Sound therapist · Sabana Sur, San José
Leonardo Murillo
Sound and vibration have concrete effects on the body and on the nervous system. My work is to explain them precisely and apply them methodically: I am a bridge between the pragmatic and the intangible.
Where I come from
I spent most of my adult life in technology, many of those years as a chief technology officer: calendars packed with back-to-back meetings, teams spread across the world. When I talk about stress, overload, or the difficulty of winding down, I am not speaking from theory. For years, that was my daily life.
I came to sound through skepticism and pragmatism. First I experienced it myself. Then I needed to understand it. And eventually I wanted to share it.
Today it is what I do. I have three children and a real life to support.
Training
- Sound therapist certified by the International Sound Therapy Association (ISTA).
- Acutonics, through Acutonics Canada. I have completed the requirements for Associate Acutonics Practitioner and am continuing toward Certified Acutonics Practitioner, the system's highest level, which I complete in December 2026. Acutonics applies tuned forks to the points and meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine: the same logic as acupuncture, with vibration instead of a needle.
- Maestría Internacional en Musicoterapia (International Master's in Music Therapy), Escuela de Posgrado de Salamanca, Spain. Six hundred hours online, which I complete in mid-2027.
- Multi Instrumental Sound Therapy, with Carlos «Tapado» Vargas and Ana Lucía Fariña.
- Quantum Cranial Sound Healing, with John Beaulieu.
- Gong Master Training, with Don Conreaux.
- OSO Sound Healing, Los Angeles (formerly The Sound Healing Studio), with an emphasis on Crystal Tones quartz bowls and sound experiences for groups.
Each one contributes a different tool, and a session rarely uses only one.
My teachers
William R. Morris, PhD, DAOM, LAc
Senior Acutonics faculty and president emeritus of AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, an accredited doctorate-granting institution.
From him I learned the extraordinary depth of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Naturopathic doctor and musician. He originated BioSonic Repatterning, the system of tuning forks pitched to Pythagorean intervals, and wrote Human Tuning. He arrived there by sitting in New York University's anechoic chamber for some five hundred hours across two years, listening to the sounds of his own body.
From him I learned the nervous system: what it does with sound before the mind has a chance to have an opinion.
Don Conreaux
He originated Gong Yoga of Holistic Resonance and the title of Gong Master itself, and was one of the first five Kundalini Yoga teachers designated by Yogi Bhajan in 1969. I studied with him in Texas.
From him I learned the power of the gong when used with focused intention.
Carlos «Tapado» Vargas
Costa Rican percussionist with Grupo Editus (three Grammy awards alongside Rubén Blades) and Malpaís, and an Acutonics practitioner for over twenty years.
From him I learned what is not in any manual: how much more the integrity of the person holding the session matters than any instrument.
Ana Lucía Fariña
Costa Rican sound therapy and yoga teacher, with whom I did the Multi Instrumental Sound Therapy training alongside Tapado.
From her I learned how closeness and care transform a person's experience.
Theresa Lee Morris
Senior Acutonics faculty and licensed teacher of the system.
From her I learned that understanding is not only a matter of the mind.
How I work
Every session starts from the person's present, their history and their goals. From there I design it: acoustic instruments and vibration, Acutonics applied directly to the body, breathwork and visualisation. Silence is part of it too.
A session is listening first, intervening with intention, and attending to how the person responds.
How this fits with everything else
It is a clinical system, not a relaxation session. Traditional Chinese Medicine has its own framework for reading the body (patterns, meridians, relationships between organs and elements) and protocols are built on it. If you come with fatty liver, recurrent migraine or sustained insomnia, I design a protocol for that, sustain it over time, and follow up between sessions.
Diagnosis belongs to your physician. I work from the diagnosis you already have, within a different framework, and always alongside your treatment, never instead of it. I do not stop or substitute medication.
Research on sound interventions is still small. I follow what gets published and I am working to contribute to it. Research and scope has what the studies say and what they do not, and How we work has the process step by step, with the place each tool has in it.
If your physician or therapist wants to know what we are doing, I will explain it in detail. I work better when that conversation exists. And if what you need is something else, I will tell you.