THE CENTER OF LIGHT INSTITUTE OF SOUND HEALING AND SHAMANIC STUDIES: (founded by Zacciah Blackburn) provides training in the art of sound healing as a therapeutic practice for personal or professional use, studies and in-depth experiential practice through its shamanic Earth Mysteries School, reawakening living relations with the Earth and earth energies, study of the Egyptian and other Esoteric Mysteries, and personal workshops incorporating esoteric studies and meditation practices with the deeply moving and transformative power of Sacred Sound Transmissions. The Center offer private healing therapies utilizing Sacred Sound, spiritual counseling, and shamanic practice. Our workshops, transformative world journeys & retreats, and individual therapies are designed to draw us to our own innate wisdom, personal power, and an authentic sense of our Sacred being.

Their Sound Healers Training is an in depth study of technique and understanding from both an intuitive and cognitive & scientific approach to sound as a healing modality, working with understanding & practices embracing voice, chant and mantra, toning, intutitive voice healing, tuning forks, crystal and Tibetan bowls and bells, drums and other instruments, shamanic principals, channelling, incorporating the latest science, and ancient mysticism. The program administers a 3 year curriculum, offering certificates of training for each year completed. The program includes topics of study in the use of voice and instruments, neurophysiology, the chakras and human energy system, creating sacred space, and using the art of sacred sound transmissions (intutive channeling.) Inititial programs begin each September, and continue for eight months in 3-day weekend trainings. Participants can take individual classes or entire courses. Practicing sound healers regularly find even first year trainings more rigorous, thorough, experiential, and in depth, than many prior studies they have engaged in. Learn more at: www.TheCenterOfLight.net



CRYSTAL SOUND INSTITUTE: Amrita Cottrell and Susie Nelson-Smith have developed an intensive 12-month Crystal Sound Therapy training program. This training draws on the background and experiences of Susie's and Amrita's healing journeys. It is open to people with or without a musical/artistic background who are interested in deeply transformative personal healing. Participants will learn to utilize breath, meditation, movement, essential oils and crystals in conjunction with the amazing power of the cyrstal singing bowls as therapeutic tools. This program will assist trainees in delving deep into their own healing initiation so that they can then assist others along their journey of healing. Learn more at www.crystalsoundinstitute.org.



HEALING SOUNDS INTENSIVE: Jonathan Goldman founded this training in 1996 as the result of requests from his students and readers who wished to experience intensive training in sound with Jonathan. It is a nine day program that meets for over eight hours each day. The Intensive is held at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado in July.

It is a step-by-step process of learning to use sound for vibrational patterning and alignment. Combining over 15 years experience in exploring, using and teaching the use of sound as a healing modality, Jonathan has created a program rich in experiences and information. It will cover the latest scientific material on sonics, as well as bringing you time-honored sacred sounds from different traditions. Teaching includes: harmonics, toning, mantras, chants, cymatics, Pythagorean tuning forks, Peruvian whistling vessels, sacred geometry, crystals and MUCH MORE! Experience spiritual initiations and vibrational repatterning.

The Healing Sounds Intensive is an unforgettable experience, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study with a master of sound. You will gain invaluable training enabling you to access deeper levels of consciousness and self-transformation. Learn more at www.healingsounds.com.



THE HEALING VOICE: Founded by Joy Gardner, this program emphasizes that the human voice is one of the finest tools for expressing the heart and soul and for healing body and spirit. People do this through toning (making sustained vibratory sounds without melody, rhythm or words). You don't need a beautiful voice to tone! Every child is born knowing how to do it.

This workshop is for those who want to:

1. - discover your voice
2. - experience spontaneous self-expression
3. - release pent-up emotions
4. - release stress, pain and tension
5. - experience inner peace

Toning is the universal telepathic language that everyone can learn to use. It is a vital tool for your own healing, and a powerful tool for healing others. The group will do a variety of exercises that may include: Toning for the Pain in Your Body, Toning with Body Work, Toning the Chakras, Toning to Change Core Beliefs, Toning to Energize Manifestation, Toning for World Peace, and Shamanic Sounding. Learn more at www.highvibrations.net.



MUSIC FOR HEALING AND TRANSITION PROGRAM (MHTP): Founded in 1995, MHTP is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to training musicians with a transforming and innovative curriculum. Graduates of the Program bear the title of Certified Music Practitioner®.

The mission is to teach musicians how to provide live, acoustic, therapeutic music. MHTP's goal is to create healing environments in hospitals, nursing homes, and for hospice patients both in healthcare facilities and in their homes. An additional goal is to educate the healthcare profession as well as the general public to the importance of therapeutic musicians.

MHTP's vision is for Certified Music Practitioners® to be sought-after members of the healthcare team in hospices, hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare venues. These musicians should be recognized as bringing an essential service to the healthcare system. The organization began after two musicians read an article in The Folk Harp Journal by harpist Laurie Riley about her experience playing in the Intensive Care Unit for her father during a serious health crisis. In 1994 these musicians asked Laurie to help them initiate an organization that would train other musicians to play at the bedside. Learn more at www.mhtp.org.



IIBETAN BOWL SOUND HEALING SCHOOL: Founded in 2008 by Diane Mandle and Richard Rudis this program offers an extensive training model to create highest skilled Tibetan bowl sound healing practitioners. The home study course is followed up with four intensive weekend workshops over about 18 months. Students receive certification from Sound Energy Healing (Diane Mandle) and Sacred Sound Workshops (Richard Rudis), two of the oldest and most respected Tibetan bowl sound practitioners/teachers in the country. Learn more at:www.tibetanbowlschool.com.


IHE VOX MUNDI SCHOOL OF THE VOICE: Founded by Silvia Nakkach, the school is an international non-profit organization devoted to teaching and preserving the richness of indigenous musical traditions, combining music, service and spiritual practice. The project promotes research of multi-ethnic expression of vocal music and is committed to revitalize the experience of singing as a transformative art through schools, health centers, institutions and individuals everywhere. The events offer the experience of a diverse range of vocal arts as part of one united vision: the human search for expression.

The programs combine preservation of recordings of ancient and unusual vocal arts, performances, and the sponsorship of the Vox Mundi School of the Voice that offers training programs for teachers and students throughout the USA, Europe, India, Argentina and Brazil.

The Vox Mundi Project was founded in 1988 by award-winning composer, psychologist and voice-culturist Silvia Nakkach. The project is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with centers around the world. The first series of programs took place in Rome, Italy, and Tunisia, sponsored by the Institute of Italian Culture, since then the project have produced events, seminars, and festivals throughout the world, with various co-sponsors like Coca Cola in Brazil, and the Exploratorium and Palace of Fine Arts Museum, in San Francisco.

Sharing the experience of creative singing among participants, the Singing the World Music Festivals, produced by Vox Mundi are committed to demonstrate, to share, and to revitalize the power of the singing voice to transform human emotions, transmit social messages, and to integrate cultural diversity into a unique universal musical language. Learn more at www.voxmundiproject.com.