Level One Sound Healing Training, Phoenix April 2027

The Level One Sound Healing Training in Phoenix, Arizona is a four-day sound healing certification for women who want to learn to facilitate sound baths and private sessions with crystal singing bowls. It is led by Cheryl Bailey of Grit and Grace Meditation and is taught as a private mentorship in an intentionally small group. It suits yoga teachers, coaches, therapists, Reiki practitioners, massage therapists, nurses and other wellness professionals who want to bring sound into their work, as well as people in a season of change who feel drawn to begin. The certificate carries recognition from the Complementary Medical Association (CMA).

What to Expect

The training is hands-on from the first afternoon. It totals twenty hours over four days, and you will receive sound healing as well as practice giving it.

The first day is an afternoon block, 3:00 to 7:00 pm, opening the cohort and introducing the foundations of sound. The next three days run 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, with a lunch break of an hour and a half.

- Day two covers instrument technique, musical layering and receiving sound healing.
- Day three turns to facilitation practice, with personalized coaching and feedback.
- Day four is the practicum, with live feedback and a closing ceremony.

The curriculum moves through five areas. You study the science of sound, vibration and resonance, brainwave states, nervous system regulation and trauma-informed principles. You learn to play crystal singing bowls, gong, chimes, drum, and voice, humming and toning, including layering, transitions, chord combinations and instrument care. You practice the craft of facilitation: holding space, opening and closing ceremonies, reading the room and structuring private and group sessions. You lead both one-on-one and group sessions. And you look at how to share the work, from pricing and ethics to weaving sound into yoga, coaching, Reiki, massage or retreats. The emphasis is on finding a facilitation style that feels like your own rather than a copy of your teacher's.

About Cheryl Bailey

Cheryl Bailey is a certified life designer coach, yoga instructor, sound healer and trauma-informed breathwork practitioner based in Sedona, Arizona, and the founder of Grit and Grace Meditation. She spent years in higher education before a string of losses, including a divorce, the death of her second husband and losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, led her to meditation and yoga as a path to inner peace. She became a certified Baptiste yoga teacher in 2015 and completed a 200-hour Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher Training at the end of 2019, when she founded Grit and Grace Meditation.

Her own path into sound began with a crystal bowl experience at the end of a yoga class more than ten years ago, and deepened after the death of her mother. She has since facilitated hundreds of sound healing experiences and trained students from around the country.

Before You Go

No musical background is needed. You do not have to read music, own instruments or have any previous sound healing experience. The training is taught in English and is designed for beginners as well as practitioners adding sound to existing work.

Included are the full Level One curriculum and practicum, all training instruments, a workbook, small-group live feedback sessions, one post-class guidance call, and the Level One Sound Healing Training Certificate from Grit and Grace Meditation with CMA recognition.

Travel to Phoenix, lodging and meals are not included, unless otherwise arranged.