This comprehensive sound healer training will provide participants with the skills and knowledge needed to facilitate guided meditation and sound healing experiences. Through hands-on training with a variety of instruments, participants will directly experience the power of sound as a tool for mental, physical, and spiritual attunement. Participants are encouraged to bring their own instruments (instruments will also be provided as needed, and a variety of sound-healing instruments will be available for sale). The weekend will include a sound bath, interactive discussions, group exercises, and a “Sound Healer Open Mic” (friends and family welcome, free of charge).

*A certificate of completion will be issued to those who fully attend the workshop.

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Space: creating a hygienic “container” for healing and meditation.
- Inner space
- The outer environment
- The relationship between the facilitator and the receiver
- The Seven Directions
- The Four Elements and the Three Hearts
- Incense, altars, crystals, herbs, elements, oils, aromatherapy
- Nature sounds, white noise, recorded vs. live audio

Modalities: exploring the fundamental categories of sound-based therapy.
- What is healing? What is meditation?
- Traditional and indigenous perspectives
- Empirical science-based, physiologically-oriented treatment
- Intuitive approaches, “channeling,” etc.
- Conducting ethical “spiritual business”

Sound and Silence: frequency theory and the nature of vibration.
- Cosmology of sound
- Physics of sound
- Passive and active listening, group participation
- What are “healing frequencies” and are they objectively beneficial?
- Tuning systems, 432 hz, Schumann Resonance, Overtones, Solfeggio Frequencies, etc.

The Voice: the first instrument.
- The power of the “Word”
- Thoughts, prayers, mantras, invocations, sacred languages, translation, interpretation
- Guided meditation, drum journeying, call and response
- What constitutes a “sacred song”?
- Physiology of the voice, vocal exercises, breath, sighing, yawning, laughing, crying
- The diet of the voice

Instruments: tools of the sound healer/meditation facilitator.
- What constitutes a sound healing or meditation instrument?
- Practical demonstration, participants will gain experience giving and receiving sound in proximity to the body
- Common instruments: drums, shakers, leaves, gongs, singing bowls (metal, crystal, terracotta, etc.), guitars, flutes, handpans, tuning forks, bells, chimes, crystal instruments
- Instruments and the elements

Sound and Music Theory: the language of music.
- Dynamics, tempo, rhythm, intensity, tension and resolution
- Notes, colors, and chakra associations
- Combining instruments: determining compatibility, intervals, scales, keys
- Global music theory traditions

Harmony: principles of peace.
- Giving and receiving
- Sensitivity, empathy, intuition, emotion, compassion
- Physical, mental, and emotional balance

ABOUT THE SONIC INSTITUTE:

The Sonic Institute offers experiential workshops, healing sessions, trainings and events designed to help people connect with sound and music as a tool for healing and meditation.

The Sonic Institute unites ancient spirituality with modern science to reveal the impact of sound vibration on health and consciousness. Through music lessons, sound baths, instrument demonstrations, lectures, presentations and interactive workshops, SINE participants gain the skills and knowledge needed to facilitate guided meditation and sound healing experiences.

FACILITATOR BIO:

Adrian DiMatteo (B.M. Eastman School of Music, 2012) is the founder of the Sonic Institute. He is an international performing and recording artist, author (Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness), music educator, app creator (Chord Atlas), and sound meditation facilitator with over 20 years’ experience in the music world. Adrian has toured and traveled extensively—exploring sound, language, musical culture and how they affect individual and collective wellbeing. Hundreds of students have now graduated from the Sound Healer Training programs and weekend retreats that Adrian regularly facilitates nationwide. To date, he has offered musical experiences to thousands of people in hospitals, hospices, elder care facilities, and children’s centers.