50hr Sound Healing Training in Thailand
Immerse yourself in the world of sound therapy and learn how to utilize the healing vibrations of gongs and tibetan bowls and crystal singing bowls for physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
Invest In Your Personal Evolution
Time spent learning is always well invested.
Become a Sound Healer
This course will equip you with the skills and wisdom to offer group and private gong and sound healing sessions.
5 Days in Thailand
Wake up every day to one of the most photographed views in Thailand. Practice yoga in our ocean-view yoga salas.
Lasting Transformation
Leave feeling energized, balanced, rejuvenated and empowered to start a new path with new techniques for lasting wellbeing.
Upcoming Sound Healing Teacher Training in 2026
Immerse yourself in the healing power of sound therapy. Suited to all levels, this powerful and uplifting training experience will equip you with the wisdom and practical tools to practice as a Sound Healer. You will also enjoy the multifaceted benefits on your own individual path towards physical, spiritual and emotional growth and wellbeing.
Dates
Location
Availability
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 Off!
Feb 28 - Mar 4, 2027
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 Off!
May 31 - June 4, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Koh Samui - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 off
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 off
Promotional Discount: Receive a $150 discount if you sign up at least 90 days in advance.
Sound Healing At A Glance
Early Bird
Sign up early to receive a $150 discount
Full Access
Full access to all facilities: Wifi, Pool, Spa, Salas and Secret Beach.
All Materials
Classes, academic fees, text books, work-books and certificate.
Certification
Be certified by Shantika Sound Sanctuary and Vikasa Yoga.
Accommodation
Comfortable rooms for 4 nights/ 5 days at Vikasa Yoga Retreat.
Healthy Meals
Abundant brunch and dinner designed for your training.
Airport Pickup
Greeting by Vikasa car from Phuket airport (any flight time).
Tribe
Safe, inspiring environment, new friends, beautiful memories.
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Are you ready to experience a world of sound that inspires inner silence?
Utilize this age-old therapy to turn inwards and tune your own inner vessel.
Learn at Vikasa Yoga Retreat
The curriculum for the Sound Healing Teacher Training is based on the below three pillars. Daily morning sound healing baths and meditations offer a deep experience of relaxation, recovery and embodiment. The specific lectures and workshops allow for more focused learning that will allow you to facilitate your own sound journeys and treatments.
Receive
- Enjoy daily sound baths for your own healing and wellbeing
- Purification and recovery gong sessions
- Singing bowl sound bath immersion
- Gong activation sound bath journey
- Heart opening sound healing session
- Singing bowls, vocals and handpan session
- Sound Meditation with singing bowls and zen flute Sakuhachi
Learn
- Holistic approach and history of sound
- OM - The sound of creation
- Benefits, restrictions and four levels of impact
- Scientific approach and brain waves
- Parasympathetic system and vagus nerve
- Trauma awareness
- Sound healing business and session structures
Practice
- Gong bath
- Gong crescendo
- Soothing sound bath
- Sound healing journey
- Private acoustic singing bowls chakra balancing session
- Private Tibetan singing bowls massage and reiki
- Therapeutic symphonic gongs
- Medicine drum journeys
The Transformational Nature of Sound
In the universe, everything is connected and everything is a source of energy.
Though the therapeutic use of sound baths may seem new, the idea of sound healing is actually thousands of years old, and is visible in many cultures throughout the world.
A sound bath is a meditative experience where participants are submerged in sounds produced by healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, chimes, or tuning forks.
This type of meditation aims to ease the body’s central nervous system and disperse any negative energy or energy blockages in the body. It is typically connected with certain emotions, feelings, and conscious and subconscious thoughts or patterns.
When we open ourselves to the transformative power of sound, we create space for healing, growth and profound inner transformation
During this training you will discover the fundamentals of Sound Healing, explore the scientific and spiritual basis of using sound for healing and transformation, and find out how Sound Therapy can enhance health and wellness in all individuals.
You will learn techniques for mastering the various sound healing tools and discover how to create healing sessions depending on your clients’ needs and goals. Through the various healing sounds, you will experience an expansion of physical health, an activation of enhanced consciousness, and a deep connection to the divine.
This course is designed to be all-inclusive and immersive, so you can focus purely on your growth for the life-changing time you are in Thailand.
We welcome you to join us, no matter what your background, experience or intention once you’ve completed the course. This training is intended for you if:
- You are ready to dive into an enlightening, personal journey.
- You feel a pull to experience the magical energy of sound.
- You are motivated to heal using the incredible power of sound healing.
- You are curious to experience a unique journey with like-minded people.
Vikasa trainings draw people from all walks of life, all ages, all experiences of yoga and wellness, and from all corners of the globe.
Yoga Teacher Trainings attract positive, friendly and open-minded people, keen to expand their knowledge and become the greatest version of themselves. This is a training program, yet you will also become part of a supportive and friendly community that are all invested in your growth, advancement and wellbeing.
Instruments you will learn in this 50hr Sound Healing Training in Thailand are Therapeutic Symphonic Gongs, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Crystal Singing Bowls, Handpan, Koshi, Shamanic Drums, water and wind instruments, cymbals and bells.
Allow Sound Healing to transform your life and those you share it with.
Over these five days you will learn how to lead group gong classes, lead group tibetan singing bowl meditation classes; and conduct one on one sound healing sessions using Tibetan singing bowls.
The full range of instruments that you will experience include: Therapeutic Symphonic Gongs, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Crystal Singing Bowls, Handpan, Koshi, Shamanic Drums, water and wind instruments, cymbals and bells.
The teaching program includes daily practice, lectures, workshops, time to practice teaching skills, techniques, adequate rest and relaxation.
Enjoy your training from our beautiful yoga sala, fully equipped with everything you need for a deep dive into the world of sound healing. High quality Vikasa mats and props ensure total comfort. Sound equipment, manuals and training materials will ensure you leave with a thorough understanding that you can take home with you.
Feel nourished during your stay with private comfortable accomodation and delicious, healthy meals. In your free time opt for a massage or holistic treatment, soak up the sun by the pool with new friends, or explore beautiful Thailand with island adventures.
You will be certified by Vikasa Yoga and Shantika Sound Sanctuary. These certications are approved by Golden Temple Tibetan Centre of Sound Therapy, and ISTA international sound therapy association. Please note this training does not count for Yoga Alliance continuing education hours, simply because there is yet to be any governing certification body for Sound Healing.
Instructor: Svetlana Kaivalya
With more than 23 years of practicing Raja and Buddhi Yoga, Sound Therapy and Meditation, Svetlana is passionate about helping others connect with their energy and deepness for healing and growth through sound, deep relaxation and meditation.
Certified by ISTA, IOCE, IASH, Tone of life, Tibetan Golden Temple, she provides Sound Therapy sessions using a unique combination of ancient holistic and modern scientific knowledge and teachings. She also has Master level Reiki, and certification in Trauma Awareness by UNION Trauma Recovery Institute. A wide deep background helps her to design custom Sound Healing and Sound Trauma Recovery Therapy sessions and courses.
Svetlana is a founder of Samui Sound Healing Sanctuary Shantika, providing sessions and certification courses for worldwide famous luxury and wellness resorts and Yoga Centres. Her students open their Sound Healing Studios all over the world – in the USA, Germany, Thailand, Australia, Canada, England, South America & Hong Kong.
Through the art of Sound Healing, Svetlana will guide you towards a state of deep relaxation, allowing the harmonizing vibrations to work their magic on your mind, body, and soul. As the sounds wash over you, you’ll feel a renewed sense of balance and rejuvenation, leaving the stress and worries of the outside world behind. You will gain tools and skills for creating beautiful and profound Sound healing sessions to bring others to the space of tranquility and serenity.
Learn skills to add to your Yoga and Meditation Practice
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The Magic of Sound
If you examine the beliefs of all major traditions on Earth, they share a commonality in their awareness of sound as being the basic creative source. In more recent years, modern scientists have caught up with this awareness and talk about sound as an instigating factor occurring in the beginning of all that is.
Sound has the ability to make, break or rearrange a molecular structure. This gives some indication of its subtle yet inherent power. The chanting of mantras and other sacred sounds has been used in a variety of different traditions for many millennia. Sonic tools, such as gongs, bowls, bells, and others have become commonly utilized in many spiritual and healing practices with wide ranging results.
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras writes about the original sound of creation being “pranava,” the humming of prana, which ultimately was given a name and that name was “Om.” Om is a universal sound that has the ability to resonate both the physical body and subtle energy fields of anyone who intones it.
In addition to creating physiological changes, sound is one of the most powerful means of affecting our etheric fields. In yoga, among other traditions, sound is honored as being the bridge between the physical and the spiritual realms.
On a purely physiological level, sound may have the ability to:
- Effortlessly elicit the “relaxation response” in the body
- Harmonize the body’s cells and brain hemispheres
- Relieve blockages and tension in mind and body
- Boost immunity and activate self-healing forces
- Enhance creativity, optimism and productive energy
- Help to release outdated patterns and mindsets
- It has a calming effect for neurological disorders
- Promote learning, memory and recognition
- Increase oxygen in the cells and lower blood pressure and heart rate
- Increase lymphatic circulation and llevels of melatonin
- Reduce levels of stress related hormones
- Release endorphins for happiness and pain reduction
- Increase levels of nitric oxide, a molecule associated with promotion of healing
- Release oxytocin, the “trust”or “love’ hormone
Sound works on the etheric fields, balancing and aligning the energies that make up body, mind, and spirit. Due to the vast inter-relationship between the body, mind, and spirit, it is almost impossible for sound not to affect all of our energetic fields, as well as the physical body and the consciousness simultaneously.
You will gain invaluable insights into the intricate connections between body, mind, and trauma. This knowledge equips you with the skills to create a safe space within your classes, where students can practice in an environment of understanding, acceptance, and healing.
Sound Healing Training Tuition
Apply early and be one of the first 5 students to sign up for the Vikasa 50 Hour Sound Healing Training to get $150 off!
Sound Healing Training
Starting from:
$1,325
Limited Time Offer: Book early to save $250!
- No hidden fees. No upselling.
- Two easy payment installments.
- Personal application process.
- Private accommodation.
- Experienced leaders and support.
What’s included:
Full Access
Full access to all facilities: Pool, Spa, Salas, Life Cafe and Private Beach.
All Materials
Classes, work-books plus all instruments, equipment and high quality props.
Accommodation
Comfortable rooms priced by your room selection. See pricing in application form.
Healthy Meals
Healthy abundant brunch and dinner designed for your wellbeing at Life Café.
Airport Pickup
Our team will greet you with a smile at the airport and transport you to Vikasa.
Certificate
Certificate upon completionfrom Vikasa Yoga and Shantika Sound Sanctuary.
Graduation
Enjoy graduating with your fellow students with memories to take back home with you.
Future
Opportunities to offer your own sound healing sessions or treatments around the world.
Only $500 deposit required to secure your place.
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Your Daily Schedule
What does a day look like on your Sound Healing Training? Take a look!
08:00 – 09:30
Sound Healing and Meditation
09:30 – 11:00
Healthy Brunch at Vikasa Life Cafe
11:00 – 13:00
Sound Healing Theory
13:00 – 15:00
Teaching and Practice in groups
15:00 – 15:30
Afternoon Break
16:00 – 18:00
Teaching + Practice in groups
18:30 – 20:30
Healthy Dinner at Vikasa Life Cafe
08:00 – 09:30
Sound Healing and Meditation
09:30 – 11:00
Healthy Brunch at Vikasa Life Cafe
11:00 – 13:00
Sound Healing Theory
13:00 – 15:00
Teaching and Practice in groups
15:00 – 15:30
Afternoon Break
16:00 – 18:00
Teaching + Practice in groups
18:30 – 20:30
Healthy Dinner at Vikasa Life Cafe
We Provide You With Healthy Food To Fuel Your Body For Optimum Performance
Your Sound Healing training includes a variety-packed, healthy brunch and dinner, served at Vikasa Life Café.
You’ll eat in a beautiful setting, with a stunning view across the ocean, where you’ll be able to socialize with fellow students. You will be well nourished during your stay as our meal programs are specially designed for those attending intensive trainings. Each day is planned so you have the required amount of each food group to supply the nutrition you need to fuel your body for optimum performance.
Life Café serves fresh, local and organic food and has vegan and vegetarian options every day.
Alongside our main dishes, we have a variety of salads, breads, soups, fresh fruit and vegetables, home-pressed fruit juices, home-made teas and occasionally a delectable dessert such as our ever-popular mango sticky rice.
Meals are abundant and every day offers new tastes and options to explore. Self serve options are available, as well as cooked-to-order breakfast options and a nightly changing set main meal. Even meals are based on different cuisines including Thai, Middle Eastern Mexican and Italian. Meals are always a highlight, you will leaving feeling more vibrant than ever before.
Our Yoga Retreat Paradise
The Sound Healing Retreat takes place at Vikasa Yoga Retreat, our paradise on the tropical island of Phuket, in the Andaman Sea. This location is easily accessible with direct flights from major hubs in Southeast Asia or a shuttle flight from Bangkok arriving nearly every hour. Our team will pick you up at the Phuket International Airport and drive you south to where a long tail boat will take you to Koh Lon island. The long tail is a 15 minute journey from the mainland. Vikasa is the perfect place to immerse in secluded yet accessible island paradise.
Our Student Reviews
Yoga Teacher Trainings at Vikasa are not just about getting a certificate – you’re getting personal development and become part of an inspiring community. Trainings can be literally life-changing / earth-shattering experiences; and that’s all down to the beautiful souls they attract.
Here are just a few reviews from recent guests.
Life changing, healing, transformative and empowering.
The teachers, the daily healing sessions, the wide variety of instruments were all a highlight. I enjoyed the trauma awareness, business of sound healing and pathways of sound. I feel very grateful and excited to take the teachings further. I would highly recommend this to others.
This was beyond my expectations.
A very beautiful and loving training with space for self improvement and healing. The teachers were very professional and shared with so much love and passion. I loved the morning sound healing sessions the most. I left feeling blissful like I’d come from retreat.
This was a profound experience for me.
I loved connecting with the instruments, learning how to play, trusting my intuition and the special love and connection with the group. I walked away with so much knowledge, feeling connected and full of love, ready to lead my own sound healing sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Browse the FAQ or get in touch with one of our instructors for personal assistance.
Vikasa is located in Koh Samui and Phuket in Thailand. For events in Koh Samui, fly into Koh Samui International Airport (USM). For events in Phuket, fly into Phuket International Airport (HKT) Vikasa team will collect you from the airport and transport you to Vikasa for your stay.
This will depend on where you are from. For details of Thailand’s visa arrangements with specific countries see here.
Although tourist visas are generally required, there is an exemption for travelers from 30 countries (Australia, UK, USA, France, Germany, Sweden and others) who wish to travel to Thailand for 30 days or less. If you are a citizen of one of these countries you do not need to obtain a visa. Note that if you plan to stay for longer than 30 days, it is possible to obtain a short extension from the immigration office on Koh Samui at some point during your stay.
If you are not a citizen of one of the countries with which Thailand has specific visa exemption or waiver arrangements, you will need to obtain a 30, 60 or 90 day tourist visa before arriving in Thailand
Anyone is welcome to join this 100 Hour Yoga Training. You do not need to be a yoga teacher and there are no prerequisites to join. It can be advantageous to have some previous experience in practicing Yin Yoga, but most importantly that you possess a passion to learn the benefits of Yin Yoga for self-development and/or teaching professionally.
Comfortable clothes, tropical climate clothes, and swimwear. Yoga mats and props and towels are all provided. You may want to add an excursion to your program such as a waterfall hike, in which case a pair of sneakers would also be handy.
You will receive a certificate of completion from Vikasa Yoga and Shantika Sound Sanctuary. Please note this course does not count for continuing hours with Yoga Alliance, simply because there isn’t a governing body for Sound Healing at this stage.
The promotional offer of $150 off is available when booking 60 days prior to the YTT start date. Check the upcoming dates at the top of this page, if the promotion is available, it will be stated in green next to the date. Otherwise, you may contact us to confirm.
This course has no prerequisites- it is open to everyone, all levels, ages, backgrounds and experience.
Simply come with an open heart and open mind ready to learn and experience something new.
Yes! Please contact us for more details at share@vikasa.com
Some of our training options do offer twin share rooms (share with one other guest in the training) Simply click on the BOOK NOW buttons to see the room options available. Twin Share and Private room options will be clearly stated.
The course dates start on your check in and check out dates. Check in is available from 2pm. On the first day there is a group dinner and casual information session. Offical classes will start on day two. On the final day, you will enjoy a morning class and brunch and check out is at 12 noon.
You are more than welcome to book additional nights before or after the offical training dates. Simply contact us to enquire about pricing and availability. Or let us know on your application you would like to book additional nights. YTT students to get a discount on the regular nightly rate. The regular nightly rate also includes twice daily buffet meals, access to all public yoga classes and all facilities. Many students do like to arrive a few days early to acclimatise, especially after a long journey. Many students do also end up extending their stay after the YTT. This is always dependant on our availability, so booking in advance is recommended, but if you do opt to stay longer once onsite, simply check with our reservation team at the front desk.
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Dates
Location
Availability
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 Off!
Feb 28 - Mar 4, 2027
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 Off!
May 31 - June 4, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Koh Samui - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 off
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2026
@ Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Phuket - Thailand
Early Bird Available $150 off
Promotional Discount: Receive a $150 discount if you sign up at least 90 days in advance.
Are you ready for personal and professional development through the power of sound?
Join our Sound Healing Training in Thailand open for all levels.