Gong & Tuning Fork Sound Healing Retreat & Training

You're invited to this weekend of vibrational transformation, experiencing the power of sound, and learning how to bring peace and harmony to yourself and all. Learn sound healing principles and attune to these powerful instruments!

This Friday through Sunday immersive sound healing retreat and training at beautiful Stonehedge Gardens will focus on the theory and practice of using German and Chinese gongs and weighted and unweighted tuning forks.  Gongs and tuning forks are indispensable tools for any sound therapist.  The gongs with their sheer power in clearing, awakening, or entraining into deep relaxation and the tuning forks with their precision vibrations activating points on the body or uncovering information in the field.

Begin to notice the nuances of the rich, dynamic tones of handmade gongs and the pure coherent tones and vibrations of tuning forks for focused healing and broad harmonizing of the physical, mental, emotional, and etheric bodies.

Looking at ancient and modern theory, we will explore how stagnant and unbalanced energies affect the body, how sound and vibration work to heal and harmonize, and we'll learn leading-edge methods to awaken the healer within.

This retreat, hosted at the idyllic Stonehedge Gardens in Tamaqua, PA, includes all meals, indoor and outdoor camping options, morning yoga, evening sound meditations, and conscious expressive movement. You are invited to join us!

We will go over basic techniques of how to play each instrument and when and why you would use each one. We will learn how to give treatments specific to instilling deep relaxation, calming the mind, grounding, clearing and charging the biofield and meridians, and entraining the whole body into coherence. We will learn effective and efficient noninvasive treatments for chronic pain and distress, discuss treatment plans and cautions for dozens of conditions, and discover how to apply this knowledge in our lives and integrate these methods in our therapeutic practices.

We will practice holding compassionate space for each other, matching intentions, being present, and encouraging emotional release, mental reprogramming, and profound transformation. Other instruments such as bronze and crystal singing bowls, flutes, drums, handpans, chimes, and rattles will be discussed and may be utilized as well.

This training is recommended for current and aspiring healing practitioners, bodyworkers, lightworkers, therapists, caregivers, sound, meditation, & yoga practitioners, spiritual seekers, musicians, and anyone interested in learning and using this healing science in supporting health for themselves and those they care about.

Daily Schedule (sample & subject to flow)

Friday

• 3pm Arrival & Setup
• 6pm Welcome Dinner
• 7pm Grounding, Opening Ceremony & Intention Setting
• 7:45pm Sound Theory
• 8:30pm Evening Gong Meditation

Saturday

• 7am Morning Yoga
• 8am Breakfast
• 8:30am Gong - History & Theory
• 10:30am Gong - Harmonics, rhythm & volume
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 1:30pm Gongs - Types of therapy sessions
• 3:30pm Gongs - Performance considerations
• 5:30pm Dinner
• 7pm Conscious Movement
• 8pm Evening Gong & Fork Meditation

Sunday

• 7am Morning Yoga
• 8am Breakfast
• 8:30am Tuning Forks - unweighted theory
• 10am Tuning Forks - general field clearing
• 11am Tuning Forks - focused chakra clearing
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 1:30pm Tuning Forks - weighted theory
• 2:30pm Tuning Forks - point release
• 3:30pm Tuning Forks - meridian harmony
• 5:30 pm Dinner
  

Workshop Facilitator

Kirk Jones, MS, Master Sound Healer & Founder of Evolvlove Sound & Light Academy

Kirk was innately drawn to sound for self-regulation as a young child falling asleep on the bass guitar amplifier of his father's band.  After discovering the power and beauty of the rich, ancient tones of bronze bowls 20 years later, Kirk began having life transforming experiences with tuning forks (he was one of Eileen McKusick's guinea pigs around 2006), crystal bowls (having attended a sound bath at Harbin Hot Springs in 2007), and gongs (at a kundalini yoga retreat in 2011). 

After purchasing 4 antique bowls, he witnessed how they resonated with and elevated his own spiritual and healing journeys, and people started coming to him for 1 on 1 sessions before he really knew that was a thing.  Then Satya Brat came from India looking for students, so he decided to learn techniques to apply this to his own life and to help others. When Kirk started to find parallels between Satya's techniques and the potent emotional healing methods he had already been practicing for years, the ah-ha's started coming, and the healing or improvement of nearly any condition came into view.

Since then, he has assisted thousands of people on their own healing journeys, bringing great joy, relaxation, pain relief, emotional release, spiritual upliftment, clarity, and empowerment. Kirk has led 70 certification trainings since 2016, teaching in 15 states and internationally, and is humbled and honored to continue to receive, develop, and share these sacred gifts.

Kirk is a member of the Sound Healers Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain, a facilitator for the International Academy of Sound Healing, and a consulting member of the Medical Sound Association.

Exchange

$699 Full Weekend Registration

• Includes 20-hour Sound Healing Certification and Extensive Color Manual
• Includes world class education and experience
• Includes practice with top quality gongs, mallets, and tuning forks
• Includes all meals (ahimsa, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free) plus indoor & outdoor camping options

*NEW REGISTRATION OPTIONS*: Just Saturday (Gongs), Just Sunday (Tuning Forks), just Saturday & Sunday, Friday night into Saturday, and Saturday night into Sunday :)

*NEW EQUINOX DISCOUNTS EXTENDED*: Use code EQUINOX100 for $100 off the Full Weekend or Saturday & Sunday tickets through 9/27.  Use code EQUINOX50 for $50 off the 1 day or 24 hour tickets through 9/27.  Limit of 2 per purchase and only 4 discounts available per code.

Instruments

All gongs, tuning forks, and other sound instruments used during the class will be provided. You may bring your own if you like. Some instruments will be available for purchase onsite or can be ordered at the conclusion of the course.  If you are looking for something specific, please let Kirk know before class.

What to bring

Bring a notebook, pen, and water bottle. Favor light-colored, peaceful, nonrestrictive clothing free of metal or hard plastic for class. Comfort and ease are priority. Water, meals, and snacks are included. Let us know of any allergies or dietary preferences when you register. Please bring a yoga mat (or 2), blankets, and any props (cushion/bolster) you may want to sit or lie on.

If you are not comfortable sitting, kneeling, or lying on the ground for extended periods, please bring a chair, stool, or other supports for your comfort. Much of the training can be done on treatment tables or on the ground, so if you would rather work from standing, you may bring a massage table or use one that is provided for you.

Bring a tent or hammock for sleeping, or you may reserve off-site lodging. Classes will be held inside or outside, depending on weather and class preferences. Please bring all the gear that you need to feel supported in having a cozy, joyous, relaxing, healing, transformative weekend!

What to expect

This weekend will be powerful. Emotions may arise for your awareness and loving acceptance. You may help others in class with their physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual issues. Please come ready to hold space for yourself and others. This training includes lots of 1-on-1 partner work with other students.

Feedback from Kirk's trainings

• "I would recommend this training/retreat to anyone even curious about sound healing. It was in fact healing on a degree I did not expect & cracked me open to other possibilities of how I can bring this to my community & mostly myself. It's another beautiful tool of self-care & something special to offer to loved ones."

• "I couldn't have possibly expected the level of healing I experienced. I can't wait to pay it forward. Thank you!"

• "So grateful for this experience and knowledge to carry back home with me. I learned so much about myself - going home a renewed and rejuvenated me!"
  

• "The class was very educational. The hands-on experience was more than I could have asked for. Bowls on my body is incredible. Thank you!"

• "Thank you for a wonderful and beautifully healing class experience! Sound is incredibly powerful, healing, and beautiful. I'm so excited to explore and play with this more and bring it to others in my healing practice."