About

Message From the Founder

Hi, my name is Sasha Lawrence. I am a facilitator, sound healing practitioner, and the founder of Serenity Sound Healing, a Los Angeles based practice that helps individuals and communities regulate their nervous systems and explore the beliefs, behaviors, and embodied patterns that shape their capacity for healing, growth, and self-actualization.

I founded this practice for many reasons; my love of psychology and spirituality, a desire for something deeper than what mainstream and Western therapeutic approaches were offering me, and the undeniable shift I felt after my very first sound healing session, more regulated than I had ever felt after any therapy session. But more than anything, I founded it on a deep love of connecting with people and a simple truth I keep coming back to: you are never truly free until you feel safe within yourself.

I know this truth because I lived the opposite of it. Growing up in a Caribbean household while navigating my sister's rare syndrome, I learned early to stay strong and lend support wherever I could, whenever I could, even when that meant quieting my own needs until it felt safe to express them. On the outside, that made me resilient and high-achieving. I was constantly excelling, landing opportunities, getting into the best programs, and earning exceptional grades. But when I finally sat still long enough to let my inner voice speak, I realized that on the inside, I was emotionally dysregulated and disconnected from my authentic self.

And I am not alone in that.

Many of us, especially women, are taught to measure our worth by what we do rather than who we are. It starts early. Maybe you learned that being easy or agreeable earned you more approval than being honest. Maybe you heard "stop crying, it's not that serious" when it felt very serious to you, and slowly you stopped trusting your own emotions. Maybe you were called the strong one, the dependable one, the one who holds everything together, until one day you realized no one ever checks on the strong one.

And for many of us, especially women of color, asking for help never felt safe either. When we did, we were made to feel small or incapable, as if needing support meant we were failing. So we learned to carry things alone. Quietly. Competently. Invisibly.

Instead of processing our needs and feelings, we bury them. We show up as a more palatable, easygoing, watered-down version of ourselves, not because that is who we are, but because it feels safer than being misunderstood or hurt again. We tell ourselves that if we bury it deeply enough, maybe we will forget. But the body does not forget. The feeling stays stored beneath the surface, reigniting every time the wound is touched but never addressed at its root.

Over time, that buried pain becomes a pattern that shapes how we work, love, rest, and relate. It shows up as perfectionism, burnout, anxiety, and numbness, keeping us in a low hum of survival mode long after the danger has passed. And what once protected us now keeps us disconnected from our bodies, our peace, our power, and sometimes even our favorite people.

My own healing began with a spiritual awakening and deepened when I discovered breathwork, sound healing, and nervous system regulation. These tools helped me orchestrate a return to my authentic self, slowly, gently, and with compassion. They taught me how to feel more fully, how to regulate instead of suppress, and how to rebuild the inner safety I had been missing for so long.

Today, my work is about guiding others through that same return. I integrate applied psychology, sound healing, breathwork, and facilitation to create restorative experiences that invite greater self-awareness, resilience, and lasting transformation, grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens when we care for both the body and the mind. My signature workshop, Rooted and Regulated, is a nervous system regulation experience designed specifically for high-performing women of color, bringing together somatic tools, breathwork, and psychological insight to help women reconnect with themselves and lead from a regulated place. To date, I have facilitated more than 70 healing sessions and workshops for nonprofits, organizations, and community partners across Los Angeles, serving diverse communities including students, BIPOC communities, and justice-impacted individuals.

At its heart, Serenity Sound Healing exists to help you regulate your emotions, build internal safety, and practice radical self-acceptance through inner work, sound, and breath. It is here to help you remember who you are beneath the stress, the expectations, and the survival mode, so the best version of you can rise to the surface and into being.