Dynamic Listening is a sound-based therapy in which clients listen through headphones to music which has been processed with elaborate sound processing equipment. The headphones also include a bone conductor to further stimulate your auditory processing system.

A typical listening session lasts 80 minutes and you can relax, work on an art project, play games or solve puzzles, receive bodywork (depending on the practitioner), do yoga or other movement therapies or engage in other activities. You don't have to put all your attention on the music. The processing of the sound that you hear interacts with your auditory processing system and initiates the changes that you are looking for.

Later in the process, you will speak, tone or sing into a microphone and listen to the results after the sound is processed. This is explained more fully on The Process page.

The processing of the sound is done in two primary ways:

It is filtered so that frequencies below a given setting are eliminated and the client hears only the frequencies above that setting (high pass filter), or the filtration is set so that only frequencies within a given range are heard.

It is gated. Gating is one of Tomatis’ most innovative techniques, and is central to Dynamic Listening. Tomatis realized that he was able to improve his clients’ hearing ability by separating music into 2 channels and alternating them, with one channel boosting high frequencies and the other channel boosting low frequencies, as the music gets louder or softer. The end result for the client is heightened and focused listening.