Bilateral Self-Soothing on Monochord
Bilateral Self-Soothing on Monochord with Marina Perdos
Marina Perdos was our special guest in March 2025 as part of our Monochord Monday Meetup series, joining us live from Ohio.
Marina spent decades in nursing — working in emergency rooms and hospice — and is a trained practitioner of many alternative healing modalities. In this session, she shares a playing technique she originally developed for the Monolini to double the playing face of the overtone strings and compensate for its smaller size. As it turns out, this technique works beautifully on the larger Monolina too — and produces an incredible bilateral self-soothing effect.
About Marina Perdos
Marina Perdos PhD, RN, Ayurvedic Practitioner, BCTMB, LMT, CCA-AP, CCMHt, CYT-750 is a Sound Healing Therapist, Reiki Master-Teacher, Celestial Herbalist, and owner of Natural Healing Therapies in Ohio.
Her preventative holistic healthcare practice grew from over 30 years of work in stress management, mental health, addiction support, hospice, and palliative care — extending support not just to patients but to their families and caregivers. Marina specializes in custom therapies using the 5 elements of nature and 5 senses, and has worked with individuals of all ages — from newborn massage to compassionate end-of-life care.
A registered nurse since 1993, Marina's credentials span:
- Board certifications in metaphysics, nursing, nutrition, herbalism, and massotherapy
- Reflexology (1996), advanced clinical aromatherapy (NAHA-registered)
- Certified clinical master hypnotherapist using NLP (1998)
- Reiki Master/Teacher certification (1996)
- Ayurveda Practitioner certification (2018), specializing in nutrition and digestive health
- Personal training, Pilates, sound therapy, meditation, and yoga (teaching since 1988)
Her practice draws on Western Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine — a foundation she has built through continuous education over more than four decades.
