10 Years of Heart of Sound: Raising the Bar for Sound Yoga Therapy Worldwide
This year marks a milestone: 10 years since the first cohort of Heart of Sound teacher trainees gathered to immerse themselves in the transformative practice of nāda yoga and mantra-based healing in Rishikesh, India!
Since then, hundreds of graduates have carried the essence of this lineage-rooted, heart-centered training into the world—into yoga studios, trauma recovery centers, refugee camps, hospitals, cancer wards, classrooms, and homes.
And in this tenth year, we want to give a shoutout to the diversity and ingenuity of our trainees! It's inspiring and humbling to acknowledge just how far the reverberations of the Heart of Sound - the world's first and only 200/500 hour certified sound yoga teacher training - has reached.
As part of their final practicum, each student designs and delivers a real-world offering that integrates everything they’ve learned—not only technique and tradition, but empathy, presence, and skillful holding of space. The result? A stunning spectrum of classes and workshops that raise the bar for what “sound healing” can be.
Trainees in Japan learn Heart of Sound training in Japanese, and in Germany, in German language.
Here’s a glimpse of the magic our 10 years of trainees has brought to life:
Mantra & Sacred Sound
Trainees are sharing ancient practices with respectful, informed offerings like:
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Om Namaḥ Śivāya Kīrtan in Rāga Yaman
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Peace Mantra Asato Mā Sad Gamaya Kīrtan
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Gaṇeśa Mantras for Safety in Sound
These aren’t just singalongs—they're sacred medicine songs with refined Sanskrit pronunciation offered with humility, devotion, and purpose.
Vocal Nāda Yoga & Toning
Voice is the medicine we each have within us —and our students know how to deliver it in a trauma-informed, interoceptive way that really gets to the heart of sound yoga therapy:
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Vocal Toning for Voice Trauma
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Embrace Your Voice Vibration through Meditative Toning and Mantra
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Vocal Resonance as a path of Self-Love
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Free Your Voice Using Sargam Improv
From grounding breathwork to rāga-based vocal warmups, these offerings deepen the connection between sound, body, and awareness and provide a beginner-friendly introduction to the yoga of sound (nāda yoga) that has been shared by our graduates at countless wellness festivals, gatherings, yoga teacher trainings, TED talks, academic research facilities, and symposiums worldwide!
Sound Therapies for Mental Health & Emotional Healing
Trauma-informed sound practices are at the heart of our curriculum, and our students put that wisdom into action:
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Sound Empowerment for Depression
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Uplifting Spirits for PTSD
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Overcoming Fear through Love, Embodied as Sound
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Cradling the Mind with Gentle Mantras for Anxiety
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Mantra Chanting for Anxiety and Depression
In these settings, sound becomes a lifeline—a way to soothe, self-regulate, and reconnect.
End-of-Life & Cancer Support
Mantra and sound provide powerful support through life’s transitions:
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A Sound Companion on Your Cancer Journey
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Sound Healing for Cancer Patients
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Life Transitions: Preparing to Dissolve back into Awareness through mantra
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Finding Bliss Within / Śivā Consciousness
With grace and sensitivity, these students brought their own professional backgrounds into their work with sound and mantra to provide peace, presence, and spiritual depth to the threshold of dying.
Men's and Women’s Healing & Empowerment
Students held space for all gender identities to reclaim their voice, power, and presence:
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Nāda Yoga for Women Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence
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MAN-tra: Sound Meditation for Dudes
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Durga and Rebuilding Inner Strength
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Nāda Yoga & Mantra Workshop for Women to Find Their Inner Voice
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Both/And: Union of the Self Identity through Tantrik Sound Practices
Whether processing trauma or simply reconnecting with joy, these sound spaces were deeply nurturing and liberating for all who seek empowerment to find their voice, speak their needs, and set boundaries with grace.
Inner Connection & Self-Love
Inspired by their own experience of the profound depths of the Heart of Sound through out their 200 or 500 hours of training, many trainee practicum offerings focused on gently guiding participants inward:
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Dissolving into Softness through Sound
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Come Into Your Heart: Mantra Meditation for Inner Tuning
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Connecting with Our Inner Voice
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Discovering the Self-Shining Voice, the Unique Tone That You Are
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Self-Soothe with Sacred Sound
In a world that pulls us outward with endless scrolling distractions, these sessions created a sacred pause to remember who we really are.
Spiritual Sound Yoga Practice
For those exploring subtle energy and deeper metaphysical states:
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The 5 Kośas and Sound Medicine
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Listen In, Become Love: Meditation with Sound
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Understanding the Guru Principle through Deeper Awareness
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Sound Meditation with Voice, Harmonium & Cello
This is the soul work of sound yoga: vibrational tuning, energetic alignment, and inner stillness.
Sound for Special Populations
Trauma-informed. Audience-sensitive. Culturally aware. These standout offerings made sound accessible to all:
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Fun Sound Session for Kids in Foster Care
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Vocal Toning for People with Lyme Disease
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Mindful Listening in Corporate Environments
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Self-Love through Sound for Caregivers
Celebrating a Decade of Transformative Sound Training!
Over the past 10 years, the Heart of Sound teacher training has empowered practitioners around the world to:
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Honor sacred yogic traditions without appropriation
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Use voice and vibration to support real healing
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Facilitate spaces of trust, transformation, and inner listening
And the bar keeps rising, as we expand into the next decade of the Heart of Sound worldwide hybrid local programs offered by our graduates. Stay tuned for a graduate directory in the near future!
To every teacher, student, mentor, and lineage holder who has shaped this path—thank you.
10 year anniversary of the world's first and only 200/500HR sound yoga teacher training!
The most comprehensive professional leadership development course in sound wellness: nāda yoga, mantra, sound healing yoga therapy, and kīrtan chant. Dynamic, leading-edge, and FUN!
WAY more than a mantra teacher training!
Typical Self-Growth Outcomes after fully engaging the Heart of Sound 200/500HR Training:
What to expect:
▪ “Mind-blowing” higher level of self-acceptance
▪ Loving the sound of your own voice
▪ Empowerment to STOP negative patterns
▪ Ability to ask for what you need in life
▪ Integrity between heart-mind-word-deed
▪ Less reactivity, more creative generative flow
▪ Consistent clarity on your deepest values and purpose
▪ Core relationships harmonized in previously unimaginable ways
▪ Enjoy easy, consistent, full-body direct experience of God/Love/Sound (the Divine by any name/no name)
Whos is this for:
▪ Anyone who loves chanting - or uses sound & mantra in their professional work - who wants to massively uplevel their experience 🤯!
▪ Our 500+ grads in 65+ countries are too numerous to list!
▪ Japanese & German speaking courses too (DM us)
What do I get:
Frankly, way more than you'd expect! Everything you need to:
Cultivate a musical way of being in the world
▪ Teach and lead standard-bar-raising sound & mantra practices
▪ Develop a thriving career in the sound wellness sector.
▪ 200HR Foundational Sound Yoga Course
▪ 500HR Advanced Leadership Course
If you're ready for a profound home immersion and self-study program designed for your maximum empowerment, this is for you!
Live Online Classes & Practices + Hybrid Local Workshops & Study Groups!
Dive right in and experience the excitement with:
- LIVE group practices online
- LIVE skill sessions on ZOOM
- LIVE 1-on-1 office hours with Anandra and teaching assistants
- The option of doing hybrid local events, retreats, and study groups all over the world with our team of Heart of Sound teachers and 500hour graduates.
- And a whole lot more!
