I offer spirit-led sacred sound journeys, cacao ceremonies, holistic health coaching, mentoring, sacred instrument training, and sound practitioner business development training to guide and support a heart-centered approach to holistic well-being.
About Victoria Schon
Compassion Meets Science
As a student of well-being for over 30 years, I have developed a more pragmatic approach to well-being. But what I know comes from my heart.
Based on my experience, both personal and working with clients, I have discovered we can achieve better health and well-being by incorporating the latest technologies in longevity, nutrition, movement, fasting, and cognitive health with ancient wisdom and customs that focus our attention on heart-centered practices of mindfulness, developing a spiritual practice, and making meaningful connections.
Science-based information constantly evolves as research in longevity, health, diet, and sound therapy is uncovered. Often, this information can be overwhelming.
As an experienced holistic health coach, mentor, guide, and teacher, I am passionate about sharing my expertise with students and clients to streamline information and customize protocols and recommendations that reflect a person's bio-individuality, environment, and goals to achieve a greater sense of wholeness.
I have also come to believe that there is an energetic frequency to well-being. The burden of unwanted weight, illness, anxiety, trauma, and depression can steal our vitality and our energetic vibrancy.
A compassionate, supportive, and creative environment is critical to removing obstacles and overcoming limitations preventing us from living our best lives.
As we learn to align ourselves with higher vibrational choice-making, much of what encumbers us dissipates.
When we are healthy and vibrant, our vitality is heightened. Then, we can experience greater clarity, focus, and energy and form deeper connections with family, friends, and colleagues.
The Energy of Self-Care
I believe our attention to self-care is a direct reflection of our self-love. Self-care isn't always about manicures, working out, steam baths, and eating right. Sometimes, it requires deep work to create boundaries, practice radical self-love, explore emotional obstacles, and eliminate what no longer serves us.
As a healing arts professional, I guide my clients to build a strong foundation and healing environment in which their innate, divinely intelligent bodies can self-heal and thrive as their sense of self-love expands.
Professional Bio
B.A. in History of Art from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Certified by the International School of Regenerative Detoxification as a Detoxification Specialist; certified Holistic Health Coach by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition; certified Holistic Health Practitioner by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, and the State University of New York Purchase College. Member www.soundhealersassociation.org
In my early years, I worked in interior design and project management. I was a semi-professional oil painter for 15 years and owned a small art gallery.
My Sound Therapy Practice is an organic and intuitive expression that reflects my sacred instrument training with Shanti Sounds Costa Rica.
Personal Notes
I grew up in the desert Southwest outside of Las Vegas, Nevada and felt a deep connection to the land in expansive open and quiet places that were abundant and undisturbed. I felt most at home sitting on a red rock or climbing a mountain through fresh breezes and pine forests. Nature was my first love, companion and teacher, and it is where I found solace and healing from early childhood trauma that resulted in a long struggle with anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.
In my early twenties I married and gave birth to my beautiful daughter. Since intimate relationships were difficult, I was drawn to Spirit and began a lifelong journey to deepen my connection to Mother Earth, the Cosmos and to better understand my human experience. Throughout my young adult years I learned, struggled, and learned some more. I embarked on a journey to discover the gifts of meditation, journaling, self-discovery and explored my own creativity.
As I discovered my own gifts of healing, intuition and service, music was ever present and an important healing force in my life, especially in my most difficult times.
Over the years, I grew more sensitive to subtle energies and deepened my spiritual practice through yoga, meditation, while introducing a plant-based diet. My desire to learn about healing myself naturally, mind, body and heart has inspired and directed my holistic health education and practice.
I traveled regularly to the "Blue Zone" of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica to learn more about and experience ancient indigenous cultures and shamanic practices that tap into Mother Earth (Pachamama) and ancient wisdom.
I participated in sacred plant medicine ceremonies, and sat with Amazonian medicine men and women who have passed down ancient teachings that were both healing and inspiring, and which resonated deeply within my Soul.
In Costa Rica I was introduced to sacred sound and was instantly transformed by the sound vibration and frequencies, and experienced deeper consciousness, ease and inner bliss. I also experienced first-hand physical healing from sacred sound.
This compelled me to learn as much as I could about the healing properties of gongs, crystal singing bowls and the power of sound vibration as a complementary healing modality.
Ceremonial Cacao is a plant medicine that I felt a call to work with more intensively, and to offer sacred cacao ceremonies in my community.
It is my wish to share with my neighbors, friends and community the gifts, teachings and transformative secrets that have been passed down to me, and to work as an ally and guide in self-healing.
