Encore Day 2026 — Replays

Two and a half years ago, Care walked away from a six-figure accounting career with no real plan B — chronic back pain had made the way she was living feel impossible. What followed was a season of trying things: a program she built and then let go of, a sabbatical, her first singing bowl, her first gong. Somewhere in there she started turning her own reflective conversations into songs, then walking her neighborhood listening to them, then singing along. She calls it "the Artifact Trail."

"It's just changing the way that I'm thinking about sound healing, and just so much more."

Maria's first bowl came from a little crystal shop in town — she liked how it sounded, nothing more at the time. Then work got harder. Her healthcare facility merged with a larger system, the pace picked up, and she found herself having panic attacks in the middle of the day. Reiki led her to Sound School, and Sound School gave her somewhere to put a quiet nightly ritual: playing her bowls at home before bed, just to feel better. With retirement on the horizon, she's started packing up her equipment for on-site sound baths — a library, a local art studio — with hopes of eventually reaching nursing homes.

"With the prospect of retiring next year, I want to do something more. I want to be of service to people."

Carolyn came to sound with a background in theater and psychology, and a longtime, complicated relationship with meditation — she loved the idea of it, but always struggled to sit still for it. A Tibetan bowl CD was her way in. Years later, her first live sound bath became what she calls "the most amazing transcendental experience... absolutely life-changing." A move left her without easy access to the sound world she'd found, so she did what she always does — went looking for education first. That search led her to Ohm Store and Sound School, the thing that let her believe she could do this not just for herself, but for other people too. Today she runs Sound and Stone Alchemy, her own nature-inspired practice.

"The Ohm Store, and the Sound School — that for me was incredibly uplifting, educational and confidence building. To believe that I really could do this... for other people."

Sam has spent 25 years in the yoga community and owns Pure Yoga studio in The Dalles, Oregon. Long before she ever taught a class, she was a student — including of sound baths, which she kept coming back to because "sound healing, sound baths are different every time." Eventually she stopped hiring outside practitioners to lead sound baths at her own studio and decided to learn it herself. She's since folded her Yoga Nidra training into her sound work, and even brings it into her studio's aerial yoga classes.

"Sound School has opened up so many opportunities, other than just my small thought of, I'm gonna give sound baths."

Before bowls, Bob was a lifelong musician and self-described "audio-curious person," with a career in corporate product management — including years at Disney, until a layoff that affected 5,000 people, himself among them. Around that same time, he bought his first singing bowls at a street fair in Manhattan, then made his first purchase from Ohm Store: a 15-inch bowl he still opens every session with. Decades earlier, he'd chased similar tones in a university synthesizer studio, trying to build electronically what this bowl gave him acoustically. Since Sound School, he's built his own sound bath practice.

"I've never had the same sort of emotional feeling after giving a sound bath for a room full of people... it's a different level."

Nick's first sound bath was at a yoga retreat three years ago, led by a traveling practitioner he remembers as "effervescent" — simple instruments, no mic, and, in his words, "the most moving experience I've ever had." He came home noticing everything differently — sounds, smells, tastes, all sharper. That curiosity led him to Ohm Store, and a year of laying bowls on his own chest and stomach at home before things really started to shift. Today he leads live sound sessions in Tulsa, Oklahoma — retreat centers, event spaces, hospice groups.

"I'm a very different human than I was 3 years ago."

Pam came to sound from an unlikely place: horticulture and quantum physics. She spent years managing a large garden center's ornamental department, and by her own account, the real throughline of her life has always been curiosity — "how does this work?" That question eventually led her toward energy work, then tuning forks, then a set of bowls she describes as a gift she never saw coming. Now a facilitator herself, she credits a mentor's wisdom for how she holds all of it: "the way will open."

"Here I am today, and I am so grateful for all of you — what you bring to the table, what I have learned from each of you."

Jeff found Ohm Store through a Facebook ad and bought his first bowl, the Jupiter — a bowl he still uses today. He's since built out a small collection of harmonious bowls and has progressed through Sound School, Gong School, and Encore. Today's session is deliberately stripped down: just pure singing bowl sound, inviting you to listen.

Earlier this year, on a beach in Hawaii, he sang his silver bowl making whale sounds — and a photographer down the beach caught a whale surfacing at the exact same moment.