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Where Sound Meets Longevity: Inside Vita Balance Bangkok

Words: Pasuta Phongam, Photos: Pasuta Phongam


At Vita Balance, the Sound Bath — led by Jutapat Bandaiphet — is conceived as a fully immersive healing experience rather than a fleeting ritual. Expert sound healers, carefully selected instruments, acoustically considered spaces and sensorially calibrated environments converge to create a setting of profound safety and ease. The result is not simply calm, but a complete reset — a return to balance where the nervous system unwinds, emotions release, and the body remembers how to heal itself.

Paiste’s Planetary Gongs are precision-crafted instruments tuned according to Hans Cousto’s Cosmic Octave, a system that links planetary orbits to sound frequencies believed to influence the human body, mind and nervous system.

Each gong is calibrated not merely for musical harmony, but for resonance with biological rhythms — a meeting point between astrophysics and somatic healing, where vibration becomes a subtle architecture for inner alignment. Far from being simple instruments, the gongs function as powerful tools for sound healing. Their low, expansive frequencies travel through vibration, sound waves and resonance with the water that makes up more than 70 per cent of the human body, gently engaging the nervous system at a cellular level. In this suspended field of sound, the brain is guided into delta waves — the state of deep, restorative sleep — while the body shifts from sympathetic tension into parasympathetic repair.


The nine Planetary Gongs form a cosmological ensemble, each aligned with a distinct aspect of human experience. The Sun awakens confidence and self-worth; Earth restores grounding and safety; Jupiter opens pathways of growth and wisdom; Chiron supports deep emotional healing.

Mercury clarifies thought and communication, Mars releases suppressed energy, Venus softens the heart, the Synodic Moon works with subconscious emotion, and Tai Loi accompanies moments of transition and renewal. Together, they compose a sonic map of the psyche.

Vita Balance is a holistic wellness clinic in Bangkok’s Charoenrat district, where architecture becomes a quiet partner in healing. Designed by EPIC Studio, the five-storey shophouse has been reimagined through the language of the four elements — earth, water, air and fire — translating an ancient cosmology into a contemporary sanctuary for body, mind and spirit. In an era when wellbeing extends beyond physical care into emotional and spiritual realms, the building itself is conceived as an instrument of balance.


Set within a 40-year-old shophouse once occupied by bars, restaurants and galleries, the site presented both opportunity and challenge. Surrounded by dense neighbourhood life and traffic, the designers responded by turning inward, sealing out noise and distraction to cultivate an interior world of stillness. Materials and surfaces become narrators of the four elements: compressed earth walls shape a cave-like double-height lobby; softly textured hammered laminates evoke water across ceilings; filtered daylight and ventilation articulate air; and gold-toned ceiling panels suggest the transformative warmth of fire.

Vita Balance encapsulates the clinic’s philosophy: vita, meaning life, paired with balance, the state it seeks to restore.

Every programme within the clinic, led by Dr. Pongpak Thongpat, is shaped around the idea of Healthy Ageing, offering a holistic approach to longevity that integrates medical care with mindfulness and inner restoration. This ambition is reflected not only in the services but in the spatial experience, where calm, materiality and atmosphere work together to nurture a slower, more attentive rhythm of living.

Across five levels, the journey unfolds from physical restoration to spiritual renewal. The lower floors house IV therapy and body-focused treatments, while the middle levels introduce facial care and art-inflected social spaces.


Vita Balance emerges not simply as a clinic, but as a carefully orchestrated environment — a place where design, therapy and atmosphere converge to restore equilibrium in every sense of the word.



Vita Balance

Hours: Tue - Sun, 10:00 - 20:00 Hours (closed Monday)

Location: 92 Charoen Rat Road, Soi 6, Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San, Bangkok


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