The year 2025 was emotionally draining for Joel and Jessica Myers, marked by the profound grief of losing Jessica’s mother, Joel’s brother, and his grandfather.
Yet, amidst the hardship and the demands of their daily lives and business, they received the joyous news that they were expecting their first child, finding unexpected comfort in the soothing sound of a crystal singing bowl.
The Atlanta couple discovered that sound baths are a vital way to manage stress. Sound baths are a type of auditory meditation that uses the sustained tones and vibrations from instruments like crystal bowls or gongs. This practice is all about frequency and resonance, which helps the brain relax, process emotions, or simply rest.
“Sound helped me detach from the intensity of grief,” Joel, a lifelong musician and co-founder of the couple’s new tech venture, told Black Business. “Inside the sound, I could visualize, I could breathe, and I wasn’t emotionally set back by everything I was carrying.”
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The Myers family has now launched the Pocket Sound Bath for 2026. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, the app provides immediate peace and clarity for those in a fast-paced world.
Pocket Sound Bath stands out from other meditation platforms because it allows users to tap and play seven different crystal bowl tones all on one screen. The app also offers “listening sessions” tailored for various needs, such as helping with relaxation, boosting focus, or bringing back energy to either start or end the day.
The Myers family wants to bring the benefits of in-person sound healing directly to people’s phones.
“Usually, when I play sound bowls in person, I’m carrying around $3,000 or $4,000 worth of equipment,” Joel explained. “What better way to democratize these sacred frequencies than giving people access in their pocket?”
The app offers an interactive mode where users tap on-screen bowls for tones and haptic feedback, mimicking an in-person session, and a passive mode with curated seven- to twelve-minute guided sound bath tracks for daily rhythms or emotional states. Longer sessions are on YouTube.
Jessica, a motivational speaker and real estate entrepreneur, also relied on these frequencies during intense personal and professional loss, including her mother’s death and a failed business project.
Though the public fallout caused a crisis, she now views it with gratitude, saying it inspired the creation. She shared, “Sound helped me get my footing again. When I didn’t have the funds for classes or the energy for social interaction, engaging with those bowls was what brought me back to myself.”
Although sound baths are based on ancient traditions, recent scientific studies have started to investigate their actual benefits.
Research in journals like the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine confirms sound meditation reduces tension, anxiety, and depression. Neuroscientific data shows repetitive tones shift the brain to slower, calmer wave states, and low-frequency vibrations reduce heart rate. The app is a tool for coping with grief, stress, constant noise, or daily overwhelm.
“Entrepreneurs hit decision fatigue constantly,” Jessica remarked. “The more I quiet my mind before a big decision, the more decisively I can execute. Stillness gives clarity.”
Pocket Sound Bath is a mindfulness tool designed for busy individuals, including new parents, professionals, students, and entrepreneurs. Its creators liken the experience to finding Waldo, suggesting that focused mental quiet can reveal solutions previously hidden by mental noise.
“This is for the person who says, ‘meditation isn’t for me,'” Jessica joked. “It’s for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck, the ones who think they don’t have time to pause.”
The Myers’ app offers customizable sessions based on mood (relaxation, harmony, deep self-connection, or wonder) or goal, such as a seven-day “rhythm reset.” Joel recommended using the app during transitional moments like waking up, before a meeting, or falling asleep to “charge your subconscious mind.”
The Myers family is starting 2026 filled with hope, newly equipped to embrace and enjoy this new season of life, which now includes their beautiful baby daughter and their new app.
The app will offer a “freemium” subscription model, starting with a trial period before users pay the $9.99 monthly fee. The couple’s future plans for the app include adding more mood-based content and establishing an online community where users can participate in group meditations.
Jessica stated, “For us, this isn’t about being new age. It’s about finding balance in a world that moves fast. Yes, now, there’s an app for that!”
