Online Course Dates/Times:

April 5th - April 10th, 2024*

Friday 6PM-8:30PM ET

Saturday 9:30AM-4PM ET

Sunday 11AM-5:30PM ET

Wednesday April 10: 6:15PM-8:15PM ET- Shruti & Harmonium lesson - optionally in person at Pure Yoga

*With additional live hours for enrolled yoga therapy students

In this Course, you will learn:

• Toning using seed syllables to free the voice
• The relationship of manifestation and sound
• Traditional stories behind the mantras 
• An introduction to working with sound instruments
• How to use mantra in everyday life and in classes respectfully and mindfully
• The concepts of resonance, entrainment, cymatics, deep listening, and more
• The science behind sound work for wellness and supporting the immune system
• Classic chants to support holistic wellness, to ground oneself as teacher, and more
• Using chants as part of a steadying personal practice (or sadhāna)
• The structure of a sound bath
• Introduction to playing the meditative instruments - including the shruti box and harmonium
• How to interweave sound work into a hatha yoga class

Successful completion of this course includes:

• Certificate of Completion
• 25 CE Credits with Yoga Alliance OR 25 hours towards your 300 with PYI
• 25 Required Hours for Students enrolled in Yoga Therapy Program

Requirements for Certificate of Completion 

• 75% Live attendance minimum at classes & all classes completed
• 75% pass on final quiz ( with option to take twice)
• Completion of all homework & assignments 

Included in this course:

• PYI Sound Yoga Therapy Manual by Jessica Caplan and Dana Slamp with Jesal Parikh and Brittany Simone 

• Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley Ferrand

Investment/Tuition:

• New Students $495 (Early Bird: $455)
• PYI Grads $455 (Early Bird $405)

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT!  $50 OFF through March 15th

**Use Code { SOUND2024 }  at Checkout**

JESSICA CAPLAN, E-RYT 200, SOUND THERAPY PRACTITIONER (GUEST TEACHER: SOUND YOGA THERAPY)

Jessica is a certified sound therapy practitioner, vocalist and yoga teacher. A yoga teacher since 2006, having graduated from Pure Yoga Hong Kong’s first teacher training, Jessica’s twin loves -- music and the healing arts -- organically merged several years ago. She completed the year-long, 290-hour sound therapy practitioner training at the Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute, studying with experts in the field, including John Beaulieu, Silvia Nakkach, and Pat Moffit Cook. She has since guided soundbaths, crafted meditative soundscapes for yoga classes and events, and led workshops, retreats and trainings in voice and sound healing. Jessica is particularly passionate about providing students both in group and one-on-one sessions an integrative, loving approach to connecting with the voice, and through that, with oneself. She is a Reiki practitioner and Restorative yoga teacher, and continues her studies of yoga, sound healing, Native traditions, shamanic practices, and classical North Indian music.  Jessica is also the co-creatrix of SoundMind (www.soundmind.space), an audio meditation series combining meditation with therapeutic sound, released in the fall of 2016.   www.jessicacaplanyoga.com

Jesal Parikh (she/her/hers)

is a yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author, and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in yoga. She is one of the co-hosts of the Yoga is Dead podcast and is the Co-Director of Yoga Teachers of Color. Jesal's mission is to uplift those of us who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry.

BRITTANY ANDERSON (Guest Faculty/ Yoga Therapy Candidate )

Brittany Simone Anderson is a New York based sound practitioner, ceremonialist, and movement guide. Brittany believes that well-being is our birth right, and as such, it is our responsibility to take an active role in our own wellness. Brittany combines a variety of practices that include sound, breathwork, coaching, yoga, and mindful eating. Brittany works one on one or in groups to empower people to take their health in their own hands. Together we can reconnect the mind/body/soul. 

Brittany Simone leads sound meditations and breath experiences in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. She has been studying sound at her home studio, Woom Center since its opening in 2016, with her teachers Elian and David Shemesh. She has also studied with Alexander Tannous, Mitch Nur, Daniel Ryan and Jarrod Byrne. Brittany has been working with the breath since 2014 and uses both the breath and sound to elevate the cacao ceremony experience. Brittany facilitates cacao ceremonies in group and private settings and has been working with the plant since 2015. Find her in Manhattan in or traveling the world learning and spreading joy.