The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing & Shamanic Studies

Fall 2008- Spring 2009
Sound Healer Trainings
Individual Sound Healing Classes and
3 Year Certification Program in Sound Healing

with Zacciah Blackburn, Director

The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing offers in depth sound healers trainings and classes which enable any individual to develop their highest potential skills in sound therapy, as a sound healing practitioner, for the use of sound healing in one's personal or private practice, as well as therapeutic clinical applications.  Many therapists in Massage, Reiki, Acupuncture, Reflexology, Ayurvedic, Nutritional Therapy, Movement, Breath, and a large variety of other Holistic Therapies, as well as Hospice, Nursing and Medical practitioners, are finding the benefits of Sound Therapies to heighten states of wellness and integration of their services for their clients.  The science behind the eons old practices of sound healing are rapidly becoming well documented as practical, easy and effective.  Sound healing is known to reduce stress and anxiety, increase homeostasis, create a more balanced immune system, enhance overall sense of well being, and has been shown to be effective in the treatment of cancer & other disease by medical practitioners as well as sound therapists.  The effect of sound and awareness practices have been utilized by esoteric traditions worldwide to enhance states of well being and the exploration of the subtle states of consciousness for eons. Our programs are designed to promote efficacy and understanding as a sound healing professional, with intuitive and cognitive insight, direct experiential practice, and education in the science and mysticism of the nature of sound as used both historically and in contemporary cultures world wide. The program incorporates modern scientific studies in neuroacoustics, neurophysiology, the use of healing sound instruments, voice, sound technologies, Cymatics, and development of one's own understanding of the innate qualities of self.  We are a strong proponent of the view that self exploration and self understanding promotes key awareness integral to the development of one's self as a healing practitioner. To understand the healing paradigm, one must explore the nature of consciousness itself, and sound healing modalities do as much as any holistic approach to reach this understanding, as we are vibrational beings.  Sound healing as a healing modality, utilized with clear understanding, integrity, and intention promotes wellness within oneself and others one is working with.  The science is becoming inextricably clear on this. We integrate keen understanding of the nature of consciousness and wellness, with the skilled articulation of cognitive use of sound instruments, to bring about wellness and change in one's whole being.  We include training in the utilization of one's voice, Pure Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Bells (Bell/Dorje, Tingsha, Shang, Cymbal), Drums, Rattles, Horns and Didgeridoos, Tuning Forks, Peruvian Whistles, and a myriad of other traditional and contemporary instruments used in sound therapies worldwide today.  We incorporate an intuitive and shamanic understanding of the nature of consciousness and subtle worlds of consciousness.  Our facilitator, with over 34 years of experience in this field, will guide us to explore these principals with sound therapies and awareness exercises, approach a deep understanding of and balancing techniques of the primary and subtle components of the human energy system, including the 7 main chakras, the nadis and meridians, the endocrine system, and our neurophysiology. We explore the modern science validating ancient and modern practices with sound therapies as it relates to wellness and consciousness, including Cymatics & the work of Dr. Hans Jenny, the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, (water crystals and intention), the Heart Math Institute (coherent emotion), Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, Tom Kenyon, and other leading pioneers in the fields of human consciousness development, neuroacoustics, and sound medicines, and holistic wellness.  We develop skills and strategies to work in group and individual therapeutic context.   In the course of these programs, we build community with a knowing school of practitioners.  For some, this is the most important ingredient in the trainings. We work with principals of ceremonial healing with practices grounded in traditional schools of healing, from Tibetan Buddhist to Native American shamanic practices.  We create group ceremonies to develop and utilize our skills and heart felt intentions to learn how to bring true healing to the planet and all sentient beings incorporating sound practices.   Each year's program develops deeper understanding of these practices, and our upper level students are currently planning to continue this work to bring ceremonial healing programs to communities of the region, and to Sacred Earth Sites, as well as wherever else invited.  The programs empower us to bring our own innate and intuitive wisdom and understanding of the world forward, to stand more fully in our inner knowing.  At the same time, we develop the technical skill, based in decades of practice by the facilitator, of knowing the nature and power of sound and intention, and how to utilize it in therapeutic practice with clients, to heighten states of wellness in our own personal life, and in developing clear working models for group work with sound. On occasion, we have guest teachers whom bring their disciplines into greater focus for our students. We begin our next Three Year Certification Program in Sound Healing in September, 2008.   Significant Early Registration Discounts are available. You may participate in any or all Level One trainings (except the last program in the series Applications, which has pre-requisites.)  Level II and Level III trainings require participation in each prior year's training. LEVEL I, 1st Year Training: These programs are offered in 8 weekend trainings, offered one weekend/month for 8 months beginning Sept 19-21. 2008.   The programs are available occasionally in other regions of the country, and internationally.  If you have interest in these being provided in your region, please contact us. We recommend participation in all trainings for the best and most complete understanding of the nature, use and application of sound therapies.  However, you may participate in any or all of the programs in the Level I programs (except Applications.) Our facilitator, Zacciah Blackburn, offers a unique understanding, depth, and application of sound work.  The program offers 150 hours of training in the first year.  We know of no other program on the East Coast with this level of expertise in all areas covered.  We will be guided through the process of how sound is used, and what the process of healing is, in oneself and others.  We offer the fundamental understanding that the pathway to becoming a healer is the pathway of one's own healing.  Thus, we will explore the internal and external dimensions of healing, in ourselves, and in others.  We will be given the opportunity to enter and further this path of understanding wherever we are upon it, through practical application.  And, we will be given the opportunity to explore how the appropriate and skilled use of Sacred Sound can bridge consciousness into unseen dimensions of experience and understanding.  The focus is upon practitioner training, but it cannot come without personal experience and understanding.  While Zacciah is an excellent experienced facilitator and educator, he believes we are our own best teachers.    No prior experience is necessary to fully participate in these classes.  Intuitive sound healing is a process principally of the heart.  No prior vocal or instrumental training of any kind is necessary to participate fully.  The classes are appropriate for novice and practitioner, for those whom wish to learn or improve their meditational skills, their practitioner skills, experience healing, and how to heal, in a fundamental, yet potentially profound manner, and those who wish to build community.  Skilled practitioners will find moving information, and compelling exercises, to further their practice.  Novices will find skilled assistance in comprehending, experiencing, and utilizing skills offered.  We are each contributors to this process, in each training.  What we bring with us, and how deeply we are willing to explore, will bridge the potential to our own infinite understanding. See Advanced Level II program information here.  Level III, third year programs  here.

Our Program Facilitator Zacciah  Blackburn is a gifted intuitive, teacher, and sound healer trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures, and is practicing in Ascutney, VT, at the Center of Light, which he founded.   Zacciah utilizes sound coupled with Sacred Intention, as  a therapeutic tool, for personal growth and transformation.  Zacciah is a Co-Director, and Director of Education for the New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI, now known as the Sound Healing Network,) a worldwide community of healing practitioners broadening the awareness of sound healing through networking, education, and scientific research.  He is also co-founder & Director of the World Sound Healing Organization, and the All One Now Network of organizations furthering world peace, healing, and transformation of human consciousness through simple ceremony, broadcast live via the internet (www.worldsoundhealing.org, www.allonenow.org.) Zacciah has created a broad range of trainings in sound healing practice, which couples his deep cognitive and intuitive understanding of sound in therapeutic application.   These programs are an in depth study of the nature of sound and its healing effect on the human system, with cognitive and experiential training designed to better our understanding of, and therapeutic application in, the use of sound.   Zacciah brings with him a warmth and radiance that exudes through his work.   We invite you to join us in this insightful and uplifting program for personal and professional development.

Certificates of training are given to those completing each phase of this training, with a special presentation at the end of each series.   Certificates will indicate the level of training completed.  The Level I programs are a foundation for, and a requirement of, higher level studies, which will integrate deeper experiential practical application in therapeutic settings.    See Advanced Level II program information here.  Level III participation will incorporate a Certification process as a sound healer. Additional Program Information What Others Are Saying About These Programs See, also, our Articles Section for several quality articles on the Nature of Sound Healing including our latest new article on Divine Harmony and Proportions:   Sounding the Codes Those wishing to further an Earth based understanding of sound in ceremony, working with Earth based energies utilizing more shamanic methodology, may follow up with our Return to Beauty programs in Vermont and elsewhere each summer, or our tour of ancient Sacred Sites of Great Britain.  We recommend all of our sound healers' training programs for those wishing to understand how to access the subtle realms of consciousness, to attune, create relation with, and express deeper awareness in sacred sound, with voice, or instruments.  In 2007 we shall begin advanced Shamanic training for those participating in beginning programs.

School of SOUND HEALING

2008-9 First Year ~ Level I Programs These programs may be hosted in your location. YOU MAY TAKE ANY ONE CLASS, or More, except Applications  Level II Applications of (Second Year) Sound Therapies classes are available for all graduates of Level I class series. Level III classes  Third year programs Our 2008-9 Professional Sound Healers Training Weekend Series begins Sept. 19-21, 2008:  Eight Weekends of programs, one each month:  Sept. 2008 - April 2009   You may take one or all programs in Level I, no prior experience is necessary, except in the Applications class. Each class is offered as a "stand alone" class, meaning you do not need to take any prior class to fully understand and experience the information and techniques presented in the class.  At the same time, the classes do build off of each other, so the more you attend, the more you will gain off of each class.  The classes are beneficial to those seeking to be a sound healing therapist, or to incorporate sound therapies into their current healing practice, as well as for those seeking to use sound in their own personal lives.   Special graduated discounts will apply for those registering for all trainings by May, June, and July.    Other discounts may also apply. Registration and further details are also below. All programs are offered in Ascutney, VT, unless indicated otherwise.  We have added a snow day for winter weekends should inclement weather prevent us from providing all regularly scheduled days of a program. Classes are 10 AM - 6 PM EST first two days of each training, 10 AM - 4 PM EST Third day of each training

Sept 19-21, 2008:   The Nature of Sound in Healing        3 days,  $398.        (Fri - Sun) In depth studies into the nature of healing, sound healing and Sacred Sound Transmissions.   Our foundation training.  Highly recommended for all pursuing our program of studies.  Skilled approach to the nature of sound and healing designed to be of benefit to novice and practitioner. We approach a broad understanding of major sound healing modalities, which includes hands on work with instruments, vocal sound healing exercises, and much more.  We explore Cymatics and other principals of sound.  We will take this foundation training, and break it into more complex and explicit explorations in the remaining trainings.

Oct. 11-13, 2008:    Using Healing Sound Instruments            3 days,  $398.     (Sat-Mon)    Exploring the use of principal instruments used in sound healing practices, both for personal and professional use/practice, with intention, for clearing and energizing the human energy field, invocation, and more. We will explore the use of Tibetan and Crystal Bowls, bells, tingshas, Tibetan horns, shangs, gongs, drums, tuning forks, didgeridoos, rattles, and more.

Nov. 8-10, 2008:    Using the Voice, with Intention               3 days, $398.         (Fri - Sun)    Exploring the voice in personal and professional practice for clearing and energizing the human energy field, invocation, and more, as a sound healing tool.  We each have the creative capacity to utilize our voice in healing, every day.  By setting proper awareness, and intention, we can, by speaking our truth, voicing our wounds, and touching our Divinity, spark healing in ourselves and others.    We will discuss and experience the use of voice in a variety of settings for personal healing, and providing for, or guiding others, through their healing, in professional therapeutic application.

Dec 12-14, 2008:    The Neurophysiology of Sound        3 days,  $398.      (Sat-Mon) Sound is a primordial force which effects us on many levels.  This workshop will explore the fundamental neurophysiology of the body and how sound effects healing, change, growth, via the natural forces at play within our human bodies, as well as other aspects of the science of sound.   Weather date:  Dec 10

Jan 9-11, 2009:   Attuning the Chakras           3 days,  $398.       (Fri - Sun)    An in depth study of the nature and development of the chakras and their relationship within the subtle bodies & the human psyche; with attunement exercises via alchemical practices, esoteric exercises, and sacred sound transmissions.   We will offer cognitive information on the nature of the Chakras, and skill development utilizing sound to balance and energize the chakras in therapeutic settings.   Snow date  Jan 12

Feb. 6-8, 2009:   Creating Sacred Space       3 days, $398.       (Fri - Sun)    How do we use sacred space in our personal & professional lives?  Whom & what do we call upon to create sacred space, and why?  Does the holistic practitioner & workshop facilitator have an inextricable responsibility to insure sacred space is utilized and maintained when opening clients to sacred mystery, or to greater personal awareness?  We will explore these and other questions, discuss professional ethics and care, and learn to couple intention with a variety of vibrational techniques for creating sacred space in our personal and professional place.   Some programs offer work with creating outdoor ceremonial space.  Weather date Feb 9

March 13-15, 2009, 2008:    Sacred Sound Transmissions           3 days, $398.        (Fri - Sun) When we attune to our own sacred nature, and voice this in resonance with clarity and trust, we come into contact with our very essence.  Zacciah uses sound coupled with sacred intention to invoke the essence of higher being.  This allows us each to enter more readily into a sacred space, more ready to explore the deeper nature of ourselves, and relationship to that which we personally hold as sacred, and learn to better voice it.  The invocation of sacred sound streams, which Zacciah calls Sacred Sound Transmissions, creates the groundwork which assists us in walking through a rich tapestry of unfolding experiential insights into our essence.  We will explore together our inherent ability to discern and channel these sacred sound streams through voice and intention, to connect with ancestral and holy beings of the subtle realms of consciousness, and learn to attune to, embrace, embody, and emanate their voices.  Deep initiations may occur when we create authentic relationship with these holy ones, and utilize those relationships in integrated practices with Sacred Sound.  Weather date March 16

April  18-20, 2009:   The Application of Sound Therapies          3 days, $398.      (Fri - Sun) In depth experiential training, comprehensive practical skill development.   We will explore more deeply, our understanding and application of sound healing skills, voice, and instrument, in practical application for therapeutic use.   Open to those whom have completed at least five of the foundation trainings in our School of Sound Healing Level I Series, including 3 of the first 5.

On completion of this training, you will receive a Certificate of Completion of the training.  Completion of this program is required to advance to Level II & III trainings.   Level II and Level III 2008-9 Trainings are also listed.  See links top of page. Classes are 10 AM - 6 PM EST first two days of each training, 10 AM - 4 PM EST Third day of each training

 A note on Sound Healing Training:  I am more than happy to help broaden your awareness in the community of sound healing, and explore deep and rewarding comprehension of the use of sound as a therapeutic tool, a connector to the divine realm, a vehicle for channeling light energies into the earth, our bodies and spirits.  Novice and practitioners will both gain from our sound healers training.  Please let me know your level of interest.  Though my work is always based on intuitive guidance, the more aware I am of the level of abilities and interests of participants in class, the easier and more potent the work becomes.  Moreso, we are all creators in the classroom.  What we are open to, what we are ready for, what we ask for, and what we bring to each other, all opens doorways we might not have otherwise perceived.  I am also working with those seeking assistance in their own path, in private studies, healing, or spiritual counseling.  Please speak with me by e-mail, mail or phone.
                                                             .......Zacciah

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