A 120-Hour Training, In-Person and Online via Zoom, October 2025 through April 2026
The Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program is an immersive multicultural course designed to give people a hands-on approach for facilitating sound healing sessions. Participants will strengthen their capacity as sound workers, walking away with the skills and knowledge to be able to begin to incorporate sound into healing sessions and meditative environments through an interdisciplinary approach, bridging the fields of sound, science, sacred music, energy work, and healing traditions. This program is for people of all levels of experience with sound, music and healing work, and is great for those who want to go deeper into doing sound healing work for others as well as those who want to explore sound for personal practice. Participants who meet the attendance requirements will receive a certification of course completion.
Members of Dream Seed pictured from left to right: Naku Kiwanuka, AJ Block, Ixchel Prisma, Hannah Apollonia, Brooke Gillespie, Jerry Walsh, and Xango Shola
*FREE Video from our Info Session on Sept 17, 2025. Learn about this program, meet the facilitators and hear from alumni. Access video recording here.
Watch our Informational Video featuring Dream Seed facilitators and program alumni:
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 to our sessions. 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 2 weekend intensives in upstate New York (see schedule) where participants will go deep into traditional healing practices from around the globe.
*Note for online-only participants: meetings will be broadcast live via Zoom Meetings and video recordings will be made available immediately after each session, which will remain available through September 1, 2026. Online-only registrations do not include the drum making workshop and will include only select activities from the 2 retreats in the Catskills.
Images from Dream Seed's previous sound healer trainings:
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 18-19: Creating Sonic Environments for Meditation and Healing: A 2-Day Retreat in the Catskills
Nov 8: Heart of the Earth: Ceremonial Drum Making Workshop
Nov 21-22: Freeing The Voice
Dec 13: Wind Instruments for Sound Healing
January 10: World Healing Music
Feb 28 & Mar 1: Creating with Rhythm and Song
Mar 13-14: Sonic Acupuncture: Instruments as Healing Tools
Mar 28: Sound and the Elements
April 10-11: Sound Healing Practitioner's Weekend: A 2-Day Retreat in the Catskills
*Note: The Upstate retreats will be Saturday through Sunday, with the option to arrive at the accommodations on Friday night. Dormitory sleeping in the main event space is included at no cost and cabins are available for $100/weekend shared and $200/weekend private.
Workshops at Golden Drum are 6 hours with break on Saturdays. Where relevan there will be an additional 2-3 hours on Friday. The Drum Making Workshop is likely an 8 hour day.
Additionally this training includes:
5x Exclusive group zoom meetings (90-minutes each, scheduled on select Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9pm EST)
2x 1-on-1 phone check-ins with the program facilitators
Homework assignments that will get you doing sound work on your own and with other people.
A number of pre-recorded video lectures and workshops.
*Note: program schedule is subject to change
Altar from one of Dream Seed’s Sound Healer Training Workshops
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, celebration, 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.
From our Wind Instruments For Sound Healing Workshop, 2024
Watch Dream Seed’s 33-Minute Forest Sound Journey
Testimonials:
“This training has provided me with the tools, the confidence and the humility to begin offering sound to others in a way that feels responsible. Over the course of the 9-month training I was able to take on many of the negative stories and fears that I have carried for a long time: that I am not a ‘good enough musician’, that I don't have 'enough instruments', that I am not ‘spiritual enough’, or even the idea that sound is not a 'serious' modality when compared with other therapeutic approaches. This training is not just about sound. It represents a commitment to live and act in a more ethical and intimate way. It is about cultivating an attunement that I am beginning to bring to many different aspects of my life. It is work that has deepened my relationship with myself and those around me. It has developed my capacity to be a better listener and to show up in a way that is more authentic and alive. This is work that I could not have done on my own. The training offered me the opportunity to be in creative community and to realize that 'my' struggles and fears are not mine alone. The impact of this training continues to unfold in surprising ways, and new projects and collaborations are emerging. For anyone who feels called to participate in this program, remember that life is short. Don't hesitate. Jump into the mysterious depths of sound!” -Sam Haddix, class of 2024
“This program has completely transformed my relationship to sound and made me start to comprehend its infinite power. The study and practice of sound with Dream Seed, even in this very short amount of time, has already helped me get back in touch with my visceral creative being, unlock a much deeper connection to my body, grow new friendships, and inspires me everyday a bit more to envision new possibilities, new beginnings, new futures.” - Maud Pernet, Class of 2024
“If you're curious about attending this training, do it! This is an amazing opportunity to explore sound, learn from experts about using sound for healing, and get exposure to dozens of instruments and techniques. Lastly, it is a beautiful opportunity to be in community with likeminded people who are on their own journey with sound.” -Marshall Buxton, Class of 2024
Testimonials from Online Participants:
“I always wanted to dive into sound and the Dream Seed family made that very easy through their vast knowledge and patience. I was concerned with taking the virtual courses only at first but I can say that even though I was not in person for the workshops, I still always felt immersed and engaged. I’m also grateful to leave this course with new connections and a support system as I build my sound healer community. This community and course is great and I recommend!” - Rachael Hardway, Class of 2024
“This course is incredibly expansive. 9 months within this container has shifted my inner and outer world greatly and in the most positive way. If you’re looking to reconnect or awaken the part of you that loves to express through sound this is for you. If you’re looking to share sound to help others on their journey through life this course is for you. AJ, Brooke and Jerry are incredibly skilled and beautiful beings. They hold and conduct this container with deep reverence and safety for expression no matter where you’re at. They’re amazing musicians and fantastic teachers. I couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity to be apart of this experience. This course will spark inspiration, You won’t regret it!” - Delaney Calligan, Class of 2024
The Dream Seed 9-month training program was rich with learning opportunities. We were immersed in shamanic music, sound, and inner-tribal practices. We were exposed to a multitude of instruments that were unique, intriguing, and enchanting. I am coming away with a greater appreciation for shamanic sound healing and a deeper understanding of fundamental practices.” -Adrian Garcia, Class of 2024
Pricing
Participants choosing to pay in installments will have 3 payments due at (1) time of registration, (2) December 1, 2025 and (3) February 1, 2026.
In-Person registration registration options:
Pay In Full : $4500
Installments (each of 3, $4650 total): $1550
Online registration registration options:
Pay In Full: $3750
Installments (each of 3, $3900 total): $1300
*Please note that accommodations for our upstate retreat will be extra, though we will keep costs reasonable (appx. $100 for shared room and $200 for private room).
*Note: Online registrants will have limited workshop broadcast hours during the Upstate retreats. Drum Making is not included for online registrants.
Register here
To get on our info list, please sign up for our Sept. 17 info session (even if you cannot attend, recording will be shared)
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, Jerry Walsh as well as Naku Kiwanuka, Matt Canale, Xango Shola, Mateusz Bazgier, Michael Fisher & Hannah Apollonia.
For inquiries about this training, please email dreamseedsound@gmail.com