Pause + Expand
A hall of about two hundred people lying on blue mats, seen from the side, Jennifer and Steve at the far end with the bowls and the gong

Live, in the office or on headphones

Sound baths for teams.

An hour of quiet your team will talk about all week.

Talk to us about your team

We have been in every kind of room.

And we prepare for a room of ten the same way we prepare for a thousand.

Jennifer and Steve on a conference stage, their session title on the screen behind themA large boardroom session for the Ontario Medical AssociationA brick hall at Evergreen Brickworks with about two hundred people lying on blue mats in rows, Jennifer and Steve at the far endAn outdoor session at sunset beside the waterA group looking out over the red rock formations in Sedona

A conference main stage, The Power of Awareness

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We have played live for over 200 companies. Here are some of them.

  • Adobe
  • Spotify
  • Deloitte
  • Intuit
  • CVS
  • Uber
  • Cigna
  • Government of Canada
  • Ontario Medical Association
11,000
hours of live sound
Since 2020
live, in person and on headphones
“Pause + Expand were the people we turned toward piloting our mindfulness offering, starting locally in San Francisco, which then turned into them being the global wellness providers for the company.”
J. Dana, Adobe

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Jennifer and Steve talking to a conference room seated on mats, the event's screen behind them

You have been asked to find something for the team.

The Intuit team in their Toronto office after a sound bath, smiling at the camera

An offsite, a wellness week, a thank you after a hard quarter. Now it is your name on it, and it has to land with everyone in the room.

We have done this a few hundred times, for rooms exactly like yours. You book the hour. We make sure you are the one people thank.

Nobody is asked to do anything.

Everyone gets comfortable, in a chair or on the floor, in whatever they wore to work. We take the room through a short meditation and a visualization, then the sound arrives last, mostly crystal bowls, tuned to specific frequencies. Nobody goes round the circle. Nobody has to share anything or believe anything.

A team seated on chairs and mats during a sound bath in their office

Why it works, if someone asks.

Your team has been in Beta since nine this morning: alert, focused, thinking hard, and nothing in an ordinary day brings anyone back down. A sustained tone does what music and a break do not. It gives the whole room somewhere lower to go, at the same time.

  • Beta

    12 to 35 Hz

    Alertness · Concentration · Thinking

  • Alpha

    8 to 12 Hz

    Meditation · Creativity · Relaxation

  • Theta

    4 to 8 Hz

    Visualization · Trance · Dreaming

  • Delta

    0.5 to 4 Hz

    Deep sleep · Transcendence · Restoration

Ranges shown are standard EEG bands.

People go quiet afterwards, and then talk about it for the rest of the week.

People lying still on blue mats, eyes closed, seen close along the rows
“Everyone absolutely loved it and said it was exactly what they needed.”
Karen Zuccala, WPP Stream
Steve at the studio desk in headphones, playing a live sound bath over Zoom

Live from the studio. Every bowl is played in the moment, so no two sessions are the same.

Wherever your team is, there is a way to do this.

Jennifer walking between the mats, playing a set of chimes, the gong and bowls behind her

Some things are meant to remain human.

Skip the wellness tools that never get used. This is two people, in the room or on the call, playing for your team and reading them the whole time. We could have become an app years ago. We chose not to.

Jennifer and Steve seated together on the floor in black, looking at the camera

We never left the boardroom.

We just changed what happens in it.

Between us, thirty years in corporate. Jennifer was a VP at The Body Shop. Steve was in management at Sony Music.

We know how a room like yours works, what the people in it are carrying by Thursday, and what one hour can do for them.

Two voices, too. Steve explains the science and coaches the mindset side. Jennifer leads the intuitive side. Whoever is in the room hears one they trust.

The questions we actually get.

What does it cost?
In your office, sessions start at $1,000. Over Zoom, they start at $500. What moves it is the size of the group, how long you want, and whether we are travelling to you. Tell us the shape of it and we will give you a number, not a form.How we price a session →
How long is a session?
Thirty minutes to an hour. Thirty fits between meetings, an hour suits an offsite. We build it around your day.
How many people can you do?
Ten around a boardroom table, or a few thousand in a hall. Same format either way. Larger rooms need sound, and we will work with you on what the space requires.
What do you need from us?
A room with space for people to sit or lie down. We bring the instruments and handle setup and breakdown. People come as they are, straight from their desk.
Does anyone have to lie on the floor?
No. People stay in their chairs if they prefer, and plenty do. Nobody is moved, corrected or asked to adopt a position.
Is it religious or spiritual?
No. There is no chanting, no going round the circle, and nobody is asked to share anything or believe anything.
What if some of the team are sceptical?
Every room has a few, and that is fine. One of us was a sceptic too. Two of us run the session, so one leads while the other reads the room, and making people comfortable is the part we take most seriously.
Do companies have you back?
Most do. Some once a year, some every week.

Tell us about your team.

An hour of quiet they will talk about all week. Tell us where they are, how many, and when, and you will hear back from one of us, not a sequence.