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Sound Healing
Workshop
Wednesdays / Thursdays monthly - 7.30pm
£10
Resonant Humming for the Nervous and energetic systems - Followed by a Sound Healing Meditation / Journey
Each month we will be practicing resonant humming for the nervous system & energy system, followed by a sound healing meditation journey
Resonant humming is a simple but extremely effective practice. It is basically a breath practice with sound. The breath can influence the nervous system, improve blood pressure, circulation and heart rate variability, and adding sound amplifies these effects. The humming breath consists of three stages, employing aspects of focus and intention to further enhance and deepen the practice. We will explore a different frequency each month, related to our energy centres, the 5 elements, or from other frequency systems.
Resonant humming can be used as a daily practice and is great at balancing the nervous system, and also harmonising and developing our energetic system as a whole.
After the humming we will have an immersion sound journey, using a variety of different instruments each month.
Please have headphones or good speakers handy to receive the best sound and benefit from all of the vibrations.
Please get in touch if you'd like any more information (or use my contact form).
Monthly in person
Soundbaths
Selected Fridays - 7.30pm
£20
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October 9th
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October 23rd
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November 6th
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November 20th
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December 4th
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December 18th
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.
Yoga mats, a blanket and bolster are provided but please bring anything else you need to be comfortable. Please arrive 10 minutes before the start to get yourself settled.
Read more about soundbaths below.
Venue: Life By Margot, 84 Park Rd, Crouch End, London N8 8JQ
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).
About Soundbaths
Vocal Tai Chi Group Workshops
Join me for a 2 hour Vocal Tai Chi workshop
TBA
3-5pm - London
£20
Come join me for a guided exploration into yourself as you exist within your own voice. At once simple, gentle & healing; at times, free, expressive & fun, this wonderful practice is a way of working with the self through the relationship to one's own voice. Our voice contains everything we are: our identity, origin, our mental, emotional and physical states, and even our ancestry. It is a highly intuitive embodied practice, welcoming all sounds as valuable parts of us to be witnessed and honoured. It truly is liberating and can open us up to new levels of expression, truth, authenticity, release, healing and integration.
Practicing Vocal Tai Chi in a group is an opportunity to explore how you feel about your voice and expressing yourself in the company of others. Letting go of the constraints of words and meaning, we gain some freedom from convention and conditioning. We can be more bold and courageous, and therefore more creative. What emerges for you can be witnessed and honoured by the group. I will guide you through this journey. It may comprise many layers, twists and turns, surprises, challenges and rewards. It is also a lifelong journey, as our own true nature unfolds and threads a path through this world.
We will begin with grounding and Earth connection, and then feel into the flow of energy in breath and body. I will guide you through ways to engage and open your voice. From this grounded, centred presence, we will feel into and explore what emerges.
Vocal Tai Chi is an initiation into an ever deepening exploration of yourself within your sound. And, as our voice is one of the primary ways we interact with the world, we can explore how we feel about this relationship and how we feel about being here in a body on this Earth.
To book please email: alistairsound@gmail.com
Day Retreats - Surrey
Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi
Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi
Day Retreat
Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
NEXT RETREATS:
October 31st 2026 - 10am - 4pm
January 23rd 2027 - 10am - 4pm
Cost: £70 (not including lunch)
£85 (with lunch provided)
With sound we can tend to our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, and harmonise our energetic system.
To Book contact Claridge House
This day retreat will be an introduction to sound healing and a taster of what Alistair offers on his weekend retreats.
The program for the day:
9.30am - Registration
10am - Session 1
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Welcome - Introductions - About the day
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An Introduction to Sound Healing
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Deep Listening Meditation - Sound & Sensation - Learning to be with what is
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11.15am - Break
11.45am - Session 2
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Vocal Tai Chi - Opening the Voice - Body-breath-flow
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1pm - Lunch
2pm - Session 3
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Resonant Humming for the Nervous System
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2.45pm Comfort Break & Room Set Up
3pm - Session 4
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Soundbath
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3.45pm Tes & Cake (included)
4pm Departure
Vocal Tai Chi is a way of working with the self through the relationship to one's own voice. Connecting with the flow of energy in breath and body, Alistair will guide you through ways to engage and open your voice. Vocal Tai Chi is a highly intuitive embodied practice, welcoming all sounds as valuable parts of us to be witnessed and honoured. It truly is liberating and can open us up to new levels of truth, expression, authenticity, release, healing and integration.
A soundbath is like a guided meditation but with sounds. The evolving soundscape takes you on an inner journey, whilst the myriad vibrations help to move emotions and release tension.
If you've never experienced sound healing before, this day is for you.
If you have any questions, please get in touch: alistairsound@gmail.com
Day Retreats - 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
2027 dates TBA - 10am - 4.30pm
Cost: £80
The healing journey is often called 'the way back to wholeness'. Going far back, to our great grandmother language of Sanskrit, the state or process of healing can be translated as 'in flowing wholeness' (ref. Lucy Crisfield). In other words, to remain whole whilst moving through and adapting to what life brings. Wellbeing, then, is not a fixed state - it is in a constant flow, a journey that is part of the challenge and call of being in a body on this Earth.
This journey has many ups and downs, twists and turns, and is often not what we expect.
This is what we will be exploring on this day retreat. We will look at this challenge and share what this means. Furthermore, we will learn and experience what a great help sound healing practices can be for us on this journey.
The program for the day:
9.50am - Arrivals
10am - Session 1
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Welcome - Introductions - About the day
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Healing: The Way Back to Wholeness
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The twists & turns, ups & downs of the Healing Journey
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Sound & Sensation - Learning to be with what is
11.10am - Break
11.30am - Session 2
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Sound for Self Regulation & The Window of Tolerance
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Grounding - Presence in the Body in Time & Space
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Resonant Humming for the Nervous & Energetic Systems
1pm - Lunch
2pm - Session 3
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Sound for Self Exploration, Expression & Release
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Vocal Tai Chi / Intuitive Sounding
3pm Break
3.20pm - Session 4
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Sound for Wellbeing - Balance, Alignment & Harmony - Sound's Inherent Perfection - The Archetype of Wellbeing
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Coherent Sound Immersion Meditation / Soundbath
4.20pm Departure
To Book email: alistairsound@gmail.com
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.
3 Day Sound Healing Retreat
Sound Healing & Vocal Tai Chi Retreat
May 21st - 23rd 2027, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH
Cost - £429
(Non residential places also available)
Theme - TBA
Last Year's:
We are like an ocean. In our modern busy lives, we can become entirely consumed with the waves of activity on the surface. If we are able to stop and become still, we may become aware of the depth that lies beneath. This isn't always comfortable for us, so we keep ourselves busy. Sound offers us a safe way to bridge the difficult transition to stillness and to the Self. And to feel and deal with the things that may arise within us when we allow ourselves to be still. Sound healing practices can aid us in feeling, expressing and healing the things that we carry and that create deep currents of discomfort within us.
Sound vibrates the body, moves the emotions, inspires the mind and touches the spirit. It is deeply affecting, meditative and transformative. It can support our physical healing and health and balance our energetic system.
Join me for a weekend of gentle yet moving sound practices for your body, mind, energetic system and soul.
Programme will include:
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Deep Listening Meditation - Sound & Sensation - Learning to be present with what is
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Deep Grounding & Earth Connection
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Resonant Humming for the Nervous & Energetic Systems
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Earthwalk - Vocal Tai Chi Session 1 - Sounding our Outer Landscape - Listening & responding to the sounds of nature - Feeling into your sound-self in nature
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Vocal Tai Chi Session 2 - Intuitive Voicework - Sounding our Inner Landscape
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Sound Bath - A guided meditation leading into a gently immersive sound journey
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Silence & Stillness - The compliment to sound and activity - a passive practice
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Sound, the Body & Biofield - Exploring sound and our energetic system
Vocal Tai Chi
This wonderful practice is a way of working with the self through the relationship to one's own voice. Our voice contains everything we are: our identity, origin, our mental, emotional and physical states, and even our ancestry. Connecting with the flow of energy in breath and body, I will guide you through ways to engage and open your voice. From grounded, centred presence, you will initiate an ever deepening exploration of yourself within your sound. Vocal Tai Chi is a highly intuitive embodied practice, welcoming all sounds as valuable parts of us to be witnessed and honoured. It truly is liberating and can open us up to new levels of truth, expression, release, healing and integration.
To book, contact Claridge House 01342 832 150
Please get in touch if you'd like any more information.
Claridge House - A Place of Renewal
Built in the mid-19th century, Claridge House was acquired in 1954 by the Friends Fellowship of Healing, a Quaker body, for Friends to come and convalesce and gain spiritual renewal and healing. Later courses and retreats were added and the house became an independent charity. Throughout the past 70 years it has continued its original purpose of providing a sanctuary for guests seeking rest and renewal.
At the heart of our ethos lies a commitment to the timeless values of peace, simplicity, equality and truth. These Quaker values shape Claridge House, creating a sanctuary where everyone is welcome.
At Claridge House, our mission is simple yet profound: to cultivate a community where rest and renewal are accessible to all. Our commitment extends beyond providing a place of respite; we strive to foster an atmosphere of peace, safety, and connection, ensuring that every guest feels valued and supported on their journey to well-being.
Nestled within our tranquil retreat, you’ll find nourishment for the mind, body and soul. From enriching courses to inspire personal growth, space to dive deep within to wholesome vegetarian food. Every aspect of Claridge House is designed to ignite a sense of renewal within our guests. Our beautiful 2 acre garden serves as a sanctuary, offering a connection to nature that rejuvenates and restores.
But beyond the amenities lies something deeper — a heartfelt dedication to service and a genuine desire to exceed expectations. At Claridge House, our guests are more than visitors; they are cherished members of our community, and their well-being is our highest priority.
So whether you seek solace, healing, connection, or personal transformation, we invite you to step through our doors and experience the transformative power of Claridge House. Your journey to holistic well-being begins here, where everyone is truly welcome.
Day Retreat - Hyde, Greater Manchester
TBA
Sound Healing & Music - Day Retreat
Sand & Sound Centre
Digital House, 35 Ridling Ln, Hyde SK14 1NP, Greater Manchester
2027 dates TBA - 10am - 5pm
Cost: £90
To Book email: alistairsound@gmail.com