Human bioacoustics

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Sharry Edwards · Albany, Ohio

What it is

Human BioAcoustics is presented as the study of sound and its effects on living organisms, literally "life sounds". Its central practice is Vocal Profiling: a recording of the person's voice is analysed by software that graphs the pitches and loudness in the voice; Edwards calls the resulting…

Format

• Voice sample. The client speaks into a microphone; samples can be recorded in person or sent remotely, and remote sessions are offered by video call or screen-sharing.
• Formats sold to consumers include a voice-based "personality profile", a "health and wellness profile", a full evaluation with follow-up, and corporate "interview profiling" and employee-wellness days. Device settings, frequencies and listening schedules are deliberately not given here.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Training is sold by Sound Health / the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in tiers (2020 catalogue, US dollars): an Apprentice level (application fee, temporary software access, electronic manual, online classes); a 2-day Technician course; "BioMarker Signatures" training with Edwards; a 5-day Research/Professional level ("BARA", BioAcoustics Research Associate) that includes software, a tone box and textbooks and…
• Practitioners: no statutory licence exists for "BioAcoustic" providers in the US or UK; anyone who completes the institute's training may offer it.
• UK, EU, Canada, Australia: medical-device regulators (MHRA, national competent authorities, Health Canada, TGA) and advertising regulators (e.g. the ASA in the UK) govern diagnostic or therapeutic claims.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• US advertising: the FTC's Health Products Compliance Guidance (December 2022) requires health benefit claims in any medium to be backed by competent and reliable scientific evidence, generally randomised controlled human trials; testimonials and consumer surveys do not suffice.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Does it use a device, heat, cold, water or a physical procedure? Has a medical professional checked that it is safe for you?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• the client feeling rejected; repair by returning to what matters to them (4.2). Working: the client continues to talk openly about their use.
• sunk-cost reasoning; offers to profile you or your other clients (decline, see 4.9). Working: the client weighs the role against their own values and finances.
• breaching confidentiality unnecessarily; reporting being experienced as punishment by the client. Working: the concern reaches the right body and the therapeutic relationship holds.
• hesitation or embarrassment (normalise; you ask everyone); a client testing whether you will scoff. Working: the client mentions new reports or tone programmes on their own initiative later.
• the client asking you to keep it from the doctor (explore the fear of being judged); reports recommending supplements that may interact with medicines. Working: the doctor knows, and medical…

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.