The practice
BUILT ON
LICENSED HANDS
One practitioner. Real instruments. Deep rest.
Who you are booking
Resting Tone is offered by Brennan England, a licensed massage therapist with nearly two decades of work and study helping people find a new normal in their body and being. That work has ranged from professional sports teams to years of training in sound healing and the energetic arts. Every session, sound bath, and event is delivered by the same person who answers your email.
The instruments are didgeridoo, tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, handpan, and flutes, each chosen for what it gives a body that is already lying down and breathing slower.
What you can expect: a slower pulse, a looser back, and care that works comfortably alongside whatever your physician has you doing.
The practitioner
Brennan came to the table through sound. The journey began with didgeridoo and singing bowls, studying sound healing years before massage school. It was there, training as a therapist, that he discovered a natural gift for clinical, medically focused bodywork, still anchored in the ancient energetic traditions where he started. The toolbox widened from both ends: myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, scar tissue work, postural correction, and somatic emotional release for when the body lets go of more than muscle.
Didgeridoo and bowls were the first instruments of the practice, and years of clinical and sports massage taught him exactly where to aim them. In 2019 he spent a year studying under the lead therapist for the St. Louis Cardinals, which sharpened the clinical side of the work considerably.
He plays didgeridoo, handpan, and flute the way he works: unhurried, repetitive on purpose, and quiet enough that your own breathing becomes the loudest thing in the room.
The method
Every one-on-one session follows the same spine. What changes is where the time goes. The clock starts when the assessment, bodywork, or sound work starts — it is not rigid to your arrival time.
01 · Arrive
Five to ten minutes of intake. Where it hurts, what you have tried, what is off limits today. Your session time is measured from when the work starts, not from when you walk in.
02 · Table
You settle in and the work begins — hands, sound, or both, in whatever order serves the session you booked.
03 · Sound
Tuning forks where precision matters, bowls at the table edge where the whole body should hear it. Long, intentional quiet.
04 · Close
Slow return, water, and two or three things to do at home. You leave able to drive.
What the sound is doing
A struck fork sends a steady vibration into tissue that is already warm and relaxed from massage, and most people feel it as a fast, deep letting-go. Bowls and flutes hold attention still, and a still mind lets the nervous system settle into true rest.
Clients report deeper sleep that night, a looser back for days, and, with repetition, an easier time downshifting on their own.
New to sound? A public sound bath is the easiest place to start.
The practice, plainly
- PractitionerBrennan England, LMT. Missouri license on file and available on request.
- BackgroundClinical and sports massage, including a year under the St. Louis Cardinals lead therapist in 2019. Myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, scar tissue work, postural correction, and somatic emotional release.
- Also practicesQi Gong, Reiki, and aromatherapy, offered where they serve the session.
- CredentialsLicensed in massage therapy. Certified in sound therapy, aromatherapy, Reiki, and Qi Gong.
- InstrumentsDidgeridoo, tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, handpan, drone flutes, and voice.
- ScopeComplementary care, alongside your medical care.
- AccessSliding scale on sessions and sound baths. Ask when booking, no documentation required.
Ready when you are
Sessions run Mondays and Tuesdays. Sound baths are most Saturday evenings.
Brennan England, LMT · A Resonare LLC practice