Healing Through Sound, Spirit, and Love: The Story of Lynn Hodgins
If you met Lynn Hodgins today, you’d see a woman at peace — grounded, luminous, radiating positivity, carrying a stillness that somehow makes you feel lighter just by being near her. But her journey here wasn’t straight. Her journey was a weave of years of searching, issues with separations and anxiety, heartbreak, healing, and an unshakable longing to come home to herself.
Lynn was born in Foxrock, Dublin, in 1978 — a quiet child with big questions. Even as a little girl, she often stared out the windows, wondering, What is this all about? She was curious about life in a way that most children weren’t — curious about what lay beneath the surface.
In her twenties, while studying auctioneering — a career far removed from anything soulful — she found herself drawn into a massage and reflexology course. It was supposed to be something practical, something “on the side.” But something cracked open inside her. For the first time, she felt the electricity of the mind-body connection — something ancient and unspoken waking up inside her.
Restlessness carried her across the world to Australia, where, at 24, she threw herself into an intensive two-year yoga teacher training. Six days a week, hour after hour, she moved and breathed and wept and healed.
“Until one day, walking out of the studio, she caught her reflection in a shop window — and stopped in her tracks. For the first time in her life, she saw herself. Really saw herself.And she thought: You are a beautiful person.”
She realized how cruel she had been to herself all those years — and promised that day that if she could help even one other person feel this kind of love for themselves, she would devote her life to it.
There were moments of grace, too — and moments of pure humor. Like the time she was adjusting to being a yoga student while heavily pregnant, and her daughter, still in the womb, kicked the man sharply in the back. The man laughed, overcome with emotion. “I’m gay,” he said, “and I’ll never feel a baby kick in my life. But today, I did.” It’s a story Lynn tells with a smile, proof that healing often comes wrapped in the most unexpected moments of joy.
Over the next 25 years, Lynn’s work evolved — from body to mind to spirit. Her yoga practice deepened into something richer: sound healing, nutrition, breathwork, meditation. She discovered that true wellness isn’t about poses or diets. It’s about connection — to self, to others, to something greater.
Sound healing, especially, became a language for her. Working with tuning forks, singing bowls, big gongs, and drums, she witnessed transformations she can still barely put into words. She remembers a boy — deaf and blind, terrified to go to a new school — who felt the frame drum’s vibration against his chest and reached out with tiny hands, not to hear or see, but to feel the sound. Fear melted from his body. At that moment, Lynn realised healing was not about teaching — it was about remembering.
She built Serenity Space as a sanctuary for people needing more than surface-level wellness. Whether it’s a burned-out CEO, an anxious teenager, Drogheda Department Of Psychiatry patients or a Mountjoy Men Prison with deep-seated traumas — Lynn meets them where they are, offering them a safe place to breathe, to feel, to let go.
When asked how she sustains herself, she smiles knowingly. “Every morning before the world wakes, I have an hour and a half just for me — yoga, meditation. If I miss it, I feel… off-kilter. Like I’ve left pieces of myself behind somewhere.”
Lynn’s journey has brought her into deep, transformative work with children and young adults on the autism spectrum. Through sound healing and yoga, she found powerful ways to ease anxiety, build emotional safety, and create moments of profound connection for families navigating neurodiversity.
Now, her dream stretches even further: to create a community, a family, where neurodiverse children, their siblings, and their exhausted parents can come together to heal — not just the individual, but the entire family unit. Because healing isn’t solitary. It’s collective. “We are all just walking each other home,” Lynn says quietly, quoting Ram Dass — and you can feel that she means it with every fibre of her being.
You can find out more about Lynn at “Serenity Space – Sound Healing and Yoga“. This story was originally published in the Greystones Wellness Hub and written by Pratiksha Kamat.
