Sound Healer Training Course

The Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program is an immersive multi-cultural/inter-tribal course designed to give people a hands-on approach to facilitating sound healing sessions. By bridging the fields of sacred music, energy work, and healing traditions, participants will strengthen their capacity as sound workers and will walk away with the skills and knowledge to be able to incorporate sound into healing sessions and meditative environments. Participants who meet the attendance requirements will receive a certification of course completion.  

Throughout the course of this training, we will focus on various exercises to learn more about sound healing through intention setting, listening, giving, receiving, and developing our intuition in relationship to sound. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring their own sound healing instruments. Many instruments from around the world will be available for participants to utilize and a variety of sound-healing instruments will also be available for sale. 

The training course will include a weekend intensive in upstate New York with Maestro Manuel, Taino Elder and visionary founder of Golden Drum, where participants will go deep into traditional healing practices from around the globe. Other guest teachers will be featured from the African and Indian musical traditions during various weekend modules.

All events in-person at Golden Drum except the Sound Practitioner’s Weekend with Maestro Manuel Rufino in April 2024.

 

PROGRAM TOPICS INCLUDE:

 

  • -Deep Listening Exercises

    -Sound / Music theory

    -432hz vs 440hz tuning systems

    -Harmony & Melody

    -Overtones & Harmonics

    -How sound healing is used in traditional and indigenous cultures

  • -Sacred Song Studies

    -Mantras

    -Overtone singing and throat singing

    -Learning to sing in key

    -Vocal techniques and warm-ups

    -Developing a singing practice with instruments

    -Freeing the voice

  • Crystal singing bowls & Tibetan singing bowls

    Gongs

    Guitars, charangos, and other string instruments

    Tuning forks

    Handpans and tongue drums

    Drums, rattles, chakapas (leaves) and percussion

    Shruti box and harmonium

    Didgeridoo

    Flutes and wind instruments

    Other ethnic instruments from around the worldon text goes here

  • Understanding the medicine wheel

    Incorporating the four directions and the three hearts

    Working with the four elements

    Creating altars

    Using sacred herbs and incense

  • Energetic hygiene

    How to determine what a sound healing recipient needs

    Breathwork

    Incorporating sound healing into other modalities and environments

  • Intention setting

    Giving and receiving sound baths

    Developing Intuition

    Combining multiple instruments to make a larger sonic environment

    Skills to conduct sound healing sessions

    Private sessions vs. group work

    Drum journeying

    Professional skills for artists and sound practitioners

  • Harmonizing body, mind, and spirit

    Energetic body, chakra system and endocrine system

    Developing a meditation practice

    Self-healing with sound

    Daily Practices for cultivating consciousness and awareness

Class Sessions included in this program:

  • Oct 13-14, 2023: Sound Healer Training Opening Weekend 

  • Nov 10-11, 2023: Overtone-emitting instruments

  • Dec 8-9, 2023: Drum Journey Weekend and Drum Making Workshop

  • Jan 26-27, 2023: Wind Instruments

  • Feb 2024 date tbd (Friday evening and Saturday full day): Freeing The Voice

  • Mar 8-9, 2024: African Song and Rhythm

  • April 2024 date tbd (full weekend: Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday): Maestro Manuel Rufino - Sound Practitioners Intensive Weekend in The Catskills, NY

  • May date tbd (Friday evening and Saturday full day): Indian music weekend

  • June 7-8: Practices for Sound Healers

Additionally this training includes:

  • One group zoom meeting per month (90-minutes each)

  • Three 1-on-1 phone check-ins with the program facilitators

  • Admission to two additional Dream Seed sound baths at Golden Drum (2 hours each)

*Note: program is subject to change

What is sound healing and what is it used for?

Sound is our essence. We are vibration. Sound is one of the prominent medicines of the Aquarian Age. The world is waking up to “new age” therapies rooted in sound and vibration that are in fact ancient. Sound rituals have been an integral part of indigenous and spiritual traditions and cultures worldwide for thousands of years. In every indigenous culture, it is deeply understood that sound is an essential element of creation and well-being. Today, science is catching up to this understanding and sound is growing as a mainstream therapeutic practice for consciousness, healing, and wellbeing.


Cost:

  • In-Person: $3,199 (Earlybird price if registered by Sept 15: $2,899)

  • Online (via zoom, does not include April weekend with Maestro Manuel Rufino): $2,499