COHERENCE
SOUND
Workshops - Retreats - Sound Baths
Upcoming & Ongoing Events
Monthly Online
Sound Healing
Workshop
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January 19th 2024
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February 8th 2024
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March 7th 2024
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April 11th 2024
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May 9th 2024
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June 13th 2024
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July 11th 2024
Thursdays monthly - 7.30pm
£10
This ongoing series of workshops will introduce a new sound healing element and practice each month, followed by a sound meditation such as a soundbath, singing bowl meditation, sound activation, healing harp improvisation, planetary frequency atunement, and more.
Aspects of Sound healing will include:
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An Introduction to Sound Healing
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Deep Grounding & Earth Connection: Sounding with The Mother
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Resonant Humming Breath for the Nervous System
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Exploring & Developing Intention
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Toning the Vowels & Energy System
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Intuitive Voice: Listening-feeling-sounding
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Bija Mantras & The Chakras
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Introduction to Vocal Tai Chi
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Inside the Vowels | Ethereal Vowels
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Introduction to planetary frequencies
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The Ancestral Voice
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Sounding The New Earth
Please get in touch if you'd like any more information (or use my contact form).
Monthly in person
Soundbaths
Fridays monthly - 7.30pm
£17
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January 11th 2024
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February 16th 2024
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March 22nd 2024
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April 19th 2024
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May 24th 2024
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June 21st 2024
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July 19th 2024
A sound bath is an immersive sound experience. Once you are lying down and comfortable, I will take you on a meditative journey using gongs, singing bowls, chimes and percussion. Sound baths are great if you find it difficult to relax and let go. The sound gives your mind something to focus on and become absorbed in. The myriad vibrations can help your body release tension and your energetic system to shift imbalances and dissonant patterns.
Please bring anything you need to be comfortable. I suggest a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, bolster, teddy bear (optional). Please arrive 10 minutes before the start to get yourself settled.
Please read more about soundbaths below.
Venue: Life By Margot, 84 Park Rd, Crouch End, London N8 8JQ
About Soundbaths
A sound bath is an immersive sound experience. Once you are lying down and comfortable, I will take you on a meditative journey using gongs, singing bowls, chimes and percussion. Sound baths are great if you find it difficult to relax and let go. The sound gives your mind something to focus on and become absorbed in. The myriad vibrations can help your body release tension and your energetic system to shift imbalances and dissonant patterns.
Please bring anything you need to be comfortable. I suggest a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, bolster, teddy bear (optional). Please arrive 10 minutes before the start to get yourself settled.
I rarely play the gongs loudly and so most people find the experience relaxing. However, the complex sounds of the larger symphonic gongs can be unusual and challenging for who are very sensitive or vulnerable. For this reason soundbaths are not recommended for:
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Women in the first trimester of pregnancy
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Children under the age of thirteen
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If you have a metal implant or a pacemaker
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Those experiencing severe mental health problems
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Those affected by sound induced epilepsy
Please get in touch if you'd like any more information (or use my contact form).
Day Retreat - Hertfordshire
Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi
Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi - Day Retreat
Fanshaw Rooms - Opposite the village green, Brickendon Green (near Bayford), Hertfordshire, SG13 8PB
Public transport: A 10 minute walk from Bayford train station with direct connections to Moorgate, several north London stations & Hertford North
April 27th 2024 - 10am - 5pm
Cost: £90
With sound we can tend to our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, and harmonise our energetic system.
To Book email: alistairsound@gmail.com
Sound is a dynamic form of vibration, as is our own energetic system. It is a creative and structural force within ourselves and the universe. In this workshop we will explore this profound truth from different perspectives. Beginning with our relationship to our beloved Earth, we will come into resonance with her - a source of safety, vitality and belonging. From this grounded centre, we will engage the wonderful practice of Vocal Tai Chi. You will connect with the flow of energy in breath and body to open the voice and discover your own unique inner universe of sound. Vocal Tai Chi is a highly intuitive embodied practice, welcoming all sounds as valued parts of us. Returning to centre, I will then guide you through a heart activation meditation leading into a sound journey with gongs, singing bowls, chimes and percussion.
Plan for the day
Morning
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Welcome & Introduction
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From the Ground Up - Earth Connection & Grounding - Safety, vital energy & belonging - Deepening a relationship - Resonant humming with the Mother
Break
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Introduction to Vocal Tai Chi
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Vocal Tai Chi Session 1 - Body-breath-flow - opening the voice
Lunch
Afternoon
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Vocal Tai Chi session 2 - Unfolding & Exploring
Break
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The magic & majesty of the Heart
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Sacred Heart Activation, leading into…
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Sound Journey (Soundbath)
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Drawing it all together - Personal practice - advice & tips
What to bring
Please bring your own lunch, a yoga or camping mat, pillow, blanket and anything you need to be comfortable and warm for the sound bath.
Day Retreat - Reddish, Stockport
Sacred Sound & Energy
Sacred Sound & Energy - Day Retreat
Sand & Sound Centre
Unit 1 (1st Floor), Reddish Business Centre, 123a Gorton Road, Reddish, Stockport SK5 6EE
September 15th 2024 - 10am - 5pm
Cost: £90
With sound we can tend to our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, harmonise and develop our energetic system.
To Book email: alistairsound@gmail.com
Sound is a dynamic form of vibration and is amazing at working with energy, as our energy is also dynamic vibration. Harmonious, balanced and aligned energy exists in a state of ‘flowing wholeness’ (ref. Lucy Crisfield) - this is the perfect state of health and vitality. Experiences on our life journey inevitably cause this flow to become unbalanced, restricted and dissonant which results in dis-ease, disfunction and ultimately illness. Practices and properties of Sound and Sound Healing can serve to unbind, release and restore this healthy flowing wholeness.
Beyond this, it can also be a powerful tool for growth, through ‘developing’ and ‘enhancing’ our energy system.
In this workshop we will take a deeper dive into aspects of sound and healing, some of which you may not have thought of in these ways before. Every aspect will be hands on and experiential, allowing you to get a feel for how it all works for you. This workshop is for anyone wishing to go deeper into the world of sound healing, and is great for practitioners of any healing modality, wishing to enhance their practice.
Plan for the day:
Morning
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From the Ground Up - Earth Connection & Grounding - Safety, vital energy & belonging - Deepening a relationship - Resonant humming with the Mother
Break
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The Power of Intention Deep Dive - Definitions - The physical & energetic anatomy of intention - nurturing & developing it - practices
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Sound & Energy Evolution - How we can use sound to heal and evolve
Lunch
Afternoon
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Sacred Sound Geometry - sound’s inherent internal geometry - spatial geometry - taking it out of our minds and into our ears and bodies - practical ways to use it to enhance your practice
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Sacred Sound Ceremony - toning & tuning the energy system with sound geometry
Break
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New Mudras for personal energy work
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The magic & majesty of the Heart
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Sacred Heart Activation, leading into…
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Sacred Sound Journey
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Drawing it all together - Personal practice - advice & tips
What to bring
Please bring your own lunch. Bring a notebook, a pen and a pencil. If you have a favourite tuning for or singing bowl, please bring this also. Don’t worry of you don’t, there will be plenty there. Please also bring a yoga or camping mat, pillow, blanket and anything you need to be comfortable and warm for the sound bath.
3 Day Sound Healing Retreat - Surrey
Sound Coherence & Vocal Tai Chi Retreat
May 31st - June 2nd 2024, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
Cost - £399
This retreat is all about your healing journey - A journey towards wholeness, vitality, and a deep sense of safety and belonging. This will open you to deeper authentic expression and greater effectiveness in all that you do.
Learn about the healing power of your own voice and its relationship to your body, breath and energy. Learn about the physical and energetic anatomy of intention, and the magic and majesty of your own heart. Discover your own inner universe of sound through the wonderful practice of Vocal Tai Chi. Activate your heart and step into joyful embodiment of being - alive on this Earth!
Plan for the weekend
Friday
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The wonderful world of sound & healing
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Deep listening: Finding where you are through sound & sensation
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The healing power & potential of the voice
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The power of intention deep dive - intention practices
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The physical & energetic anatomy of intention
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Coming into presence - singing bowl choir
Saturday
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Deep grounding & Earth connection - deepening your relationship
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Resonant humming with the Mother
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Vocal Tai Chi Session 1 - Body-breath-flow - opening the voice
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Vocal Tai Chi Session 2 - Exploring & unfolding
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The magic & majesty of the heart
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Heart Activation & Soundbath
Sunday
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Toning & Tuning the Energy Centres
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Drawing it all together - Integrating the practices
Vocal Tai Chi
Sound your heart out with Vocal Tai Chi. Connect with the flow of energy in breath and body to open the voice and discover your own unique inner universe of sound. From grounded, centred presence, you will initiate an ever deepening exploration of your being through your relationship to your voice. Vocal Tai Chi is a highly intuitive embodied practice guided by Alistair, welcoming all sounds as valuable parts of us to be welcomed, witnessed and honoured. You are the universe in one sound and all the sound in the universe.
To book, contact Claridge House 01342 832 150
Please get in touch by replying to this email if you'd like any more information.
Previous Events
3 Day Sound Healing Retreat - Claridge House
1st - 3rd December 2023, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
Sound Coherence & Vocal Tai Chi
Sounding the Energy System
Sound vibrates the body, moves the emotions, inspires the mind and touches the spirit. It is deeply relaxing, meditative and transformative.
This weekend we will be taking a deeper dive into the world and practices of sound healing.
We will be focussing specifically on our energetic system and Chakras. We will learn how sound is excellent at activating, clearing and shifting our energetic pathways, and how it can promote greater harmony, alignment and coherence within our entire energy system and throughout every level of our being.
We will learn about our Chakras, their aspects and associations, and begin to engage with these energies using intention, sensation and imagination. Connecting these faculties with our sense of hearing, we will explore how to intuitively vocalise from the experience of our own energy, our own sense of self and inner state.
Once we have begun to awaken our energetic sound we can begin to encourage greater balance and coherence through the use of intentionally therapeutic sound.
This will involve a practice that will progressively integrate the toning of vowels, visualisation of colour and sacred geometry, and planetary orbital frequencies - the music of the spheres.
Every practice will be framed and contained by deep grounding and Earth connection.
I will treat you to a healing sound bath and relaxing sound meditations that will guide through the process.
There will be the opportunity to meet online a month after the retreat for sharing and for a top up of sound healing.
I look forward to meeting you and to sharing the wonderful world of healing sound with you.
Claridge house is peaceful and restorative in itself and the staff are wonderfully kind and supporting. They will provide us with lovingly cooked wholesome, vegetarian meals and are always happy to help if we need anything.
To book please contact Claridge House here:
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3 day Sound Healing Retreat - Claridge House
Friday 7th - Monday 10th October 2022, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH Cost £495
Sound Coherence - Going Deeper
Sound vibrates the body, moves the emotions, inspires the mind and touches the spirit. It is deeply relaxing, meditative and transformative.
This weekend we will be taking a deeper dive into the world and practices of sound healing.
Moving between intuitive vocal sound and intentionally therapeutic sound, we will explore how sound can shift, clear and promote harmony, balance and alignment. In doing this, we will begin to explore our own energetic system.
There will be group work where we will create coherent sound fields for each person to experience and also send this healing out to all beings and our beautiful planet. Every practice will be framed with deep grounding and Earth connection.
I will treat you to a healing sound bath and relaxing sound meditations that will guide through the process.
There will be the opportunity to meet online a month after the retreat for sharing and for a top up of sound healing.
I look forward to meeting you and to sharing the wonderful world of healing sound with you.
Claridge house is peaceful and restorative in itself and the staff are wonderfully kind and supporting. They will provide us with lovingly cooked wholesome, vegetarian meals and are always happy to help if we need anything.
Vocalisation + Visualisation = Manifestation
(Jonathan Goldman)
In this workshop we will be focussing on our beloved Mother Earth and what we wish to manifest for the future of our planet.
After a deep grounding practice we will brain storm and heart flood our dreams and visions for The New Earth. I will recite these ideas back to you as affirmations for your mind and poetry for your heart. We will then put all of this imagery & energy into a vocal and Earth-tuned instrumental soundscape that will intensify and amplify our intention. This will generate a coherent field of charged sound & electromagnetic waves that we will radiate out across the Earth to all beings everywhere. This will be followed with more deep grounding and Earth connection.
With the remaining time I will give you a soundbath including some Earth tuned instruments.
For more info or to book this workshop, please contact me.
Sounding The New Earth
World renowned artist, Mr Wallace Chan invited me to include my therapeutic soundscapes at his 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Totems, curated by James Putnam.
I installed 5 speakers above and around the exhibition space, playing 5 soundscapes designed to work together. Each was composed above a common frequency, that of one Earth orbit around the Sun - the frequency of 1 Earth year! Pure harmonic ratios combine with traditional sound healing instruments - gongs, bells, singing bowls, chimes - to create textures that represent both the eternal and ephemeral. Continuous, cyclical harmonies become ethereal settings for the emergence and decay of the gongs, bowls and chimes which drift back into the ceaseless stream of Earth overtones.
Sound Healing Retreat - Claridge House
14th - 17th June 2022, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
Sounding Intention
With sound we can look after our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, and balance our energetic system.
Before the retreat, I will ask you to decide on an intention to work with. Throughout the weekend we will 'sound our intention', exploring how it feels as the sound goes where it's needed. We will use our voice in simple ways, moving between intuitive voice and intentional therapeutic techniques such as humming, toning and mantra, supported and enhanced by sound healing instruments.
This will help to reveal and shift resistance, energising your intention so it may unfold over the following weeks or months.
I will treat you to a healing sound bath and relaxing sound meditations that will guide through the process.
A month after the retreat there will be the opportunity to meet online for sharing and for a top up of sound healing.
I look forward to meeting you and to sharing the wonderful world of healing sound with you.
Claridge house is peaceful and restorative in itself and the staff are wonderfully kind and supporting. They will provide us with lovingly cooked wholesome, vegetarian meals and are always happy to help if we need anything.
Gentle Yoga & Sound Retreat
19th May - 2nd June - Tilton House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
With Alistair Smith of Sound Coherence & Julia Moore of Holistic Yoga
This weekend will be a restorative weekend with Julia's unique blend of therapeutic yoga styles, yoga philosophy and Hanna Somatics. Her approach is a gentle, subtle and effective way to unwind, release and relax through breath and gentle movement.
Alistair will complement and enhance yoga sessions with therapeutic sound and music. There will be an opportunity to learn some simple sound healing techniques using the voice. Alistair will also treat you to an evening sound bath.
Tilton House is a retreat centre within the South Downes national park.
Sound Healing Retreat - Claridge House
5th - 7th November 2021, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
At the beginning of the weekend we will each make an intention to work with. We will then explore
the power of sound to express, shift and encourage balance in every part of ourselves. We will use
simple vocal techniques such as humming, toning, intuitive sound and mantra, supported and
enhanced by sound healing instruments. All of this will help to energise and amplify your intention
so it may unfold through the following weeks and months.
I will treat you to a healing sound bath and relaxing sound meditations that will guide through the process.
I look forward to meeting you and to sharing the wonderful world of healing sound with you.
Claridge house is peaceful and restorative in itself and the staff are wonderfully kind and supporting. They will provide us with lovingly cooked wholesome, vegetarian meals and are always happy to help if we need anything.
