In an inspiring interview with MysticMag, Courtney Tyssen reveals the heartfelt origins of Heart Resonance, a haven for heart-centered healing sparked by her transformative recovery from a life-changing car accident.
Her discovery of sound healing’s profound calm and clarity, unattainable through conventional medicine, led her to train deeply in sound therapy, meditation, and yoga. Heart Resonance offers a space for people to pause and reconnect with their inner wisdom, tapping into the heart’s powerful energy to cultivate balance and peace.
Through her holistic approach, Tyssen empowers others to embrace self-awareness and rediscover their authentic selves amidst life’s challenges.
What inspired you to create Heart Resonance and focus on heart-centered healing?
Heart Resonance was inspired by my deep desire to support others in reconnecting with themselves—beyond the noise of everyday life, beyond the stress and overwhelm, and back into the quiet wisdom of the heart. When we return to the heart, we activate a space within that knows how to heal and remember our inner wisdom.
My desire to help others was born from my own healing journey. About six years ago, I was in a car accident that fractured my spine in two places. It was a life-changing experience—not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. I was stuck in a constant state of fight-or-flight, in pain, overwhelmed and disconnected from myself. Doctors offered medications, but I intuitively knew I needed to approach healing from a more holistic place.
I began to explore alternative healing practices—kinesiology, reiki, bowen, yin yoga, breathwork, and meditation. Slowly, I began to feel more myself. But it wasn’t until I experienced sound healing that something truly shifted. I remember learning a mantra for pain relief, chanting it at home, and being amazed that after 15 minutes, my pain had dissolved! That moment was a turning point. Soon after, I attended my first sound bath and felt a deep sense of calm and clarity. I had found my medicine and knew that sound and vibration held a vital key to healing—helping people regulate their nervous systems, release stored trauma, and remember the wholeness that has always existed within them.
From there, I immersed myself in training: earning a Diploma in Integral Sound Healing, becoming a meditation and yoga teacher, and completing a Certificate IV in Mental Health. I’ve now been holding space for others for 4 years, and I continue to be humbled by the transformation I witness when people reconnect to the healing power of their own hearts.
To me, the heart is not just an organ— it’s a powerful energy field (which is actually stronger and more magnetic than the brain’s!). It’s where our intuition lives, where we hold unconditional love and compassion, and where we can find deep, inner guidance if we learn to listen. I’ve always felt that our modern world tends to pull us away from this connection, encouraging us to live from the mind rather than the heart. But I’ve come to learn that real transformation begins when we start tuning in to the frequency of love within us.
Heart Resonance is an invitation for people to slow down and tune into their heart’s frequency. When we take these moments to pause and connect, we awaken something within. From this place, balance and inner peace become possible—not through force, but through presence and unconditional love.
How do you integrate sound therapy into your healing practices?
Sound therapy is at the core of what I do. I use instruments like crystal singing bowls, chimes, drums, and my voice to help bring the body and mind back into a state of balance. Each sound holds a frequency that can interact with the body’s own energy field, helping to release what’s stuck—whether that’s physical tension, emotional blockages, or mental stress.
In my sessions, I often combine sound with meditation, breathwork, chakra alignment, and intuitive energy healing. These practices work together to calm the nervous system, support emotional regulation, and create space for deep rest and restoration.
Can you share how energy healing can help people reconnect with their true selves?
Energy healing helps us clear away the noise—the overthinking, the pain, the fear—that often disconnects us from who we truly are. Many of us are walking around in survival mode, stuck in fight-or-flight, dissociated from our bodies and our experience, and unsure how to feel safe enough to simply be.
For many of us, trauma, stress, and societal conditioning have pulled us out of balance. We numb, we dissociate, we forget how to feel. That was certainly my experience. I felt like I was rushing through life without being really present in my body. It was through energy work—paired with sound, breath, and stillness—that I began to land again. To feel safe. To feel like me.
Through energy work, we gently peel back the layers. We make space to feel, to release, and to soften. And I say “gently” because that’s one of the beautiful things about energy work—it doesn’t force anything. It meets you where you are, and invites your own inner wisdom to rise to the surface.
In my sessions, I create a container that gives people permission to safely feel what’s been buried or suppressed and to reconnect to their wisdom and what their body needs. Whether that’s through chakra work, intuitive touch, or the frequencies of sound, we gently clear blockages, allowing the person’s true energy to flow again. And in that process, people often rediscover parts of themselves they thought were lost—their joy, their creativity, their inner knowing. It’s a powerful return to the essence of who they are underneath it all.
What role does self-awareness play in your approach to personal transformation?
Self-awareness is at the heart of transformation. Without it, we stay stuck in patterns that aren’t serving us. When we become aware of how we think, how we feel, how we breathe and move through the world, we start to shift out of autopilot and into conscious living. We start to live from a place that is compassionate, curious, and empowered.
This awareness is something I help clients cultivate through every practice I offer. In sound baths, people often become aware of sensations in the body they hadn’t noticed before. In meditation, they might hear their inner voice more clearly. With energy healing, they often become aware of patterns—emotional or energetic—that have been quietly influencing their lives for years.
Personally, self-awareness was the first step in my own transformation. It took slowing down, becoming still, and tuning inward to even realise how disconnected I was from my body and emotions. This kind of awareness is empowering. It allows people to respond to life, rather than react. It helps them make aligned choices, set healthier boundaries, and navigate challenges with more resilience.
Self-awareness makes us more conscious of how we move through the world, how we speak to ourselves, and how we listen to our hearts. From that space, real change begins to unfold naturally.
How can individuals use sound healing for emotional and physical balance?
Sound healing is such a powerful, accessible tool for emotional and physical regulation. One of the things I love most about it is that it doesn’t require years of training or discipline to start feeling the benefits. Anyone can begin tuning in to sound—whether it’s through listening to crystal bowl music from home, chanting a simple mantra, or attending a sound bath.
When you listen to healing frequencies, the vibrations work on a cellular level to bring your body and mind into a state of coherence. It helps the nervous system down-regulate, the breath to slow, and the mind to soften. Emotionally, this can create a sense of safety—a space where feelings can arise and release, rather than get stuck.
People often tell me they’ve had the best sleep of their lives after a sound bath, or that they feel “lighter” and more clear after a session. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, chronic tension, or simply want to feel more grounded, sound can be a gentle yet potent tool to bring yourself back into balance.
If someone is new to sound healing, I always suggest starting with what feels safe and comfortable. It could be humming (which is such a simple practice yet SO powerful), singing or chanting, or lying down and listening to a sound meditation.
I could speak for hours on the different sound healing techniques that can be used to help people find balance, as there is so much variety in the practice. Instead, what I will say is this; Sound has an intelligence of its own that is deeply profound— simply trust the process and let go into the experience.
What is the biggest challenge people face when seeking healing, and how can they overcome it?
One of the biggest challenges I see is people feeling disconnected from themselves and overwhelmed by the pressure to fix everything at once or to “get it right.” Many come in feeling burnt out, anxious, or emotionally numb—unsure of how to even begin the healing process.
The key is to start small and recognise that the journey takes time. Begin by creating quiet moments to listen to your body, your breath, your heart. Take baby steps and be kind to yourself along the way. Healing doesn’t happen overnight, but it does happen when we commit to showing up for ourselves with compassion and curiosity.
Healing is not a linear process. Some days might feel expansive and full of clarity, while others might feel heavy or uncertain. That doesn’t mean you’re moving backwards—it’s all part of the unfolding. True healing invites us to be present with whatever is arising, without judgment. It asks us to trust that even the hard moments are guiding us toward growth and deeper integration.
What I often remind my clients is that healing isn’t about reaching a perfect destination. It’s about reconnecting with ourselves in each moment, learning to meet our inner world with gentleness, and letting the heart lead the way.
So, commit to yourself on this journey called life. Every time we return to practices that ground us—like sound, breath, meditation, or energy work—we remind ourselves that we are safe, we are whole, and we are allowed to heal in our own time.
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