Our Tutors
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Sound Healing with the Voice (CoSH)® Practitioner Training Course © Tutors
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RHIANNON GILL BECQUE - online only
RHIANNON WILL NO LONGER BE TEACHING THE COURSE - only running workshops.
Rhiannon lives in Glossop, near Manchester. Her amazing, transformational journey started with Chloe Goodchild's Naked Voice Facilitator training, and she now runs workshops, called ‘Let Your Soul Sing !' to introduce people to the transforming practices of the Naked Voice.
She then discovered the power of Sound Healing through meeting Simon Heather and trained as a practitioner and later as a college tutor. She loved delivering the sound healing training courses for 8 years in Ireland, but has returned to train back in her home ground in the N-W of England, near Glossop (13 miles from Manchester)
For 17 years she has been in on-going training with Kim Rosen, MFA, an American spiritual teacher, spoken-word artist and poet, and now facilitates workshops using poetry as medicine - ‘Speaking Poetry for the Soul'. Kim's teaching is that allowing poetry deeply into ourselves - ‘awakens, nourishes, inspires and heals, giving us the insight and sensitivity we need to live as creative individuals and as a peaceful society'.
Rhiannon is a singer, song-writer and teacher, and explores how sounding with others, vocally and with instruments, leads to spiritual connection and healing. It is a joy to her that she has discovered so much in the later part of her career, rather than teaching music to retirement age and then ---- nothing. Life is full and exiting still.
Rhiannon is also a person-centred counsellor and a Reiki master. Her life has been transformed through sound, and she loves running workshops and working with individuals, hoping that it can change their lives also.
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PAUL BENHAM - Hay-on-Wye Powys - Powys
Paul has led voice and sound healing workshops for twenty years, incorporating vocal sound techniques from many traditions together with sound healing training.
He uses improvisation, movement, listening, sounding and ceremony to help people connect with the healing powers of sound; he 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 grounds at Primrose Haven Retreats in which have been created gardens for peace, the elements and four seasons, a sacred grove and ‘emissary wheel'.
Paul facilitates the 5-part College training programme and an additional module ‘Sound Healing and Nature' and two ‘Sound' days, to celebrate and deepen our connection with nature and the natural cycles of energy. At Primrose Haven we also run each year 2 retreats of the Magical Resonance of Celtic, Druidic and Dana Sounds. This can be an opening to begin the journey to discover our indigenous souls. There will be particular focus on working with spirals and spiral consciousness, which the Celtic and Druidic people held in great reverence. There will also be a focus on ceremony and an option to attend a sweat lodge Sunday afternoon and stay Sunday night.
The residential workshops and other retreats are run by Paul and his partner Jan who creates wholesome food from the Primrose gardens.
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CHRYS BLANCHARD - Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. WALES, UK
Chrys is a freelance musician whose work calls upon the great diversity of skills she has acquired after more than 30 years in the performing arts.
Many College members took part in her annual Soundscapes, a 3 hour Live Sound Installation in Nevill Hall Hospital. Wales UK.
She works primarily with voice, guiding people to find a deep connection using their own unique sounds and is fascinated by the alchemy when voices combine, allowing communication and transformation to happen without the need for words. "Through sound we can access a place where we are able to reveal our true selves and connect with our underlying truths". Through her skilful and sensitive holding of a group, powerful and life-changing shifts can take place as sound is shared, and voices unite. Chrys achieves this deep and profound work with a light-hearted touch, and a down-to-earth sense of fun. In these changing times Chrys is offering training and workshops online so that we can continue to offer sound for people's well being at a time when it is so desperately needed.
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BLU COTTAM - Lincoln, Lincolnshire - Lincolnshire
Yoga lies at the heart of Blu's holistic approach to life, with it's ideals of unity, inner balance, peace, loving kindness and expanding consciousness.
Discovering the Aura-Soma Colour Care System, Blu saw how Colour can help bring a deeper understanding of ourselves and our path in life. It's relevance to the chakra system makes colour wisdom a perfect companion to further any Yoga practice.
Blu found the joy of working with Sound Healing to be deeply therapeutic and rewarding, so easeful, totally positive and uplifting. Here was the harmony to soothe and feed our soul!
Blu loves to share, singly, or in various combinations, these healing modalities, for example, in the workshops ‘Yoga and Sound' and ‘Sound and Colour'.
Blu is a tutor for the College of Sound Healing, based in Lincolnshire. She is also a trained teacher/practitioner of Yoga (BWY), of Aura-Soma and of Reiki/Seichem healing. Her intention is to help empower others with these healing tools for body, mind, heart and soul.
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ANITA DAS - Sutton, Surrey
Anita Das is a qualified Cosh Sound Healing with the Voice; Sacred Drumming, Crystal and Himalayan Bowls and Gong practitioner and tutor with The College of Sound Healing (Cosh).
Following a near-death experience and spiritual awakening, she uncovered an ability to act as a natural voice channel and trance medium and awakened past life energy healing abilities. Since then, she dived more fully into the spiritual field and has trained in and practises various therapy and healing modalities.
She practices as a hypnotherapist; regression and between lives spiritual regression therapist; spiritual counsellor; spiritual life coach; shamanic healer practitioner; soul transformation therapist.
She also practices healing modalities including Angelic Reiki; Atlantean Paddles; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing; Sonic Light Language; Assemblage Point Healing.
She also provides readings including Soul Plan Reading; Overlay; Akashic Records; Psychic; Angel; Mediumship; Channelled; Astrology.
She also practices energy management; intrusive energy removal; spirit release; psychic surgery; spiritual emergency; space clearing.
As well as individual sessions, Anita hosts group events including group gong and bowls sound baths; sacred drumming circles; Chi Kung and meditation classes.
She teaches workshops focused on soul purpose and spiritual development including the following courses: Shamanic Healing Practitioner available via Cosh; Soul Plan Reader Practitioner; Angelic Reiki Practitioner Master Teacher; Golden Merkabha of Creation; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing Practitioner; Energy Management; Channelling; Abundance and Manifestation; Chi Kung; meditation.
She is a member of the following bodies: College of Sound Healing (CoSH); General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC); The Complementary National Healthcare Council (CNHC); Angelic Reiki UK; The Healer Foundation; The British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA); International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM); The Complementary Medical Association (CMA); Spiritual Regression Therapy Association (SRTA); Earth Association of Regression Therapy (EARTh); Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists (CRSST); Spirit Release Forum (SRF).
She loves to assist clients in their journey of transformation and empowerment to be the best that they can be, achieve their dreams and live their unique soul purpose.
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MARY DOHERTY - Cork City, Cork, Ireland
Mary Doherty is a therapist, facilitator and trainer with over 25 years' experience. She combines Counselling Therapy, Energy Healing, Chinese Medicine, Sound Healing, Naked Voice, Natural Voice, EFT, Meditation and Physical Therapies. Her main area of interest is in integrating the Psychological, Spiritual and Creative aspects of the Self.
She is also a classically-trained singer and performer and member of creative performance group Dourga.
Her private practice is based in her native Cork city and she also travels throughout Ireland teaching, training and performing.
Mary also works with The Next Step program which promotes the Creative Arts in supporting mental health.
She has worked with various groups such as The Irish Wheelchair Association, Carers and Corporate groups teaching Meditation, Vocal and Sound Practices for Emotional, Spiritual and Physical wellbeing.
Mary holds weekly meditation and chant classes as well as regular Naked, Natural Voice workshops and Sound Healing Practitioner Training.
Contact Number: 00353 (0)87 2970858
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NISHI DUBASH - London, Greater London
Nishi is passionate about healing, and everything she does is from a place of love and finds nothing more rewarding or fulfilling than witnessing a client’s healing transformation.
Nishi works to facilitate healing on a holistic basis and works on all three levels: the mind, body and soul, as working to align all three elements is where the most benefits are gained.
Nishi’s sound healing journey started at a very early age, having grown up in an environment where chanting and meditation were a natural part of life. Her Soul just knew the Power of Sound was extraordinary, healing and an innate part of who she is.
Nishi regards having the gift to heal people a privilege and says it’s an intrinsic part of her and has been that way for nearly 40 years.
Every healing Nishi facilitates is delivered from a loving compassionate heart.
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GILL EVANS - Llanfair Caereinion, Powys
Born and living in a beautiful part of Mid Wales with a strong and rich connection to its culture in song, poetry, theatre and the arts, having experienced and enjoyed all of these mediums through her life has positioned Gill ideally for Sound Healing.
Gill loves to channel chants and two can be heard on the college website called Sing, sing and Feel the Earth.
Teaching and healing through Sound and Reiki and Soul Healig, Gill has seen the benifits on all levels, including on animals. Working very intuitively to the needs of others.
Gills workshops are designed to assist others on their soul journey here on this earth to gain knowledge and connect deeper to their own divinity .
Teaching the College Sound Healing training courses has given Gill the opportunity to help develope the healing ability of some lovely people including people from Europe.
Running toning workshops Sound Bath Eveningsand other sound courses always amazes Gill at the wonderful power of healing through sound how we are truly connecting to the essence of love and harmony.
Gill runs her courses and workshops in a tranquil and beautiful part of mid Wales.
Come and join Gill on your journey of discovery through sound.
After part 1 practitioners course each other weekend will be organised to the needs of the group.
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LUCIA GUERIN - Limerick, Ireland - County Limerick, Ireland
In 2015 Lucia began her journey into voice work, sound and poetry as a way of self exploration. Since then, Lucia has trained as a Naked Voice Facilitator with Chloe Goodchild and has been facilitating voice workshops since 2010, in both group settings and one-to-one's. In 2013 Lucia studied with the College of Sound Healing and became a Tutor in 2015. Lucia has also worked extensively with Kim Rosen, learning the power and joy of self exploration and expansion through movement, poetry and breathwork.
Lucia is passionate about voice, sound healing and poetry as a means to inspire, transform and heal as it energises and awakens your body, heart and mind. In her work, she invites an exploration of simple, yet profound practices that are rooted in a deep compassionate listening awareness, free of judgement and grounded in the belief that we all have the power to heal ourselves.
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CHRIS HEADLAND - Bedlington, Northumberland - Northumberland
Chris Headland (Peace Pipe Circle Woman). She has worked in Northumberland since 1972 in the statutory and voluntary sector with Children and vulnerable adults. Becoming aware of other holistic alternative ways of working began by studying Dowsing, Sound Healing, Reiki, Life Coaching, Crystal Healing advanced level with ACHO, Sacred Drumming with Steven and Renata Ash, Studying to be a clinical Hypnotherapist in 2011 . As a Shaman Peace Pipe Circle Woman, training in Glastonbury her home town to study for three years with Howard and Elsa Malpas. A meditation teacher running classes and 1-1 meditation practice Now also an Access Bars Practitioner.
For the last seven years she has been running weekly chant and healing groups. A Sacred Drumming Circle, and Meditation Circle. Chris works for local charities running empowerment workshops. She also runs vegetarian Gluten free and bread making workshops. She is currently training to be a Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural therapist.
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SIMON HEATHER - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Simon is an internationally known workshop leader, healer and author. Simon has been teaching sound healing workshops for over twenty five years.
In 1996 Simon founded the UK Sound Healers Association, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sound healing in the UK.
In 2005 Simon brought together a group of sound healers to found the College of Sound Healing.
Simon has trained extensively in the healing arts: acupuncture, body work, 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, the USA as well as in the UK. He is a member of the International Association of Sound Therapy.
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ANDREA JACKSON - Lancashire - Lancashire
Having worked as an energy and spiritual worker for many years, sound "resonated" with Andrea's heart. Please excuse the pun.
And by amazing co-incidence she stumbled upon Sound Healing and the College of Sound Healing and maybe that's how you're curious about it too.
Well, what a great co-incidence, it was life changing and fulfilling. Andrea now works full-time as a Therapist, Trainer and Celebrant. Supporting her clients and students on their own personal healing journey. And you will self heal if you open your heart to sound. You will develop your own skills and confidence in the ancient techniques.
Born and bred in the Pendle witch country, Lancashire Andrea truly connects with nature, a natural approach to life, yet remains well grounded and loves open water swimming.
Andrea describes herself as not completely woo woo, having a great sense of fun and a wicked contagious laugh.
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JAYNE KINSMAN O'DONNELL - Westport, Mayo / Galway, Ireland
Having experienced the transformative power of sound in her own life and with a profound desire to share its healing potential in the world, Jayne first trained as a Naked Voice Facilitator with Chloë Goodchild and then completed Sound Healing Practitioner Training with The College of Sound Healing, becoming a Tutor with the College in 2015. Jayne also works through poetry and is currently training in the Poetry Depths Mystery School with Kim Rosen.
Based in Westport, Co. Mayo, Jayne has been facilitating regular workshops in the West of Ireland for a number of years and brings together diverse skills and practices from the above teachings, supporting groups and individuals in finding their own authentic healing voice and offering energizing and nourishing ways to instil peace, harmony, confidence and well-being.
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RUBY LARIMAR - London UK & Virtual via Zoom - In Person, UK
Ruby's journey with sound did not take a conventional road with training in music,her love for music was curtailed as a child by her piano teacher. She reconnected back with sound when she started on her healing journey after it had been pointed out that her continued poor choices and destructive behavioural patterns were causing major obstacles.
After three years Gong Therpay Ruby trained as a Gong Master herself and joined a sonic voice choir where they carried out personal,individual and earth healing's using the voice.
Ruby's professional training took her down many diverse paths giving her practice and teacher qualifications in Crystal Therapy (ACHO) , Shamanic Practice , Life Coaching, Group Sound and Voice Therapy (BAST) ,Sound Healing (COSH) giving her an amazingly holistic and balanced way of working, probably a completely new paradigm in healing.
Ruby is a Tutor for the College of Sound healing teaching In Person in London and also via Virtual Classroom using Zoom.
Website · Email · Training Dates · Online Virtual Training Dates
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SUSAN LARK - Exeter, Devon and South London
Susan is a College of Sound Healing practitioner and tutor, a level 4 Biofield Tuning practitioner and Reiki Drum practitioner. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, and Reflexologist, practising facial reflexology and gua sha stone therapy.
She is passionate about sound’s ability to help people reach their best state of health. For many years she worked at an international firm in the City and saw at first hand the effects of long-term stress on the body, which is a leading cause of disease. By using sound, a stressed body can be brought back to its optimal vibrational rate so that it can begin its own healing process. Clients usually report a sense of profound relaxation and sleep is often improved. The healing or ‘wholing’ process continues to work well after the session has ended.
Susan has an affinity with metal instruments such as Himalayan bowls, the Gong and tuning forks.
Susan runs her courses from a Victorian school hall in a beautiful village just outside Exeter, Devon, close to the M5 and Exeter airport.
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SIMONE NILES - London - Virtual
Simone Niles is an expert coach, sound healer, vocalist and author, who offers grounded and practical teachings, focused on empowering conscious, soul-driven creatives and entrepreneurs to generate meaning and alignment in their work and life. She is also a Shamanic practitioner with many other strings to her bow inviting, healing and transformation to those who seek it.
Simone is the host of the SOULFULL SOUND Podcast, celebrating the leaders, teachers and coaches who guide fellow humans to connect, heal and discover themselves, so they can express their gifts into the world.
Simone’s background in the music industry allows her the privilege of working with artists such as Eddy Grant, Third World, Tom Jones, Paloma Faith to name a few, and to work with primetime TV show, The Voice UK. Her book Coaching For Performance Excellence offers performers some new and innovative ways of approaching their art.
Simone’s gift in using sound has touched many, through her healing, teaching and performing for more than two decades.
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SARAH PERRICONE - Scotland
Sarah lives in Findhorn. Music has been an integral part of Sarah's life since childhood. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD) and worked for many years as a Professional Violinist with National Orchestras both in the UK and overseas. As a musician Sarah has always been fascinated by the profound effects that sound and vibration have on people, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Sarah offers sound workshops and sound healing groups as well as one-to-one sessions in Findhorn and other locations around Scotland. She is a tutor for the college of Sound Healing and combines this with her work as a clinical hypnotherapist.
As a therapist, Sarah has worked with a diverse range of organisations and groups, including the NHS and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and has given presentations and workshops for the national orchestras, charities and community organisations.
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PETRA JEAN PHILLIPSON - Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. - Sussex - East
Petra has embodied her art of shamanic sound healing over 40 years of learning within her life and within the institutions such as The College of Sound Healing, Central Saint Martins, Bath School of Art, The Barbican and The Royal College of Music. She has undergone shamanic initiation with Simon Heather, Brooke Medicine Eagle and don Oscar Miro Quesada.
As a recording artist she has 59 releases to date and has also produced music for dance, theatre and film. She has performed around the world and is utterly dedicated to Sound Healing as tool for the expansion of human consciousness and healing.
She is the founder of Brighton Sound Community Space and practices under Sound and Space. She teaches Practitioner Training with the Voice, Soul Retrieval Practitioner Training and is a lineage keeper of the Moon-time Initiation.
"Together we can envision a new matrifocal paradigm with heart centred feminine leadership, but first we need to heal our true voices. Through sound we can transform."
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SUE PREADY - Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Sue Pready has been teaching the 5-part 'Sound Healing with the Voice' Core Practitioner Training for the College since 2012 in Hertfordshire.
At the end of 2019 Sue relocated to Oxfordshire where she will be offering the Core Practitioner Training Programme and other sound healing workshops in and around Abingdon from 2022.
Sue has been working as a Reiki Master Practitioner/Teacher and spiritual healer (NFSH) since 2003 and has subsequently trained as a group voice therapist (BAST), gong practitioner, crystal- and Himalayan- bowls practitioner, laughter facilitator, children's writer and storyteller.
Sue has a relaxed and sensitive approach to teaching and a special interest in linking ‘sound and story’ with the journey of the soul and Psychosynthesis Psychology, which she studied for two years at the London Institute. Sue offers "Tuning in to Sound and Story" workshops for the College - which focus on exploring the 'sonic gifts' held within our name.
Do visit the new 'Sound and Story' website to find out more and explore ...
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ALEXANDRA RIGAZZI-TARLING - Chertsey, Surrey - Greater London — Sussex - West
Alexandra Rigazzi-Tarling is a Vocal Consultant, Sound Healer and Tutor for the College of Sound Healing. As a former Opera Singer she has worked with Voice for well over 25 years.
She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she was awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Music and a Masters Degree in Music Performance.
Alexandra was brought up surrounded by music and performance, as well as healing and complementary therapies. She spent several years as a working opera singer at international venues, but unfulfilled by this lifestyle, she turned her attention to working as a vocal coach specialising in vocal technique and performance psychology. In addition to this in 2014, Alexandra began to combine her traditional voice coaching with a complementary perspective.
As a trained Sound Therapist, she became a tutor for the College of Sound Healing and created voice work that she calls 'Healing and Authentic' voice, assisting both professional voice users and beginners alike to find and work with their core, authentic vocal sound with both a technical and holistic approach. This often meant helping established speakers and performers understand and work with their voice on a deeper technical as well as psychological level, bringing extraordinary results.
Alexandra runs accredited practitioner trainings in Sound Healing with the Voice (CoSH), she teaches for educational (including SEN) and corporate establishments (including Barristers' Chambers) for both singing and speaking, and she runs regular workshops in a range of Voice related subjects.
Alexandra is passionate about the healing effects of voice on the body and mind and its ability to reflect a person's state of health and being on all levels. Her sessions empower people to begin a journey of personal development and wellness through the discovery of their own unique vocal sound.
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CLARE SANDERS - Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Clare is a musician, teacher and healer and has been working with sound therapeutically since 2011. With over 15 years experience as a performer and teacher and Reiki practitioner, Clare now combines her love of music and healing as a Sound Healer and as a Tutor for the college.
Clare brings her love of sound and music through her flutes; classical, traditional and Native American Indian, as well as her harp and voice and is passionate about sharing this with others and helping others to express their own true sounds.
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LINA SPYROU - London, and Glastonbury
Lina Spyrou is a Sound Healing Tutor for the College, based in North London and Glastonbury. She teaches the Five Part Sound Healing Practitioner Training Course, and Additional Accredited Sound Healing Workshops.
Lina trained as a Sound Healing Practitioner with the College over 15 years ago, and has studied with other vocal sound healing pioneers. Working with her healing voice Lina experienced a profound sense of coming home and discovered her strong calling to sharing the power of sound and singing with others. She trained as a Tutor with the College in 2010, and has been a regular presenter at the yearly Sound Healing Conference.
On her travels, Lina attended Music School in Rishikesh, India to study Indian Raga Singing and Harmonium. In London she completed training as a Certified Rhythmical Empowerment Leader (Group Drumming, Percussion and Voice) and Inclusive Music and Dance Enabler (Music and Movement with people with Disabilities and Special needs)
Lina has extensive experience teaching sound, singing, and relaxation workshops within NHS and specialist organisations. These include working with adults and children with disabilities and special needs, carers, people living with mental health, chronic pain, MS, cancer and dementia.
Lina enjoys teaching uplifting sound, breath and movement workshops for organisations and at holistic centres, wellbeing events, festivals and retreats across the UK and abroad.
Lina is a qualified and practising teacher of Elemental Chi Gung, Laughter Yoga, Sacred Dance, Goddess, and Louise Hay Workshops.
Lina is a Labyrinth enthusiast and qualified Labyrinth Facilitator and member of The Labyrinth Society. She holds regular Labyrinth Walks throughout the seasons of the year on her canvas Peace Labyrinth in London and travels across the UK holding Sacred Labyrinth Workshops and Retreats.
Lina teaches a regular weekly Chi Gung and Sound Healing Class on Tuesday Evenings in North London.
One to One Sessions with Lina include Sound Healing, Reiki, Goddess Healing and Card Readings, Shamanic Healing, and Holistic Life Coaching.
Lina’s Additional Workshops for the College include 'Sound, Breath and Movement Medicine', 'Sacred Labyrinth Retreat Days', 'Goddess and Sacred Sound', ‘Sing and Sound Your Heart Out’, ‘Sound and Elemental Chi Gung’, ‘Sound and Laughter’, and Certified ‘Laughter Yoga Workshop Leader Training Qualification’.
Please contact Lina directly for her upcoming Sound Healing Practitioner Training Course dates, Additional Sound Healing Workshops and to book One to One Sessions.
Visit Lina Spyrou's Facebook Pages:
www.facebook.com/thelaughinggoddesslaughlovelife
www.facebook.com/Goddesspeacelabyrinth
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SARAH STEPHENSON - Sarah Stephenson - East Sussex
Music has always played a big part of Sarah’s life. She trained as a classical pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music and has worked for 20 years as a professional vocal coach, teaching at many colleges and Universities in the UK, and has facilitated Estill Voice courses worldwide.
Sarah has always been aware of the profound effect of music and sound. Her curiosity led her to study at the College of Sound Healing in 2011, becoming a tutor for the college in 2016.
Fascinated by the relationship we have with our voice, Sarah loves helping others explore their vocal sound assisting them on their personal healing journeys. She is passionate about the voice and believes it is our greatest gift of healing, giving us the ability to unlock our true human potential.
Sarah runs sound meditations, sacred sound workshops and individual sound healing treatments in the East Sussex area.
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HARA WILLOW - West Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion
Hara comes from a family of musicians and artists and has always found a sense of deep peace, spiritual connection and love through the shared experience of the human voice and music. She lives on a smallholding in Wales with her husband, where she has been exploring healing using love, compassion, yoga, Authentic Power, Shamanic practice, colour and sound since 1991.
As well as giving and teaching sound healing, Hara also runs workshops, courses, retreats and community events. The deepest intention behind all her work is that of creating spiritual connection, peace and healing in community, for the highest good of all beings.
She has spent many years training in various chakra centred healing methods, including graduating from the College of Healing, four years training in Authentic Power Practice with Gary Zukav, an MSc in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal psychology and teacher training in Transformational yoga.
Healing with sound has brought her the greatest joy in her life so far.
Gong Practitioner Training Tutors
- STEPH HEALY - Bangor, Gwynedd - Shropshire
Steph is a Sound and Gong Practitioner, Biofield Tuning Practitioner, Past Life Regression Therapist, Mindfulness Teacher and Energy Healer, based in Snowdonia, North Wales.
An ex-NHS Teacher, Steph discovered the power of therapeutic sound in 2012. During the years that followed she underwent a huge transformational journey finding healing through sound to be an elegant and profound form of natural healing. From these experiences and extensive training, she now runs a successful practice in North Wales (and beyond online.)
Living in Snowdonia it’s easy to listen and connect with the land and the natural cycles, which greatly influence her work.
Steph holds regular monthly Gong baths, treats clients individually from her studio and works with the Corporate world too.
With teaching in her blood Steph is excited to share her experiences and gently guide students on their journey with the Gongs.
Sample her work on YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRUZOZ-Zr17LeSsl6-Smyw
- ANGELA MASON - Wadhurst, East Sussex - Kent - Sussex - East
Angela has a Sound Healing, Teaching and Massage Practice in East Sussex where she specialises in using the Gong therapeutically, supporting her clients to dynamic good health.
Angela draws on 30 years experience in holistic touch to bring an awareness and sensitivity to her Gong playing, Healing work and Teaching.
Angela first heard the Gong some years ago and was instantly drawn to study with Sheila Whittaker to become a Gong Practitioner. She studied with Don Conreaux and Aidan McIntyre on the Gong Master Training and Master Classes with Mitch Nur and Jens Zygar.
Angela teaches the College Gong Practitioner Training Course© and Introduction to the Gong Workshops that she runs in East Sussex.
She runs Gong Sound Meditations, Journeys and Gong Sound healing treatments to groups and individuals in the East Sussex area.
During the pandemic Angela supplements the ongoing practical training weekends with Group sessions via zoom and regular Distance Gonging Together meditations
1:1 Gong Sound sessions via zoom
1:1 private tuition via zoom
Reiki Master/teacher
Reiki Drum Practitioner
Angela has recorded 2 Gong CD’s.
Member of the CMA, CNHC and MTI.
- PHILIP MCNAMARA - Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire. One day workshops are countrywide. Gong Practitioner courses are based in Lancashire and Wiltshire - Lancashire
Phil has been working with gongs for over 45 years, initially as a percussionist and for the past 10 years as a sound therapist. He is the author of the book Gongs and Tam-tams - A guide..' the only book giving a detailed description of many of the different gongs in the world plus the associated stands, mallets and bags.
Phil's main focus is using the gong primarily as a musical instrument and adopting a correct playing technique called basic stroke. From this the healing tones will come more naturally due to a relaxed playing style. Phil is also interested in the scientific basis for sound therapy though acknowledges that there is also an esoteric quality that science cannot always define.
Phil is developing his own range of workshops based on these beliefs under the 'Scientia Sounds' banner.
- SHEILA WHITTAKER - Honiton, East Devon - Devon
Sheila Whittaker is the senior Gong tutor for the College of Sound Healing, and runs the Gong Practitioner Training Course, which she authored for the College in 2009. Since then she has taught this very popular and comprehensive Course each year to new groups of students, and recently began training other gong tutors to teach the Course in different areas of the UK and Ireland.
The Gong Practitioner Course is Sheila's main work for the College at this time, and she is a member of the College committee. She also runs several two-day Gong Intensive weekend workshops during the year, so that participants can "dip their toe in the water" and see how they get on with the gong work before committing to the full Gong Practitioner Course. No previous musical experience is needed to participate in one of Sheila's workshops. She also holds twice-yearly all-night Gong Puja ceremonies at the Summer and Winter Solstices for her current and ex-students. Pauline McCrann, Sheila's assistant, is an invaluable aid at all gong workshops and events.
Sheila's history : she is a professional violinist and musician who studied at the Royal College of Music in London. For nearly 20 years she had a thriving career in mainstream classical music, freelancing with orchestras and chamber groups, and teaching violin.
Some 20 years ago Sheila embarked on an alternative musical route, feeling the need to use her musical abilities in a more holistic way : she studied Sound Healing with Simon Heather and Gong with Don Conreaux. She has since specialised in the use of the Gongs for Sound Therapy.
Sheila has recorded three Gong CD's - ‘Transcendence', ‘Quantum Transformations', and ‘Sounds of Stillness', and written two books on the gong which have become classic reference books in this field. They are also used as textbooks for the Gong Course. Her first book "Sound Healing with Gongs - A Gong Book for Beginners" was published in December 2010 . The 2nd book : "In the Heart of the Gong Space - The Gong as a Spiritual Tool" was published in October 2012. Both are available to order from Sheila's website.
Sheila is a member of the CMA and the UK Sound Healers Association. As well as her teaching, she has a private therapy practice near Ashburton on the edge of Dartmoor, south Devon. She is also a traditionally trained Reiki Master.
Sheila still enjoys playing the violin - these days it's mainly folk songs and traditional Irish music - with musical friends and colleagues.
- TAMMY YICK - North Wiltshire, Swindon - Gloucestershire — Wiltshire
Tammy is an experienced and compassionate meditation facilitator. She assimilated into the Western culture, blending her eastern background into an amazing life of spirituality and learning.
Having studied and travelled the world to attend courses and meet masters in her field, Tammy has incorporated her love of sound into her practice. She uses the amazing healing and therapeutic qualities of the gong and other instruments to support private clients, and those in care homes and charity groups. At the moment she is training to be a harp therapist.
Tammy is on a continuous journey of learning, attending formal courses connected with counselling and psychotherapy and currently works with vulnerable children and families.
She believes everyone has the capacity to transform, to deepen the connection with their Higher Self, and looks forward to supporting you on your soul journey through sound healing.
Drumming Practitioner Training Tutors
- SANDRA ALDERMAN - Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire
Sandra lives on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border, not far from Glastonbury, Stonehenge and Avebury. She joined Sacred Drumming led by Steven and Renata Ash in 2019, completing a one year training to become a Sacred Drumming Practitioner. This was an amazing journey, where Sandra made her own Drum, Drumstick, and Rattle.
Working with the Drum, Rattle, Feather and the Medicine Wheel has heightened her awareness and Sandra feels she has a deeper connection with the Medicine Wheel. She then studied for another two years with Steven and Renata Ash to become a Sacred Drumming Tutor.
- STEVEN ASH - Klagenfurt, Kärnten, Austria
Steven moved to Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island, on the north shore of Lake Huron, when he was seven and then onto Oshwegan first nation reservations in Ontario, Canada. At eleven he became the medicine apprentice of his father Dr. A.E.M. Ash, who was the reservation doctor and the first British doctor to practice acupuncture in general practice in the UK.
After qualifying as a teacher at St. Marks and St. Johns, Steven studied acupuncture with the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and later trained in Tai Chi and Qi Kung and Cranio-Sacral Therapy. He was granted an honorary doctorate in divinity by Brockport University USA in 1977.
In 1983 Steven opened his healing clinic in Surrey, incorporating TCM, CST, herbs and essences. Music and sound healing became part of his regular healing sessions, with patients participating in composing their own healing songs, often with huge clinical success.
Steven was given his first healing drum in 1986, and quickly found that drumming acted as a doorway into seeing ever deeper into the physical, emotional and psychological state of his clients. He instigated evening healing circles to encourage his clients and their families to actively take part in the healing process.
Steven was adopted as spiritual grandson by Grandfather Wallace Black Elk and lived and worked with Ted Williams, medicine chief of the Raven tribe in Rochester, USA. His spirit name Tatanka Wanagi Wichasta - Buffalo Spirit Man - was given to him by Eagle Man Ed McGaa who honoured him in becoming a sacred pipe carrier and lodge keeper in 1994.
Steven's vision is to help others fulfil their individual life purpose and to facilitate the return of the Rainbow Tribe as predicted by Black Elk. In his work with Sacred Drumming 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.
Steven offers individual and group healing sessions with the sacred drum.
PUBLICATIONS:
Sacred Drumming - Godsfield Press/Sterling Publishing (English and German).
The Healing Home - Vega /Chrysalis Publishing.
CDs: Essential Sacred Drumming, Golden Lights, Sabai Ceremony, Light on the Skin, Emperor's Birthday Party, Dance of Peace, Lords Prayer.
Co-authored ‘Relax' with Renata, Quadrillion Publishing Inc.
- MIKE BARRON - Churchstoke, Powys
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 an experienced Sound Healer, he is vice-chairman of the College of Sound Healing and is a Tutor with the College , teaching the five part Sound Healing practitioner course. Mike is also a Tutor of the Sacred Drumming course for the College , he also works with Earth energies and Ley lines.
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 teenage son.
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- AOIFE BROWN - Lewes, East Sussex
Aoife has been a Sound Therapy Practitioner (BAST) since 2007 and a Sacred Drumming Practitioner since 2012. She also trained as a Sacred Drumming Tutor under Steven and Renata Ash and is now teaching the Sacred Drumming Practitioner course through the College of Sound Healing. It is an honour to have received the teachings through that spiritual lineage, and Aoife holds the vision of the Sacred Drumming Medicine Path and the Rainbow Tribe deep in her heart.
Growing up in Ireland with a strong musical background gave her a love of sound and music. She has facilitated countless 1-2-1 sessions, drum circles, and sound baths using Gongs, Crystal singing bowls, Himalayan bowls, Tuning forks, Healing Voice, Sacred Drumming, and much more.
Sound Therapy and Sacred Drumming helped Aoife cope with chronic illness which began at age 21, and provided relief and transformation. Her personal experience of the healing power of sound now feeds her dedication as a sound therapist. The deep healing that comes through the drumbeat, whilst being held in the safety of the Medicine Wheel, also drives her passion for sharing these teachings.
Aoife is an Emotion Code and Body Code Practitioner and has trained in Usui Reiki, Angelic Reiki, Metamorphic Technique, Soul Doula Work, and Touch Drawing. Aoife is also an artist and considers the healing power of creativity to be deeply transformational.
- ANITA DAS - Sutton, Surrey
Anita Das is a qualified Cosh Sound Healing with the Voice; Sacred Drumming, Crystal and Himalayan Bowls and Gong practitioner and tutor with The College of Sound Healing (Cosh).
Following a near-death experience and spiritual awakening, she uncovered an ability to act as a natural voice channel and trance medium and awakened past life energy healing abilities. Since then, she dived more fully into the spiritual field and has trained in and practises various therapy and healing modalities.
She practices as a hypnotherapist; regression and between lives spiritual regression therapist; spiritual counsellor; spiritual life coach; shamanic healer practitioner; soul transformation therapist.
She also practices healing modalities including Angelic Reiki; Atlantean Paddles; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing; Sonic Light Language; Assemblage Point Healing.
She also provides readings including Soul Plan Reading; Overlay; Akashic Records; Psychic; Angel; Mediumship; Channelled; Astrology.
She also practices energy management; intrusive energy removal; spirit release; psychic surgery; spiritual emergency; space clearing.
As well as individual sessions, Anita hosts group events including group gong and bowls sound baths; sacred drumming circles; Chi Kung and meditation classes.
She teaches workshops focused on soul purpose and spiritual development including the following courses: Shamanic Healing Practitioner available via Cosh; Soul Plan Reader Practitioner; Angelic Reiki Practitioner Master Teacher; Golden Merkabha of Creation; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing Practitioner; Energy Management; Channelling; Abundance and Manifestation; Chi Kung; meditation.
She is a member of the following bodies: College of Sound Healing (CoSH); General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC); The Complementary National Healthcare Council (CNHC); Angelic Reiki UK; The Healer Foundation; The British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA); International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM); The Complementary Medical Association (CMA); Spiritual Regression Therapy Association (SRTA); Earth Association of Regression Therapy (EARTh); Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists (CRSST); Spirit Release Forum (SRF).
She loves to assist clients in their journey of transformation and empowerment to be the best that they can be, achieve their dreams and live their unique soul purpose.
- ALLY GERRISH - Coventry, West Midlands - Wiltshire
After training with Steven and Renata Ash Ally became a Sacred Drumming Practitioner in 2019 and a Sacred Drumming Tutor in 2020. Since 2020 she has been team teaching on the Sacred Drumming Practitioner Training Course with the Course creators, originators and Tutors Steven and Renata Ash, and Course Tutors; Mirijam Marx and Eva Greenslade.
Ally has jointly delivered Sacred Drumming Workshops at The College of Sound Healing Conference, Avebury Stone Circle, and offered collaborative Shamanic Workshops at Birtley Woodland in Sussex.
For five years Ally has been jointly running a Shamanic Drumming Circle off and currently offers an online Sacred Drumming Circle and two in-person Sacred Drumming Circles at The Rollright Stones, in Great Rollright Village (Oxfordshire), and in Solihull and Coventry (West Midlands).
Always awed by nature Ally is a qualified teacher with twenty five years of experience working with all ages, SEN and mainstream. Ally followed her heart into The College of Sound Healing and began training with Simon Heather in 2011. Ally is qualified in-Sacred Drumming Healing, Soul Retrieval, Assemblage Point Realignment, Sound Healing and Usui Shiri Ryoho (Usui Reiki). Ally also has four years of experience as a Volunteer and Employed Complimentary Therapist, at a local hospice, delivering therapeutic sessions of- guided visualisation, mindfulness, hand and foot massage and Butterfly Reiki
- EVA BAY GREENSLADE - Brighton, Sussex - Sussex - East
Eva Bay Greenslade lives in Brighton, East Sussex. Eva is a Sacred Drumming Practitioner, a tutor for Sacred Drum Practitioner Course, a Soul Retrieval Practitioner and Tutor for Soul Retrieval Practitioner training.
Eva also works as a Birth and Postnatal Doula, and a Pagan Celebrant for rites of passage.
Eva has a keen passion in helping the birthing parent to reconnect with their natural rhythms to aid childbirth, she also enjoys helping people to feel empowered through rites of passage ceremonies.
Eva has had keen interest in spirituality since she was young, specifically Shamanism and Paganism, Eva has sat in spiritual development circles and has trained in spiritual healing and mediumship from a young age which has helped tremendously with her work as a Shamanic Practitioner.
Eva feels her work is not a job but a spiritual calling, a passion, it is her life path.
- CHRIS HEADLAND - Bedlington, Northumberland
Chris Headland (Peace Pipe Circle Woman). She has worked in Northumberland since 1972 in the statutory and voluntary sector with Children and vulnerable adults. Becoming aware of other holistic alternative ways of working began by studying Dowsing, Sound Healing, Reiki, Life Coaching, Crystal Healing advanced level with ACHO, Sacred Drumming with Steven and Renata Ash, Studying to be a clinical Hypnotherapist in 2011 . As a Shaman Peace Pipe Circle Woman, training in Glastonbury her home town to study for three years with Howard and Elsa Malpas. A meditation teacher running classes and 1-1 meditation practice Now also an Access Bars Practitioner.
For the last seven years she has been running weekly chant and healing groups. A Sacred Drumming Circle, and Meditation Circle. Chris works for local charities running empowerment workshops. She also runs vegetarian Gluten free and bread making workshops. She is currently training to be a Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural therapist.
- KAY LE SUEUR - Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
A bowls and gongs sound therapist, sacred drumming practitioner, person centred creative art practitioner, sensorimotor guided drawing practitioner, nature worker, yoga and shakti yoga dance instructor.
Kay has worked in mainstream education for 17 years, as both teacher and senior leader. Delivering Design and Technology and Engineering to secondary school students, training teachers and leading departments/collaborative consortiums. Her aim being to support others to reach their full potential and empower responsible, sustainable design.
Kay decided to extend her training to fully encompass her love of nature, creativity, sound healing and movement for wellness.
Following her own experiences with cancer, she works with Bedford Hospital and Macmillan to support other patients by facilitating their HOPE course, whilst supporting a local charity with therapeutic work for patients and carers.
Based in a private studio in Bedfordshire, Kay offers a range of in person and online options, tailored to your individual needs.
- ROSIE SAUNDERS - Dunton, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Rosie’s journey with sound began in her 20’s when she experienced power animal drumming journeys, created her own drum and attended monthly drumming circles.
She has trained with Simon Heather, Steven and Renata Ash and Rob and June Dickerson at COSH and is a practitioner and tutor for the Sacred Drumming practitioner training course and Shamanic Healing course.
She has always been interested in health and well-being and has worked in the industry for over 25 years, running her own successful beauty and holistic clinic.
In addition to sound therapies, Rosie is a Crystal Healing therapist (ACHO), Aromatherapist, Reiki Teacher/Master, and Natural Mindfulness and Meditation Guide.
Living on the Bedfordshire / Cambridgeshire border in a rural village with her family, she loves being outside connecting with nature. She practises from her therapy studio offering individual therapies, sound baths, drum circles, drum birthing workshops and courses on a variety of subjects.
Crystal Bowl and Himalayan Bowl Practitioner Training Course © Tutors
- SHAUN BESSANT - Andover, Hampshire - Hampshire
Shaun is a qualified gong and bowl practitioner and tutor through The College of Sound Healing.
For the last six years, he has ran a gong bath meditation company called Sonic Spa, along with his wife Cherie, who is a professional counsellor. Using a range of healing instruments like gongs, crystal bowls and Himalayan bowls, he has facilitated 1-1 sessions, group sessions (public and private) and also corporate sound healing events across southern England.
Helping people has always been at the heart of Shaun's life purpose. He enjoys using various forms of music and vibrations to help stabilise, energise and rejuvenate people. Being a Tutor for the crystal and Himalayan bowls has become a natural step.
Shaun's practitioner courses are held in a charming little hall in a beautiful village, deep in the Hampshire countryside.
- ROB & JUNE DICKERSON - Flitwick, Bedfordshire - Bedfordshire
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 created the Crystal and Himalayan Bowl Practitioner Training Course in 2015 which has proved to be very popular with many Students going on to qualify as Practitioners over the years.
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.
June and Rob are also retailers of Himalayan Bowls directly from a family in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- SUSAN LARK - Exeter, Devon and South London - Devon
Susan is a College of Sound Healing practitioner and tutor, a level 4 Biofield Tuning practitioner and Reiki Drum practitioner. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, and Reflexologist, practising facial reflexology and gua sha stone therapy.
She is passionate about sound’s ability to help people reach their best state of health. For many years she worked at an international firm in the City and saw at first hand the effects of long-term stress on the body, which is a leading cause of disease. By using sound, a stressed body can be brought back to its optimal vibrational rate so that it can begin its own healing process. Clients usually report a sense of profound relaxation and sleep is often improved. The healing or ‘wholing’ process continues to work well after the session has ended.
Susan has an affinity with metal instruments such as Himalayan bowls, the Gong and tuning forks.
Susan runs her courses from a Victorian school hall in a beautiful village just outside Exeter, Devon, close to the M5 and Exeter airport.
- PAULINE SMIT - Salford, Greater Manchester - Lancashire
Pauline Smit is a qualified bowl practitioner and tutor through The College of Sound Healing. She is also a Reiki and Animal Reiki Master Teacher. After years of working as a Reiki Practitioner her interest in sound healing started to form. This interest brought her to the College of Sound Healing, first to complete the Crystal bowl and Himalayan bowl practitioner course, to then become the treasurer of the College and finally to become one of the bowl practitioner tutors for the College.
Pauline is passionate about supporting people to be able to live their lives to the full. The healing she offers for people to support them to find a way to release stresses and traumas. She finds this incredibly rewarding and she can’t think of anything better to do than supporting others.
She fell in love with Himalayan bowls, an interest which quickly started to expand to Crystal bowls and other healing instruments such as the drum. Sharing the love of these instruments through teaching the bowl practitioner course is something that is very close to her heart.
Pauline runs her courses in two lovely places: a cute, accessible village hall near Worsley, Greater Manchester, and a spiritual hub in Chorley, Lancashire.
- MICHELLE JANE THOMPSON - Swindon, Wiltshire
Michelle has been immersed in in spiritual work for more than 30 years and is a life-long devotee of sacred sounds whether they be instruments, voice, mantra, or sacred texts.
Michelle's work as a Sound Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Holistic practitioner and Life coach aim to inspire deeper understanding and healing of the self through listening with a softer awareness. Her teaching emphasizes curiosity, compassion, belief, self-acceptance.
Trained in multiple sound therapies, yoga modalities and massage therapies she is also a life coach, reiki master teacher as well being a chant, Sanskrit and vedic text guide. Her offerings reflect her diverse trainings and are a hybrid of sound, yoga, growth and self-examination.
Commited to helping others on their journey she currently offer classes/trainings as well as multiple modality workshops. A passionate student of Sanskrit, vedic mantra and ancients texts it is her vision to share their wisdom and magic through future teachings.
Workshop Tutors
- SANDRA ALDERMAN - Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire - Somerset
Sandra lives on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border, not far from Glastonbury, Stonehenge and Avebury. She joined Sacred Drumming led by Steven and Renata Ash in 2019, completing a one year training to become a Sacred Drumming Practitioner. This was an amazing journey, where Sandra made her own Drum, Drumstick, and Rattle.
Working with the Drum, Rattle, Feather and the Medicine Wheel has heightened her awareness and Sandra feels she has a deeper connection with the Medicine Wheel. She then studied for another two years with Steven and Renata Ash to become a Sacred Drumming Tutor.
- RENATA ASH - 9581 Ledenitzen, Kärnten, Austria
Renata is a performing musician, therapist, and workshop leader using voice, music and rhythm as tools for healing, transformation, and inner awareness.
Renata was adopted as granddaughter by the late Wallace Black Elk and has been working with the sacred drum since 1996. She trained as a Vocal Awareness© Coach with Arthur Joseph and teaches Pineal Toning©, as developed by Dr. Todd Ovokaytis, to facilitate the activation of the pineal gland through the use of sound. In 2010 Renata developed the Golden Light Project©, an online course for personal and global healing.
Since 2003, Renata has led workshop tours throughout Europe, focusing on the healing power of the drum and the voice. Together with her husband Steven, she has developed and teaches musical techniques for the activation of the 13-Chakra system.
Her deep devotion to the Feminine Divine finds expression in the sacred Sabai Ceremonies and spiritual retreats which Renata offers as pathways towards a more connected and authentic life.
- STEVEN ASH - Klagenfurt, Kärnten, Austria
Steven moved to Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island, on the north shore of Lake Huron, when he was seven and then onto Oshwegan first nation reservations in Ontario, Canada. At eleven he became the medicine apprentice of his father Dr. A.E.M. Ash, who was the reservation doctor and the first British doctor to practice acupuncture in general practice in the UK.
After qualifying as a teacher at St. Marks and St. Johns, Steven studied acupuncture with the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and later trained in Tai Chi and Qi Kung and Cranio-Sacral Therapy. He was granted an honorary doctorate in divinity by Brockport University USA in 1977.
In 1983 Steven opened his healing clinic in Surrey, incorporating TCM, CST, herbs and essences. Music and sound healing became part of his regular healing sessions, with patients participating in composing their own healing songs, often with huge clinical success.
Steven was given his first healing drum in 1986, and quickly found that drumming acted as a doorway into seeing ever deeper into the physical, emotional and psychological state of his clients. He instigated evening healing circles to encourage his clients and their families to actively take part in the healing process.
Steven was adopted as spiritual grandson by Grandfather Wallace Black Elk and lived and worked with Ted Williams, medicine chief of the Raven tribe in Rochester, USA. His spirit name Tatanka Wanagi Wichasta - Buffalo Spirit Man - was given to him by Eagle Man Ed McGaa who honoured him in becoming a sacred pipe carrier and lodge keeper in 1994.
Steven's vision is to help others fulfil their individual life purpose and to facilitate the return of the Rainbow Tribe as predicted by Black Elk. In his work with Sacred Drumming 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.
Steven offers individual and group healing sessions with the sacred drum.
PUBLICATIONS:
Sacred Drumming - Godsfield Press/Sterling Publishing (English and German).
The Healing Home - Vega /Chrysalis Publishing.
CDs: Essential Sacred Drumming, Golden Lights, Sabai Ceremony, Light on the Skin, Emperor's Birthday Party, Dance of Peace, Lords Prayer.
Co-authored ‘Relax' with Renata, Quadrillion Publishing Inc.
- MIKE BARRON - Churchstoke, Powys
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 an experienced Sound Healer, he is vice-chairman of the College of Sound Healing and is a Tutor with the College , teaching the five part Sound Healing practitioner course. Mike is also a Tutor of the Sacred Drumming course for the College , he also works with Earth energies and Ley lines.
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 teenage son.
- RHIANNON GILL BECQUE - online only
RHIANNON WILL NO LONGER BE TEACHING THE COURSE - only running workshops.
Rhiannon lives in Glossop, near Manchester. Her amazing, transformational journey started with Chloe Goodchild's Naked Voice Facilitator training, and she now runs workshops, called ‘Let Your Soul Sing !' to introduce people to the transforming practices of the Naked Voice.
She then discovered the power of Sound Healing through meeting Simon Heather and trained as a practitioner and later as a college tutor. She loved delivering the sound healing training courses for 8 years in Ireland, but has returned to train back in her home ground in the N-W of England, near Glossop (13 miles from Manchester)
For 17 years she has been in on-going training with Kim Rosen, MFA, an American spiritual teacher, spoken-word artist and poet, and now facilitates workshops using poetry as medicine - ‘Speaking Poetry for the Soul'. Kim's teaching is that allowing poetry deeply into ourselves - ‘awakens, nourishes, inspires and heals, giving us the insight and sensitivity we need to live as creative individuals and as a peaceful society'.
Rhiannon is a singer, song-writer and teacher, and explores how sounding with others, vocally and with instruments, leads to spiritual connection and healing. It is a joy to her that she has discovered so much in the later part of her career, rather than teaching music to retirement age and then ---- nothing. Life is full and exiting still.
Rhiannon is also a person-centred counsellor and a Reiki master. Her life has been transformed through sound, and she loves running workshops and working with individuals, hoping that it can change their lives also.
- PAUL BENHAM - Hay-on-Wye Powys - Powys
Paul has led voice and sound healing workshops for twenty years, incorporating vocal sound techniques from many traditions together with sound healing training.
He uses improvisation, movement, listening, sounding and ceremony to help people connect with the healing powers of sound; he 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 grounds at Primrose Haven Retreats in which have been created gardens for peace, the elements and four seasons, a sacred grove and ‘emissary wheel'.
Paul facilitates the 5-part College training programme and an additional module ‘Sound Healing and Nature' and two ‘Sound' days, to celebrate and deepen our connection with nature and the natural cycles of energy. At Primrose Haven we also run each year 2 retreats of the Magical Resonance of Celtic, Druidic and Dana Sounds. This can be an opening to begin the journey to discover our indigenous souls. There will be particular focus on working with spirals and spiral consciousness, which the Celtic and Druidic people held in great reverence. There will also be a focus on ceremony and an option to attend a sweat lodge Sunday afternoon and stay Sunday night.
The residential workshops and other retreats are run by Paul and his partner Jan who creates wholesome food from the Primrose gardens.
- MASHA BENNETT - Glossop, Derbyshire / Greater Manchester - Derbyshire
Masha is a registered psychotherapist and trauma specialist, and has trained with several tutors at the College of Sound Healing, qualifying as a Gong Practitioner with Sheila Whittaker. She has 20 years of experience in working therapeutically with both adults and children, including in the NHS, criminal justice, addiction services, residential care, and schools.
Masha has an MSc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma from the University of Chester, and teaches on various topics, including trauma healing, basic neuroscience, psychotherapy, emotional freedom techniques, creative therapies, in the UK and internationally.
In her full-time private practice, Masha combines talking therapies with sound healing, sandplay therapy and therapeutic art, as well as healing with nature; and offers full-day and half-day individual mini retreats, as well as regular sessions. She can offer therapy and training in English and in Russian. Masha occasionally assists Rhiannon Becque in running a monthly Sound Healing Circle in Hadfield/Glossop.
- SHAUN BESSANT - Andover, Hampshire
Shaun is a qualified gong and bowl practitioner and tutor through The College of Sound Healing.
For the last six years, he has ran a gong bath meditation company called Sonic Spa, along with his wife Cherie, who is a professional counsellor. Using a range of healing instruments like gongs, crystal bowls and Himalayan bowls, he has facilitated 1-1 sessions, group sessions (public and private) and also corporate sound healing events across southern England.
Helping people has always been at the heart of Shaun's life purpose. He enjoys using various forms of music and vibrations to help stabilise, energise and rejuvenate people. Being a Tutor for the crystal and Himalayan bowls has become a natural step.
Shaun's practitioner courses are held in a charming little hall in a beautiful village, deep in the Hampshire countryside.
- CHRYS BLANCHARD - Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. WALES, UK
Chrys is a freelance musician whose work calls upon the great diversity of skills she has acquired after more than 30 years in the performing arts.
Many College members took part in her annual Soundscapes, a 3 hour Live Sound Installation in Nevill Hall Hospital. Wales UK.
She works primarily with voice, guiding people to find a deep connection using their own unique sounds and is fascinated by the alchemy when voices combine, allowing communication and transformation to happen without the need for words. "Through sound we can access a place where we are able to reveal our true selves and connect with our underlying truths". Through her skilful and sensitive holding of a group, powerful and life-changing shifts can take place as sound is shared, and voices unite. Chrys achieves this deep and profound work with a light-hearted touch, and a down-to-earth sense of fun. In these changing times Chrys is offering training and workshops online so that we can continue to offer sound for people's well being at a time when it is so desperately needed.
- AOIFE BROWN - Lewes, East Sussex
Aoife has been a Sound Therapy Practitioner (BAST) since 2007 and a Sacred Drumming Practitioner since 2012. She also trained as a Sacred Drumming Tutor under Steven and Renata Ash and is now teaching the Sacred Drumming Practitioner course through the College of Sound Healing. It is an honour to have received the teachings through that spiritual lineage, and Aoife holds the vision of the Sacred Drumming Medicine Path and the Rainbow Tribe deep in her heart.
Growing up in Ireland with a strong musical background gave her a love of sound and music. She has facilitated countless 1-2-1 sessions, drum circles, and sound baths using Gongs, Crystal singing bowls, Himalayan bowls, Tuning forks, Healing Voice, Sacred Drumming, and much more.
Sound Therapy and Sacred Drumming helped Aoife cope with chronic illness which began at age 21, and provided relief and transformation. Her personal experience of the healing power of sound now feeds her dedication as a sound therapist. The deep healing that comes through the drumbeat, whilst being held in the safety of the Medicine Wheel, also drives her passion for sharing these teachings.
Aoife is an Emotion Code and Body Code Practitioner and has trained in Usui Reiki, Angelic Reiki, Metamorphic Technique, Soul Doula Work, and Touch Drawing. Aoife is also an artist and considers the healing power of creativity to be deeply transformational.
- FAITH CHALLINOR-WHEATLEY - Dunvant, West Glamorgan
Faith was born in Wales into a traditional musical welsh community in the Dulais Valley. The influence of singing and practice has been with Faith since her childhood. She has been practising holistic therapies for forty years. These include Stress Management, Aromatherapy, Spiritual Healing and Reiki.
Faith was guided to work with her own voice for self healing, after a near fatal road accident in 1998.This proved fundamental to Faith's overall recovery and was instrumental in her further researching and developing a number of sound healing techniques.
These include Light Melodics (Light Vibrational Melodic Sound Healing Therapy). Faith has recorded two therapeutic sound healing CDs. Healing Ambient Chants and Sounds for Inner Peace and The Peace Mantra Odyssey.
She has run regular sound healing workshops and talks in Wales for the last 9 years promoting the benefits of sound resonance for healing with a number of articles published locally.
Faith is a College Practitioner Training Course Tutor and is also teaching workshops in ‘Sound Healing with Sounding Bowls' and ‘Healing Ambient Chants'.
Faith runs small groups in the supportive environment of the Sound Medicine Lodge in Dunvant, Swansea, W.Glamorgan, situated on the edge of the Gower Peninsula.
Therapeutic Sound Healing sessions and group Sound/Gong Meditation sessions are held regularly at the Lodge and in various other locations throughout the year.
- BLU COTTAM - Lincoln, Lincolnshire - Lincolnshire
Yoga lies at the heart of Blu's holistic approach to life, with it's ideals of unity, inner balance, peace, loving kindness and expanding consciousness.
Discovering the Aura-Soma Colour Care System, Blu saw how Colour can help bring a deeper understanding of ourselves and our path in life. It's relevance to the chakra system makes colour wisdom a perfect companion to further any Yoga practice.
Blu found the joy of working with Sound Healing to be deeply therapeutic and rewarding, so easeful, totally positive and uplifting. Here was the harmony to soothe and feed our soul!
Blu loves to share, singly, or in various combinations, these healing modalities, for example, in the workshops ‘Yoga and Sound' and ‘Sound and Colour'.
Blu is a tutor for the College of Sound Healing, based in Lincolnshire. She is also a trained teacher/practitioner of Yoga (BWY), of Aura-Soma and of Reiki/Seichem healing. Her intention is to help empower others with these healing tools for body, mind, heart and soul.
- ANITA DAS - Sutton, Surrey
Anita Das is a qualified Cosh Sound Healing with the Voice; Sacred Drumming, Crystal and Himalayan Bowls and Gong practitioner and tutor with The College of Sound Healing (Cosh).
Following a near-death experience and spiritual awakening, she uncovered an ability to act as a natural voice channel and trance medium and awakened past life energy healing abilities. Since then, she dived more fully into the spiritual field and has trained in and practises various therapy and healing modalities.
She practices as a hypnotherapist; regression and between lives spiritual regression therapist; spiritual counsellor; spiritual life coach; shamanic healer practitioner; soul transformation therapist.
She also practices healing modalities including Angelic Reiki; Atlantean Paddles; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing; Sonic Light Language; Assemblage Point Healing.
She also provides readings including Soul Plan Reading; Overlay; Akashic Records; Psychic; Angel; Mediumship; Channelled; Astrology.
She also practices energy management; intrusive energy removal; spirit release; psychic surgery; spiritual emergency; space clearing.
As well as individual sessions, Anita hosts group events including group gong and bowls sound baths; sacred drumming circles; Chi Kung and meditation classes.
She teaches workshops focused on soul purpose and spiritual development including the following courses: Shamanic Healing Practitioner available via Cosh; Soul Plan Reader Practitioner; Angelic Reiki Practitioner Master Teacher; Golden Merkabha of Creation; New Shamballa; Master Energy Colour Healing Practitioner; Energy Management; Channelling; Abundance and Manifestation; Chi Kung; meditation.
She is a member of the following bodies: College of Sound Healing (CoSH); General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC); The Complementary National Healthcare Council (CNHC); Angelic Reiki UK; The Healer Foundation; The British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA); International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM); The Complementary Medical Association (CMA); Spiritual Regression Therapy Association (SRTA); Earth Association of Regression Therapy (EARTh); Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists (CRSST); Spirit Release Forum (SRF).
She loves to assist clients in their journey of transformation and empowerment to be the best that they can be, achieve their dreams and live their unique soul purpose.
- ROB & JUNE DICKERSON - Flitwick, Bedfordshire - Bedfordshire
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 created the Crystal and Himalayan Bowl Practitioner Training Course in 2015 which has proved to be very popular with many Students going on to qualify as Practitioners over the years.
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.
June and Rob are also retailers of Himalayan Bowls directly from a family in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- YVONNE DIMENT - Arundel, West Sussex
Yvonne lives in Arundel, West Sussex. She has always had an interest in the environment, wildlife and history and finds herself perfectly located in this area of the South Downs National Park. This beautiful location provides a wonderful background and a lovely energy environment for her therapies and teaching.
Following a career change from school teaching, Yvonne began her therapy journey as a Reflexologist. Her interests are now focussed on the power of vibrational healing through Sound and Crystals. She feels that fundamental healing occurs at emotional and energetic levels and Sound is one of the best ways of working on these levels.
Yvonne has always loved teaching in its various manifestations in her life. Now, as a teacher of workshops and accredited courses, her main interest is in giving people tools to work with on their own journeys.
- MARY DOHERTY - Cork City, Cork, Ireland
Mary Doherty is a therapist, facilitator and trainer with over 25 years' experience. She combines Counselling Therapy, Energy Healing, Chinese Medicine, Sound Healing, Naked Voice, Natural Voice, EFT, Meditation and Physical Therapies. Her main area of interest is in integrating the Psychological, Spiritual and Creative aspects of the Self.
She is also a classically-trained singer and performer and member of creative performance group Dourga.
Her private practice is based in her native Cork city and she also travels throughout Ireland teaching, training and performing.
Mary also works with The Next Step program which promotes the Creative Arts in supporting mental health.
She has worked with various groups such as The Irish Wheelchair Association, Carers and Corporate groups teaching Meditation, Vocal and Sound Practices for Emotional, Spiritual and Physical wellbeing.
Mary holds weekly meditation and chant classes as well as regular Naked, Natural Voice workshops and Sound Healing Practitioner Training.
Contact Number: 00353 (0)87 2970858
- NISHI DUBASH - London, Greater London
Nishi is passionate about healing, and everything she does is from a place of love and finds nothing more rewarding or fulfilling than witnessing a client’s healing transformation.
Nishi works to facilitate healing on a holistic basis and works on all three levels: the mind, body and soul, as working to align all three elements is where the most benefits are gained.
Nishi’s sound healing journey started at a very early age, having grown up in an environment where chanting and meditation were a natural part of life. Her Soul just knew the Power of Sound was extraordinary, healing and an innate part of who she is.
Nishi regards having the gift to heal people a privilege and says it’s an intrinsic part of her and has been that way for nearly 40 years.
Every healing Nishi facilitates is delivered from a loving compassionate heart.
- GILL EVANS - Llanfair Caereinion, Powys - Powys
Born and living in a beautiful part of Mid Wales with a strong and rich connection to its culture in song, poetry, theatre and the arts, having experienced and enjoyed all of these mediums through her life has positioned Gill ideally for Sound Healing.
Gill loves to channel chants and two can be heard on the college website called Sing, sing and Feel the Earth.
Teaching and healing through Sound and Reiki and Soul Healig, Gill has seen the benifits on all levels, including on animals. Working very intuitively to the needs of others.
Gills workshops are designed to assist others on their soul journey here on this earth to gain knowledge and connect deeper to their own divinity .
Teaching the College Sound Healing training courses has given Gill the opportunity to help develope the healing ability of some lovely people including people from Europe.
Running toning workshops Sound Bath Eveningsand other sound courses always amazes Gill at the wonderful power of healing through sound how we are truly connecting to the essence of love and harmony.
Gill runs her courses and workshops in a tranquil and beautiful part of mid Wales.
Come and join Gill on your journey of discovery through sound.
After part 1 practitioners course each other weekend will be organised to the needs of the group.
- TRIXI FIELD - Ellesmere, Shropshire
Singer, voice workshop facilitator, pianist, author and composer, Trixi believes that in our noisy, busy, hi-tech society we have become separated from the simple, healing joys of singing and music-making together—an essential part of being human. She has been running voice and song/sound meditation workshops in the UK and Greece for well over a decade.
She has an MA (music education), an MEd, (University of Wales), a DipLCM (London College of Music) and has trained in Creative Music Making in the Classroom (Orff Institute, Mozarteum, Austria,) and jazz voice, piano and composition (Trinity College of Music, London).
Trixi found herself fascinated with Sound Healing initially through facilitating workshops for a variety of people, including those with special physical needs, confidence issues, mental illness and able-bodied to very severely disabled children. Over the years, she has frequently observed the profoundly healing and mood-enhancing effects of singing and music-making, and was inspired to take things further and eventually train with the College of Sound Healing to become a Sound Healing Practitioner and Tutor.
Trixi works primarily (but not excusively) with the voice, and currently runs the following workshops:
Song Meditation (mindful singing using song, chants, simple rounds and harmonies),
Sing for Joy (a workshop designed to enhance self confidence, promote fun and help participants develop simple techniques to improve the use of the voice), The Healing Voice (healing and self healing using simple toning and chant practices).
Trixi is a fully qualified teacher of Dru Yoga (DipDYT) and currently runs a weekly class in Ellesmere.
- ALLY GERRISH - Coventry, West Midlands
After training with Steven and Renata Ash Ally became a Sacred Drumming Practitioner in 2019 and a Sacred Drumming Tutor in 2020. Since 2020 she has been team teaching on the Sacred Drumming Practitioner Training Course with the Course creators, originators and Tutors Steven and Renata Ash, and Course Tutors; Mirijam Marx and Eva Greenslade.
Ally has jointly delivered Sacred Drumming Workshops at The College of Sound Healing Conference, Avebury Stone Circle, and offered collaborative Shamanic Workshops at Birtley Woodland in Sussex.
For five years Ally has been jointly running a Shamanic Drumming Circle off and currently offers an online Sacred Drumming Circle and two in-person Sacred Drumming Circles at The Rollright Stones, in Great Rollright Village (Oxfordshire), and in Solihull and Coventry (West Midlands).
Always awed by nature Ally is a qualified teacher with twenty five years of experience working with all ages, SEN and mainstream. Ally followed her heart into The College of Sound Healing and began training with Simon Heather in 2011. Ally is qualified in-Sacred Drumming Healing, Soul Retrieval, Assemblage Point Realignment, Sound Healing and Usui Shiri Ryoho (Usui Reiki). Ally also has four years of experience as a Volunteer and Employed Complimentary Therapist, at a local hospice, delivering therapeutic sessions of- guided visualisation, mindfulness, hand and foot massage and Butterfly Reiki
- EVA BAY GREENSLADE - Brighton, Sussex - Sussex - East
Eva Bay Greenslade lives in Brighton, East Sussex. Eva is a Sacred Drumming Practitioner, a tutor for Sacred Drum Practitioner Course, a Soul Retrieval Practitioner and Tutor for Soul Retrieval Practitioner training.
Eva also works as a Birth and Postnatal Doula, and a Pagan Celebrant for rites of passage.
Eva has a keen passion in helping the birthing parent to reconnect with their natural rhythms to aid childbirth, she also enjoys helping people to feel empowered through rites of passage ceremonies.
Eva has had keen interest in spirituality since she was young, specifically Shamanism and Paganism, Eva has sat in spiritual development circles and has trained in spiritual healing and mediumship from a young age which has helped tremendously with her work as a Shamanic Practitioner.
Eva feels her work is not a job but a spiritual calling, a passion, it is her life path.
- LUCIA GUERIN - Limerick, Ireland
In 2015 Lucia began her journey into voice work, sound and poetry as a way of self exploration. Since then, Lucia has trained as a Naked Voice Facilitator with Chloe Goodchild and has been facilitating voice workshops since 2010, in both group settings and one-to-one's. In 2013 Lucia studied with the College of Sound Healing and became a Tutor in 2015. Lucia has also worked extensively with Kim Rosen, learning the power and joy of self exploration and expansion through movement, poetry and breathwork.
Lucia is passionate about voice, sound healing and poetry as a means to inspire, transform and heal as it energises and awakens your body, heart and mind. In her work, she invites an exploration of simple, yet profound practices that are rooted in a deep compassionate listening awareness, free of judgement and grounded in the belief that we all have the power to heal ourselves.
- NARAYANI GUIBARRA - Greater London, the South East
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 DAngelo. 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 has seen several students through the sound healer training course as well as encouraging others in the monthly sound group to find the power and resonance in their voice. Narayani is also a yoga teacher and laughter facilitator working with sensitivity and a dash of humour where appropriate helping you to find your eureka moment in London and the South East.
- CHRIS HEADLAND - Bedlington, Northumberland - Northumberland
Chris Headland (Peace Pipe Circle Woman). She has worked in Northumberland since 1972 in the statutory and voluntary sector with Children and vulnerable adults. Becoming aware of other holistic alternative ways of working began by studying Dowsing, Sound Healing, Reiki, Life Coaching, Crystal Healing advanced level with ACHO, Sacred Drumming with Steven and Renata Ash, Studying to be a clinical Hypnotherapist in 2011 . As a Shaman Peace Pipe Circle Woman, training in Glastonbury her home town to study for three years with Howard and Elsa Malpas. A meditation teacher running classes and 1-1 meditation practice Now also an Access Bars Practitioner.
For the last seven years she has been running weekly chant and healing groups. A Sacred Drumming Circle, and Meditation Circle. Chris works for local charities running empowerment workshops. She also runs vegetarian Gluten free and bread making workshops. She is currently training to be a Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural therapist.
- STEPH HEALY - Bangor, Gwynedd
Steph is a Sound and Gong Practitioner, Biofield Tuning Practitioner, Past Life Regression Therapist, Mindfulness Teacher and Energy Healer, based in Snowdonia, North Wales.
An ex-NHS Teacher, Steph discovered the power of therapeutic sound in 2012. During the years that followed she underwent a huge transformational journey finding healing through sound to be an elegant and profound form of natural healing. From these experiences and extensive training, she now runs a successful practice in North Wales (and beyond online.)
Living in Snowdonia it’s easy to listen and connect with the land and the natural cycles, which greatly influence her work.
Steph holds regular monthly Gong baths, treats clients individually from her studio and works with the Corporate world too.
With teaching in her blood Steph is excited to share her experiences and gently guide students on their journey with the Gongs.
Sample her work on YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRUZOZ-Zr17LeSsl6-Smyw
- SIMON HEATHER - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Simon is an internationally known workshop leader, healer and author. Simon has been teaching sound healing workshops for over twenty five years.
In 1996 Simon founded the UK Sound Healers Association, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sound healing in the UK.
In 2005 Simon brought together a group of sound healers to found the College of Sound Healing.
Simon has trained extensively in the healing arts: acupuncture, body work, 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, the USA as well as in the UK. He is a member of the International Association of Sound Therapy.
- ANDREA JACKSON - Lancashire
Having worked as an energy and spiritual worker for many years, sound "resonated" with Andrea's heart. Please excuse the pun.
And by amazing co-incidence she stumbled upon Sound Healing and the College of Sound Healing and maybe that's how you're curious about it too.
Well, what a great co-incidence, it was life changing and fulfilling. Andrea now works full-time as a Therapist, Trainer and Celebrant. Supporting her clients and students on their own personal healing journey. And you will self heal if you open your heart to sound. You will develop your own skills and confidence in the ancient techniques.
Born and bred in the Pendle witch country, Lancashire Andrea truly connects with nature, a natural approach to life, yet remains well grounded and loves open water swimming.
Andrea describes herself as not completely woo woo, having a great sense of fun and a wicked contagious laugh.
- JAYNE KINSMAN O'DONNELL - Westport, Mayo / Galway, Ireland
Having experienced the transformative power of sound in her own life and with a profound desire to share its healing potential in the world, Jayne first trained as a Naked Voice Facilitator with Chloë Goodchild and then completed Sound Healing Practitioner Training with The College of Sound Healing, becoming a Tutor with the College in 2015. Jayne also works through poetry and is currently training in the Poetry Depths Mystery School with Kim Rosen.
Based in Westport, Co. Mayo, Jayne has been facilitating regular workshops in the West of Ireland for a number of years and brings together diverse skills and practices from the above teachings, supporting groups and individuals in finding their own authentic healing voice and offering energizing and nourishing ways to instil peace, harmony, confidence and well-being.
- RUBY LARIMAR - London UK & Virtual via Zoom - Greater London
Ruby's journey with sound did not take a conventional road with training in music,her love for music was curtailed as a child by her piano teacher. She reconnected back with sound when she started on her healing journey after it had been pointed out that her continued poor choices and destructive behavioural patterns were causing major obstacles.
After three years Gong Therpay Ruby trained as a Gong Master herself and joined a sonic voice choir where they carried out personal,individual and earth healing's using the voice.
Ruby's professional training took her down many diverse paths giving her practice and teacher qualifications in Crystal Therapy (ACHO) , Shamanic Practice , Life Coaching, Group Sound and Voice Therapy (BAST) ,Sound Healing (COSH) giving her an amazingly holistic and balanced way of working, probably a completely new paradigm in healing.
Ruby is a Tutor for the College of Sound healing teaching In Person in London and also via Virtual Classroom using Zoom.
- SUSAN LARK - Exeter, Devon and South London - Devon
Susan is a College of Sound Healing practitioner and tutor, a level 4 Biofield Tuning practitioner and Reiki Drum practitioner. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, and Reflexologist, practising facial reflexology and gua sha stone therapy.
She is passionate about sound’s ability to help people reach their best state of health. For many years she worked at an international firm in the City and saw at first hand the effects of long-term stress on the body, which is a leading cause of disease. By using sound, a stressed body can be brought back to its optimal vibrational rate so that it can begin its own healing process. Clients usually report a sense of profound relaxation and sleep is often improved. The healing or ‘wholing’ process continues to work well after the session has ended.
Susan has an affinity with metal instruments such as Himalayan bowls, the Gong and tuning forks.
Susan runs her courses from a Victorian school hall in a beautiful village just outside Exeter, Devon, close to the M5 and Exeter airport.
- KAY LE SUEUR - Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Bedfordshire
A bowls and gongs sound therapist, sacred drumming practitioner, person centred creative art practitioner, sensorimotor guided drawing practitioner, nature worker, yoga and shakti yoga dance instructor.
Kay has worked in mainstream education for 17 years, as both teacher and senior leader. Delivering Design and Technology and Engineering to secondary school students, training teachers and leading departments/collaborative consortiums. Her aim being to support others to reach their full potential and empower responsible, sustainable design.
Kay decided to extend her training to fully encompass her love of nature, creativity, sound healing and movement for wellness.
Following her own experiences with cancer, she works with Bedford Hospital and Macmillan to support other patients by facilitating their HOPE course, whilst supporting a local charity with therapeutic work for patients and carers.
Based in a private studio in Bedfordshire, Kay offers a range of in person and online options, tailored to your individual needs.
- ANGELA MASON - Wadhurst, East Sussex - Kent
Angela has a Sound Healing, Teaching and Massage Practice in East Sussex where she specialises in using the Gong therapeutically, supporting her clients to dynamic good health.
Angela draws on 30 years experience in holistic touch to bring an awareness and sensitivity to her Gong playing, Healing work and Teaching.
Angela first heard the Gong some years ago and was instantly drawn to study with Sheila Whittaker to become a Gong Practitioner. She studied with Don Conreaux and Aidan McIntyre on the Gong Master Training and Master Classes with Mitch Nur and Jens Zygar.
Angela teaches the College Gong Practitioner Training Course© and Introduction to the Gong Workshops that she runs in East Sussex.
She runs Gong Sound Meditations, Journeys and Gong Sound healing treatments to groups and individuals in the East Sussex area.
During the pandemic Angela supplements the ongoing practical training weekends with Group sessions via zoom and regular Distance Gonging Together meditations
1:1 Gong Sound sessions via zoom
1:1 private tuition via zoom
Reiki Master/teacher
Reiki Drum Practitioner
Angela has recorded 2 Gong CD’s.
Member of the CMA, CNHC and MTI.
- PAULINE MCCRANN - Witney, Oxfordshire
Pauline is a qualified Sound Practitioner and Gong Practitioner, having completed the College of Sound Healing Gong Practitioner Training course in 2011, is a traditional Reiki practitioner and a Tutor and Member of The College of Sound Healing.
Pauline has worked with ultrasound in the Medical Profession for over thirty years, but throughout her life, has always had a primary interest in natural healing methods. During that time there was an ever growing interest in using pure sound for healing on all levels of our being. This passion became her prime interest, and she began exploring the healing power of Himalayan singing bowls, N.A. and African drumming, and she also attended a regular chanting group.
All of these sound activities had a profound beneficial effect, eventually leading to her present passion. It wasn’t until discovering the amazing healing power of the gong, that she found the ultimate instrument with which to work. The instrument that she had been searching for in past years, and working with the gongs has been life changing for her.
Pauline lives in West Oxfordshire, and hosts regular group gong healing relaxation events in various areas, including at a Multiple Sclerosis Centre in Wiltshire, where patients have experienced great beneficial effects from the gong healing sessions. Pauline also gives private gong bath healing treatments at home.
A Group Gongbath or a Private individual Gongbath can be booked through the links provided.
For Events see - https://www.facebook.com/pauline.mccrann
- PHILIP MCNAMARA - Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire. One day workshops are countrywide. Gong Practitioner courses are based in Lancashire and Wiltshire
Phil has been working with gongs for over 45 years, initially as a percussionist and for the past 10 years as a sound therapist. He is the author of the book Gongs and Tam-tams - A guide..' the only book giving a detailed description of many of the different gongs in the world plus the associated stands, mallets and bags.
Phil's main focus is using the gong primarily as a musical instrument and adopting a correct playing technique called basic stroke. From this the healing tones will come more naturally due to a relaxed playing style. Phil is also interested in the scientific basis for sound therapy though acknowledges that there is also an esoteric quality that science cannot always define.
Phil is developing his own range of workshops based on these beliefs under the 'Scientia Sounds' banner.
- SIMONE NILES - London - Virtual
Simone Niles is an expert coach, sound healer, vocalist and author, who offers grounded and practical teachings, focused on empowering conscious, soul-driven creatives and entrepreneurs to generate meaning and alignment in their work and life. She is also a Shamanic practitioner with many other strings to her bow inviting, healing and transformation to those who seek it.
Simone is the host of the SOULFULL SOUND Podcast, celebrating the leaders, teachers and coaches who guide fellow humans to connect, heal and discover themselves, so they can express their gifts into the world.
Simone’s background in the music industry allows her the privilege of working with artists such as Eddy Grant, Third World, Tom Jones, Paloma Faith to name a few, and to work with primetime TV show, The Voice UK. Her book Coaching For Performance Excellence offers performers some new and innovative ways of approaching their art.
Simone’s gift in using sound has touched many, through her healing, teaching and performing for more than two decades.
- KEITH ODDY - Kidderminster - Worcestershire
Keith has studied Energy Healing since the 1980's. He began with using the voice for meditation and therapeutic purposes. His interest and experience includes BioEnergetics, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki (1, 2, Master), Kinesiology (Systematic Advanced Practitioner), Kinesiology Touch for Health (Internationally Registered Instructor). Since 2008 he has practiced Bowen Therapy.
He practices from home in Kidderminster in Worcestershire.
Keith has completed the sound healing practitioner and teacher training with Simon Heather.
Keith is UK Distributor of Tuning Forks for the College of Sound Healing. He offers a Tuning Fork Practical Workshop and occasionally an Advanced Tuning Fork Program.
- ANETTA PANCZEL - Poole, Dorset
Anetta likes working intuitively using voice, drums, bowls, tuning forks, rattles, gongs, laughter, playfulness, attended many courses like Kinesiology, Reiki, Silva method (positive visualisation/self hypnosis), TFT, Access Bars, Sivananda Yoga Teacher and did co-counselling for years. Become a laughter yoga leader and teacher in 2012/2013. First encountered sound healing in 2012 where did a 6 day course on Himalayan Singing Bowls in Hungary where she is originally from. Then started her 3 year journey with Sheila Whitaker to become a Gong Practitioner, trained with Simon Heather as a Sound Healing Practitioner and Shamanic Healer. She lived in London for 8 years, Bournemouth 14 years, moved to Wiltshire near Stonehenge in 2018. Laughter groups, Healing Sound Baths journeys, Gong Baths, Improvised Theatre Workshops for adults for fun in Dorset and Wiltshire. Passionate about the healing power of sound, nature, laughter, positive thinking, breathing, free dance and theatre games.
- HEATHER PARKER - Thatcham, Berkshire
Heather always had a love for music and after gaining a 2nd class hons degree in Music and Drama in 1996 she then went onto moving towards a more holistic approach by qualifying as a Sound Healing Practitioner for the College in 2007.
Being drawn to the drum as a healing tool and was soon to explore the Shamanic side of healing, qualifying in Soul Retrieval in 2009 which has resulted in her running her monthly Drum circle in Newbury.
She does Assemblage point Alignment treatments and loves the results this provides.
She loved working with the voice and has many years of training through various choirs behind her. Heather loves how she can now help others feel and discover the power and healing potential of their own voices.
She runs monthly Sound baths and does collaborations with other local holistic therapists.
She does one to one treatments in West Berkshire and offers talks to local groups and is excited to offer workshop days with the college plus she will be teaching the Soul Retrieval Practitioner weekends with the college also.
- SARAH PERRICONE - Scotland
Sarah lives in Findhorn. Music has been an integral part of Sarah's life since childhood. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD) and worked for many years as a Professional Violinist with National Orchestras both in the UK and overseas. As a musician Sarah has always been fascinated by the profound effects that sound and vibration have on people, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Sarah offers sound workshops and sound healing groups as well as one-to-one sessions in Findhorn and other locations around Scotland. She is a tutor for the college of Sound Healing and combines this with her work as a clinical hypnotherapist.
As a therapist, Sarah has worked with a diverse range of organisations and groups, including the NHS and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and has given presentations and workshops for the national orchestras, charities and community organisations.
- PETRA JEAN PHILLIPSON - Brighton & Hove, East Sussex.
Petra has embodied her art of shamanic sound healing over 40 years of learning within her life and within the institutions such as The College of Sound Healing, Central Saint Martins, Bath School of Art, The Barbican and The Royal College of Music. She has undergone shamanic initiation with Simon Heather, Brooke Medicine Eagle and don Oscar Miro Quesada.
As a recording artist she has 59 releases to date and has also produced music for dance, theatre and film. She has performed around the world and is utterly dedicated to Sound Healing as tool for the expansion of human consciousness and healing.
She is the founder of Brighton Sound Community Space and practices under Sound and Space. She teaches Practitioner Training with the Voice, Soul Retrieval Practitioner Training and is a lineage keeper of the Moon-time Initiation.
"Together we can envision a new matrifocal paradigm with heart centred feminine leadership, but first we need to heal our true voices. Through sound we can transform."
- SUE PREADY - Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Sue Pready has been teaching the 5-part 'Sound Healing with the Voice' Core Practitioner Training for the College since 2012 in Hertfordshire.
At the end of 2019 Sue relocated to Oxfordshire where she will be offering the Core Practitioner Training Programme and other sound healing workshops in and around Abingdon from 2022.
Sue has been working as a Reiki Master Practitioner/Teacher and spiritual healer (NFSH) since 2003 and has subsequently trained as a group voice therapist (BAST), gong practitioner, crystal- and Himalayan- bowls practitioner, laughter facilitator, children's writer and storyteller.
Sue has a relaxed and sensitive approach to teaching and a special interest in linking ‘sound and story’ with the journey of the soul and Psychosynthesis Psychology, which she studied for two years at the London Institute. Sue offers "Tuning in to Sound and Story" workshops for the College - which focus on exploring the 'sonic gifts' held within our name.
Do visit the new 'Sound and Story' website to find out more and explore ...
- ALEXANDRA RIGAZZI-TARLING - Chertsey, Surrey - Surrey — Sussex - West
Alexandra Rigazzi-Tarling is a Vocal Consultant, Sound Healer and Tutor for the College of Sound Healing. As a former Opera Singer she has worked with Voice for well over 25 years.
She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she was awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Music and a Masters Degree in Music Performance.
Alexandra was brought up surrounded by music and performance, as well as healing and complementary therapies. She spent several years as a working opera singer at international venues, but unfulfilled by this lifestyle, she turned her attention to working as a vocal coach specialising in vocal technique and performance psychology. In addition to this in 2014, Alexandra began to combine her traditional voice coaching with a complementary perspective.
As a trained Sound Therapist, she became a tutor for the College of Sound Healing and created voice work that she calls 'Healing and Authentic' voice, assisting both professional voice users and beginners alike to find and work with their core, authentic vocal sound with both a technical and holistic approach. This often meant helping established speakers and performers understand and work with their voice on a deeper technical as well as psychological level, bringing extraordinary results.
Alexandra runs accredited practitioner trainings in Sound Healing with the Voice (CoSH), she teaches for educational (including SEN) and corporate establishments (including Barristers' Chambers) for both singing and speaking, and she runs regular workshops in a range of Voice related subjects.
Alexandra is passionate about the healing effects of voice on the body and mind and its ability to reflect a person's state of health and being on all levels. Her sessions empower people to begin a journey of personal development and wellness through the discovery of their own unique vocal sound.
- CLARE SANDERS - Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Clare is a musician, teacher and healer and has been working with sound therapeutically since 2011. With over 15 years experience as a performer and teacher and Reiki practitioner, Clare now combines her love of music and healing as a Sound Healer and as a Tutor for the college.
Clare brings her love of sound and music through her flutes; classical, traditional and Native American Indian, as well as her harp and voice and is passionate about sharing this with others and helping others to express their own true sounds.
- ROSIE SAUNDERS - Dunton, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Bedfordshire — Sussex - east
Rosie’s journey with sound began in her 20’s when she experienced power animal drumming journeys, created her own drum and attended monthly drumming circles.
She has trained with Simon Heather, Steven and Renata Ash and Rob and June Dickerson at COSH and is a practitioner and tutor for the Sacred Drumming practitioner training course and Shamanic Healing course.
She has always been interested in health and well-being and has worked in the industry for over 25 years, running her own successful beauty and holistic clinic.
In addition to sound therapies, Rosie is a Crystal Healing therapist (ACHO), Aromatherapist, Reiki Teacher/Master, and Natural Mindfulness and Meditation Guide.
Living on the Bedfordshire / Cambridgeshire border in a rural village with her family, she loves being outside connecting with nature. She practises from her therapy studio offering individual therapies, sound baths, drum circles, drum birthing workshops and courses on a variety of subjects.
- PROF. SURINDER SINGH - online, Zoom
Professor Surinder Singh is a master of Naad Yoga and Professor of Sikh and Indian Musicology at University of West London. He is the founder of Raj Academy Conservatoire, a school based in west London.
Raj Academy's objective is to educate people in the universal healing arts of Naad Yoga and Sikh music (singing according to the raag prescribed in the text), as well as promoting traditional instruments.
Professor Surinder Singh's academic education includes a BA in Economics, after which he went on to graduate with an MA in Classical Indian Music followed by an MPhil at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. It was in his early teens that he found his passion for music.
He began studying Indian Classical Music with Pandit Kharayti Lal Tahim of the Delhi Gharana. His musical training continued in England with the study of ancient authentic string instruments including the Sarangi under Surjit Singh Aulakh.
- PAULINE SMIT - Salford, Greater Manchester - Lancashire
Pauline Smit is a qualified bowl practitioner and tutor through The College of Sound Healing. She is also a Reiki and Animal Reiki Master Teacher. After years of working as a Reiki Practitioner her interest in sound healing started to form. This interest brought her to the College of Sound Healing, first to complete the Crystal bowl and Himalayan bowl practitioner course, to then become the treasurer of the College and finally to become one of the bowl practitioner tutors for the College.
Pauline is passionate about supporting people to be able to live their lives to the full. The healing she offers for people to support them to find a way to release stresses and traumas. She finds this incredibly rewarding and she can’t think of anything better to do than supporting others.
She fell in love with Himalayan bowls, an interest which quickly started to expand to Crystal bowls and other healing instruments such as the drum. Sharing the love of these instruments through teaching the bowl practitioner course is something that is very close to her heart.
Pauline runs her courses in two lovely places: a cute, accessible village hall near Worsley, Greater Manchester, and a spiritual hub in Chorley, Lancashire.
- LINA SPYROU - London, and Glastonbury - Greater london
Lina Spyrou is a Sound Healing Tutor for the College, based in North London and Glastonbury. She teaches the Five Part Sound Healing Practitioner Training Course, and Additional Accredited Sound Healing Workshops.
Lina trained as a Sound Healing Practitioner with the College over 15 years ago, and has studied with other vocal sound healing pioneers. Working with her healing voice Lina experienced a profound sense of coming home and discovered her strong calling to sharing the power of sound and singing with others. She trained as a Tutor with the College in 2010, and has been a regular presenter at the yearly Sound Healing Conference.
On her travels, Lina attended Music School in Rishikesh, India to study Indian Raga Singing and Harmonium. In London she completed training as a Certified Rhythmical Empowerment Leader (Group Drumming, Percussion and Voice) and Inclusive Music and Dance Enabler (Music and Movement with people with Disabilities and Special needs)
Lina has extensive experience teaching sound, singing, and relaxation workshops within NHS and specialist organisations. These include working with adults and children with disabilities and special needs, carers, people living with mental health, chronic pain, MS, cancer and dementia.
Lina enjoys teaching uplifting sound, breath and movement workshops for organisations and at holistic centres, wellbeing events, festivals and retreats across the UK and abroad.
Lina is a qualified and practising teacher of Elemental Chi Gung, Laughter Yoga, Sacred Dance, Goddess, and Louise Hay Workshops.
Lina is a Labyrinth enthusiast and qualified Labyrinth Facilitator and member of The Labyrinth Society. She holds regular Labyrinth Walks throughout the seasons of the year on her canvas Peace Labyrinth in London and travels across the UK holding Sacred Labyrinth Workshops and Retreats.
Lina teaches a regular weekly Chi Gung and Sound Healing Class on Tuesday Evenings in North London.
One to One Sessions with Lina include Sound Healing, Reiki, Goddess Healing and Card Readings, Shamanic Healing, and Holistic Life Coaching.
Lina’s Additional Workshops for the College include 'Sound, Breath and Movement Medicine', 'Sacred Labyrinth Retreat Days', 'Goddess and Sacred Sound', ‘Sing and Sound Your Heart Out’, ‘Sound and Elemental Chi Gung’, ‘Sound and Laughter’, and Certified ‘Laughter Yoga Workshop Leader Training Qualification’.
Please contact Lina directly for her upcoming Sound Healing Practitioner Training Course dates, Additional Sound Healing Workshops and to book One to One Sessions.
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- LUCY STARCHILD - Bridport, Dorset
Lucy lives in Bridport, Dorset. A College Practitioner Training Course Tutor and Natural Voice Coach, she initially trained as a massage therapist but later discovered her real passion, ‘The Voice'! She works in groups and one to one. As well as being deeply satisfying, her vocal journey has been a catalyst for growth and transformation in her life.
Her work with natural sounds is about allowing sound to be expressed freely, without expectation or judgment. Her teaching style is relaxed and sensitive. The beauty of her teaching lies in its simplicity. Beneath this simplicity is the potential for healing on many levels. Lucy's experience of connecting with her authentic sound is that it is empowering. It stimulates creativity, increases a sense of well being and is a joyful experience. And much more besides!
She now receives enormous pleasure from helping others to rediscover the beauty and power of their own unique and wonderful voice.
- SARAH STEPHENSON - Sarah Stephenson - East Sussex
Music has always played a big part of Sarah’s life. She trained as a classical pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music and has worked for 20 years as a professional vocal coach, teaching at many colleges and Universities in the UK, and has facilitated Estill Voice courses worldwide.
Sarah has always been aware of the profound effect of music and sound. Her curiosity led her to study at the College of Sound Healing in 2011, becoming a tutor for the college in 2016.
Fascinated by the relationship we have with our voice, Sarah loves helping others explore their vocal sound assisting them on their personal healing journeys. She is passionate about the voice and believes it is our greatest gift of healing, giving us the ability to unlock our true human potential.
Sarah runs sound meditations, sacred sound workshops and individual sound healing treatments in the East Sussex area.
- MICHELLE JANE THOMPSON - Swindon, Wiltshire
Michelle has been immersed in in spiritual work for more than 30 years and is a life-long devotee of sacred sounds whether they be instruments, voice, mantra, or sacred texts.
Michelle's work as a Sound Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Holistic practitioner and Life coach aim to inspire deeper understanding and healing of the self through listening with a softer awareness. Her teaching emphasizes curiosity, compassion, belief, self-acceptance.
Trained in multiple sound therapies, yoga modalities and massage therapies she is also a life coach, reiki master teacher as well being a chant, Sanskrit and vedic text guide. Her offerings reflect her diverse trainings and are a hybrid of sound, yoga, growth and self-examination.
Commited to helping others on their journey she currently offer classes/trainings as well as multiple modality workshops. A passionate student of Sanskrit, vedic mantra and ancients texts it is her vision to share their wisdom and magic through future teachings.
- ANDY TYLER - Connaught, Ireland
Andy lives by ancient Carrowkeel, in Ballinafad in rural County Sligo. He is a multi-instrumental musician and singer and has taught West African drumming since the 1990s. He is also a Reiki Master and Crystal Healer.
Andy's first experience of sound healing was in the mid 2000s and it was transformational. This led him to study with Simon Heather, subsequently qualifying as a tutor in 2014.
Andy loves to share the experience of conscious healing sound through voice, gongs and other instruments, be it in a group or one-to-one.
- SHEILA WHITTAKER - Honiton, East Devon
Sheila Whittaker is the senior Gong tutor for the College of Sound Healing, and runs the Gong Practitioner Training Course, which she authored for the College in 2009. Since then she has taught this very popular and comprehensive Course each year to new groups of students, and recently began training other gong tutors to teach the Course in different areas of the UK and Ireland.
The Gong Practitioner Course is Sheila's main work for the College at this time, and she is a member of the College committee. She also runs several two-day Gong Intensive weekend workshops during the year, so that participants can "dip their toe in the water" and see how they get on with the gong work before committing to the full Gong Practitioner Course. No previous musical experience is needed to participate in one of Sheila's workshops. She also holds twice-yearly all-night Gong Puja ceremonies at the Summer and Winter Solstices for her current and ex-students. Pauline McCrann, Sheila's assistant, is an invaluable aid at all gong workshops and events.
Sheila's history : she is a professional violinist and musician who studied at the Royal College of Music in London. For nearly 20 years she had a thriving career in mainstream classical music, freelancing with orchestras and chamber groups, and teaching violin.
Some 20 years ago Sheila embarked on an alternative musical route, feeling the need to use her musical abilities in a more holistic way : she studied Sound Healing with Simon Heather and Gong with Don Conreaux. She has since specialised in the use of the Gongs for Sound Therapy.
Sheila has recorded three Gong CD's - ‘Transcendence', ‘Quantum Transformations', and ‘Sounds of Stillness', and written two books on the gong which have become classic reference books in this field. They are also used as textbooks for the Gong Course. Her first book "Sound Healing with Gongs - A Gong Book for Beginners" was published in December 2010 . The 2nd book : "In the Heart of the Gong Space - The Gong as a Spiritual Tool" was published in October 2012. Both are available to order from Sheila's website.
Sheila is a member of the CMA and the UK Sound Healers Association. As well as her teaching, she has a private therapy practice near Ashburton on the edge of Dartmoor, south Devon. She is also a traditionally trained Reiki Master.
Sheila still enjoys playing the violin - these days it's mainly folk songs and traditional Irish music - with musical friends and colleagues.
- HARA WILLOW - West Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion - Merseyside
Hara comes from a family of musicians and artists and has always found a sense of deep peace, spiritual connection and love through the shared experience of the human voice and music. She lives on a smallholding in Wales with her husband, where she has been exploring healing using love, compassion, yoga, Authentic Power, Shamanic practice, colour and sound since 1991.
As well as giving and teaching sound healing, Hara also runs workshops, courses, retreats and community events. The deepest intention behind all her work is that of creating spiritual connection, peace and healing in community, for the highest good of all beings.
She has spent many years training in various chakra centred healing methods, including graduating from the College of Healing, four years training in Authentic Power Practice with Gary Zukav, an MSc in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal psychology and teacher training in Transformational yoga.
Healing with sound has brought her the greatest joy in her life so far.
- ADRIENNE WOODS - Guisborough, Teesside and North Yorkshire
Sound therapy and meditation helped Adrienne during a difficult period in her life. Her personal experience of the healing power of sound underpins her passion as a sound therapist.
Following a 15-year career in the NHS, where she had roles in various specialisms of Nursing, she began her journey with sound therapy in 2007, having studied to Diploma level with The College of Sound Healing, The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST), and The Wheater Sound Academy.
Much of Adrienne’s sound therapy work takes place in the NHS, charitable organisations and schools.
Her specific interest is in working with both children and adults with special needs and complex learning disabilities. She has developed her own unique sound sessions using a multi-sensory approach, incorporating meditation and massage into her sound therapy work, which is offered as individual and group sessions.
Adrienne has also facilitated sound bath sessions for many years, engaging her local community in a wide range of sound and meditation activities both indoors and outdoors.
She lives on the edge of the beautiful North York Moors National Park, from where she derives much inspiration for her meditations from the surrounding moorland, forests and stunning coastline.
Singing bowls have always been close to Adrienne’s heart, and she considers it a privilege to be a tutor on the ‘Crystal Bowl and Himalayan Bowl Practitioner’ training course.
- TAMMY YICK - North Wiltshire, Swindon
Tammy is an experienced and compassionate meditation facilitator. She assimilated into the Western culture, blending her eastern background into an amazing life of spirituality and learning.
Having studied and travelled the world to attend courses and meet masters in her field, Tammy has incorporated her love of sound into her practice. She uses the amazing healing and therapeutic qualities of the gong and other instruments to support private clients, and those in care homes and charity groups. At the moment she is training to be a harp therapist.
Tammy is on a continuous journey of learning, attending formal courses connected with counselling and psychotherapy and currently works with vulnerable children and families.
She believes everyone has the capacity to transform, to deepen the connection with their Higher Self, and looks forward to supporting you on your soul journey through sound healing.
Overseas Tutors
- DON CONREAUX - USA
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.
- LANA MARIE - British Columbia, Canada
Lana promotes and teaches the transformation of consciousness to facilitate liberation from the limiting illusions of the mind. Along with Sound Healing, she leads workshops in Mindful Awareness, the Wisdom of the Heart, Earth Medicine, and the Return of the Divine Feminine.
Lana has integrated formal education with Mystical experiential study to create a unique and powerful teaching 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, Somatic Transformation, Mysticism, and Creative Expression. She has completed the advanced training with Simon Heather and has 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.
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