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Natalia Benson Podcast // Womb Healing Review // June 2023
“In the session with Josie it was such a sacred healing experience that I felt so present for and so available for, and I have to tell you honestly I have gotten so comfortable in the giving position in my work that stopping to receive which is way more vulnerable which h is not something I have done in a while, at least in this very deep energetic esoteric way. What was so exquisite about this session with Josie is the deep insights that I had and the connection that I had to my own visualisation and my own clairvoyance. I wasn’t talking myself out of it. I wasn’t seeing it and then moving away from it. I just allowed it and it was such a deeply profound session for me, meeting my inner child, the visions that I had, the healing, the connection to my womb, I was convulsing with energy because my womb and heart centre were turning on. It was just so deep and so beautiful and Josie just held such space for me.” Natalie Benson, The Podcast, June 2023
Pioneer Feature & Interview // Sound Healing // September 2021
“Back in 2018, I attended a sound healing session led by Josie. A small group of us gathered in a community space below a church in East London. We lay on yoga mats, eyes closed, as Josie emitted cascading tones from behind an array of crystal bowls. I remember thinking that the spiritual or ceremonial feel of the session might have initially disoriented more sceptically minded people, but that the sheer power of the drones would likely sideline any reservations. In places I found the session almost unnerving, as I tried to make sense of the enveloping sonics and place the source of the sounds. Overall, though, the experience was one of bliss and contentment, which lasted into the days following the session.” Pioneer
Tatler Magazine// London Calling // October 2020
“The Mandrake has built up a strong reputation as the go-to hotel for holistic therapies, including cacao ceremonies and shamanic drumming circles, performed by some of the cities best specialists and healers. One of the most transformative treatments is the healing and private sound bath with reiki master Josie, whose acoustic massage sends you into a dreamlike state. There are also meditation sessions with Catherine Turner, who can get even the most stressed out, anxiety ridden clients to breathe deeply, chant and clear their minds. Even better - combine the two - it’s the closest you’ll get to an out of body experience..” Tatler
The Telegraph // September 2020
Me and my crystal tribe were floating around in @telegraph in an article all about alternative healing and wellness breaks! It features @themandrakehotel which now strongly focuses on spirituality and healing and even offers a soul reset break in the hotel! I’m honoured to be part of the healing tribe at @themandrakehotel offering one to one healing sessions to guests and monthly sound healing sessions in the penthouse
The Telegraph // March 2020
“The physical reaction after one writer's first spiritual wellbeing session at The Mandrake hotel was not what she expected” The Telegraph
“The spiritual guide assigned to treat me with a ‘spiritual awakening’ was Josie Danielle, an intuitive energy healing and sound expert who is usually based in Shoreditch, but on speed dial with The Mandrake for such appointments. Her voice was soft and dream-like and she was swaddled in a snug pale knitted jumper and loose capris.
I was invited to take a seat opposite her and, after asking me a series of personal questions, she explained what I was about to experience: sound therapy to settle my body, energy healing to work on it on an energetic level and light language for healing and to ‘call me into my soul’ (I will explain this later).
She notes, as we sat talking, that my arms were crossed in front of my womb - a sign of protection bought on by past trauma, and diagnosed me with a need for womb work to heal the energy blockages in that area of my body. This is a concept that was totally foreign to me, but I resolved to be as open to the process as possible, and would advise any other beginners to adopt the same approach.
I could not see what was happening above me but I felt Josie’s presence as she worked on ‘unblocking’ my energy. Every now and then she would come closer and touch an area of my body with a series of light taps. As all of this happened, I drifted in and out of consciousness. Not asleep, but it felt like I floated into another place - something I have never experienced before.
Then I heard Josie speaking in what sounded like an ancient tongue. This turned out to be light language, a ‘cosmic language’ that is said to distribute sound and energy to convey messages.”
Mr Porter // December 2019
“What is it? An aural experience of truly transcendent proportions that takes place in the hedonistically eccentric space of The Mandrake Hotel, London. Miss Josie Ross, a healer and reiki master, works with crystal bowls and tuning forks and chants whilst burning palo santo to achieve ‘sound healing’ to harmonise the mind and body and guide you into a deep relaxation.
Our verdict: This experience - and the chanting - requires a certain degree of just-go-with-it openness. Any cynicism I felt beforehand was obliterated by the sound waves and I found the whole thing overwhelmingly positive. I have never felt more relaxed and, dare I say it, more connected with myself.”
ELLE // 5 Holistic Therapies That Will Clear All Of Your Emotional Blockages Pronto // Sep 2019
“Josie Ross, Founder of Eleven Healing, a sound energy centre in East London, said: 'I've always had a strong connection to music and I really wanted to bring it into by practice. When I went to my first sound bath, it had a profound effect on me. Hearing and feeling the vibrations is a sensory experience.’
“We have various states of consciousness, between being awake and asleep. Sound can take us into a deep meditative state very quickly due to the effect it has on our nervous system. Our breath patterns change and the sounds becomes harmonious with our bodies. Our brainwaves shift as we drift into a deeper wave of consciousness.”
Tatler // Into the mystic - Six of the best // Dec 2019
“A private sound healing session with Josie Ross, East London’s most popular white witch and reiki master, is almost an out of body experience. This acoustic massage takes you into such a deep, dreamlike state that after an hour long session, you feel as if you’ve shed ten years”
Saiki Wellness // June 2019
“Josie is an intuitive energy healer and founder to Eleven Healing. It is clear that Josie’s practice comes very naturally to her and sharing this gift is a source of joy and healing for many as the likes of Vogue, i_D and Tatler have, quite rightly, begun to take notice. Here Josie speaks about her dreams, inspirations and how energy healing can help you and what to expect in her sessions.”
The Sunday Edit // July 2019
“In the wellness space, sound healing is rapidly growing in popularity with the once-niche trend moving into the mainstream. “Sound is one of the most ancient forms of healing tools and it’s been used and explored by human beings for thousands of years,” says Josie Ross, a sound healer and electronic musician. “When you receive sound in this therapeutic way you can feel the vibrations working through you. This naturally guides you to listen with your body and takes you away from the mind and into a state of simply being. Your brain waves change, breath patterns deepen and you naturally fall into relaxation.”
Tatler // Lost & Profound // April 2019
“Ross begins telling me about her gift: being able to speak the language of light. ‘I started having dreams from last Feb that I was speaking in another language which sounded like tongues, and I would wake up very startled.” she tells me, adding that her practice is a unique combination of energy healing, sage and palo santo burning, alchemy crystal bowls, chimes and a vibrational tuning fork. ‘Society tells us to take a pill, but we should lock closer at where our pain is coming from’ she says. And so we begin the session with me lying on a massage table. What happens next takes me by surprise. Almost immediately I fall into a deep trance while Ross performs her reiki. About three-quarters of the way through, a booming voice begins chanting what sounds like an african tribal dialect. My body uncontrollably vibrates from its core - and it is brilliant. Afterwards, Ross says she can tell how affected I was and, with some hesitation, says she found a lot of ‘sadness and abandonment’ in my heart. She also asks about my relationship with my father. I drive home shaken to my core in more ways than one.”
i-D // Why everyone is so obsessed with sound bathing right now // Jan 2019
“I like sound bathing because it’s the most passive of new-age therapies. It doesn’t require you dig deep into your psyche to set serious intentions for the future, nor does it really take any ‘faith’ as such. It just works. “Just turning up and being ready to receive is enough, and the rest is taken care of by the sounds,” adds Josie from Eleven Healing, the very floaty, serene healer leading this session at London’s The Mandrake hotel. “The best advice is to let go of any expectation of what may happen as it will likely be a very different experience every time.” Like many alternative therapies, sound healing might have only recently reached your Instagram feed but it isn’t exactly new. “Sound is one of the most ancient forms of healing tools used,” explains Josie, but the reason it’s resonating with stressed-out millennials right now is because our love of music has honed our appreciation of the power of sound. “We all connect to music. It has the power to heal, and has a rapid and powerful effect on us. Just listening to your favourite track can shift your emotional and mental state. It literally releases endorphins into you brain which induce feelings of pleasure,” she explains."
British Vogue // 14 Ways To Bring Wellness Into Your Life in 2019 // December 2018
“Sound therapy is believed to calm the mind and body as well as reduce stress and anxiety. Spiritual wellbeing has become a central focus for The Mandrake Hotel in Fitzrovia, which believes that the soul needs to be nourished as much as the mind and body. The new programme is curated to offer a spectrum of spiritual wellbeing, with a strong focus on sound. This boutique hotel offers intimate and restorative sound healing sessions - binaural sound immersions, live crystal bowls, full moon gong baths - so prepare to be transcended into a meditative bliss. The Mandrake also offers bespoke shamanic ceremonies and rituals right through to a spiritual concierge service, for those guests who require alternative healing with Reiki, intuitive energy healing and sound meditations with Eleven Healing.”
Bestival FM // Interview with DJ Goldirocks // May 2018
DJ Goldirocks came to experience one of my sound healing sessions! The session was recorded and we had a chat afterwards about the power of sound healing and my healing practice! Interview @ 54 Mins
Bangs & A Bun // Reiki Me Up // April 2018
"I saw myself as a kid, sitting in the pew at church and my grandmother (who passed away in ’04) was next to me, I could feel her on my right hand side. And this wave of happiness just rushed through me.
Josie moved around my body – sometimes I could feel her hands on me, sometimes they hovered just above me. She spent a lot of time in my mid-section, around my solar plexus. My heart felt as though it was literally beating out of my chest. Wherever she had her hands, I could only really feel that part of my body, I wasn’t aware of the rest of me – just right where she had her energy was the only part of me that existed.
She moved to the right side of my body and gently lifted my right arm. As soon as she did that, I felt a weird sensation in my throat. It was powerful and strange and it freaked me out.”
Wild Wood London // Interview // April 2018
"I have been seeing Josie, Founder of Eleven healing for reiki treatments for the past six months and I can honestly say they have been such transformational experiences. I have loved seeing the results and it encouraged me to delve further into Reiki by enrolling onto Eleven Healing’s Level 1 Reiki course. I sat down with Josie to discuss the origins of Eleven Healing and her plans for the next six months including retreats and a new residency at the Re:mind studio in Victoria.’
DOSE // March 2018
"Nestled in Belgravia, Re:Mind’s peaceful studio offers classes for all levels. Its signature sound healing session Re:Sound uses bowls, gongs and other instruments to offer a grounding and nourishing experience. Look out for intuitive energy healer Josie who is widely regarded as one of London’s leading sound healing experts."
DOSE // How to become an energy healer // Feb 2018
"Sometimes your calling finds you. It wasn’t something I woke up and decided to do, I had an intense awakening to my healing abilities in 2011. It changed my entire life as I began a quest of healing myself and others. By Summer 2014 I left my job in the city as a PA to launch my healing practice and it has been a magical journey ever since. Not a moment passes by when I do not feel deep gratitude to be able to work with other people in this way and witness the shifts that energy healing can bring to someones health, wellbeing and life. It is my mission to continue spreading awareness of energy healing. I truly believe it is just as integral to our health as a good diet and exercise."
DOSE // Spring Cleaning for the Soul // Nov 2017
"It opens a few suspense-filled moments later with a waft of incense, revealing an angelic blonde draped in a yellow shawl. So this is what they mean by a beautiful aura. Josie (for that is her name), greets me with a warm, nurturing hug and knowing eyes like she’s already peering into my soul. She leads me inside her mystical apartment that’s adorned with healing paraphernalia including Alchemy Crystal Bowls, Tuning Forks, bundles of Sage, Palo Santo and Chakra Balancing Mists."
Josie circles me meditatively, clanging tuning forks at different frequencies. The vibrations hang in the air for a few moments in a reassuring, meditative hum… a bit like the sound of a lightsaber. Next I lie down face up on the treatment bed for the healing. Josie plays soothing, cosmic sounding music and uses her hands both on and off to intuitively address any imbalances and blockages.
As she glides by, I feel all the hairs on my body stand up in a Mexican wave, as if someone has just opened a window and let a rush of cold air into the room. My whole body is now covered in goosebumps. What a scientist would call frisson otherwise known as “the chills”. My body remains in this state for the entire 90 minute session, while my mind starts flying quite literally through space. I’m seeing galaxies of stars at hyper speed, like something out of Star Trek.”
DOSE // Good Vibrations: Reiki & Sound Baths To Stickers? // Oct 2017
"If you prefer the idea of rebalancing your chakras one-on-one, try a session with Josie, a qualified Reiki Master from Eleven Healing. Her healing arsenal includes; alchemy crystal bowls, tuning forks and chimes to address blockages and imbalances to promote higher vibrations in the body."
Metro // April 2015
“With crystal healing widely dismissed as a pseudo-science, it’s easy to scoff. But despite being unsure of what spiritual beliefs I have – if any – I’ve always been happy to accept there might be all sorts of forces at work in the universe. So I head to east London to speak to Josie of Eleven Healing, an energy healer who uses a crystal pendulum as part of her sessions.Josie says each type of crystal has a unique internal structure that makes it resonate at a certain frequency – and its this that gives it specific healing qualities. As I attempt to bend my head around this, I notice a beautiful array of crystals on her sunny windowsill. “I take these with me everywhere” she says “They say you don’t find a crystal, the right crystal finds you.”She sees the celeb lust for crystals not as a fad but as an indication of a wider “revolution in consciousness”, with more of us opening up to alternative beliefs.”