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Leshift Frequency Institute™ and Sound Healing Studio is Montréal’s first dedicated immersive sound wellness center, located in the heart of Plateau Mont-Royal. We use sound frequencies, sensory design, and immersive modalities to create transformative experiences with measurable therapeutic benefits, redefining the future of wellness destinations. Beyond our weekly immersive sessions, we make sound and frequency-based practices accessible daily, offering the public tools for self-care and hosting community events that inspire exploration of new paths to health and well-being in a world where wellness has never been more essential.
Amarys is the Founder of The Amarys Method™ and Co-Founder of Leshift™. An innovator, entrepreneur, athlete, coach, practitioner, and educator, she stands as a pioneering voice in vibrational sound healing across North America and within French-speaking communities globally.
Co-founded by Amarys, she conceived this flagship Montreal studio as an innovative experiential destination, bringing together her multidisciplinary approach into a unified wellness space. Her work integrates sound frequency, immersive arts, neuroscience, and healing practices into daily life and health management, offering advanced methodologies and a broad range of holistic alternatives that set a new standard for immersive wellness and integrative health solutions.
She is also a Certified Acutonics® Practitioner and an Acutonics® Instructor (Levels I/II). Amarys stands proudly as the founder of the global french Acutonics® teaching programs, serving as lead translator and french language educator.
Alongside her role as practitioner and the face of Leshift, Amarys brings her expertise as a designer, entrepreneur, explorer, athlete, practitioner and over 20 years of experience as a women-led business owner.
Through modern interpretations of ancient healing arts and today’s cutting-edge approaches, we deliver an ongoing study and practice within the frequency health spectrum. Our work integrates modalities which have shown consistent results, grounded in years of research and application. We address multiple dimensions of wellness, including sensory receptors, the parasympathetic nervous system, vibroacoustics, and natural rhythms of breath and movement, creating a holistic framework that enhances the effectiveness of each modality.
Co-founded by J. Harley Perkins, Leshift™ draws on over 25 years of experience in experience design, sound performance, athletic training, and cross-cultural healing practices. Perkins’ journey combines hands-on study with generational healers, exploration of medical anthropology, mycology, biology, and contemporary neuroscience, creating a perspective rooted in both lived experience and ongoing inquiry. His work seeks to illuminate the ways sound and frequency interact with the nervous system, sensory perception and holistic human functioning, transforming practices once considered esoteric into accessible, meaningful modalities.
Perkins brings over two decades of experience leading strategic campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, providing a grounded, results-oriented lens to wellness innovation. This combination of practical expertise, curiosity-driven research, and cultural exploration informs Leshift’s integrative approach to modern wellness, committed to re-examining and revitalizing practices that have long been overlooked, offering a framework that integrates spa and sound therapy within thoughtfully designed spaces. By blending experiential insight with evidence-informed methods, the institute fosters both personal and collective exploration of sound and frequency-based health, supporting a deeper understanding of human potential and well-being. Mission & Ethos
Amarys
Founder of The Amarys Method™
Co-founder of Leshift™
Innovator, Entrepreneur
Athlete & Coach
Certified Acutonics® Practitioner
Acutonics® Teacher LVI/II
Founder of the Global French Teachings for Acutonics®
Some choose to step away from established paths to prioritize self-care and respond to a deeper inner calling. Over the past twenty years, Amarys has embodied this choice, committing to a more intentional way of living, working, and evolving through disciplined practice, cultural exploration, and sustained personal alignment.
Quebec-born, of French-Breton heritage, she is also a world traveler fluent in English, French, and Spanish. She approaches life as both explorer and practitioner, drawing from lived experience, movement, and cross-cultural perspectives as essential foundations of her journey.
Her early career in high-performance environments, including elite competitive snowboarding and cross-continental cycling expeditions across South America, Europe, Scandinavia, and the continental United States, shaped a strong foundation of resilience, adaptability, and precision under pressure. These formative experiences cultivated a lasting understanding of human performance across both physical and psychological dimensions.
Delivering immersive, therapeutically impactful sound healing experiences and personalized one-on-one sessions, Amarys offers The Amarys Method™ and is introducing the Acutonics® modality to Quebec. As a multidisciplinary healer, she brings a deeply personal connection to vibrational healing. Her relationship with sound began early, singing in a professional choir, studying music, and performing in iconic venues. She holds a university degree in Business Administration and the WSET Level 2 Award in Oenology, combining strategic acumen with refined expertise and sensory analysis.
More than twenty years ago, she expanded her practice through yoga and breathwork training in California, integrating these disciplines into an ongoing commitment to holistic development and embodied awareness. As an athlete, entrepreneur, coach, educator, and designer, she later founded Leshift™, a Montréal-based Frequency Institute and Sound Healing Studio conceived as an immersive destination where her multidisciplinary expertise converges into a unified experiential framework.
Alongside her role as practitioner and creative director of Leshift, Amarys draws on over two decades of women-led entrepreneurship, bringing together design thinking, exploration, athletic discipline, and integrative wellness practice. Through contemporary interpretations of traditional healing arts and emerging approaches in frequency-based wellness, Leshift™ develops an ongoing practice within the spectrum of vibrational health. The work integrates modalities supported by applied research and consistent experiential outcomes, addressing multiple dimensions of well-being, including sensory perception, parasympathetic regulation, vibroacoustics, breath, and movement rhythms to create a cohesive framework that enhances the impact of each modality.
Her work integrates modalities supported by applied research and consistent experiential outcomes, addressing multiple dimensions of well-being, including sensory perception, parasympathetic regulation, vibroacoustics, breath, and movement rhythms, to create a cohesive framework that enhances the impact of each modality. Rooted in immersive practices and somatic intelligence techniques that support nervous system regulation, energetic alignment, and deep restorative balance, her approach is centered on self-discovery, modality education, and a trauma-informed framework, alongside complementary supportive practices, within an ongoing process of personal growth and transformation.
Alongside this, she offers therapy sessions to the general public, introducing frequency-based approaches to a broader audience for everyday support and self-care, not solely as a learning pathway but as a complementary alternative for holistic well-being. Through this integrative approach, she honors the depth and lineage of neuroscience backed techniques and Acutonics®, combining clinical precision with experiential practice to create a grounded and accessible therapeutic experience across modalities. She offers her methods and Acutonics® to the general public, guided by the belief that Acutonics® continues to evolve as a key reference within the field of frequency-based and integrative health practices.
Her path into healing was profoundly influenced by personal experience. Following her father's 22-year journey with Parkinson's disease, Amarys served as a dedicated caregiver during the final six years of his life. This experience deepened her understanding of presence, compassion, resilience, and the essential role of supportive care in the healing process, shaping much of the philosophy that guides her work today.
As a representative of Acutonics®, Amarys is actively contributing to the expansion of the modality within global communities through educational initiatives, live events, immersive experiences, and digital platforms globally. Her vision extends beyond practitioner circles, focusing on bringing the benefits of sound and frequency-based wellness to everyday individuals while preserving the integrity, rigor, and depth that define the Acutonics system. Having studied extensively under numerous teachers and mentors throughout her professional journey, she represents a new generation of practitioners and innovators. She is a Certified Acutonics® Practitioner and Teacher of Levels I/II. She is also the founder of the Global French Acutonics® Teaching Programs, serving as lead translator and French language educator.
Her ongoing mission is to bridge advanced frequency medicine with practical self-care applications of The Amarys Method™, empowering individuals to engage more consciously with their own well-being while honoring the foundational principles and standards of the discipline. At Leshift™ in Quebec and Eastern Canada, Amarys facilitates in-person large group and individualized sessions, group sound experiences (sound baths), workshops, and educational self-care programs designed to restore coherence, cultivate emotional clarity, and support long-term well-being. Through her work, she contributes to the evolution of sound-based healing and broader frequency-based practices, fostering greater awareness of the role that frequency, vibration, and conscious presence can play in modern wellness.
Amarys will also offer her Movement & Frequency Aligned Body Work™: a guided reconnection to the body’s natural rhythm, energy, and breath, as well as teaching Acutonics® Levels I and II, serving as the Eastern Canadian representative and the global French representative for Acutonics®, beginning in summer 2026. In this role, she will also be actively translating institute materials to expand accessibility and reach across French-speaking regions. Her work reflects a growing commitment to extending these teachings to communities internationally.
In an ever-evolving world where wellness has become more than a trend and increasingly a way of life, the teachings and applications of her methods offer a timely and meaningful framework for integrative care. Through her leadership, educational outreach, and dedication to excellence, Amarys is helping bring these transformative practices to a broader audience while supporting the continued growth and evolution of the global integrative community.
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Our Mission & Ethos
Sound is audible frequency. Now imagine a world where everything vibrates, every molecule, every cell, every organ in your body. Every sound you hear, every word you speak; vibration in motion. Sound is more than just noise. It is frequency, and frequency is life itself.
From ancient times, humans understood this intuitively. Tribal chants, sacred scriptures, and rituals across the globe recognized the power of sound. The voice was the first instrument, the first medicine. They knew that when words and tones resonate through the body, something profound happens: the body realigns, reorganizes, and heals.
Modern science shows that the universe operates through fundamental forces and energy interactions that can be described in terms of waves, fields, and vibrations. From the earliest moments after the Big Bang to the structure of matter itself, physics describes reality as dynamic systems governed by oscillation, frequency, and energy exchange.
Within the human body, cells communicate through highly regulated biochemical and bioelectrical signaling. Electrical impulses, ion exchanges, and molecular signaling pathways are essential to maintaining physiological balance. These processes are sensitive to disruption from chronic stress, environmental exposures, and toxic load, which can impair normal biological function over time.
Even in physics, phenomena such as radiation from unstable elements like uranium are understood not as “mystical energy,” but as measurable emissions resulting from nuclear instability, specifically changes in the atomic nucleus that release energy capable of affecting surrounding biological tissue.
In a complementary context, sound-based practices such as gongs, tuning forks, singing bowls, and vocal toning are being increasingly explored for their effects on the nervous system. While research is still emerging, studies in music therapy and psychoacoustics suggest that rhythmic and harmonic sound can influence brainwave activity, reduce stress responses, and support relaxation states. These modalities are best understood as supportive tools that may help regulate the nervous system rather than directly altering cellular or organ function.
The body can be understood as a deeply interconnected biomechanical and neurophysiological system, where structure and signaling are inseparable from fluid dynamics, rhythm, and electrical activity.
Fascia is a collagen-rich connective tissue network composed largely of water (often estimated around ~60–70% hydration depending on location and state). This fluid-rich matrix allows it to distribute mechanical tension, shear forces, and low-amplitude vibrational energy across muscles, tendons, organs, and bone interfaces, supporting whole-body force transmission and proprioceptive signaling.
The heart generates continuous rhythmic electrical activity (measured via ECG) and produces an extremely weak magnetic field detectable only with sensitive instrumentation. Its function is tightly coupled with respiratory rhythm and autonomic nervous system oscillations, forming a coordinated cardio-respiratory-regulatory loop that influences arousal, recovery, and emotional state.
Hydrated tissues throughout the body create the medium for bioelectrical and biochemical signaling. For reference:
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Blood is ~90 - 92% water (plasma itself is ~90% water).
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Brain tissue is ~73 - 75% water.
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Muscle tissue is ~75 - 79% water.
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Bone is ~20 - 25% water (with variability depending on density and age).
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Bone marrow is highly variable: red marrow can be ~40 - 60% water content, while fatty (yellow) marrow contains less water due to higher lipid composition.
These water-rich environments support ion movement (sodium, potassium, calcium), which is essential for nerve impulses, muscle contraction, and cellular communication. Electrical signaling in the body is therefore not abstract or “field-like” in a mystical sense, but grounded in well-established electrochemical gradients operating within fluid media.
Through structured breathing, rhythmic sensory input, and controlled vibration, the autonomic nervous system can be influenced via brainstem and vagal pathways. This can shift the system toward parasympathetic dominance, characterized by slower respiration, reduced muscular tone, improved digestive activity, and enhanced cellular repair processes.
From a modern neuroscience and biophysics perspective, the body is best understood as a dynamic, fluid-dominant electrochemical network, where mechanical forces, electrical signaling, and biological rhythms continuously interact to regulate stability, adaptation, and recovery.
Modern neuroscience describes the body as a network of electrical and chemical communication, where breathing, heartbeat, and brain activity form coupled oscillatory systems that influence stress, recovery, and emotional state.
Traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist models describe similar functional organization through meridians and the flow of “qi.” While these pathways are not confirmed as discrete anatomical structures in biomedical science, some evidence suggests overlaps with connective tissue planes, nerve pathways, and interstitial fluid movement. Practices such as acupuncture, acupressure, acutonics, breathwork, and slow movement supports well-being by engaging sensory nerves, fascia, and autonomic (vagal) regulation and energy displacement helping shift the body toward calmer, restorative states.
Overall, these perspectives can be viewed as different languages describing the same goal: supporting internal regulation, coherence, and recovery in a living, adaptive system.
Frequency Works on Multiple Levels
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Cellular coherence: mitochondria work efficiently, powering the body.
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Lymphatic flow: removing stagnation, supporting immune balance.
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Emotional regulation: promoting calm, clarity, and resilience.
At Leshift, we integrate the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Each organ connects to meridians, energy pathways that regulate function. Applying sound and vibration along these meridians with tuning forks, copper bowls or drumming stimulates organ function, balances the autonomic nervous system and creates a resonance that ripples through the body. Resonant vibrations interacting with the body’s natural rhythms to promote a sense of balance and actual healing.
Chanting; whether “Om,” Celtic traditions, or mantras, intension based and frequency based words from various cultures, produces rhythmic acoustic patterns that can influence physiological and psychological states. These sound vibrations interact with the nervous system, supporting relaxation, focus, and internal regulation. This is well documented in fields such as psychoacoustics and music therapy, where sound is studied as a modulator of stress and emotional response.
From this perspective, herbal traditions such as Ayurveda and Western herbalism explore natural substances as expressions of nature's energetic and biochemical intelligence. Through sunlight, minerals, water, and environmental influences, plants develop unique molecular structures that give rise to their characteristic properties. These molecular arrangements interact with specific wavelengths of light, absorb and reflect distinct frequencies, and produce the compounds responsible for their color, aroma, flavor, and biological activity. Turmeric, reishi, and other botanicals contain bioactive constituents that have been studied for their roles in supporting inflammatory balance, immune function, cellular resilience, and overall well-being. In this sense, the "frequency" of a plant can be understood as both its vibrational relationship with light and its unique molecular signature, shaped by the elements and conditions from which it emerged. These properties are ultimately expressed through measurable interactions with human physiology, connecting the energetic patterns of nature with the biological processes of the body.
When combined with sound-based practices such as singing bowls, tuning forks, bells, percussion, and voice work, these modalities can help create a supportive sensory environment conducive to relaxation and nervous system regulation. Today, they are generally regarded as complementary wellness tools within integrative health approaches and the broader study of sound and its effects on human perception and wellbeing.
Historical and Conceptual Foundations
Humans have long sought to measure vibration, but it’s often misunderstood in modern contexts:
Heinrich Hertz established the Hertz (Hz) as a measurement of cycles per second for electromagnetic waves. The original Solfeggio tones can be traced to medieval Gregorian chant traditions, where specific musical intervals were used in vocal practices. In the 1970s, Joseph Puleo reintroduced the Solfeggio frequencies through his interpretation of these historical systems. Around the same period, Swiss mathematician and musicologist Hans Cousto, inspired in part by the harmonic principles explored by philosopher and music theorist Hans Kayser, developed the "Cosmic Octave," translating planetary cycles and natural rhythms into audible frequencies. The Schumann resonances further provide a measurable example of Earth's natural electromagnetic oscillations. Together, these systems offer different frameworks for exploring rhythm, resonance, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.
The takeaway: frequencies are variable, dynamic, and multifaceted. Instruments and human voices vibrate do not resonate as a single tone. Healing emerges from the interaction of multiple frequencies, the body’s response, and the intention behind the practice.
Emerging Science: Frequency and the Brain
Recent research validates what traditions have long known. Sound and vibration can modulate brainwaves:
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Gamma: High-level information processing, cognitive functioning, and learning.
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Beta: Active conversation, decision-making, and alert, conscious thought.
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Alpha: Calm, relaxed, and creative states, often when eyes are closed.
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Theta: Deep meditation, daydreaming, and light sleep.
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Delta: supporting focus, calm, and emotional regulation.
Vibration, frequency and resonance can also:
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Enhance heart-brain coherence, improving autonomic balance.
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Influence neuroplasticity, helping the brain reorganize and optimize connections.
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Activate parasympathetic states, lowering stress hormones and supporting restoration.
Studies using vibroacoustic therapy show reductions in pain, anxiety, and muscle tension. Rhythmic drumming or chanting synchronizes neural oscillations, improving cognitive function and emotional resilience. Even simple breath and tone exercises increase nitric oxide production, enhancing circulation and cellular communication. These findings confirm that frequency is not abstract or mystical, it has real, measurable effects. They bridge ancient wisdom, intuition and modern neuroscience, providing a foundation for practices used for millennia.
We also integrate Acutonics®, a vibrational sound therapy system grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine, depth psychology, cosmology, and science into our approaches, methods, and sound healing practices. Using precisely calibrated tuning forks, chimes, gongs, bowls, and other instruments, our methods engage the body’s energetic systems, "chakras", as well as meridians and acupressure points, to support harmony, balance, and overall well-being.
The Leshift Mission
This is where Leshift comes in. We are more than a wellness studio or wellness center; we are the first grassroots Immersive Frequency Institute (est. 2024), dedicated to exploring and uniting the worlds of sound, vibration, neuroscience, breath, movement, traditional wisdom, and leading integrative frequency-based wellness practices. Our purpose is to bridge modern science, lived experience, and ancient knowledge to advance a deeper understanding of human well-being and potential.
Our mission is to create a space where science, traditional practices, music and intentionally designed 360° immersive experiences converge, fostering a deeper understanding of how rhythm, resonance, and human connection can support balance, restoration, and a more holistic vision of health for the future.
At the same time, we are helping modernize and curate the wellness and immersive experience landscape, making these tools more accessible, not only as therapeutic modalities, but also as vehicles for education, self-discovery, prevention, and community awareness. Through collaborations with experience designers, practitioners, local wellness centers, researchers, artists, and thought leaders across diverse fields, Leshift serves as a living platform where innovation, science, creativity, and collective well-being come together to advance the future of integrative wellness.
By helping demystify sound, vibration, and resonance, we invite people to reconnect with the innate intelligence of the body and the restorative power of presence. In doing so, we contribute to a growing movement that seeks a more holistic relationship between health, nature, community, and consciousness.
So the next time you hear a gong, chant a mantra, feel a drumbeat, or simply listen to your own voice, remember: you are not merely hearing sound, you are participating in one of nature's most fundamental forces, engaging with the rhythms that connect body, mind, and universe.