Sound Bath Practitioner Training

A trauma-informed and nervous-system-focused sound healing training for practitioners who want to offer therapeutic, grounded, and deeply restorative sound baths.

This education blends polyvagal-informed facilitation, foundational music theory, and ethical sound healing techniques to help you create experiences that regulate rather than overwhelm, while integrating sound healing seamlessly into your treatments or community offerings. Through this approach, you are prepared to lead sound baths that support regulation, resilience, and meaningful therapeutic depth within your community. Choose from the one or two day training options based on your goals and intention.

Private, One-on-One Practitioner Trainings

All Ethereal Sound Alchemy trainings are offered in a private format. I do not host open-enrollment or public group trainings. Each training is scheduled individually and designed around the practitioner booking it. This structure is intentional.

Sound healing requires nuance, nervous system awareness, and personalized pacing. Teaching in a one-on-one environment allows me to focus fully on you, honor sensitivities, adapt in real time, and curate the training to support your learning style, goals, and scope of practice.

If you would like to train alongside a small team or a few colleagues, you are welcome to organize that group privately. I am happy to teach small, pre-formed groups, but I do not coordinate or advertise public group cohorts.

Training Pathways:

Choose from three private training options depending on your goals.

Two-Day Sound Bath Practitioner Training - $1500:

For practitioners who want to confidently facilitate full sound bath sessions for individuals, groups, and community settings.

This immersive training covers trauma-informed frameworks, nervous system literacy, sound bath structure, musical foundations, contraindications, and professional considerations. You will leave prepared to lead structured, therapeutic sound baths rooted in regulation and ethical facilitation.

The core intention of this training is responsibility and care while learning how to create sound baths in a way that minimizes risk, honors individual nervous systems, and avoids causing further harm, dysregulation, or retraumatization. You’ll learn how to create safe, grounding sound baths for others, without overstimulating sensitive systems (including your own).

We will stay within our scope of practice and focus on understanding the nervous system, how it’s affected by trauma and what it needs to feel safe. 

One-Day Trauma-Informed Facilitation Training - $800:

For certified and currently practicing sound bath facilitators who want to deepen their trauma-informed approach.

This focused training emphasizes nervous system states, polyvagal-informed facilitation, pacing, transitions, managing intensity, recognizing dysregulation, and preventing overwhelm. It is ideal for practitioners who already lead sound baths but want to refine their awareness, structure, and ethical framework.

One-Day Integrative Sound Healing Training - $800:

For practitioners who want to incorporate sound healing instruments into their existing services. This training is designed for professionals such as hairstylists, massage therapists, estheticians, bodyworkers, and other wellness practitioners who want to enhance the treatments they already provide.

This is not a full sound bath facilitator training. Instead, we focus on how to ethically and effectively integrate crystal bowls, gongs, chimes, and other healing instruments into your current sessions in a way that supports regulation and client experience.




About Amanda…

Sound healing is more than a modality to me. It is a practice rooted in safety, nervous system awareness, and deep respect for sensitivity.

As a highly sensitive person and practitioner with over six years of direct facilitation experience, my work has always been shaped by lived experience, formal training, and a commitment to ethical, trauma-aware space holding. My goal is simple: to create healing environments that feel steady, regulated, and responsibly led. And yet, sound healing felt like something that chose me long before I understood why. My journey into this work was anything but linear.

Before I ever trained as a practitioner, I was a lifelong entrepreneur navigating burnout, grief, and a persistent sense that I was meant to pursue a non-traditional path. What began as personal healing evolved into years of study, hands-on facilitation, musical mentorship, and deep exploration of trauma and nervous system science.

Over time, the philosophy behind my one-on-one practitioner training began to take shape. It was not built overnight. It was formed through questioning, refinement, lived experience, and a desire to fill the gaps I encountered in my own early training.

If you’re curious how it all came together, I invite you to read the full story.

Choose from the options below for in depth details of what you will learn, rates, and how to book:

 FAQs

  • When training is held in Austin:

    • The 2-day training is $1,500.

    • The 1-day training is $800.

    When requesting a training outside of Austin:

    *Rates may vary based on the distance from Austin and applicable travel fees.

    Payment plans are available if you prefer not to pay in full upon booking. A deposit is required to secure your dates when using a payment plan, with the remaining balance due one week before your first training day.

  • There are currently several options for training locations:

    1. In your home or business location (Austin area): This is the most common choice, often held in your living room or private workspace. We’ll need comfortable seating and enough open floor space to set up and practice with the instruments.

    2. In a private studio at Sun Up Skin: This serene bungalow, located in Austin, is dedicated to holistic healers.

    3. At your location outside of Austin: I’m open to traveling to locations outside of Austin, with prices adjusted to account for travel costs based on your specific location.

  • The one day training is 7 hours and the two day training is 14 hours which includes a 30 minute lunch break for each day.

  • Yes! The training is customized to your personal goals and how you’re wanting to implement sound healing into your life and business. I’ve worked with hairstylists, massage therapists, yoga teachers, estheticians, energy healers, and meditation teachers. This training is not limited to those just wanting to do sound baths.

    Before booking you can request to schedule a 30 minute phone call to discuss your goals, ask any questions you may have, and see if I’m the right fit for you. This allows me to connect with your intentions so that I can customize the training to your needs. A phone call is a chance for us to connect not a “discovery call or sales pitch”. There will never be any pressure to make a decision during the call or commit to the training upfront. Please take all the time you need to think about it and make your decision when it feels right for you.

  • Yes. This training is rooted in nervous-system awareness, trauma sensitivity, and relational safety.

    It was created through years of direct facilitation, client work, and practitioner education, with a strong foundation in understanding how the nervous system responds to stress, overwhelm, and perceived threat. The training is informed by Polyvagal Theory; the science of safety, and is further inspired by the work of Deb Dana, LCSW, a clinician and consultant who specializes in applying Polyvagal Theory to trauma recovery and nervous-system regulation.

    In this training, you’ll learn how to:

    • Create sound bath experiences that support safety and grounding

    • Avoid overstimulation and overwhelm, especially in sensitive nervous systems

    • Read cues of regulation and dysregulation in both clients and yourself

    • Pace sound, silence, and transitions intentionally

    • Offer choice, consent, and supportive language throughout a session

    We remain clearly within scope of practice. This training focuses on understanding the nervous system, how trauma can impact it, and what supports a sense of safety and regulation in a sound-based setting.

    Sound baths are not a replacement for psychotherapy or trauma treatment provided by licensed mental health professionals. I do not teach this work as a substitute for trauma therapy. Rather, sound healing is presented as a complementary, supportive practice that may benefit individuals who are already in therapy, as well as those seeking gentle nervous-system support, relaxation, and regulation.

    The core intention of this training is responsibility and care while learning how to create sound baths in a way that minimizes risk, honors individual nervous systems, and avoids causing further harm, dysregulation, or retraumatization.

  • There is no singular lineage for trauma-informed sound healing.
    This work does not exist within a single ancestral, yogic, or guru-based tradition.

    My work emerged at the intersection of sound, nervous-system awareness, and years of client-led learning. My approach was shaped by what I saw was missing in the sound-healing space, particularly when it came to safety, pacing, consent, and trauma sensitivity. I teach from experience, ethics, and responsibility rather than hierarchy.

    This training was designed and authored by me and is practice-derived rather than lineage-based.

    The curriculum has been developed through:

    • Lived experience and long-term facilitation

    • Ongoing client work and observation

    • Study of nervous-system regulation and trauma-sensitive principles

    • Professional practice within wellness, therapeutic, and body-based settings

    • Years of refining what supports safety, grounding, and regulation in real-world sessions

    As such, this training is:

    • Experience-informed

    • Practice-led

    • Trauma-informed and practitioner-developed

    • Rooted in lived experience and direct facilitation

    • Continuously refined through real-world application

    Crystal singing bowls themselves are a relatively modern instrument, emerging in the late 20th century. There is no widely recognized lineage-based tradition specific to crystal bowl sound healing.

    While some sound-healing education is offered within Kundalini yoga lineages, I am not affiliated with Kundalini practices or the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. My work does not draw from, reference, or align with those traditions. I believe in transparency, ethical practice, and honoring the voices of those who have come forward regarding harm within that lineage and abuse at the hands of Yogi Bhajan.

    This training is intended for practitioners who value discernment, nervous-system awareness, and responsible facilitation and who are seeking an approach grounded in safety, integrity, and lived experience rather than inherited hierarchy.

  • I received my initial sound healing certification in 2020 after completing a 2-day training. Following that training, I assisted in public sound bath events for over six months, supporting 4–6 sessions per month, and also assisted in two practitioner training cohorts.

    I later completed a 12-week musical mentorship with another sound bath facilitator, which further supported my technical skills and confidence as a practitioner.

    Within three months of my first training, I began offering my own private and public sound bath sessions. That hands-on facilitation of working directly with individuals and groups over time, became one of my greatest teachers. It helped clarify how I wanted to hold space, what felt ethical and supportive, and what was missing in existing models of sound bath facilitation.

    While my early trainings and certification were not trauma-informed, they ultimately inspired me to seek out additional education, engage in ongoing self-study, and refine my approach through real-world practice. The gaps I experienced became the foundation for the trauma-informed, nervous system-aware work I now offer, and for the practitioner trainings I have since developed.

    This training is not a replication of another teacher’s curriculum. It is a practice-led, experience-informed program shaped by 6 years of facilitation, continued learning, and a deep commitment to trauma informed safety, integration, and care.

  • Not at all.
    This training was created for intuitive, sensitive people—many of whom have never touched a crystal bowl before joining.
    We’ll explore simple music theory concepts, like harmonics and intervals to help you feel confident using sound intentionally…
    but the heart of this training is about presence, not performance.

    You’ll be guided to trust your body, your intuition, and your deep listening.
    Structure supports the process, but it never replaces your knowing.

  • No. All instruments are provided for use during your training.
    You’ll have the opportunity to feel into different tools before deciding what resonates for you.
    I also provide guidance on selecting instruments, where to purchase them, and what to start with based on your space and intentions.

  • My trainings are primarily offered as a private one on one experience so that the focus can remain fully on your specific goals and needs.


    You can request a group training for a small group of friends, colleagues, or co-healers that you’ve organized.

    Group trainings are customizable and can be a great opportunity to train your team on integrating sound healing into their treatments or offering trainings as a part of your holistic wellness retreat.

  • Yes, a printed certificate of completion will be provided at the end of your final training day, and a PDF version can be emailed upon request. I believe in full transparency as a teacher and sound healing practitioner, so I’ve included some additional clarification below about certificates and their purpose.

    Currently, there are no government-recognized organizations issuing accreditation for sound healing. Certificates serve as a way to honor your commitment, dedication, and achievement in completing your training. They are not required to practice as a “sound healer,” nor are there any formal regulations regarding offering sound healing as a service. Some training programs may choose to register or affiliate with independent accrediting boards; however, this is optional and not required for offering sound healing training or becoming a practitioner.

    In some cases, certification may be useful or necessary for the following reasons:

    • Employer reimbursement: Some companies provide tuition reimbursement for continuing education and training programs, often requiring a certificate of completion for qualification.

    • Yoga and meditation studios: Studios may request proof of certification as part of their hiring requirements.

    • Personal confidence: Many individuals feel an added sense of confidence after completing a certified training program.

  • Please fill out the request form linked on each trainings landing page which allows me to give you an accurate price quote for your training and confirm that the dates you request are available.

    Once I receive your form you can expect a response within 24 hours confirming the dates you requested and answering any other questions you might have.

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