SOUND MEDITATION IN PHOENIX
Come and play
I am Hamid Jabbar. I lead sound meditation gatherings around the Phoenix area, educate about sound, and take small groups to Peru for deep immersion.
I am Hamid Jabbar. I lead sound meditation gatherings around the Phoenix area, educate about sound, and take small groups to Peru for deep immersion.
You are the one meditating. The sound is what you do it with.
Nothing is done to you here, and nothing is a cure. You lie down and you practice.
Trainings are small, and you spend the hours playing rather than watching me play.
Most of what I know came from teachers who were generous with me. I teach the same way.
Sunday, August 23. 10:00 to 11:30am. Abundant Space, Scottsdale. $44.
A Sunday morning of communal sound. We gather around the gong not to be healed, but to harmonize. Body, mind, and community. The studio provides mats, blankets and bolsters. No experience needed.
Saturday, September 5. 5:00 to 6:30pm. Namaste Yoga. $55.
An evening built to settle the nervous system. Guided meditation, then gong, flutes, voice and world instruments. Part musical journey, part gong meditation. Bring a blanket or bolster if you want the extra comfort.
Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20. 9:30am to 5:00pm both days. My place in New River. Sliding scale, $333 to $555. Registration is not open yet.
Two days of playing together, built around the gong and the power of overtones. I will be teaching advanced gong playing throughout, in a way meant to be accessible to everyone in the room, and around that there is a song circle, cymatics, time with the newest instruments in the field, and the kind of conversation about sound that practitioners rarely get to have with each other. Eight places, and it is open to any practitioner ready to come and play.
September 17, October 8, November 11, December 9. 6:00 to 7:30pm. Abundant Space.
A monthly evening around the gong, running through the fall. Same room, same hour, once a month. Come to one or come to all four.
Dates are added as venues confirm them. The full list lives on the events page.
Sound meditation is a branch of nada yoga, sound yoga, where sound is directed toward the body to move energy and quiet the mind. You lie down. I play gongs, Himalayan bowls, flutes, harmonium and voice. A well played gong throws off a wall of overtones that settles the mind faster than most people expect, which is why it sits at the center of what I do.
You will see this called a sound bath, or sound healing. I call it sound meditation, because you are participating rather than receiving. That distinction is most of the work.
I have been teaching sound in Arizona since 2018. Small groups, at my place in New River. You spend the time with your hands on the instruments, and you leave able to hold a room.
Over 20 hours of self paced video. Start today, work at your own speed, and arrive at the in person training already fluent in the theory.
Thirty two hours in person, across two weekends. History, theory, science and practice, with real time on gongs, crystal bowls, Himalayan bowls, shruti box, flutes, chimes and overtone singing. Small group, New River.
Forty hours for practitioners already working with sound who want to find their own voice in it. Capped at eight people, so nobody watches from the back of the room.
Also available: Sound Mentorship, one to one and shaped around you, and a short gong weekend, tentatively September 19 and 20. Past students are listed in the practitioner directory. Yoga Alliance continuing education hours come with the in person programs, for anyone who needs the documentation for a studio or venue.
I went to NYU on a music scholarship, then to law school at UCLA, and practiced law in Los Angeles for a while before admitting that was not it. Since 2012 I have been studying gongs, singing bowls and flutes. Before that I co-directed the 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher trainings at Urban Yoga in downtown Phoenix. I am an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
These days I teach sound, lead ceremony in Peru, and write. Most of what I know came from teachers who were generous with me, so I try to pass it on the same way.
Each summer I take a small group to Peru’s Sacred Valley to sit with Huachuma, the San Pedro cactus, in ceremony led by a Maestro Huachumero. Two pathways, the Heart Path and the Fire Path, ten days each, with six months of support on either side. Everything about the retreats lives on my other site. Summer 2027 dates are coming.
Gatherings, training dates and the occasional piece of writing. That is all it is.
Not sure which of these is yours? Send me a note and I will point you somewhere. If you came here looking for mineral and health work, that lives at mineralshaman.com.
