Valerie Carpenter's Page

My husband Rob and I built The Vestibule last year. It is a private garden studio located behind our home in El Cerrito, California. To be honest, the project began as a way to gain a little more living space after my 6'4 husband moved into our tiny house. As it turned out, however, the construction happened to coincide with a year of intensive training for me in Sound, Voice and Music Healing at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

During that time, Rob and I were regularly offering profound shamanic healing sessions to my classmates and their friends. We soon discovered that everything I was learning in my sound healing studies was seamlessly integrating into our shamanic sessions, elevating the work beyond what we could have imagined. We realized that one of the most powerful ingredients for facilitating transformation in others is the ability to "hold space" for them, so we decided to dedicate our new space to our emergent sound healing practice and to christen it "The Vestibule."

Since we opened The Vestibule, it has been blessed and energized by potent healers, internationally-recognized shamans and renowned musicians. We feel truly privileged to share in the Divine Resonance!