--- title: "Past Events: Sound Meditations, Trainings and Retreats with Hamid Jabbar" description: "Past gong gatherings, sound journeys, sound practitioner trainings and retreats with Hamid Jabbar, from 2016 to 2026, with the fliers they went out with." url: https://www.hamidjabbar.com/past-events/ updated: 2026-10-27 language: en format: a Markdown copy of the page at the url above --- # Past *Events* Gong Gatherings, sound journeys, trainings and retreats, newest first, most of them with the flier they went out with. [See what is coming up](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/events/) ## 2026 ![Flier for the Full Moon Sound Bath with Hamid Jabbar, Monday October 26, 6:00 to 8:00pm in the Solstice Room at Denū Hotel & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona, $55](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/full-moon-sound-bath-october-26-800.jpg) Monday, October 26, 2026 ### Full Moon Sound Bath at Denū Denū Hotel & Spa, Phoenix An evening of gong, flute, chimes and other instruments under the full moon. ![Flier for the Gong Gathering with Hamid Jabbar, Thursday October 8, 6:00 to 7:30pm at Abundant Space in Scottsdale, Arizona, $44](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-gathering-october-8-800.jpg) Thursday, October 8, 2026 ### Gong Gathering Abundant Space, Scottsdale An evening of sound meditation and music around the gong. ![Flier for Beyond Gong with Hamid Jabbar, two days of playing around the gong, Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20, 9:30am to 5pm](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/beyond-gong-flier-800.jpg) Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20, 2026 ### Beyond Gong Arizona Two days of playing together around the gong and its overtones, with cymatics, a song circle and the newest instruments in the field. ![Flier for the Gong Gathering with Hamid Jabbar, Thursday September 17, 6:00 to 7:30pm at Abundant Space in Scottsdale, Arizona, $44](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-gathering-september-17-flier-800.jpg) Thursday, September 17, 2026 ### Gong Gathering Abundant Space, Scottsdale An evening of sound meditation and music around the gong. ![Flier for the SpatialReset Soundbath at Namaste Yoga, Saturday September 5, 5:00pm, 90 minutes](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/spatialreset-soundbath-flier-800.jpg) Saturday, September 5, 2026 ### SpatialReset Soundbath Namaste Yoga A ninety minute sound bath at five on a Saturday. ![Flier for Sunday Gong with Hamid Jabbar, Sunday August 23, 10:00am at Abundant Space in Scottsdale, Arizona](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/sunday-gong-flier-800.jpg) Sunday, August 23, 2026 ### Sunday Gong Abundant Space, Scottsdale A Sunday morning of guided meditation with the gong, flutes and harmonium. ![Flier for Find Yourself in Peru, Sacred Valley Retreats, June 18 to 28 and July 2 to 12, with a group walking a mountain trail](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/sacred-valley-retreats-2026-flier-800.jpg) June 18 to 28, and July 2 to 12, 2026 ### Heart Path and Fire Path Sacred Valley, Peru Two retreats back to back, each ten days of ancestral foods, archeological sites, sound, community and celebration. ![Flier for the Gong Gathering, sound meditation and music with Hamid Jabbar, Thursday May 21, 6:00 to 7:30pm at Abundant Space in Scottsdale, Arizona](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-gathering-may-21-flier-800.jpg) Thursday, May 21, 2026 ### Gong Gathering Abundant Space, Scottsdale Sound meditation and music, with the gong at the center of the room. April 18, 19, 25 and 26, 2026 ### Advanced Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level II. Forty hours across two weekends, for practitioners already playing for others. April 4, 5, 11 and 12, 2026 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I. Thirty two hours across two weekends: gongs, bowls, flutes, drums and voice. ![Flier for Gong Meditation with Hamid Jabbar, March 25, 6pm at Abundant Space in Scottsdale](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-meditation-flier-800.jpg) Wednesday, March 25, 2026 ### Gong Meditation Abundant Space, Scottsdale A midweek evening with the gong, flute, harmonium and crystal bowls. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training, a four day intensive, January 16 to 19 in Arizona](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-january-2026-flier-800.jpg) Friday to Monday, January 16 to 19, 2026 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I as a four day intensive. ## 2025 Thursday to Sunday, October 23 to 26, 2025 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I over four days in a row. It filled and ran a waitlist. ![Flier for Sound Journey with Hamid Jabbar, an evening of resonance and renewal, October 8, 6pm at Abundant Space](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/sound-journey-october-2025-flier-800.jpg) Wednesday, October 8, 2025 ### Sound Journey Abundant Space, Scottsdale An evening of resonance and renewal. ![Flier for Echoes of the Andean Heart, a retreat to the Sacred Valley, July 3 to 13, 2025, over a valley in the Andes at sunset](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/andean-heart-2025-flier-800.jpg) July 3 to 13, 2025 ### Plant More Worry Less Sacred Valley, Peru A retreat to the Sacred Valley: ten days of circles, talks, community and celebration. ![Flier for the Gong Gathering with Hamid Jabbar, sound, meditation and music, May 31, 7pm at Abundant Space](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-gathering-may-31-flier-800.jpg) Saturday, May 31, 2025 ### Gong Gathering Abundant Space, Scottsdale Sound, meditation and music. May 17, 18, 24 and 25, 2025 ### Advanced Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level II. Forty hours of advanced sound facilitation across two weekends. May 3, 4, 10 and 11, 2025 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I. Thirty two hours across two weekends. ![Flier for Gong Gathering II, sound, meditation and music with Hamid Jabbar, April 23, 7pm at Abundant Space](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/gong-gathering-ii-flier-800.jpg) Wednesday, April 23, 2025 ### Gong Gathering II Abundant Space, Scottsdale Sound, meditation and music. ![Flier for Unbound Sound, a Gong Gathering for collective harmony, February 7, 7pm at Abundant Space](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/unbound-sound-flier-800.jpg) Friday, February 7, 2025 ### Unbound Sound Abundant Space, Scottsdale A Gong Gathering for collective harmony. January 18, 19, 25 and 26, 2025 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I. Thirty two hours across two weekends. ## 2024 ![Flier for Echoes of Unity, a sound ceremony for collective harmony, Friday November 1, 7 to 8:30pm at Abundant Space](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/echoes-of-unity-flier-800.jpg) Friday, November 1, 2024 ### Echoes of Unity Abundant Space, Scottsdale A sound ceremony for collective harmony: gong, meditation and music. October 5, 6, 12 and 13, 2024 ### Sound Practitioner Training Arizona Level I. Thirty two hours across two weekends, eight places. ![Flier for Echoes of the Andean Heart, a retreat to the Sacred Valley, July 4 to 14 in Peru](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/andean-heart-2024-flier-800.jpg) July 4 to 14, 2024 ### Echoes of the Andean Heart Sacred Valley, Peru Ten days in the Sacred Valley, with a group that met for six months around it. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Immersion, January 13, 14, 20 and 21](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/immersion-january-2024-flier-800.jpg) January 13, 14, 20 and 21, 2024 ### Sound Practitioner Immersion Arizona Thirty two hours across two weekends: voice, gongs, bowls, flutes and drums. ## 2022 to 2023 ![A lake below the mountains of Peru's Sacred Valley, with a sheep on the shore](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/sacred-valley-lake-800.jpg) August 3 to 13, 2023 ### Lovesong to the Mountains Pisac, Sacred Valley, Peru Ten days in the Sacred Valley, from a villa outside Pisac. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training, November 5, 6, 12 and 13](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-november-2022-flier-800.jpg) November 5, 6, 12 and 13, 2022 ### Sound Practitioner Training Level I. Thirty two hours across two weekends. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training, September 2022 in Scottsdale, Arizona, led by Hamid Jabbar](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-september-2022-flier-800.jpg) September 10 to 25, 2022 ### Sound Practitioner Training Authentic Yoga, Scottsdale Fifty hours over three weekends and four weekday evenings. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training, a 32 hour initiation into the world of sound, March 2022](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-march-2022-flier-800.jpg) March 2022 ### Sound Practitioner Training Authentic Yoga, Scottsdale Thirty two hours across two weekends. It sold out. ## 2019 to 2021 ![Flier for INNER shift with Hamid and Tara, Saturday September 18, 6:00 to 7:30pm at Authentic Yoga Scottsdale](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/inner-shift-flier-800.jpg) Saturday, September 18, 2021 ### INNER shift, with Tara Martell Authentic Yoga, Scottsdale A fall equinox evening of sound, restorative yoga, breathwork and meditation. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training with Hamid Jabbar, Saturday and Sunday April 6, 7, 13 and 14, with Urban Yoga](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-april-2019-flier-800.jpg) April 6, 7, 13 and 14, 2019 ### Sound Practitioner Training Abundant Space, with Urban Yoga Twenty five hours across two weekends. ![Banner for Ocean Renewal, a Haramara retreat with Hamid Jabbar, April 6 to 13: sound, movement and ceremony, over the coast at Sayulita](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/ocean-renewal-banner-800.jpg) April 6 to 13, 2019 ### Ocean Renewal Retreat Haramara Retreat Center, Sayulita, Mexico Seven nights of sound, movement and ceremony by the sea. ![Flier for the 2019 Arizona Psychedelics Conference, February 8 to 10 at SCNM in Tempe, Arizona](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/psychedelics-conference-flier-800.jpg) Friday to Sunday, February 8 to 10, 2019 ### Arizona Psychedelics Conference SCNM, Tempe Hamid’s talk, *How Sound and Music Potentiate the Entheogenic Experience*, and a sound journey on the Sunday morning. ## 2018 ![Flier for a winter solstice restorative evening with Tara Martell and Hamid Jabbar, Sunday December 16, 5:30 to 7pm](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/winter-solstice-flier-800.jpg) Sunday, December 16, 2018 ### Winter Solstice Restorative, with Tara Martell Urban Yoga Restorative yoga and sound to welcome the longest night of the year. ![Flier for Sound Practitioner Training at Dave's Astanga Yoga, led by Hamid Jabbar, November 10, 11, 17 and 18](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/training-daves-astanga-flier-800.jpg) November 10, 11, 17 and 18, 2018 ### Sound Practitioner Training Dave’s Astanga Yoga, Scottsdale Two weekends of gongs, bowls, flutes, drums and voice. ![Artwork for the Transcendental Sound Journey listing ceremony, intention, breathwork, gongs, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, meditation, drums, shruti box, voice, rattles, mantra and sacred geometry](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/transcendental-sound-journey-art-800.jpg) Four Saturday evenings in 2018: January 27, April 14, June 9 and October 6 ### Transcendental Sound Journey, with Jill Honeywell Two hours of breathwork, meditation and sound, lying down for most of it. ![Flier for Urban Yoga Sound Practitioner Training led by Hamid Jabbar, Saturdays and Sundays April 28 and 29, and May 5 and 6](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/urban-yoga-training-2018-flier-800.jpg) April 28 and 29, and May 5 and 6, 2018 ### Urban Yoga Sound Practitioner Training Urban Yoga, Phoenix Twenty five hours across two weekends. ![Banner reading meditation and sound training for the modern world, over a room of people seated for a sound meditation](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/current-meditation-banner-800.jpg) Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25, 2018 ### Current Meditation Sound Training Urban Yoga, Phoenix Guiding a sound meditation with singing bowls and gong, for Current Meditation. ## 2016 to 2017 From February 2017 ### Urban Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training, with Tara Martell Urban Yoga, Phoenix A year of monthly weekends for teachers, with guest teachers from around Arizona. ![Flier for the Soulfire Retreat with Tara Martell and Hamid Jabbar, May 21 to 28, 2016, Haramara Retreat Center, Sayulita, Mexico](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/soulfire-retreat-flier-800.jpg) May 21 to 28, 2016 ### Soulfire Retreat, with Tara Martell Haramara Retreat Center, Sayulita, Mexico A week by the sea: yoga twice a day, meditation and discussion. ![Flier for the Urban Yoga 200 hour teacher training with Tara Martell and Hamid Jabbar, February 20 to May 7](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/media/teacher-training-2016-flier-800.jpg) February 20 to May 7, 2016 ### Urban Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training, with Tara Martell Urban Yoga, Phoenix Asana, anatomy, philosophy, pranayama, meditation and sound. ## Upcoming Events Are *on the Calendar* Events run around the Phoenix area most months, and the dates go up on the Events page as venues confirm them. [See upcoming events](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/events/) The trainings begin online and deepen in person. [Start the online course](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/sound-practitioner-training-online/) [See the trainings](https://www.hamidjabbar.com/sound/)