How to Lead a Sound Bath, and How to Choose a Training
Guides to leading a sound bath, the instruments and the gong, with a dated comparison of the online trainings. Written by Hamid Jabbar.
The Guides
Each answers a question a new practitioner asks before buying an instrument or a training.
Leading a Sound Bath
Setting the room, shaping the sound from first stroke to silence, and bringing people back at the end.
Playing a Gong for a Sound Bath
Where to strike, how to warm a gong up, and how to build a long wash of sound without a crash.
What to Buy First
What a first sound bath needs and what can wait, from a teacher who sells no instruments.
Choosing a First Gong
Size, type, mallets and stand, for a gong that will lead a sound bath.
Crystal or Himalayan Singing Bowls
How the two differ in the room, in the hands and in price.
Sound Bath, Sound Healing, Gong Bath
What each name means, and why some teachers keep away from the word healing.
Becoming a Sound Bath Practitioner
The path from a first instrument to leading a room, and where a training fits in it.
A Sound Bath Sequence and Script
Eleven parts in order, from the welcome to the way back, with the words to say. Free to read or print.
Playing a Gong for a Sound Bath
Symphonic, planet, chau and wind gongs each sound different under the same mallet. How to play a gong covers striking and rubbing from the first stroke, and choosing a first gong says which suits a first sound bath.
Choosing a Training
Three trainings sit near $300, Hamid's own course between the other two. The full comparison sets nine side by side, each fact dated and linked to where it was read.
What a training costs, how long it takes, and whether you need one
Compare all nine| Training | Price | Hours | Refund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gong Practitioner Level OneMehtab Benton | $295 | Self-paced, finished within 90 days | No policy found |
| Sound Practitioner TrainingHamid's own course | $298 | Over 20 hours, self-paced, lifetime access | Within 7 days |
| Level 1, Integral Sound HealingThe Sound Healing Academy | $298.80 | About 30 hours, with a tutor | Money back within 14 days |
“A sound practitioner holds space with sound, for a room of people or for one person at a time.”
Hamid Jabbar
Who Writes GongSpace
Hamid Jabbar has studied sound since 2012 and taught it since 2018. He teaches the science and practice of sound as used in meditation and sound therapy.
The Sound Practitioner Training (Hamid's Own Course)
Online and self-paced: 14 modules and 31 lessons, a manual to keep, and gongs, singing bowls, drums, flute and voice among the instruments. It carries 20 hours of Yoga Alliance continuing education.
$298paid once, with lifetime access
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