Certified Sound Healing Practitioner · Los Angeles, CA
Sound Healing training in Los Angeles.
Train as a Certified Sound Healing Practitioner (CSHP) with Harmonika Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Singing bowls, tuning forks, gongs, and voice — train as a sound practitioner with hours of supervised play and protocol work.

Los Angeles cohort details
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Credential
- CSHP
- Tuition
- $3,200
- In-person training
- 10 days · 80h
- Live cohort calls
- 2 days · 8h
- Supervised practice
- 80h
- Portfolio + jury
- 40h
- Total
- 208h · ~26 day-eq.
- Cohort
- 10 students
- Format
- In person + live cohort calls
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Why Sound Healing in Los Angeles?
If New York is where modalities are exported, Los Angeles is where many of them were first imported. The city's relationship with holistic practice goes back decades: Esalen is up the coast, the human-potential movement passed through here, and today LA holds the largest concentration of yoga teachers, energy practitioners, and somatic facilitators on the West Coast. Our Los Angeles students tend to be entertainment-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and parents — people whose sense of timing is intimate with the rhythms of attention and recovery.
For students of Sound Healing specifically, Los Angeles's scene is a particularly good match: highest concentration of holistic professionals on the west coast. strong appetite for movement and somatic work. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Venice, Silver Lake, Pasadena, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
LA applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds in entertainment (writers, producers, post-production professionals), tech, healthcare, or hospitality. Many already hold a yoga teacher certification (RYT-200 or higher) and want a complementary credential to broaden their offering and stabilize their income through varied modalities. Others are healthcare workers (nurses, OTs, physical therapists) seeking a non-clinical sister practice. The LA student tends to be process-oriented, embodied, and unusually willing to do the slow somatic work that distinguishes our program.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Sound Healing as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Sound Healing is the practice of using musical instruments and the human voice to support relaxation, regulation, and contemplative states in individuals and groups. The instruments most commonly used in modern sound healing include crystal singing bowls, Tibetan (or "Himalayan") metal singing bowls, gongs, body tuning forks, monochords, and the practitioner's own voice through toning and overtone chanting.
A typical one-on-one sound healing session has the recipient lying clothed on a massage table while the practitioner moves around them, playing different instruments at different distances and intensities. Specific instruments may be placed on or near the body — a tuning fork at a specific point, a small bowl on the chest. Sessions usually last 60 to 90 minutes. Group sessions, often called sound baths, take place in a room of ten to fifty recipients lying on mats in shavasana while the practitioner plays a sequence of instruments for forty-five to seventy-five minutes.
The Sound Healing curriculum, in 10 in-person days.
- Working with crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, and gongs
- Body tuning forks and how to apply them safely
- Voice as an instrument: toning and overtone basics
- Designing one-on-one sound sessions for specific intentions
- Leading sound baths for groups of 10-50 people
- Building a sound-centered practice: kit, pricing, marketing
When Sound Healing cohorts run in Los Angeles.
LA cohorts run on a tri-annual cadence (January, May, September), with year-round consistency thanks to the climate. The summer cohort tends to attract more entertainment-industry professionals between projects; the September cohort attracts more career-changers timing their pivot to a fall start. Cohorts meet across two weekends per month plus one weekday evening for cohesion.
Who this Los Angeles cohort is for.
Musicians, yoga teachers, and wellness practitioners who want to anchor their practice in sound, with real instruments and extensive practice.
After graduation in Los Angeles.
- Open a private Sound Healing practice (CSHP)
- Lead sound baths in yoga studios, wellness centers, and retreats
- Add sound work to a Reiki, energy, or massage practice
- Build a recurring weekly community sound bath
$3,200 for the full 26-day Sound Healing program in Los Angeles.
Same tuition whether you study in Los Angeles or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Los Angeles cohort.
Tuition and financing details$3,200
208h total · 10 in-person days
Sound Healing certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Sound Healing Practitioner in Los Angeles.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Sound Healing cohort starting in Los Angeles, CA. Free, online, one hour.