A 9-Month, 130 Hour In-Person and Online Training
October 2023 to June 2024
All events in-person at Golden Drum except the Shamanic Sound Practitioner’s Weekend with Maestro Manuel Rufino in April 2024.
The Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program is an immersive multi-cultural/inter-tribal course designed to give people a hands-on approach to facilitating sound healing sessions. By bridging the fields of sacred music, energy work, and healing traditions, participants will strengthen their capacity as sound workers and will walk away with the skills and knowledge to be able to incorporate sound into healing sessions and meditative environments. Participants who meet the attendance requirements will receive a certification of course completion.
To access previous workshop recordings, visit the Golden Drum Courses page
Images from Dream Seed's previous sound healer trainings:
Throughout the course of this training, we will focus on various exercises to learn more about sound healing through intention setting, listening, giving, receiving, and developing our intuition in relationship to sound. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring their own sound healing instruments. Many instruments from around the world will be available for participants to utilize and a variety of sound-healing instruments will also be available for sale.
The training course will include a weekend intensive in upstate New York with Maestro Manuel, Taino Elder and visionary founder of Golden Drum, where participants will go deep into traditional healing practices from around the globe. Other guest teachers will be featured from the African and Indian musical traditions during various weekend modules.
Altar from Dream Seed’s Sound Healer Training in June 2023
Program Topics include:
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-Deep Listening Exercises
-Sound / Music theory
-432hz vs 440hz tuning systems
-Harmony & Melody
-Overtones & Harmonics
-How sound healing is used in traditional and indigenous cultures
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-Sacred Song Studies
-Mantras
-Overtone singing and throat singing
-Learning to sing in key
-Vocal techniques and warm-ups
-Developing a singing practice with instruments
-Freeing the voice
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Crystal singing bowls & Tibetan singing bowls
Gongs
Guitars, charangos, and other string instruments
Tuning forks
Handpans and tongue drums
Drums, rattles, chakapas (leaves) and percussion
Shruti box and harmonium
Didgeridoo
Flutes and wind instruments
Other ethnic instruments from around the world
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Understanding the medicine wheel
Incorporating the four directions and the three hearts
Working with the four elements
Creating altars
Using sacred herbs and incense
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Energetic hygiene
How to determine what a sound healing recipient needs
Breathwork
Incorporating sound healing into other modalities and environments
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Intention setting
Giving and receiving sound baths
Developing Intuition
Combining multiple instruments to make a larger sonic environment
Skills to conduct sound healing sessions
Private sessions vs. group work
Drum journeying
Professional skills for artists and sound practitioners
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Harmonizing body, mind, and spirit
Energetic body, chakra system and endocrine system
Developing a meditation practice
Self-healing with sound
Daily Practices for cultivating consciousness and awareness
Class Sessions included in this program:
Oct 13-14, 2023: Introduction to Sound Healing Facilitation
Nov 10-11, 2023: Working with Overtone-Emitting Instruments
Dec 8-9, 2023: Drum Journey Weekend and Drum Making Workshop
Feb 16-17: Freeing The Voice
March 1-2, 2024: Wind Instruments for Sound Healers
Mar 8-9, 2024: African Song and Rhythm
April 2024 date given only to program registrants (full weekend: Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday): Maestro Manuel Rufino - Shamanic Sound Practitioners Intensive Weekend in The Catskills, NY (not included for Online registrants)
May 10-11: Indian Music Fundamentals with special guests Samir Chatterjee and Minaakshi Majumdar
June 7-8: Practices for Sound Healers
Additionally this training includes:
One group zoom meeting per month (90-minutes each)
Three 1-on-1 phone check-ins with the program facilitators
Admission to two additional Dream Seed sound baths at Golden Drum (2 hours each, not included for Online registrants)
*Note: program is subject to change
What is sound healing and what is it used for?
Sound is our essence. We are vibration. Sound is one of the prominent medicines of the Aquarian Age. The world is waking up to “new age” therapies rooted in sound and vibration that are in fact ancient. Sound rituals have been an integral part of indigenous and spiritual traditions and cultures worldwide for thousands of years. In every indigenous culture, it is deeply understood that sound is an essential element of creation and well-being. Today, science is catching up to this understanding and sound is growing as a mainstream therapeutic practice for consciousness, healing, and wellbeing.
Classes will be broadcast and recorded via Zoom. Participants (both In-Person and Online) will receive near-immediate access to these recordings and will be able to access them for up to 3 months after the end of the program.
Cost:
In-Person: $3,199
Online via Zoom, does not include April weekend with Maestro Manuel Rufino, does not include the 2 additional Dream Seed sound baths: $2,499
Register here:
A 9-Month, 130 Hour In-Person and Online Training, October 2023 to June 2024
All events in-person at Golden Drum except the Shamanic Sound Practitioner’s Weekend with Maestro Manuel Rufino in April 2024.
About Dream Seed
Dream Seed is a sound healing collective created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. As students of Maestro Manuel Rufino, the members of Dream Seed are dedicated to the study and preservation of the sacred traditions of humanity and the continued exploration of sound as a healing modality of the Aquarian Age. Dream Seed studies and works with indigenous and traditional elders, continuously seeking to expand their knowledge of sound and healing as universal methods of cultivating harmony, peace, and well-being. More info on Dream Seed at http://dreamseedsound.com/
Members of Dream Seed conducting the Sound Healer Training include Brooke Gillespie, AJ Block, Matt Canale, Xango Shola, Jerry Walsh, Nicole Adriana Casanova, Mateusz Bazgier, Michael Fisher & Hannah Apollonia.
For inquiries about this training, please email dreamseedsound@gmail.com