Simon is an internationally known workshop leader, healer and author. Simon has been teaching sound healing workshops for over fifteen years. Simon is one of the leading teachers of sound healing in the UK.

In 1996 Simon founded the UK Sound Healers Association, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sound healing in the UK.

Simon has trained extensively in the healing arts: acupuncture, body work, Chinese medicine, massage, emotional healing, sound healing, sacred dance, qi gong, and yoga. Simon is a qualified acupuncturist and a member of the College of Healing.

Simon draws on all spiritual traditions in his teaching. He has visited India many times to study the yoga of sound.

Simon has taught sound healing in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the USA as well as in the UK. He is a member of the International Association of Sound Therapy and a member of the Natural Voice Network.

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Narayani has practised yoga, meditation and qi gong for many years. She met and studied with Swami Dharmananda Saraswati of the Dharma Yoga Centre who “gave” Narayani her spiritual name. Swami Dharmananda introduced Narayani to spiritual healing which she took further by undertaking healing courses levels one to four with the National Federation of Spiritual Healers.

Narayani’s first experienced the healing power of the voice with Jas Dawson and subsequently with James D’Angelo. This work, together with Sanskrit chanting, helped open and strengthen her voice. Narayani is influenced by Dances of Universal Peace which opened her to peace, love and the oneness of all.

Narayani then trained with Simon Heather and successfully completed the sound healer course and teacher training course.

Narayani teaches two evening classes of yoga per week in which healing sounds are used. She offers sound healing, yogic touch therapy and one-to-one yoga in the South East London area. She also teaches one day introductory workshops of sound healing, runs the sound support group in SE London and teaches the core curriculum training modules of the College both in the UK and abroad.

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Paul has led voice and sound healing workshops for eleven years and incorporates vocal sound techniques from many traditions together with sound healing for individuals.

He uses improvisation, movement, listening, sounding and ceremony to help people connect with the healing powers of sound; he also works in beautiful, natural settings to integrate sound with the healing potential of nature.

Workshops are held in the sanctuary of the Sound Peace Chamber in the beautiful, natural setting of Primrose Centre in which have been created gardens for peace, the elements and four seasons.

Primrose Organic and Sacred Earth Centre, Felindre, Brecon, Powys.

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Mike lives on an organic smallholding situated on the Welsh borders. He has a keen interest in biodynamic methods. Before settling in Montgomeryshire Mike worked in Europe and in Africa.

Mike is a skilled carpenter and joiner and has been handcrafting wood for thirty years.

Mike is a Reiki healer as well as a sound healer. He also works with earth energies and Shamanic healing. Mike is the vice-chairman of the College of Sound Healing as well as being a tutor with the College.

Mike and his partner run a healing practice and host a regular healing/meditation circle.

From his early teens Mike has had a vision of healing and peace for all. Mike believes in a spiritual and holistic approach to family life and has a young son.

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Rob and June have both worked in the field of Complementary Health since 1992. They live in the County of Bedfordshire. Rob and June have completed the College of Sound Healing Tutor Training Course. Together they have lead many sound healing workshops, which incorporate toning, chanting, sacred mantras and a lot of laughter.

JUNE is a trained Crystal Healer, Reiki Master, Relaxation Therapist, Cord Detachment Therapist and Sound Healer. She has worked with the energy of crystals for many years.

Going on to work with the Crystal Singing Bowls was a natural progression after completing her course in Crystal Healing.

June did her Sound Healing Training with the British Academy of Sound Therapy. June is the Membership Secretary for the College of Sound Healing.

ROB has trained in Sound Healing, Reflexology, Hopi Ear Candling, Reiki to Master Level and along with June they regularly teach Reiki to all levels throughout the year.

Rob did his Sound Training with the College of Sound Healing. He is the Chairman of the College and is also a keen didgeridoo player.

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Lea Cowin is a highly experienced teacher and healer. As well as being a teacher and practitioner of sound healing she is also a Reiki and Seichem Master.

Lea has always used her voice both in her healing practice and as a member of a Natural Voice choir.

Lea has produced meditation CD's and has also studied and worked with the Tarot for many years and has recently published a book on the Tarot.

Lea lived in Ireland for a number of years where she ran a centre for healing, she now lives in Worcester.

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Being a qualified teacher and art therapist Linda has worked with both adults and children in a teaching and therapeutic capacity for seventeen years.

Linda is a sound healing practitioner and teacher with the College of Sound Healing. She is also a Spiritual Healer and Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner.

As well as being an art therapist Linda is also a musician. Her first instrument was the trombone, which she studied to diploma level.

Linda has played in a brass band, orchestra, jazz band and run a school choir. Now she prefers to use her musical skills in her sound healing work and is more interested in exploring the personal effects of spontaneous sound making through voice and instruments. She is currently developing her skills with the didgeridoo.

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Kate MacDermott lives in Shrewsbury with her partner and two large dogs She has worked as a therapist for the last eight years offering Bowen Technique, Reiki, Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candling and Sound Healing.

Kate's background includes parenting, co-counselling, community living, wholefood co- ops, pottery technician and a lot of singing.

Over the years she has taught and facilitated various workshops including Indian Head Massage, 'Despair and Empowerment', Self Defence for Women, Pottery, Reiki, Singing Groups and Sound Healing. She has the City and Guilds Adult Teaching Certificate.

Kate says, "I have a long-standing commitment to our collective well-being and sharing this use of voice, in particular, as a source of healing, joy and empowerment for ourselves and others is an inspiring pleasure for me. My aim in teaching is for students to feel comfortable and confident with the techniques so the workshops are both practical and fun..

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Christine was born in Wales the land of song. She now lives in Shropshire. As a child she could see and hear things others in her family couldn't.

"I understood at a young age that the body was made up of many different levels of energy. At this young age I began my long journey into discovering different ways of self healing."

Christine has been a practising therapist for over ten years. She is qualified in Reiki, Natural Healing, Bio-Energetic Health System, Hopi Ear Candling, Sound Healing, Indian Head Massage and is also a practising Life Coach.

"I have always loved sound and have worked with many different groups, organisations and schools, using my particular form of intuitive sound healing."

Over the years she has run a variety of healing workshops with the aim of helping people discover the subtle vibrational world that we are all part of.

Her workshops help people to reconnect with themselves so that they have better health and general wellbeing.

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Devapriya's experience is drawn from various spiritual teachings and therapies. These include yoga, meditation, sound healing, breathwork, pranic healing and Reiki.

She has been teaching groups and individuals since 1994 and works with adults, children, pregnant women and mothers and babies. Devapriya is also a jewellery designer and is passionate about the healing qualities of gemstones and crystals.

She has travelled extensively and has undertaken courses in Greece, Italy and Pune in India. She continues to visit India on a regular basis to further her knowledge of healing and self-development. She likes to combine yoga, soundwork, dance and meditation to enhance joyful self-expression and creativity.

Devapriya leads yoga and sound workshops in the U.K and abroad.

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Stefan Cartwright is the founder and director of the Resona course. A sound explorer from childhood, his interests include yoga, singing, music composition and working with the gong.

As assistant to New York based artist Don Conreaux, he explored the use of sound as an improvising art.

His love for Indian raga took him to India to study vocal music with Pandit Barun Kumar Pal, with whom he continues to work.

Stefan is an experienced yoga teacher and trained with Dr Pete Yates of the Heart Yoga School.

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Steven Ash was born in 1951 in Cornwall, England and grew up on Wikwamikong on Lake Huron - an Indian reservation in Ontario, Canada.

A man of extraordinary abilities as a healer and seer, he inherited these talents from his father Dr. Michael Ash, who was the reservation doctor and the first doctor to practice acupuncture in the UK.

Steven studied Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, Tai Chi and Qi Kung and holds a doctorate in radiaesthesia.

His profound connection with Mother Earth and her plant and mineral kingdom has enabled him to gain extensive insight into the healing abilities of plants and crystals, and to use this knowledge in the manufacture and development of the Rainbow Essences®.

Steven was adopted as spiritual grandson by Wallace Black Elk, and his spirit name Tatanka Wanagi Wichasta - Buffalo Spirit Man - was given to him by Eagle Man Ed McGaa.

Steven's vision and life mission is to help facilitate the return of the Rainbow Tribe as predicted by Black Elk, and in his work and through his life he teaches and shares the concept of the Rainbow Medicine Circle as a basis for a healthy, flourishing family and community.

PUBLICATIONS:
Sacred Drumming - Godsfield Pres.
The Healing Home - Vega Chrysalis Publishin.
The Lord's Prayer C.

Steven will be teaching the 'Sound Healing with Drumming' Module of the Training.

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Sheila is a professional violinist and musician who studied at the Royal College of Music and graduated with a GRSM degree and ARCM diploma. For nearly twenty years Sheila had a thriving career in the mainstream classical music world, freelancing with many orchestras and chamber groups and running a teaching practise alongside her performing work.

Some years ago Sheila realised it was time to use her musical abilities in a different way. She completed the Sound Healing training with Simon Heather and studied the Gong with Don Conreaux with whom she continues to work.

Sheila has specialised in the use of the Gong for Sound Therapy. She also uses singing bowls, tuning forks, violin and overtoning for therapy sessions and performances. She has recently recorded a Gong CD "Transcendence". She teaches the 'Sound Healing with Gongs' and the 'Sanskrit Chanting' modules for the College.

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Keith Oddy has worked with energy therapies for the past twenty years. He began with using the voice for meditation and therapeutic purposes.

Keith has studied BioEnergetics, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki (1 & 2 & Master), Kinesiology (Systematic Advanced Practitioner), Kinesiology Touch for HealthT (Internationally Registered Instructor).

He practises from the Renaissance Therapy Centre in Harborne, Birmingham and from home in Eastham in Worcestershire.

Keith has completed the sound healing practitioner and teacher training with Simon Heather and is a member of the UK Sound Healers Association. He has also set up a Worcestershire Practitioners Group, which meets each month in Eastham.

Keith is UK Distributor of BioSonic Tuning Forks and Enterprise Q - Quartz Singing Bowls.

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Aidan McIntyre is an accomplished Gong player and Singing bowl teacher who has over thirteen years experience in the field of Sound Therapy. Using these and other instruments he gives frequent concerts worldwide.

He has worked with autistic children and gives individual therapy sessions using Singing Bowls, Gongs and other instruments. Aidan's adventure with sound began in 1993 when he met Gongmaster Don Conreaux, his teacher and friend, and experienced the healing power of sound for the first time.

Aidan became Don's musical assistant and continues to travel and work with him. He has made the Singing Bowl his own particular speciality. He teaches workshops in the UK, in Poland and in the USA.

He performs each year at the Mind Body Spirit Festival in London with Don Conreaux. His most recent CD Quintessence is available by mail order.

Aidan will be teaching the 'Sound Healing with Singing Bowls' module for the College.

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Don Conreaux is a world-renowned master teacher of the healing gong. He is recognised not only as a leading artist and musician but also as a pioneer in the field of sound therapy with what he calls gong therapy.

Don holds two degrees in theatre arts, was a master teacher and director of Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training under Yogi Bhajan. He is also a fifty year initiate in the Kriya Yoga of Paramahansa Yogananda.

Don draws upon his 55 years of yoga and sound work. Since 1985, he has been teaching his unique method called Gong Yoga, a system of exercise for strength and rejuvenation.

Don conducts the ten day Gong Master Teacher Training Retreat at Gaunts House in Wimborne, Dorset every year.

Don also designs sacred sound spaces he calls Star Henges. He is based in the USA but teaches and performs worldwide.

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Sound healing workshops and individual teaching.

The workshops are usually taught in a Mongolian Yurt, in the middle of a beautiful treed acreage. Participants learn how to use sound therapy to heal themselves and others. Individual sessions available.

Sound Therapy Institute of Canada, Victoria, B.C.

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Lana promotes and teaches the transformation of consciousness which liberates us from the limiting illusions of the mind. She leads workshops in Mindful Awareness, the Wisdom of the Heart, Sound Healing for the Earth, and the Return of the Divine Feminine. She is co-founder of the Earthstone Institute, developed as a center for Ecopsychology and Sound Healing.

Lana has integrated formal education with mystical experiential study to create a unique and powerful healing style. In addition to a MA in Transpersonal Studies and a BA in Psychology, she has completed extensive worldwide studies in sound healing and transpersonal practices, including Hakomi, yoga, therapeutic touch, and creative expression. She has completed the advanced training with Simon Heather and has also studied sound healing with Tom Kenyon, Jerry DesVoinges, Jennifer Berezan, and Jill Purce. She has had the rare and honoured experience of studying sound in the hidden Monasteries and Nunneries of Tibet.

Lana maintains a transpersonal therapy practice in Victoria, British Columbia. She is available for individual and group sessions, and to teach workshops.

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