Alice Smyth
Physical Therapist | Tibetan Tones® Practitioner
Alice holds a BA in Exercise Science and Master’s Degree in Physical Therapy from the University of New Mexico, and has now been practicing for over 17 years at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida, Colorado.
Alice’s work is shaped not only by education, but by love, loss, and lived experience. The death of a dear patient and friend from chronic pain, followed by caring for her mother during her cancer journey, awakened a deeper calling—to serve the places where the body holds grief, fear, trauma, and hope. This led her into advanced training in mind-body physical therapy, visceral and lymphatic therapies, oncology rehabilitation, chronic pain science, and nervous system regulation.
In 2023, Alice felt a strong intuitive pull toward sound as medicine. After learning of a woman who traveled to Austria for lymphedema treatment and improved through use of singing bowls on the body, she followed the thread and discovered Tibetan Tones® and the Sonic Wellness Institute. From the very first session, she knew she had found something sacred. The resonance of the bowls, their ability to quiet the mind, soften the body, and open the heart, felt like a missing piece—one that spoke directly to the soul.
Today, Alice weaves together manual therapy, subtle listening, and vibrational sound to support deep states of rest, release, and remembrance. The bowls invite the nervous system into safety, the body into ease, and the spirit into presence. What unfolds is not “fixing,” but remembering - returning to the inner harmony that already exists. With her teacher at Sonic Wellness Institute they have been working with the Tibetan Tones® Core Module Series clinically to treat lymphedema and other chronic diseases. She is also studying meditation, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Medical Qigong to help lead her patients to techniques to carry these benefits forward at home.
Those who work with Alice often describe feeling lighter, clearer, more grounded, and more at home in themselves. Many experience a softening of long-held tension, emotional release, improved sleep, and a renewed sense of connection to their own inner wisdom.
For Alice, this work is not something she does—it is something she lives.
It is a devotion.
A listening.
A remembering.
She is deeply honored to walk beside you and to hold space as you lay it all down and return home to yourself.
2026 Artist in Residence
Alice Smyth joined Loto Wellness Collective as our 2026 Artist in Residence. Through four seasonal sound ceremonies — Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, and Winter Solstice — she will help anchor the year in vibration, resonance, and remembrance. Her work with authentic Tibetan singing bowls invites the body into coherence and the heart into harmony. This residency signals the unfolding of a larger collaborative vision: artists as modern Desert Mothers and keepers of beauty within our shared well of Consciousness.
