Healing frequencies: Ormond woman opens sound bath studio

Following the loss of her husband, Nancy DeLuca discovered sound baths as a source of peace. Her studio, 7th Heaven Sound Baths, is now located at 725 W. Granada Blvd., Unit 11.

  • By Michele Meyers
  • | 1:00 p.m. September 17, 2025
  • Ormond Beach Observer
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A session at 7th Heaven Sound Baths is an immersive experience that surrounds the participant— suspended on a zero-gravity chair — in the tones of nature through Koshi chimes, ocean drums, Chakapas or leaf rattles and crystal singing bowls. Each individual’s journey is unique, with the thread of commonality aimed at providing a sense of well-being, emotional healing and inner peace.

That’s what sound baths brought to Ormond Beach resident Nancy DeLuca when she discovered them in 2023, two years after her husband’s death. 

“It really gave me a sense of purpose again because now I’m 71 years old, but when I lost my husband, I was 67 and I felt like that was too young not to do anything,” she said. “I love to read and do creative stuff but I felt like I was too young to not continue in some type of work capacity. But I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do. So it was exciting to me to learn about the practice of sound healing.”

Nancy met  her husband Paul in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, in 1979. She said they knew immediately that they were soulmates. They moved to Ormond Beach that year and a couple years later, got married and moved to Orlando. They returned to Ormond in 2009, continuing to run their promotional travel business, First Priority Travel, until they closed in 2020 due to the pandemic. 

While vacationing in North Carolina, Paul died in his sleep.

“He was everything to me,” she said. “He was not only my husband and my lover but also my best friend and my business partner. We spent — I know this sounds unbelievable to people — but we spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week together and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.”

In March 2023, Nancy asked a friend to go with her to the Sound Bath in the Garden Gazebo event at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens. Morgan McManus was her first teacher.

“It was just such a great experience that I started seeking them out in other places and from other practitioners,” she said. “At that point, I decided I wanted to learn from the first one I went to. I wanted to learn from her teacher and that’s what I did.”

After attending a few more sound baths from different teachers and having mixed experiences — one that hurt her ears during the session with the pain continuing the next day — DeLuca decided she needed to learn more about sound therapy. She sought out McManus’ teacher Barbara Spaulding, who resides in Stewart.

I would really like for sound baths to be something that the rest of the community is interested in ... While I absolutely embrace the yoga community, I would like this to be approachable for everybody." — NANCY DELUCA, 7th Heaven Sound Baths owner

Spaulding is a Certified Master Sound Healer and Clinical Sound Therapist with over 250 hours of training and over a decade of experience in Sound Healing Therapy, according to her website. She utilizes an arsenal of approximately 65 instruments to guide sound bath practitioners toward their own repertoire.

“There’s a certain order you’re supposed to do things, to relax people and get them to the point of the crystal singing bowls which really are the healing part of it,” DeLuca  said. “Healing frequencies help to down shift your brain waves.”

This year, DeLuca started offering sound baths in her community clubhouse at Trails North Forty. Karen Koenig lives in the neighborhood and began attending the sound baths in February. 

“I guess she wanted to see how people felt about sound baths,” Koenig said. “Once the word got around in the development, all her chairs were taken and she expanded it to one in the morning and one later in the day.”

Koenig said when DeLuca first started doing the sound baths, her mind would wander. After a few sessions, she said she was able to stop her mind from wandering.

“It’s not an easy task but the more you do it, the easier it gets,” Koenig said. “I get a refreshed, calm, relaxed feeling and it lingers for a couple of days afterwards. Little things don’t seem to bother me as much for a few days afterwards and I definitely sleep better.”

Currently, people can reserve a zero-gravity chair in any of the three group sound baths — the 45-minute Nature Soundscape, a 25-minute Stress Buster Sound Bath and the 65-minute Chakra Rebalancing Sound Bath. For a private experience, there is also the Vibro-Acoustic Sound Lounge.

Kim Latford met DeLuca after her father died in 2024. She said the days before his death all ran together and were a “doozy.” She was still trying to wrap her head around it when she came upon DeLuca’s flyer for the sound baths. Latford became a regular attendee.

“It’s a different kind of feeling — better than you get from, say, talk therapy,” Latford said. “It just seemed like a different bit of shaking out the negativity in a more physical way than you could with talk.”

She said she is leveraging her skills in marketing to promote 7th Heaven Sound Baths.

“I did get in the vibro-acoustic chair yesterday and that was nice,” Latford said. “That was really cool. It was one of those things when you’re like, ‘How long have I been in here?’ I was pretty conscious because I wanted to experience that at a conscious level the first time. I felt fantastic afterwards.”

DeLuca opted for zero-gravity chairs because she has a physical disability that makes it difficult for her to lie on the floor then get up from that position.

“I know that sound baths are popular with the group of people who do yoga and meditation but I would really like for sound baths to be something that the rest of the community is interested in,” DeLuca  said. “... While I absolutely embrace the yoga community, I would like this to be approachable for everybody.”

7th Heaven Sound Baths is located at 725 W. Granada Blvd., Unit 11. Visit 7thheavensoundbaths.com.

 

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