Cate Asks
I'm an intuitive who takes a candid and practical approach to divination. While you’re here, why not subscribe to my [sporadic] newsletter.
Introducing Sunday Sessions
For June and July 2026, join me for an intimate afternoon of sound or cartomancy in the quiet streets of North London, just 10 minutes walk from Finsbury Park Station.
Choose from a group session sound bath for up to six, or a private one-to-one sound bath. Rest, reset and gather yourself for the week ahead. Places are very limited. Booking is essential.
The Power of Sound
Private, one-to-one sound sessions with crystal singing bowls and wind gong. This is a simple, immersive hour that guides your body out of stress mode and into real rest.
A simpler kind of rest
Most of us spend the day with the accelerator pressed down. We're alert, busy, "on." A sound session is a direct way to take your foot off the pedal.You lie down, get comfortable, and listen. There's nothing to learn and nothing to do. As the tones fill the room, your breathing slows, the mental chatter quiets, and your body gets a real chance to shift into recovery.
The science, briefly
Your body has a built-in "rest and recover" setting - the parasympathetic nervous system. For most of us it isn't broken; it just rarely gets a turn.Steady, immersive sound is unusually good at giving it one: it hands the mind a single, focus that makes no demands of you, interrupting the loop of racing thoughts so the relaxation response can take over.
Sound work isn't a cure or a substitute for medical care. Think of it as a well-designed hour of guided restoration and a good complement to the other ways you look after yourself.
That's one way to describe what happens; the language of nerves and breath. But long before anyone had mapped the nervous system, people described these same shifts in a different vocabulary: as energy moving, settling, clearing. You don't have to choose between the two. You can experience a session as your body downshifting out of stress, or as something loosening and flowing, we're describing the same 'thing' through different lenses.
You are welcome to hold whichever language feels more comfortable to you.
And another way to describe it
In the older languages - Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and more - the body is read as a series of energy centres a.k.a. the chakras! They run from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each is associated with different qualities: grounding and safety, creativity and feeling, confidence, love and connection, expression, insight, and a sense of something larger. When life leaves us tense or scattered, these centres are said to 'fall out of alignment'.
The crystal bowls are tuned to resonate with each chakra centre and as the sound moves through the body, the intention is to loosen what feels stuck and let energy flow freely through the chakra system again.The aim is to leave you more balanced and at ease.
What a session looks like
ONE
A short, relaxed chat about how you're arriving and what you'd like from the session.
TWO
A guided meditation, up to 15 minutes, to let your body and attention come to rest.
THREE
30-40 minutes of sound. Nothing to do but lie back and listen to crystal singing bowls, wind gong and or buffalo drum (vegan).
Sessions take place in the comfort of your own home. I bring everything to you.
Currently available in North London.
What people tend to notice
- Sleeping more deeply that night
- A quieter, less reactive mind
- Physical tension easing
- A sense of clarity that carries into the next day
Everyone's experience is different, which is exactly why these sessions are one-to-one or groups are limited in capacity to a maximum of six (6).
Before we begin
When you book, I'll send you an intake form. It asks a little more than you might expect, for two good reasons: a few health conditions mean a session needs adapting, so I check it's right for you and knowing how you're arriving lets me shape the hour around you.
Afterwards, there's a much shorter feedback form so I can see how the session landed.
Everything you share stays private and confidential.