Every so often something turns up that genuinely advances the field, rather than just rebranding what is already there. Onizion is one of those things, and we are very pleased to be working with them.
What Onizion is building
Onizion is a London-based company founded by Reece Smith, a Master of Arts graduate from the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. Reece has spent the last few years developing a haptic vibroacoustic therapy bed - a piece of equipment designed to deliver low-frequency sound and vibration directly through the body while binaural music plays through closed-back studio headphones. You wear a blackout eye mask. You lie down. The sound moves through you, not just around you.
If a traditional sound bath is about hearing and feeling vibration in a shared room, this is the next step along the same line of thinking - a sustained, personal, full-body immersion in sound. The instruments are recorded with studio-grade precision and arranged into journeys that work specifically with the bed's haptic response. It is not a replacement for what we do at our group sessions. It is a complementary modality, and one we expect to see more of over the next few years.
How we got involved
Reece approached us earlier this year. What drew him in, in his words, was the physiology-first angle - the way we talk about sound therapy in terms of the vagus nerve, brainwave entrainment, and nervous system regulation rather than as something that requires belief. That framing matters to him, because the bed is engineered around measurable acoustic and haptic principles, and the soundscapes that play through it need to be designed with that same rigour.
We spent time at Onizion's London studios recording material that has become part of the album designed to work with the bed. The recording sessions were led by award-winning producer Dave Reynaud, alongside fellow sound therapist Becca James, with the goal of capturing every nuance and texture of real instruments rather than relying on samples. The recordings are now being arranged into the soundscapes used in Onizion's public sessions.
Beyond the recording
Since then, the collaboration has grown. We have also been on site for the promotional video shoot at Macknade in Faversham, working alongside the Onizion team to make sure both the on-camera sessions and the surrounding materials reflect what genuinely good vibroacoustic facilitation looks like. Reece has since asked us to take a broader role:
- Composition. Developing a wider library of tracks for the bed, suitable for different intentions - deep rest, focus, gentle activation, sleep onset.
- Practitioner management. Helping shape how facilitators are trained and supported as Onizion expands to more venues.
- Consultancy. Advising on product, app and website development, and how to position the work credibly in a wellbeing market that is often more crowded with claims than with evidence.
For us this is a natural extension of what we already do. The Sonic Sanctuary has always been about grounding sound therapy in physiology and treating the people who come to us as intelligent adults, not as customers in need of mystical re-enchantment. Onizion is approaching the same problem from a hardware and product angle, and we are pleased to be helping shape that work.
Where you can try it
Onizion is currently running public sessions at Macknade Farm in Faversham (ME13 8XE). Each session lasts around 60 minutes - ten minutes to arrive and settle, thirty minutes on the bed with eye mask and headphones, and twenty minutes for tea and reflection afterwards. Groups are capped at eight people per session, with one bed per person.
If you have done a group sound bath with us and you are curious about what a deeper, more solitary version of the same experience feels like, this is a good way to find out. Details and tickets are on Onizion's Eventbrite page for the Macknade sessions.
As with all sound work, there are some sensible contraindications - pacemakers, metal implants, epilepsy, and significant sound sensitivity are worth flagging to the organisers before booking. Onizion's bed is not a medical device, and the work is not a substitute for medical treatment.
Why this matters for us
The sound therapy field is at an interesting point. The research base is growing, the equipment is improving, and serious operators are starting to design products that take the physiology of sound seriously. Being part of that conversation - not just as a practitioner, but as someone helping to shape what gets built - is exactly the kind of work we want to be doing.
We will keep running our regular group sound baths, drum circles, aerial sessions, and 1:1 vibroacoustic treatments across Kent. None of that changes. What changes is that some of what we learn from this collaboration will feed back into how we think about our own sessions, and we will be in a better position to point people toward the modality that suits them best - whether that is a candlelit hall in Maidstone with gongs and singing bowls, or a quiet room in Faversham with a bed and a pair of headphones.
If you do go and try it, let us know how you found it. We would genuinely like to hear.