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

FACILITATOR BIOS:

Adrian DiMatteo is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino. For over 20 years, he has studied and traveled the world -- exploring sound, language, musical culture, and how they affect individual and collective wellbeing. With a holistic approach to science and consciousness, he offers a closer look at how sound itself can impact life.