Sound Bath Facilitator Training Retreat –
Become a Certified Practitioner
16–24 October 2026 | Monferrato, Italy
A structured and immersive sound bath training retreat to help you guide with more confidence, clarity, and professional grounding
Learn to facilitate structured sound baths using Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls, gongs, drum, voice, and vibrational instruments, while developing practical, recognised skills to guide credible, professional, and well-held sessions.
This Swiss ASCA-accredited continuing education training is designed for people who want to work with sound in a more structured, embodied, and professional way — whether you are just starting out or already working intuitively and want more clarity.
Maybe you’ve been feeling drawn to sound for a while
Not simply as an interest in instruments,
but as something more direct and meaningful.
Perhaps you’ve felt that sound can genuinely help people to:
- slow down
- settle
- reconnect with the body
- and experience themselves differently
Maybe you’ve attended a sound bath retreat, a gong bath, or another sound-based experience and felt something shift — not because someone explained anything to you, but because your system responded.
Maybe you’re in a period of transition.
Maybe you’re rethinking your work, your direction, or the way you want to support others.
Or perhaps you already work with sound, singing bowls, gong, drum, or voice — but mostly intuitively — and you now feel the need for more structure, more understanding, and a clearer professional framework.
This training was designed for exactly that.
Not to replace intuition with rigidity.
But to help you bring more clarity, coherence, and skill to what you already sense.
Who this training is for
This Sound Bath Facilitator Training Retreat is for you if:
- you want to learn how to guide sound baths professionally
- you are in career transition and looking for a more meaningful direction
- you are a yoga teacher, therapist, coach, bodyworker, musician, or facilitator
- you have experienced a sound bath and want to learn how to offer one yourself
- you already work with sound intuitively, but want more structure and confidence
- you’ve trained elsewhere, but still feel something is missing in how you build and hold a session
You do not need:
- a musical background
- a “beautiful voice”
- prior therapeutic training
- previous experience leading groups
This retreat is suitable both for:
- complete beginners
- and existing practitioners who want to refine and structure their practice
What you will learn
This training teaches you how to facilitate sound baths and gong journeys with structure, sensitivity, and confidence.
You will learn how to:
- guide group and one-to-one sound bath sessions
- use Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls, gongs, drum, voice, and other sound tools with more clarity and purpose
- structure a sound bath from beginning to end
- work with rhythm, intensity, pacing, silence, and transitions
- create a safe and well-held environment for participants
- avoid overstimulation and work with more sensitivity
- develop a clear, grounded facilitator posture
At the heart of the training is a simple experiential logic:
Regulation → Perception → Expression → Integration
This is the backbone of the Swiss Sound Therapy approach.
Training format – at a glance
An immersive and professional retreat training
This sound bath training retreat in Italy is designed to give you enough depth, repetition, and lived experience to truly integrate the work.
In brief
Dates: 16–24 October 2026
Location: Monferrato, Italy
Format: residential retreat
Group size: maximum 12 participants
Language: English
Recognition: Swiss ASCA-accredited (continuing education)
Level: open to beginners and experienced practitioners
Outcome: Sound Bath Practitioner Diploma after completion of supervised case studies
Why this format works
Because learning to guide sound well is not just technical.
It requires:
- practice
- observation
- repetition
- feedback
- and enough space to let the learning settle in the body
A retreat format allows all of this in a much deeper way than a fragmented weekend approach.
Dates
From Saturday 16 octobre to Saturday 24 octobre 2026
Investment
Early Bird Rate – until 30 June 2026
Two all-inclusive options:
- Single room (training, meals, accommodation): €2,750
- Double / twin room (training, meals, accommodation): €2,500
Standard Rate – from 1 July 2026
Two all-inclusive options:
- Single room (training, meals, accommodation): €2,950
- Double / twin room (training, meals, accommodation): €2,700
Places are limited to 12 participants.
Location – Monferrato, Italy
This retreat takes place in the beautiful hills of Monferrato, near Turin, in the village of Montiglio.
The setting has been chosen very intentionally.
It offers:
- calm
- beauty
- spaciousness
- and enough distance from daily life for deeper learning and integration
This matters.
Because the environment in which you learn also shapes the quality of what you absorb.
A complete sound bath training retreat
This retreat is designed to help you become capable of facilitating well-structured, embodied sound baths in a clear and professional way.
You will not simply learn to “play instruments”.
You will learn how to:
- listen more deeply
- guide more coherently
- understand what creates a grounded and effective sound experience
- and hold space with more precision and maturity
Training retreat modules
Tibetan Singing Bowls & Crystal Singing Bowls
You will learn:
- the role of bowls in sound bath facilitation
- foundational playing techniques
- how resonance, continuity, and silence shape the experience
- how to combine bowls in a way that feels coherent rather than random
Therapeutic Gongs
You will learn:
- essential gong playing principles
- how to build progression and intensity safely
- how lower frequencies affect the felt experience of a session
- how to work with power and subtlety without overwhelming participants
Drum & Voice
You will learn:
- how rhythm affects attention and organisation
- how to use the voice as a support for presence rather than performance
- how drum and voice can be integrated meaningfully into a sound bath
How to Design and Facilitate a Sound Bath from A to Z
You will learn how to:
- structure a complete session
- choose and sequence instruments more intentionally
- work with timing, pacing, and transitions
- manage group dynamics with sensitivity
- create a contained, clear, and professional experience
A retreat that supports both personal and professional development
For many participants, this retreat is not only a training.
It is also a moment of reorganisation.
Not because the retreat promises to “transform” you,
but because spending several days immersed in sound, rhythm, attention, and practice often creates the conditions for more clarity to emerge.
That clarity can support:
- your personal direction
- your confidence as a facilitator
- your relationship to sound
- and the way you want to work moving forward
What participants often appreciate most
Your tutors
Othman Haddad (Otto) – Lead Tutor
Founder of Swiss Sound Therapy
Othman has over 13 years of full-time experience teaching and practising sound therapy in Switzerland and the UK.
His work focuses on helping students develop:
- a more embodied relationship to sound
- a clearer professional posture
- a structured and experience-based approach to facilitation
Frédéric Perrier – Composer, Trainer & Assistant Tutor
Frédéric brings a rich musical and compositional understanding to the training, helping students develop technical confidence while preserving simplicity, listening, and authenticity.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I book my place?
All bookings are handled directly by the retreat centre.
For anything related to reserving your spot, rooms, meals, transportation, or retreat policies, please contact:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +39 351 3742134
Room allocations are coordinated by the retreat centre and offered on a first-come, first-served basis (1 single room and 6 double rooms available).
Who do I contact about the training content?
Please contact the tutors directly for anything related to:
The program content
Understanding if the training is the right fit for you
Questions about the learning journey and requirements
What about meals and dietary requirements?
The retreat centre offers a vegetarian menu as standard.
Vegan or other special dietary requirements incur a €5 supplement per meal.
We make the training experience as easy and seamless as possible. Here’s what remains at your own expense:
– Your travel to Monferrato (flights to Turin or Milan, transfers, and local transport). You can coordinate all logistics directly with the retreat venue. Full retreat details will be provided upon acceptance into the training.
– Your personal instruments (only needed for the supervised case studies after the retreat).
– Your personal budget for anything you wish to purchase that is not included in the retreat’s all-inclusive package.
The gong is a powerful vibrational instrument, often at the heart of sound healing sessions. You’ll learn how to play it during the training, but using it for your supervised practice is entirely optional.
It’s an additional tool you can integrate according to your own sensitivity and inspiration.
You have 12 months after the final training weekend to complete your six supervised group case study sessions.
This process is an essential part of your Sound Bath Practitioner Certification — it helps you integrate what you’ve learned, refine your professional approach, and build lasting confidence.
👉 After each session, you’ll receive individual follow-up by phone, with personalised feedback and practical advice to help you progress quickly.
🎓 This follow-up is included as part of the training — you are fully supported throughout your journey.
As with any therapeutic approach, nothing can be guaranteed or controlled with absolute certainty. However, what we’ve observed over more than ten years is that the majority of our clients experience a noticeable shift from the very first session.
The method we teach is based on neuroscience, listening to the body, vibrational sensitivity, and adapting to each person’s natural rhythm.
Results are further enhanced when you apply the simple exercises shared during the sessions.
Yes, this training is designed for both motivated beginners and wellness professionals. We start with the fundamentals and gradually build the skills needed to practise with confidence and precision.
Not at all. This training focuses on feeling, vibration, and inner alignment — not on performance or vocal technique. Therapeutic singing, rhythms, and sounds used in this work are accessible to everyone.
Yes. You will receive a recognised training certificate, which allows you to start offering group sound baths (not one-to-one sessions). Many of our graduates have since launched their own practice — either as independent facilitators or as a complement to another profession in the field of well-being and personal development.
You may not need another vague training.
You may need a clearer framework for what you already feel called to do.
If you feel drawn to sound, this retreat can offer you something both rare and practical:
a way to learn deeply without losing the human, intuitive, and embodied dimension of the work.