Ceremony of Sound
Breath+Oneness’ 100-hour Sound Healing Certification Course
Become a Sound Healer & Ceremonial Space Holder
Develop Yourself Through Sound
Free Your Voice & Show Up More Fully
Welcome to Ceremony of Sound
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Welcome to Ceremony of Sound 🎶
Designed for beginner and intermediate musicians, healers, yoga teachers, and anyone who wants to use resonance and vibration in their offerings, ceremonies, and classes.
This course is for you if you want to:
Initiate or expand your relationship with music, sound, resonance, and vibration
Deepen your ability to heal and offer healing to others
Play many different instruments (including renowned brands Meinl Sonic Energy and Crystal Tones crystal singing bowls) and develop further with the ones you resonate with most
Set and hold ceremonial space through prayer, intention, and sound
Take people on journeys, sound baths, potent yoga classes, and more
Explore vibrational healing instruments such as Crystal Tones crystal bowls, your voice, drums, flute, digeridoo, chimes, gong, and more
Offer sound healings through resonance and vibration
Deepen and expand your self-expression and artistry
Develop your unique voice
Learn the history of sound healing and explore your cultural heritage of sound, rhythm, and music
Develop your listening and channel vibration
Connect with an intimate group of no more than 15 students along with your mentors and teachers for ample individualized attention and personal practice (we reach capacity each session, so please reserve your spot soon if you are called to join us)
Expert Teachers & Mentors Include: Carrie Arlah, Sam David, Alex Harrison, Dallas McKenzie, Wayne Marto, + guest teachers and healers from Breath & Oneness
Dates
Spring Session 2025 | 4 Weekends over 4 Months
All days are 8:30am-5:30pm
February 14-16
March 22-23
April 12-13
May 16-18
Ceremony of Sound FAQ
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No. To start the course, you do not need to bring or own or know how to play any instruments. In that first weekend, you are able to explore and play with our 30+ instrument collection to see what resonates best with you. By the second weekend, we ask that you have 2-3 instruments of your own choosing. You are able to purchase from our extensive collection of Crystal Tones crystal singing bowls and Meinl Sonic Energy healing instruments. There is a wide range in price, starting at $20. By the final weekend, we ask that you have 5+ instruments for your practice.
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Lots of practice playing and learning instruments, including voice, and discovering what resonates most with you. We will cover topics such as basic music theory, the history and science of sound healing, and ceremonial space setting. You will discover what instruments layer well with one another, how to do freestyle/intuitive sessions well, as well as where it is important to have extra attention and care in a session. There is a lot of development of the ear and whole-body listening.
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We have a collection of 30+ different instruments, including crystal singing bowls, handpans, drums, flutes, seed chimes, metal chimes, gongs, didgeridoo, shakers, and more. We also love to work with your inner instrument, your voice.
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Yes! This course is unique because it is in person, which allows us to support and serve each individual, and it is designed for development whether someone is starting new or furthering established skills. We have graduated many people who began with zero experience and developed great skill by the end of the program.
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We’d love to hear from you. Reach out to founder, Carrie Arlah Burr, at carrie@breathandoneness.com. Or call our studio at 831-515-7001.
Payment
$2250
Payment Plan Option: 3 payments of $750 – must be finished by end of course
$250 penalty for cancellation up to one month prior to start date
No cancellation within one month of start date
If emergency occurs, funds can be applied towards a future course
Breath+Oneness Location
Breath+Oneness is set in Santa Cruz County, in the coastal town of Capitola. Renowned for its stunning beaches, excellent surf, and proximity to redwood forests, Capitola draws visitors year-round. We are happy to share accommodations, dining, and activity suggestions for your time here during the course.
Breath+Oneness is a center dedicated to healing and whole-being wellness. All of our offerings support physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. We are committed to supporting everyone on their journey of self-discovery, learning, growth, and realization. We embrace holism, interconnectedness, diversity, freedom of expression, health, truth, love, and the power of traveling through every shadow with greater and greater experienced light. Learn more about us here.
Schedule
Spring 2025 Session | February 14-16, March 22-23, April 12-13 & May 16-18
80 In-Person Hours:
First and Last Weekends: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 8:30-5:30
Two middle weekends: Saturday & Sunday 8:30-5:30
Learn your voice and other instruments that call to you
Practice regularly and build confidence
Be constantly bathed by yours and others’ creative expressive sound
Be lovingly supported and positively challenged in your growth, depth, and expansion
20 Assignment Hours:
5 – attend live sound journeys/healings and write reports (including free Sound Healings at Breath + Oneness while you are a Ceremony of Sound student)
5 – listen to recorded sound journeys/healings and write reports
2 – mentorship hours (choose one of the mentors and there will be small group and individual mentorship)
8 – practice hours with other students, which will include written feedback
Note: You don’t need to have any instruments to begin the course, as there will be practice instruments for your use. By the second weekend, you will need to have 2-3 instruments of your own choosing and by the final weekend you will need to have 5+. Your mentor will help you select your instruments based on many factors. Investment into instruments can be done as economically as needed.
Upon course completion you will receive a Certificate of Sound Healing from Breath+Oneness and may have opportunities to offer sound healings at Breath+Oneness as well as other spaces around the SF Bay Area.
If you have any questions about the course please email Carrie at carrie@breathandoneness.com
Staff Teachers + Mentors
Carrie Arlah
Crystal Bowls, Voice, Listening, Ceremonial Space Setting and Holding, and more
Co-Founder of Breath+Oneness, Carrie Arlah began her professional music career at the age of 11 with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, singing professionally and traveling the world for years, eventually releasing her own self-produced album under her middle name Arlah. She has played the flute, oboe, various saxes, piano, trumpet, harmonium, shruti box, drums, and other instruments over the years, adding crystal bowls to her most recent musical lexicon and traversing happily and deeply into the world of Sound Healing. She is passionate about music, sound, and the ability of both to positively transform people on every level and is ecstatic to help people find their own direct relationship to the magical world of healing resonance and vibrating it out into the greater world for uplift.
Sam David
Didgeridoo, Voice: Overtone Singing, Throat Singing, Native Drum, Shamanic Space Setting and Holding, and more
Sam David was born in Hawaii and has traveled the world sharing the activating and healing power of sound for over 20 years. Raised part of his life with the Chumash Native Americans of central California, Sam learned their sacred practices and drumming. The didgeridoo and voice are his original passions and are what led him on a journey of healing and learning about the powerful effects of sound on people. He is an intuitive sound healer musician, integrating powerful healing techniques from many different cultures including indigenous didjeridoo sounds, Tuvin throat singing, overtones, Tibetan monks and Native American sounds, as well as sounds from whales of the deep. Within his sound journeys he also incorporates the higher frequency elements of crystal pyramids and crystal bowls.
Alex Harrison
Native Flute, Handpan, Drum, Guitar, Song, Sacred Listening, Chimes, Gong, and more
As a certified trauma-informed breathwork and sound healing facilitator, conscious-business mentor and nature enthusiast, Alex has long been aware of the innate connection between humans and the natural world. In his years of studying and cultivating internal stillness, he began to notice the inherent energy-flow networks present in all of life and was called to connect back with and to steward the facilitation of the breath. Alex believes that connections begin first with the self and ripple outward from there, and that when we allow ourselves to re-align with patterns of intelligence through breath, mindfulness, and nature-based awareness practices, there is limitless potential to tap into our innate wisdom. The work he focuses on invokes the artist within, nurtures creativity, and supports individuals in identifying and aligning their deepest core values with sustained action in the world.
Dallas McKenzie
Science of Sound, Soundscapes, and more
Dallas has been gathering her tools over the last decade to bring a deeper connection and understanding between the inner and outer worlds. Music was the spark that started it all, the didgeridoo threading spirit and connection into her life in her late teens, bringing curiosity for what lies deeper. Starting her path at the Globe Institute of Sound Healing Sciences in San Francisco, she began to fall in love with the way vibration was so intricately woven into the body, mind, and spirit health. Breath was the fan to flames of this passion. Knowing there was something still to be found in the breath she went on to start her studies at The Alchemy of Breath, for trauma release therapy and has been weaving her favorite modules ever since. She is passionate about the power that lies in both sound and breath and believes these are our greatest gifts, and greatest tools to fully remember the soul path.
Wayne Marto
Gongs, Chimes, Sound Healing Best Practices, and more
Wayne is a life-long musician who has studied the gong extensively under Gong Master Mehtab Benton. His authentic style of playing, infused with passion and intention, promotes deep relaxation and transformation. Wayne is the Founder-Director of Beneficial Sound, a 501(c)3 nonprofit committed to bringing wellness to the mind, body and soul through sound and vibration. He has a degree in Psychology, is a Certified Gong Practitioner and Yoga Instructor and is a member of the American Sound Healers Association.
If you have any questions about the course please email Carrie at carrie@breathandoneness.com
What makes Ceremony of Sound unique?
Our sound healing teacher training course is IN-PERSON! Sound and vibrational healing is most profoundly learned, felt, and developed when we come together off-screen and in-person.
Our multi-instrumental approach. While we take pride in our Crystal Temple, and have an extensive collection of Crystal Tones bowls, we also have a diverse collection of other world-class instruments and curate a lineup of teachers with both depth and breadth of experience to learn from.
Our location, Capitola, is a healing sanctuary and will support your journey of developing your unique voice and embodying your power as a sound healer.
The emphasis on you cultivating your authenticity and uniqueness in your offering.
Practice! Our course is mostly about practice with other students, as this is the #1 for you to improve dramatically, quickly.