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Workshops | Retreats | Sound Baths

Upcoming & Ongoing Events

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Monthly Online
Sound Healing
Workshop

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  • November 14th - Music as Medicine - an Introduction​

 

What's included...

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  • Art and music: It's role in society, culture, spirituality and healing

  • Therapeutic properties of music

  • Our own experience and the role of subjectivity

  • Deep listening - a more profound and conscious experience

  • Medicine songs - creating your own medicine songs

  • Medicinal music journey

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. 

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Aspects of Sound healing will include:

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  • Music as Medicine - an Introduction

  • An Introduction to Sound Healing

  • Deep Grounding & Earth  Connection: Sounding with The Mother

  • Resonant Humming Breath for the Nervous System

  • Exploring & Developing Intention

  • Toning the Vowels & Energy System

  • Intuitive Voice: Listening-feeling-sounding

  • Bija Mantras & The Chakras

  • Introduction to Vocal Tai Chi

  • Inside the Vowels | Ethereal Vowels

  • Introduction to planetary frequencies

  • The Ancestral Voice

  • Sounding The New Earth

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Please get in touch if you'd like any more information (or use my contact form).

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Monthly in person
Soundbaths

Selected Fridays - 7.30pm

£18

  • July 26th 2024

  • September 14th 2024

  • October 4th 2024

  • October 18th 2024

  • November 15th 2024

  • November 29th 2024

  • December 6th 2024

  • December 20th 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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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:

 

  • Women in the first trimester of pregnancy

  • Children under the age of thirteen

  • If you have a metal implant or a pacemaker

  • Those experiencing severe mental health problems

  • Those affected by sound induced epilepsy

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Please get in touch if you'd like any more information (or use my contact form).

Vocal Tai Chi Group Workshops

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Join me for a 2 hour Vocal Tai Chi workshop in Bowes Park, North London, N22 (Exact location provided on booking)

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Next Workshop: Tuesday November 19th 7-9pm

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Cost £20


To book please email: alistairsound@gmail.com

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi - Day Retreat

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Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH

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NEXT RETREAT: January 26th 10am - 4pm

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Cost: £60 (not including lunch)

£75 (with lunch provided)

 

With sound we can tend to our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, and harmonise our energetic system.

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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 will include:

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  • An Introduction to Sound Healing

  • Sound and Sensation - Deep Listening Meditation 

  • Vocal Tai Chi

  • Soundbath 

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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

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Healing Sound & Vocal Tai Chi - Day Retreat

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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 2025 - 10am - 4.30pm

October 2025 - 10am - 4.30pm

 

Cost: £80

 

With sound we can tend to our inner world, aid our physical healing and health, and harmonise our energetic system.

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To Book email: alistairsound@gmail.com 

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THEMES TO BE CONFIRMED

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The program will include:

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  • An Introduction to Sound Healing

  • Sound and Sensation - Deep Listening Meditation 

  • Vocal Tai Chi

  • Guided Meditation & Soundbath 

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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. 

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3 Day Sound Healing Retreat

Sound Coherence & Vocal Tai Chi Retreat

May 30th - June 1st 2025, Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6QH

Cost - £399

 

TIMETABLE TO BE CONFIRMED - It will include:

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  • Sound & Sensation - Deep Listening Meditation

  • Grounding & Deep Earth Connection

  • Resonant Humming

  • Vocal Tai Chi

  • Soundbath

  • The Music of the Spheres

 

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.

Day Retreat - Reddish, Stockport

The Sacred Chalice of Embodiment

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Sound Healing - Day Retreat

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Sand & Sound Centre 

Unit 1 (1st Floor), Reddish Business Centre, 123a Gorton Road, Reddish, Stockport SK5 6EE

 

September 21st 2025 TBC - 10am - 5pm

 

Cost: £80

 

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 

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Course description to come....

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