About

Our Story

In July of 2023, our founder, Amy Hudson, experienced a remarkable moment of clarity. While meditating, she received a vision of what would become The Sound Healing Center of Lexington. This vision was a blueprint for a sanctuary of healing, a space where souls could find solace through the power of sound.

The Universe conspired to align events swiftly, and just four months later, in November of the same year, the center's doors opened to welcome seekers on their healing journeys.

Beyond being a singular endeavor, The Sound Healing Center is a collaborative haven. It beckons local sound healers and gifted practitioners from across the nation to come together, share their unique gifts, and enrich the tapestry of healing within its walls.

The center has become a testament to the potential that arises when vision, purpose, and divine timing converge.

Our Mission

At The Sound Healing Center of Lexington, we're on a mission to provide holistic healing through the transformative power of sound. Our dedication lies in offering exclusive sound healing services and, eventually, a curated selection of retail products, including a diverse range of sound healing instruments and tools.

We are committed to serving individuals who seek a path to wellness through the profound effects of sound. Whether you want to rejuvenate physically, find emotional balance, or explore spiritual growth, our customized sound healing sessions are designed to guide you toward holistic well-being.

Meet Our Practitioners

FAQs

Sound healing is an ancient practice that harnesses the power of sound vibrations to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Sound healers use various instruments, such as singing bowls, rattles, drums, and tuning forks, to create soothing and harmonious frequencies that penetrate deep into the layers of our being. As these vibrations wash over us, they effortlessly dissolve stress, tension, and blockages, restoring balance to our energy centers and facilitating inner healing.
A sound bath is not only a pleasurable experience but is also believed to accelerate the body's natural healing processes, enhance relaxation, improve sleep, and boost creativity. It serves as a gentle reminder of the interconnectedness of our mind, body, and spirit, inviting us to embrace the profound healing potential within ourselves.
A Sound Bath is a general term that signifies a holistic experience where participants immerse themselves in sound waves, frequencies, and vibrations. It can include a group session, like our weekly sound bath, a private session, or any other type of sound healing therapy. Despite the similarities between sound waves and water, no actual water is used in this practice.
The sound healer plays their instruments in a way that slows down your brainwaves. As you focus on your breath, allow yourself to release the stresses weighing on you. The soothing sounds guide you away from the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system towards the restful state of the parasympathetic nervous system known as “rest and digest.“
Sound healing offers a diverse range of benefits, including pain relief, deep relaxation, inner peace, emotional release, a sense of lightness, enhanced mental clarity, improved sleep, grounded energy, heightened spiritual connection and protection, energy cleansing, and reduced anxiety, among many other positive effects!
If you find yourself in the midst of a spiritual crisis or on the cusp of a profound awakening, questioning the very essence of existence, The Sound Healing Center is tailored just for you.
This is a space for seekers who are ready to explore, willing to dive deep within, and embrace a new way of experiencing the world. Here, we don't promise salvation, but we offer something even more valuable - the guidance and support you need on your transformative journey.

Building History

In 1888, The Women’s Guild of Christ Church Episcopal Church established an infirmary for the care of Lexingtonians. It would be Lexington’s second hospital, as St. Joseph had been established by the Catholic Church in 1877.

The mission began in Farmer Dewees’ ca. 1814 White Cottage, located on East Short Street, which the Guild purchased for $5,000 from Bernard Fotch. The cottage had been home in the late 1830s to H.H. Gratz, the editor of the Kentucky Gazette; it was ultimately torn down in 1940.

Good Samaritan Hospital

According to the Herald-Leader, which published a history of the medical facility on its golden anniversary, the physical plant of the infirmary cost just under $40,000. Although no records exist from 1888, 1889 witnessed some 659 patients being treated here. That year's operating budget for the infirmary was just over $11,000.

In January 1889, the Episcopal Women’s Guild transferred control of the infirmary to a consortium of Protestant churches of the Baptist, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian faiths. A decade later, in 1899, the Protestant Infirmary was also renamed the Good Samaritan Hospital.

Realizing the need for nurses, a nursing school was established at the hospital, and the first class of nurses graduated in 1893. On perhaps an unrelated note, an effort was made “to get [the] red light district moved away from [the] neighborhood of Protestant Infirmary,” according to the Morning Transcript in August 1894. (Belle Brezing’s infamous bordello was only a one-and-a-half blocks away at 59 Megowan, now the corner of Wilson Street and Eastern Avenue).

Additions and annexes to the facility were constructed on multiple occasions, including those in 1895 and 1897. Below is the Good Samaritan Hospital as it appears on the 1907 Sanborn map, including an operating room, laundry building, colored ward, and morgue.

To Be Vacated

At the bottom of the 1907 Sanborn is a notation that the buildings of Good Samaritan Hospital are “to be vacated in the near future.” Plans had been developed in 1905 for a new and modern medical facility, which purchased land at 310 South Limestone Street from W. H. McCorkle. The site had once been part of the James O. Harrison estate, with Mr. Harrison having passed away in his home on the site in 1888.

Mr. Harrison was a prominent citizen and early leader in Lexington’s local school system (for him, Harrison Elementary is named). His daughter, Mary Eliza, was a member of the Women’s Guild, which helped establish the Protestant Infirmary in the first place.

In 1907, the Good Samaritan Hospital relocated to its new 130-bed hospital. In 1924, the Methodist Church took exclusive control of Good Samaritan, but it would change hands several more times during the 20th century. In 2007, Samaritan Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief, and the University of Kentucky Healthcare System purchased the medical facility during the bankruptcy.

Coffee Times

The structure on East Short Street remained standing. In 1920, it was publicly sold to W.T. Woolfolk, whose Woolfolk Coffee Company, after that, called it home. The coffee company had previously been located between Upper and Mill on Vine Street.

Remembrances of the coffee days can be found around the building, with Greenbag Coffee stampings on the walls and the advice to keep peanuts off the floor.

Mr. Woolfolk, this was written in the Lexington Leader preceding a 1905 election: “William T. Woolfolk, of the wholesale grocery firm of Martin & Woolfolk, corner of Mill and Market streets, is the Republican candidate for member of the Lower Board of the City Council in the First Ward. Mr. Woolfolk was born and reared in Garrard County, Ky., and came to Lexington about fifteen years ago, engaging in the retail grocery business at High and Broadway.”

According to news reports, Woolfolk’s coffee and peanut operation ended near the start of World War II. This was undoubtedly due to the federal policy of coffee rationing, which began in 1942.

A New Role

After World War II, the old Protestant Infirmary was the home of Hurst Office Supply. In 2014, Zeff Maloney acquired the structure at public sale through one of his businesses and has since gone through a painstaking process of bringing beauty back to this nineteenth-century structure and adapting it for modern use.

The structure is now rented to various commercial interests, including a sound healing center, marketing agency, financial planner, and law offices. In the restoration process, Maloney extracted ten tons of plaster from the building, which had covered the beautiful interior brick.

Source: The Kaintuckeean Article

Additional History: Lexington Herald-Leader Article

Sounds, vibrations, and “music will best bring healing and strength to the body…”

— Edgar Cayce reading 949-12