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, December 9. 6:00 to 7:30pm. |
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| Where | Abundant Space, Scottsdale |
| Contribution | $44 suggested. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds. |
December 9 is the last evening of the fall series.
Thirty two hours in person with a small group. You learn the history, theory and science of sound, and you practice on gongs, crystal bowls, Himalayan bowls, shruti box, flutes and chimes.
| When | Saturday and Sunday, January 23 and 24, and January 30 and 31, 2027. 10am to 6pm. |
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| Where | New River, Arizona. Eight places. |
| Price | $988 registered by November 30, $1,100 in December, $1,280 from January 1. A $250 deposit holds your place. |
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 of the work.
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.
In 2018, Hamid Jabbar created his in person Sound Practitioner Trainings, attended by hundreds of people over the years, and in 2021 he recorded the training and launched it online. He teaches the science and practice of sound as used in meditation and sound therapy, and how to hold space as a sound practitioner.
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.
The next one runs January 23 and 24 and January 30 and 31, 2027. Registered by November 30, it is $988.
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. The Heart Path, open to everyone, is July 1 to 11, 2027. The Fire Path, for experienced seekers, is June 17 to 27, 2027. Both run ten days, with calls before and after.
“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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