Sound Practitioner Trainings and Events with Hamid Jabbar.
Come gather around the gong in community. An evening of sound meditation and music: the gong and the instruments played alongside it, used to help you balance and integrate.
| When | Wednesday, November 11. 6:00 to 7:30pm. |
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| Where | Abundant Space, Scottsdale |
| Contribution | $44 suggested. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds. |
A monthly evening around the gong through the fall, in the same room at the same hour. Come to one or to all of them. More dates are added as venues confirm them.
An evening of gong, flute, chimes and other instruments under the full moon, in the Solstice Room on the rooftop of Denū Hotel & Spa.
| When | Monday, October 26. 6:00 to 8:00pm. |
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| Where | Solstice Room, Denū Hotel & Spa, 1 E Adams St, Phoenix |
| Price | $55 per person, booked through Denū |
Sound healing, sound therapy and sound meditation are seeing a wave of popularity today, for good reason. Everyone is seeking harmony and truth, and these experiences provide it. Practices with sound encourage and train active, attentive listening, not just hearing, which develops awareness and insight and brings benefits to the whole body.
Sound meditation (also called sound healing, sound bath or gong bath) asks you to take part rather than simply receive. The trainings teach how to do this work with care and intelligence.
The public sound meditations, sometimes called Gong Gatherings or other light-hearted names, bring people together in community to harmonize and balance with the sounds of powerful instruments: gong, didgeridoo, singing bowls, flutes, harmonium and voice. Many of the sounds come from the Andes, the Amazon, Thailand and throughout the Americas. 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.
Most sound meditations are 60 to 90 minutes. No experience is needed, and there is nothing to prepare.
You can lie down on a mat with a bolster and blankets, or sit up on a mat supported by a bolster. Mats, blankets and bolsters are usually provided.
Wear something comfortable, and bring a pillow if you like.
The trainings are led by Hamid Jabbar, who has taught sound since 2018. The groups are small, and you spend the time with your hands on the instruments, so you leave able to hold a room.
The online course carries the whole of Level I, so you arrive at the in person training already fluent in the theory.
Begin
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. It includes fourteen modules, twenty six videos and the training manual to keep, for $298, paid once.
Deepen
Thirty two hours in person, across two weekends, with a small group. History, theory, science and practice, with real time on gongs, crystal bowls, Himalayan bowls, shruti box, flutes, chimes and overtone singing.
Continue
Forty hours for practitioners already working with sound who want to find their own voice in it. Or work one to one in Sound Mentorship, shaped around you.
Past students are listed in the practitioner directory. Yoga Alliance continuing education hours come with the online course and the in person programs, for anyone who needs the documentation for a studio or venue.
Hamid Jabbar went to NYU on a music scholarship, then to law school at UCLA, and practiced law in California and Arizona for nine years before deciding it was not his life’s work. Those years overlapped with his yoga studies and teaching. Since 2012 he has been studying gongs, singing bowls and flutes. He also co-directed the 200 hour yoga teacher training at Urban Yoga in downtown Phoenix, and he is an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
These days he teaches sound, leads ceremony in Peru, and writes. Most of what he knows came from teachers who were generous with him, so he passes it on the same way.
Gong, flute, harmonium, voice. Some of it is recorded from sessions and some of it was built in the room on purpose. It is on Bandcamp and Spotify, and it is a reasonable way to find out whether this sounds like something you want to spend an evening inside of.
Each summer a small group travels 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. Summer 2027 dates are coming.
“I believe in the innate wisdom of Nature, our bodies, and our consciousness. On the path of life, the more we learn to feel into the magic of the Universe, the richer our lives become.”
Hamid Jabbar
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