Daylong Tibetan Singing Bowl

Practitioner Course

Tibetan Singing Bowl Daylong Course

Location: Sound Room, West LA

$275 (Group rate, group of 5 maximum) 10-5 PM PT

Lunch will be served

Bring: yoga mat, your singing bowl/s

A six-hour, comprehensive singing bowl practitioner course designed for lovers of singing bowls from an introductory to an intermediate level.  It includes information on history, metallurgy, relevant physics principles, singing bowl frequencies and harmonics, benefits, singing bowl types, tuning, how to choose the perfect singing bowl, in-depth instruction on techniques for getting optimal sound from your bowl, how to use different types of mallets, developing listening skills, and mindful meditation exercises using your bowl.

Who Would Benefit from this Course?

Anyone who loves singing bowls. Many are attracted to the healing modality of Tibetan bowls (also known as Himalayan bowls), but struggle to get optimal sound. When a bowl player lacks experience or knowledge, bowls can sound discordant and have the opposite effect - creating uneasiness and tension in the body and mind. So, proper technique is vital, whether you are playing yourself or for others. Even some influencers who give playing instructions on YouTube don’t have the faintest idea how to play a singing bowl! All you need to post such a video is a bowl, a mallet, and some SEO!

This course is also appropriate and encouraged for healing arts practitioners such as massage therapists, Reiki practitioners, acupuncturists, yoga instructors, hypnotists, therapists, as well as medical professionals in the mental health and addiction fields who want to offer their clients non-chemical, stress relief management tools.

Requirements

No previous experience with singing bowls or any other musical instruments is required.

Singing bowls will be provided, and some will be for sale. If you have singing bowls, you’re welcome to bring them along with your mallets, but there is no guarantee you will use them for the course. If your bowls are out of tune, I provide you with others.

Course Topics Include

What is a Tibetan/Himalayan Singing Bowl?

• History

• Metallurgy

• Science

• Benefits

Glossary of Singing Bowl & Music Terms

• Singing Bowls Types:

• Antique: Small, Medium, Large

• New Hand forged

• New Cast

• Diameter, thickness & Shape: how they influence timbre & frequency

• Crystal bowls: a sound comparison

 Singing Bowl Sounds

* Tuning

* Frequencies

*Dissonance vs. Discordance

* Consonance

* Intervals

* Scales

How to Choose a Singing Bowl

* Practical Considerations

* A frank talk about the Chakras

* Role of Intuition

* Hungry Ghost Syndrome

*What to listen for

*How to feel the sound

Hands-on Techniques:

*Strike, exercises

*Rimming, exercises

*Isolating the fundamental exercises

Mallets:

*Striking Mallets, exercises

*Rimming Mallets, exercises

* Mallets for Isolating the Fundamental, exercises

Introduction to Sound Meditation

* The Body as a Resonator

*Using your bowl as a meditation tool

* Listening with Awareness – deep listening exercises

* Group Sound bath