Sound meditation in Phoenix
Hamid Jabbar leads sound meditation gatherings around the Phoenix area, teaches people to play the instruments, online and in person, and takes small groups to Peru for deep immersion.
Gatherings around Phoenix An online course Trainings in Arizona Retreats in Peru
Happening now
Next: Thursday, October 8
Come gather around the gong in community. An evening of sound meditation and music: the gong and the instruments played alongside it, used to help you balance and integrate.
| When | Thursday, October 8. 6:00 to 7:30pm. |
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| Where | Abundant Space, Scottsdale |
| Contribution | $44 suggested. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds. |
A monthly evening around the gong, running through the fall. Same room, same hour, once a month. Come to one or come to all of them. Dates are added as venues confirm them, and the full list lives on the events page.
New to this
Sound meditation is a branch of nada yoga, sound yoga, where sound is directed toward the body to move energy and quiet the mind. You lie down. Hamid plays gongs, Himalayan bowls, flutes, harmonium and voice. A well played gong throws off a wall of overtones that settles the mind faster than most people expect, which is why it sits at the center of his work.
You will see this called a sound bath, or sound healing. Hamid calls it sound meditation, because you are participating rather than receiving. It is a practice, not a treatment: nothing is done to you here, and nothing is a cure. That distinction is most of the work.
| Lying down | Mats, blankets and bolsters are usually provided. |
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| Length | Most gatherings run about 90 minutes. |
| Experience | None needed, and nothing to prepare. |
| What to wear | Something comfortable. Bring a pillow if you like. |
| Arriving | Ten minutes before the start. The doors close when it begins, because somebody walking in disturbs a session under way. |
Training
Hamid Jabbar has taught sound in Arizona since 2018. The groups are small, and you spend the time with your hands on the instruments, so you leave able to hold a room.
The online course is where most people begin. It carries the whole of Level I, so you arrive at the in person training already fluent in the theory.
01 · Begin
Over 20 hours of self paced video. Start today, work at your own speed, and arrive at the in person training already fluent in the theory.
Includesfourteen modules, thirty one videos and the training manual to keep. $298, once.
02 · Deepen
Thirty two hours in person, across two weekends. History, theory, science and practice, with real time on gongs, crystal bowls, Himalayan bowls, shruti box, flutes, chimes and overtone singing.
Wherein person, with a small group, in Arizona.
03 · Continue
Forty hours for practitioners already working with sound who want to find their own voice in it. Capped at eight people, so nobody watches from the back of the room.
Or one to oneSound Mentorship, shaped around you.
Past students are listed in the practitioner directory. Yoga Alliance continuing education hours come with the in person programs, for anyone who needs the documentation for a studio or venue.
Meet Hamid
Hamid Jabbar went to NYU on a music scholarship, then to law school at UCLA, and practiced law in Los Angeles for a while before admitting that was not it. Since 2012 he has been studying gongs, singing bowls and flutes. He also co-directed the 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher trainings at Urban Yoga in downtown Phoenix, and he is an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
These days he teaches sound, leads ceremony in Peru, and writes. Most of what he knows came from teachers who were generous with him, so he passes it on the same way.
Music
Gong, flute, harmonium, voice. Some of it is recorded from sessions and some of it was built in the room on purpose. It is on Bandcamp and Spotify, and it is a reasonable way to find out whether this sounds like something you want to lie down inside of.
Hear the music
Peru retreats
Each summer Hamid takes a small group to Peru’s Sacred Valley to sit with Huachuma, the San Pedro cactus, in ceremony led by a Maestro Huachumero. Two pathways, the Heart Path and the Fire Path, ten days each, with six months of support on either side. Everything about the retreats lives on his other site. Summer 2027 dates are coming.
See the retreats“I believe in the innate wisdom of Nature, our bodies, and our consciousness. On the path of life, the more we learn to feel into the magic of the Universe, the richer our lives become.”
Hamid Jabbar
Stay in the loop
Gatherings, training dates and the occasional piece of writing. That is all it is.
Send Hamid a note and he will point you somewhere.
Write to HamidMineral and health work lives at mineralshaman.com.