The sound of a team at ease.
Live sound baths, offsite sound journeys, and monthly sound meditations that help teams release stress, restore focus, and reconnect. Performed live by musician and sound practitioner Scarlett de la Torre.
Why sound, why now
Workplaces run on attention, and attention runs on the nervous system. When a team spends months in sustained stress, focus thins, patience shortens, and collaboration gets expensive. A sound session gives the body a direct route back to rest: your team lies back, listens, and lets live voice and instrumentation guide their physiology from stress response toward recovery. People return to their work clearer, calmer, and more connected to each other.
85% of employees reported burnout symptoms in recent workplace surveys, and the World Health Organization estimates roughly four dollars returned for every dollar invested in employee mental wellbeing. Teams at Google, Meta, PayPal, and Lululemon have brought sound sessions into the workplace. The format has moved from novelty to a fixture of serious wellbeing programs.
The science of sound
The human brain is a rhythmic organ. Its electrical activity moves in measurable waves, and those waves respond to the sound environment around them. A workday keeps most people locked in fast beta activity, the state of analysis, deadlines, and alert self-monitoring. Sustained tones and slow rhythmic sound are associated with a gentle shift toward alpha and theta ranges, the territory of relaxed attention, creativity, and deep rest, and they support the parasympathetic response that lets the body restore itself.
Published research on sound meditation, including a study in the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, found participants reported significantly less tension, anger, fatigue, and low mood after a single session. Studies of receptive music listening also associate calming music with lower cortisol responses following stress.
Sound meditation is a listening practice grounded in physiology. It carries zero religious or political content and asks zero belief of anyone in the room. Participation is receptive: sit or lie down, close the eyes, listen. Fully accessible across physical abilities, gentle, voluntary, and quiet. One of the very few wellbeing formats an entire company can share in one room.
About Scarlett
Scarlett de la Torre is a lifelong musician, performer, and sound practitioner based in Los Angeles. She could sing and play the piano before she could properly speak, and music has carried her around the world since: performing internationally, building music programs for trafficking survivors in Calcutta and refugee families in Thessaloniki, and studying traditions that treat music as real medicine for the body and the emotional life. Her sessions are live performances in the truest sense. Voice, instruments, and deep listening, shaped in the moment to the people in the room.
Past clients include Lionheart Ventures, the Psychedelic Science Funders Collective, Urban Remedy, and Fastly.
The Offerings
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A 45 to 60 minute restorative sound bath inside your own office. Scarlett transforms a conference room into a calm, immersive listening space with live voice and instrumentation, giving your team a true pause in the middle of the workday. A natural fit for wellness weeks, Mental Health Awareness Month, and any season when the team is carrying more than usual.
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A 60 to 90 minute live sound journey woven into your offsite, leadership retreat, or quarterly gathering. Deeper and more spacious than the office format, designed to open a strategy day with presence or close one with integration. Based in Los Angeles, Scarlett partners beautifully with Southern California venues and travels wherever your team gathers.
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A half day of live sound and wellbeing programming woven through your wellness day, culture event, or company gathering. Multiple sessions across the day, from immersive sound baths to gentle voice and breath practice, so every team and every schedule finds a way in. Scarlett shapes the arc of the day with your people team.
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A monthly onsite sound meditation held around the new moon, the quietest point of the lunar cycle and a natural moment for reflection and beginning again. The steady rhythm gives your team a dependable place to reset each month and brings mindfulness and a felt connection to the earth into the workplace, on a cadence employees genuinely look forward to.