How to Learn Sound Healing
If you're drawn to the world of sound healing and envision yourself facilitating holistic practices, yoga teacher training is the perfect way to begin the journey. Far beyond mastering yoga postures, the right yoga teacher training will offer the robust foundation for anyone aspiring to become a sound healer.
What Does Yoga Have to Do with Sound Healing?
Yoga teacher training is often misconstrued as asanas (postures on the mat), but it's a comprehensive curriculum that extends far beyond the physical exercises. A comprehensive 200-hour yoga teacher training offers a philosophical and practical foundation that prepares holistic facilitators for holding space in various nervous system healing modalities.
Many of the professional sound healers I have met all over the world and certainly the amazing sound healers here in Sayulita, Mexico, began first by completing a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training.
The immersive experience of a yoga teacher training teaches you to create sacred spaces for meditation, incorporate breathwork techniques and weave your intuition into preparing sacred offerings.
Certification from our Yoga Alliance accredited school Evoka Sayulita Yoga School prepares you with verified qualifications, skills and techniques for any career in holistic wellness.
A comprehensive 200-hour yoga teaching certificate is in fact what many resorts and wellness facilities require for wellness offerings. Yoga Alliance is the standard in these types of certifications.
With our yoga teacher training, you can emerge as a meditation guide, a breathwork facilitator, and if you choose to study the science of sound healing and connect with your chosen instruments (crystal bowls, gongs) you can offer sound baths.
We offer 10 contact hours that cover sacred soundhealing as part of our 200-hour Evoka | Sayulita Yoga Schoool training. I also offer 1:1 mentorship to help you develop your sound healing offerings and learn technical skills after the training.
The idea is to get your 200-hour qualification and build your skills beyond that to share your own creative offerings.
You may be considering a separate sound healer training, many of which are 1-3 weeks long depending on whether you want to be level 1, 2 or 3 sound healing certified. These are certainly wonderful programs to join to learn about sound healing. But, understand that there is no accredited institution for certifying sound healing.
Much of what is taught in sound healing trainings is also covered in our 200-hour Yoga Alliance training, such as how to lead breath and meditation, study of the energetic body and chakras and how sound and frequency affect our biology and brain wave states. However, yoga teacher training also covers Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, Meditation — and yes, of course teaching a physical yoga class!
If the idea of offering sound healing resonates with you, consider joining our yoga teacher training immersion in Sayulita for a thorough foundation that is accredited and comprehensive.
Yoga teacher training is a highly recommended first step to entering a holistic profession. From completing a yoga teacher training, you should be able to learn more about sound healing in a short course over a weekend or even a week if you feel called. You may also continue your training with your own self study.
I recommend if you hold a 200-hour yoga teacher training certificate and are interested to learn more about sound healing, book hourly 1:1 mentorship with me online to learn the nuances of offering sound baths.
Also, it’s entirely possible if you have a musical background that you won’t even require additional sound healer training once you have completed a yoga teacher training. The most important requirement in offering sound baths is connecting with your instruments.
How I Became a Sound Healing Professional
Most of what I offer for Sound Healing came from my background in taking my 200-hour yoga teacher training. From that training, I personally expanded into sound healing by taking formal and informal continued education.
I attended many Gong baths and eventually took a weekend Gong Master workshop in San Diego. Then, traveling to Memphis Drum Shop (which houses the world’s largest gong!) I was able to learn about all types of sound instruments asking professionals in the store. Eventually traveling to Nepal, I spent time in a shop meeting the artisans who hand-hammered my Himalayan Bowls. I played the bowls in Kathmandu with monks (an unforgettable experience!).
There are so many ways to learn and connect with your instruments once you have the initial 200-hour foundation! Maybe travel to Kathmandu and hanging out with monks isn’t possible for you (I get it!), but there are many online resources and books for learning the science of sound healing and how to play the instruments.
Spending a time with your instruments and watching some inexpensive online courses might be all you need.
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training for Sound Healing
My 200-hour yoga teacher training was the foundation for all of my other holistic offerings. It gave me the skills to hold sacred healing space that helped me to eventually offer sound healing, reiki, yoga nidra, meditation, breathwork and other nervous system modalities. The meditation app I work for as well well as every hotel or wellness facility I have worked in has required a Yoga-Alliance certificate.
Our 200-hour Evoka | Sayulita Yoga School yoga teacher training program goes beyond the mat, equipping you with the skills to not just teach yoga but to embark on a holistic healing journey, encompassing meditation, breathwork and learning to hold space - all elements required for offering healing sound baths.
Embark on your transformative journey – consider the Evoka Sayulita Yoga School 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. This foundational training will open you up to a whole world of holistic opportunities, including the professional offerings of sound baths and sound healing!