OVERVIEW:

The Alchemy of Sound YTT 300 is an incredibly COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING IN SOUND YOGA MEDITATION. There is literally no other training that teaches Sound Bath, Mantra, Meditation, and Movement altogether.  That’s WHY I created it! Because when we offer ALL of the ancient tools of yoga in one powerful class - our students experience the greatest transformations and shifts.

With more than half of the 300 hr training dedicated to strictly learning skills and techniques you can be certain this is NOT a simple overview! Prepare to become an expert in each tool discussed as we dive DEEP into each component!  

PLUS, you’ll have 7 hours of actual teaching practicum experience. This level of experiential education is what makes Sound Wisdom trainings so unique - you’ll leave this training with the utmost of confidence when using and teaching the tools of Sacred Sound!!

Come experience the magic of the Sound Wisdom curriculum!

• Use sacred sound as a way to initiate holistic healing and transformation within yourself, and your students.

• Engage in the practices of Nᾱda Yoga, which means the “yoga of sound.”  Connect with music as a yoga practice, experiencing a form of enlightenment - the 8th limb of yoga called Samadhi.

• Offer transformational Sound Baths using the vibrations of your own voice, the Frame drum, Gongs, 7 Sacred Metal (Tibetan) and Crystal Singing Bowls, Tuning Forks, and more. 

• Discover the power of Vedic Sanskrit Mantra, and why the alignment of the mouth is just as important in Mantra Yoga, as the alignment of the body is in Yogᾱsana (yoga poses)! 

• Use and teach the “baby basics” of Hindustanī vocal Toning practices, and other ancient chants.     

• Understand and explain the fundamental origins and science of sound and the associated physiological and therapeutic benefits

• Discover the holistic healing power of rest and relaxation – which on its own, can reduce up to 80+% of stress-related issues.   

• Experience the energy anatomy of the Cakras, Koshas, and Doshas.  Use energy anatomy to better understand yourself and your students, and then apply this knowledge to create personalized practices for yourself and others.

• Master the art of teaching!  Learn to facilitate dynamic, effective, transformational group classes and workshops.    

• Foster deeper levels of connection with your students,  by learning how to offer private sound yoga sessions. 

• Lead movement as meditation, in preparation for sound – using traditional yogᾱsana (yoga poses), expressive intuitive dance, shaking meditation, and walking meditation.   

• Understand, practice, and LIVE the Tantrik Yogic philosophy.  Explore ancient texts (the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Spandakarika, and Sufi Poetry - Rumi), and modern-day writings (Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the Jungian Archetypes, and learn to EMBODY these teachings!  

• Embrace your dharma – and discover your own heroic journey.  

Nāda Yoga

• Hindustanī Classical Music (the Sargham)

• The 10 step vocal toning meditation practice

• Sacred Sound Bath Listening Meditation

• Making Music as meditation - as a listening, visual, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual exercise

• Learn to play the Tibetan Singing Bowls, Crystal Singing Bowls, Gongs, Tuning Forks, and Frame Drum

• Learn to love and use your own singing voice

• Sacred Music Theory: 

  • natural harmonics and overtones; musical intervals; dynamics  of consonance, dissonance, rhythm, amplitude and sensitivity;

Mantra

• Sanskrit – IAST transliterated form

• The Body of Mantra ~ Mantra Puruṣa

• Vedic Chanting

• Common and not so common mantras

Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Mind

• What is Mindfulness, Variations of Mindfulness, How and Why to apply the practice of mindfulness to every other meditation, spiritual tool and practice.

• Science and Psychology of meditation and the mind

Movement

• The principles of movement as meditation, and as preparation for meditation

• Restorative, Hatha, and Vinyasa Yoga as preparation for Sound Yoga and Meditation

• Dynamic Movement Meditation:  including Shaking Meditation, Cakra Dance, Intuitive/Expressive Movement, and Walking Meditation  

Prᾱṇᾱyᾱma:

• Learn a variety of breath practices from basic to more advanced practices.

• identify benefits and contraindications for different practices

• Discover the connection between breath and sound.

• Use breath as sounding practices

• Use breath tools as self-healing tools

Teaching/Facilitating Skills:

-   Qualities and Approaches of a Transformational teacher

-   Communication Skills:  Expressive Arts Activities, Interviewing Skills and Techniques, NVC (Non-Violent Communication), and the ELC (experiential learning cycle) approach

-       Group and 1-2-1 Dynamics and Facilitation Skills~ Inviting Others into a Direct Experience of Sacred Sound Yoga

-       How to Structure classes, workshops, trainings

-   How to create authentic, life-embracing transformational themes

-   Business of Sound Yoga

Energy Anatomy

o   The anatomy, physiology, science and therapeutic effects of the Cakras and Koshas, the Energetic Systems

o   An exploration of the correspondences between ayurveda, the cakras and koshas, and sacred music theory, including the physiological and therapeutic effects on the body-mind-spirit

o   Energy Assessments and related yogic tools to restore balance and enhance health and well-being.   

• The Origins of Sacred Sound as Yoga (the original yoga!)

• A Non-dogmatic teaching of Tantric Philosophy as it applies to Spiritual practices, and Modern Life

• Tantra, Gods, Goddesses and Archetypes   

• Ethics of being a spiritual teacher/guru/guide, in the modern world: 

  • Sāttvic, Rājasic, Tāmasic Usage of the Sound Yoga tools

  • Using and Developing Cultural, Sexual, and Mental Health Sensitivity and Awareness

  • Self-Awareness, Shadow Work, the Hero’s Journey, and Personal Transformation as it’s related to Dharma

• Taking your Sound Yoga teachings out of the studio and into your life

SELF PACED Trainees can OPT IN for a PRIVATE PACKAGE of one to one sessions with lead teacher trainer, Shannon Rose Scott, in order to get active practice teaching as the lead instructor yourself, with evaluation by Shannon Rose Scott.

Receive PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK on your teaching/sound healing skills in the following PRACTICUM areas:

The Practicum is divided up into several different components:

1. Lead a Food Blessing Mantra:  5 min guided practice

2. Guide a Mindfulness practice:  10 min guided practice

3. Guide a Nᾱda Yoga Meditation:  30 min guided practice

4. Guide a Mantra Yoga Meditation:  30 min guided practice

5. Guide a Group Sound Yoga Class – personalized for students’ areas of interest and background:  1.25 hr guided practice

6. Guide a Private Session that creates a personalized plan for the student as a home practice  1.5 hr guided practice

7. Guide a Group Practice session that incorporates intention setting, movement, prᾱṇᾱyᾱma, the Mantra Puruṣa, and all the Sound Yoga Meditation tools in one practice.  2 hr guided practice