Train as a Sound Practitioner, Wherever You Are
The whole of the Sound Practitioner Training, Level I, as Hamid Jabbar teaches it in person, at your own pace and in your own place.
Gongs, crystal and Himalayan bowls, frame drum, Native American style flute, shruti box, chimes, and your own voice.
A Minute of the Course Itself
Gongs, bowls, flutes and voice, cut from the lessons.
A Deep Course, Taken at Home
This is the whole of the training that has run in person for years. History and theory first, then harmonics and overtones, then hours of playing.
Most people who take it online cannot get away for two weekends. Some of them just want to see the material before they commit to a room full of strangers.
Every Instrument, Expertly Guided
Gongs, crystal and Himalayan bowls, bells, chimes, frame and hand drums, rattles, rain sticks, ocean drums, shruti box, Native American style flute, and your voice. Every one of them gets its own lesson.
From Your First Sound to a Full Session
The gong lesson alone runs to five videos. Take them in any order.
Welcome to Sound Practitioner Training 1 video, 1 reading
- Some words to begin
- Introduction
Lesson 1: Vocalization 3 videos
- Vocalization
- Universal greeting
- Universal greeting, all together
Lesson 2: Overtones and harmonics 2 videos
- Diving into the science
- Phi
Lesson 3: Gong 5 videos
- Gong part 1
- Gong part 2
- Gong part 3
- Gong part 4
- Gong part 5
Lesson 4: Bells and bowls 3 videos
- Bells and bowls
- Crystal bowls
- Chimes
Lesson 5: Percussion 3 videos
- Intro to drums and rattles
- Drums and rattles
- Rain sticks and ocean drums
Lesson 6: Flutes 1 video
- Native American style flutes
Lesson 7: Entrainment and spirituality 2 videos
- Entrainment
- Spirituality
Lesson 8: Energetics of sound 1 video
- Energetics of sound
Lesson 9: Overtone singing 1 video
- Overtone singing
Lesson 10: Sound meditation 2 videos
- Sound meditation, structure and what it is for
- Sound meditation demonstration
Lesson 11: Sound therapy 2 videos
- Intro to sound therapy
- Sound therapy demonstration, full session
Lesson 12: Listening and expressing 2 readings
- The art of mindful listening
- Expressing through sound
Final 1 reading and the quiz
- Final
- Final quiz
For Teachers, and for Anybody Drawn to Sound
Yoga and meditation teachers bringing sound into a room they already hold. Bodyworkers adding it to what they offer. And people with no intention of teaching anybody, who want to know what they are doing when they sit down in front of a gong.
The course spends time on the name most of the field uses for this work, and on why it does not use it.
What You Leave Able to Do
Understand the science, the history and the music a sound practitioner actually needs.
Play bowls, flutes and drums, and chant. Play bells, chimes and the atmospheric instruments, rain sticks and ocean drums among them.
Conduct a one to one sound session, and hold a session for a group.
“Excellent training program for sound practitioners, with a skilled, compassionate, and deeply informed teacher.”
Padme
“In early 2023 I started making my way through Hamid’s online sound training course. Little did I know my whole life was about to shift.”
Dani
“You did such a wonderful job of teaching the techniques and the content was fantastic. I have been playing for 9 years and learned so many good things to add to my sound meditations.”
Vernice
“Hamid’s 20-hour certification transformed me from a curious beginner into a confident sound practitioner.”
Vivan
Who Teaches the Course
The course is taught by Hamid Jabbar, who has studied gongs, singing bowls and flutes since 2012, and has taught sound since 2018. Behind the teaching are a Bachelor of Music from New York University and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law. The law degree shapes how the course treats evidence, and what it says a practitioner may honestly claim.
The course comes out of the sound lineages and the shamanic ones both. That is why there is a frame drum and a flute in it, and not only gongs and bowls.
One Payment, and the Course Is Yours
$298Once
Nothing renews. Everything opens at once, so you are not waiting a week for the next lesson.
It includes over twenty hours of lectures and playing instruction, the full training manual to download, every instrument taught separately from gong to voice, theory, science, history and practice, access that does not expire, and a way to ask the teacher a question.
“The measure of a course like this is not what you heard while you were watching it. It is whether you can sit down in front of a gong on a Tuesday, on your own, and know what to do next.”
Hamid Jabbar
Questions People Ask
What is a sound practitioner?
A sound practitioner holds space with sound, for a room of people or for one person at a time.
The job of the person with the mallet is to keep the conditions good and then get out of the way.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes. Finish the course and the assessment and you get Sound Practitioner Level I certification.
The course also carries 20 hours of Yoga Alliance continuing education, with a certificate of its own when you pass the written evaluation.
How long does it take?
Over 20 hours of video in 14 modules, taken at your own pace. Take it in a weekend or take a year over it, and the access does not run out.
What does it cost?
$298, paid once. Nothing renews, and everything opens at once.
Do I need to read music, or sing well?
No. You do not need to read music and you do not need to sing well. The first lesson deals with that.
Do I need all of these instruments to start?
You do not need all of this to start. You can begin with one instrument and add to it.
Where do I log in once I have enrolled?
Checkout and the lessons are both on the course platform, which is where you log in afterward.
What comes after the course?
The Sound Practitioner Training: thirty two hours in person, across two weekends. You arrive already fluent in the theory, and you spend the time with your hands on the instruments.
Is this a sound healing training?
It is what many schools would call one. Hamid does not use the term sound healing, because the term is unclear. It is still the name most people know, and what he teaches is how to do this work with care and intelligence.
The Course Opens the Moment You Enroll
$298, once. Take it in a weekend or take a year over it.
Finish the course and the assessment and you get Sound Practitioner Level I certification.