists of 40 minutes with music and 10 minutes with silence. Afterwards, Van Osch serves the client a hydrating electrolyte drink while they debrief.
“I used to joke, I had a cottage up in Canada for a while, and I wanted to name it the hospital for the sick and tired,” she said. “So this is kind of my version.”
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