Feeling the call to become a facilitator with the ancient modality of Sound Healing?
Applications are now open for our 2026 intake.
During this 100 hour blended learning intensive you will learn how to hold others in a sacred sound container based off ancient wisdom, indigenous traditions and modern techniques.
Sound is powerful in all its shapes and tones. It is a tool that can shift your energetic landscape, create space to integrate what feels dissonant, and somatically reach into emotional layers.
This training covers a wide range of sound instruments in depth — from Crystal Bowls to the Drum and Flute, to Tuning Forks and the Gong, you will complete this training with an understanding of how to use a plethora of sound healing instruments.
It is a curriculum designed to offer both breadth and depth, so that you not only study diverse tools but also how to embody their effects and ensure your sound containers are held in integrity.
Course Breakdown & Structure
TOTAL HOURS: 100
UK Intensives: 48
Online Modules: 38
Live Mentorships: 14
What's Included
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Weekend Intensive In Person Trainings - Manchester
3 x In Person Training Weekends (Sat/Sun) commencing the start of September this intensive aspect of the course ensures you are given all the hands on practical training to facilitate Sound Healing sessions with confidence.
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Online Learning Modules
Make your way through weekly online videos and content at your own pace.
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Live Online Group Calls
Live & recorded bi-weekly group calls to ensure you are engaging with the power of sound on a personal level and have the opportunity to experience a multitude of sound journeys.
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Access to a Private Group Sound Community
Receive access to a private group chat connecting you to likeminded souls embarking on this magical journey with you.
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Plus More!
Core Curriculum
Module 1: The History & Science of Sound Healing
Foundations of continuous breath for transformation and regulation. Explore origins, purpose, contraindications, retentions, and methodologies. Includes guided practice, observation, partner PNF work and active practical group teaching sessions.
Module 2: Indigenous cultures, Shamanism and the Use of Sound
Add a depth and layer to your facilitation that sets your sessions apart. Discover how rhythm shapes experience. Practice timing breath with counts, sound, and movement. Learn about entrainment, playlist design, and leading with percussion.
Module 3: The Power of the Voice, Voice Activation & Tools
Root into the variations of yogic breath practices. Study history, purpose, and key techniques, linking tradition with modern science and polyvagal theory. Includes safe and effective practicum.
Module 4: Crystal Bowls
Understand the body’s mechanics of breathing. Explore respiratory system, nervous system pathways, gas exchange, posture, and applied anatomy for safe facilitation.
Module 5: Drum - The Lower World
Train the breath as a tool for resilience, endurance, and energy. Explore techniques for athletes, performance enhancement, and recovery, alongside applying the science of oxygen efficiency.
Module 6: Rattle - The Middle World
Harness the synergy of breath work ,cold exposure. and contrast therapy Learn safety protocols, the science of cold adaptation, and the alchemy of combining breath with water immersion.
Module 7: Flute - The Upper World
Develop skills to guide transformational journeys. Explore SOft skills, class structure, space design, sound, and physical/energetic assists.
Module 8: Tuning Forks
Learn principles of trauma awareness to ensure safe and ethical facilitation. Explore consent, choice, boundary setting, and how to recognise and support participants experiencing overwhelm.
Module 9: Tibetan Bowls & Gong
Learn how to share your work with confidence. Build your brand, pathways to gain experience, and create opportunities for collaboration, retreats, and community facilitation.
Module 10: Chakapa, Chimes & Layering Instruments
Module 11: Pairings of Sound
Module 12: Spiritual Protection and Energetic Hygiene for Sound Healers
Module 13: Ethical & Trauma Informed Practices
Module 14: Shamanic Icaros, Mantras & The Vibrations of Sounds
Module 15: Structuring a 1:1 Sound Healing & Sound Massage
Module 16: Structuring & Curating Group Sound Journeys
Module 17: Sound Tech, Setting Up Your Sound Business & The Marketing of Sound
Module 18: Case Studies & Practical Engagement
In Person Curriculum
Monthly: Manchester - Shala & Sage
Shala & Sage is the perfect location to begin our in person intensives. This well equipped and personable space makes for an intimate environment where practitioners can begin to build confidence in the foundations of their facilitation.
In these three weekend immersions participants begin to cultivate their connection with different sound healing instruments and cultivate an understanding of facilitating sound journeys in its varying environments and settings. These weekend intensives lay a strong foundation of working with sound and have a strong focus on practical experience.
Dates:
September 5/6th
October 17/18th
December 5/6th
Why join this training
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Ceremony & Spirituality Blended with Science
Learn not only the science behind sound but also how to connect with the ancient wisdom and its connection to spiritual & energetic healing.
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Learn by Doing
Immerse yourself through in-person intensives, mentorship and bi-weekly live calls.
Practice facilitation, receive feedback, and build confidence to lead transformative sessions with presence and precision.
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Cultivate a Connection with a plethora of Sound Healing Instruments
Build a strong connection with a multitude of instruments, expand your intuition and experience the magic of utilising your voice through numerous activation workshops
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Step into Purpose
Refine your professional path with guidance in storytelling, authentic marketing, and mentorship. Share your work with confidence and create opportunities that align with your values.
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Flexible & Immersive
With Manchester intensives and self-paced online study, the training is comprehensive and fits in around your day to day schedule while still offering deep, embodied learning.
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Community, Connection & Transformation
Train within a supportive community of mentors and peers.
Become part of a Sound family as you journey through the training with other like minded souls
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Spiritual & Energetic Protection for Sound Healers
Learn how to smudge your space with intention using herbs or resins, consciously open & close spiritual protection before & after sessions and consistently cleanse & ground your own energetic field both before & after each session to maintain wellbeing and prevent unwanted energetic attachments.
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Safety, Integrity & Trauma Awareness
Learn to hold space with clarity and care. Ground your facilitation in ethics, consent, and trauma-informed principles to create safe, supportive environments for transformation.
Investment
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Early Bird Sign Up
£1687
*Secure your place now for this powerful training by the 31st March, 2026.
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Full Price
£1777
*Registrations after the 31st March, 2026
Meet Your Host
Rachael Love, is an Australian Medicine Woman, Sound Therapist, Energy Healer, Psychic, and Wellness Coach and has been facilitating within the wellness space for half a decade.
Rooted in ancient and modern healing modalities, she holds qualifications in Shamanic Healing, Reiki, Sound Healing, Time Line Therapy, Hypnotherapy, NLP, Coaching, is a passionate Drum Birther and has made it her mission to connect more people back to their inner knowing, leading her to facilitate and also train others with the spirit of Cacao, and the medicine of Sound Healing.
She is also a sacred Mesa carrier and is part of a Peruvian Medicine Wheel based of the Q'ero Indigenous tradition.
Bridging the realms of spirituality and science, Rachael weaves a comprehensive transformational experience, connecting individuals back to the natural rhythms of life and nature.
It is her true belief that the more we come back to connecting with ancient healing modalities and nature, the happier humanity will be.
Through her unique approach, she creates a space for profound transformation and relaxation, allowing individuals to embark on a journey of self discovery, empowerment and a deep reconnection with the rhythms of Mother Earth and the heart space.
Guest Facilitator - Leo Oppenheim
Drop into the world of holistic transformation and inner evolution guided by Leo Oppenheim, an international wellness facilitator, deeply devoted to harmonising the body and mind to unlock your full potential.
With a diverse skill set encompassing Yoga, Creative Movement, Sound Therapy, Breathwork and invigorating Cold Water Immersions, Leo crafts a unique fusion of disciplines designed to facilitate profound mental, physical and emotional shifts.
Leo brings a profound depth of experience to his facilitation, having guided sound healing sessions at numerous mass gatherings, festivals, and wellness events across the globe. With over six years as Head of Yoga and Wellness at the award-winning fitness studio BLOK, he has not only honed his own practice but has also mentored and shaped the development of countless teachers. His grounded presence and breadth of knowledge make him a trusted guide in the art of sound.
Leo’s personal journey revolves around continuous holistic growth and the expansion of consciousness, positioning him as a dedicated guide for those seeking to commence a transformative journey.
Guest Facilitator - Annie Hackwell
Annie Hackwell is a somatic therapist, trauma-informed bodyworker, and movement facilitator.
She weaves together Holosomatic
Bodywork, Breathwork, Reiki, Tantric energy activation, and nervous system healing to guide people back into connection with their bodies and inner wisdom.
Her work is rooted in her own journey through chronic disconnection and emotional overwhelm.
Through embodied practice and intuitive energetic work, she experienced deep integration unraveling patterns held in the body and rebuilding a relationship with herself grounded in safety and self trust.
Now, Annie creates gentle, intuitively led spaces where healing unfolds at the body's pace. Deeply trauma-informed, she honours choice. nervous system resilience, and the slow rhythms required for real transformation.
For her, safety is the foundation that makes change possible.
Guest Facilitator: Arran Burton - Looking Flutes
For as long as he can remember, Arran Burton of Looking Flutes has been making, painting and imagining other worlds and creatures. He creates because, as he says, his soul demands it
His flutes, birthed from love and devotion, often depict the animals he encounters, honouring them through the prayers played through each instrument. Drawing on Native American-style flutes and Mesoamerican multi-chambered flutes, his work carries deeply enchanting and emotional voices. Many are adorned with crystals and gemstones, each one made with intention and care.
Arran has made a solid name for himself in the flute-making world, with his instruments finding new homes across the globe. Alongside crafting these sacred instruments, he loves to perform with them intuitively, creating rich, visual soundscapes for listeners, where each person's experience and interpretation is uniquely their own.
He will be joining us on the training to share his wisdom, play flutes and will also be offerings flutes for purchase to all sound students.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need any prior experience for this training?
No, you don't need any prior experience to join the training, just a will to learn and a calling to help others.
Are there any contraindications for participating?
This training is for training purposes only and should not go against any advice given by a medical practitioner. Participation means you are aware of the contraindications of sound and if any are present you have consulted with a health advisor beforehand to ensure your safety and suitability. Simhá Wellness will not give medical advice.
Do you allow payment plans?
Yes! A minimum deposit of £400 is required to secure your place within the training. The remaining payments can then be scheduled in instalments & must be paid off by graduation.
What's not included in the price?
All transport to the in person weekend training days is the responsibility of the participant.
Instruments are not included
