Singing Bowl & Sound Master Course

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The Beginning Practitioner

You just got your first bowl and care to use it to its full potential. Learn about the intention of the instrument and proper technique. Modules 1–3 solve every beginner question in under 35 minutes.

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The Scientific Thinker

You care to understand the mechanism behind sound and sound instruments such as singing bowls. You will learn about entrainment. Brainwave bands. Monaural beats. The parasympathetic nervous system. This course leads with the science so you understand the precision of what happens when you sing your bowl.

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The Fluent Practitioner

You have a growing collection of singing bowls and love them. You care to go deeper — understand what's actually happening acoustically and neurologically, and build a more intentional daily practice.

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The Poor Sleeper

Chronically wired at night. Meditation apps haven't stuck. The course explains exactly why bowls do something apps can't, and the meditation library includes sessions built specifically for sleep and deep rest.

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The Wellness Professional

Yoga teachers, therapists, bodyworkers, coaches. You want to add sound to your sessions — and you care to deepen your fluency, competence, vocabulary, and the science to share the healing power of sound with confidence.

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The Aspiring Sound Practitioner

If you are called to share sound as a professional practitioner, if you imagine leading sound baths and share the power of sound as part of your service in the world — this course is where your path begins. You will gain the foundation — technique, theory, and the science — that professional practice is built on.

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Modules 1 – 3

Communing with the Instrument

Practitioners note that fluency begins with your relationship with the instrument. How you choose the right bowl. How to strike and sing your instrument with confidence. This is where you not only learn technique, but begin to embody fluency.

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Modules 4 – 9

Understanding the Mechanism

Understand frequency, entrainment, and the brainwave states your bowl can access. Learn why your bowl is a natural monaural beat generator — and how that activates the parasympathetic nervous system. This is where the practice stops being mysterious and starts being something you understand deeply.

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Module 10

A Practice That's Yours

Eight guided sessions by recording artist Sonic Yogi — singing bowls, flute, drum, hang drum, and nature sounds. A permanent library you return to. This is where the course becomes a daily ritual. This is where you build a practice that allows your fluency to grow and unfold over time.

Choose your bowl with intentionUnderstand small, medium, and large sound profiles — you learn to select by resonance.

Sing your bowl with confidenceIn hand, on a cushion, and half-moon style — with correct pressure, speed, and hand position from the first session.

Identify what you're hearingThe fundamental tone, the overtone a fifth above, and the harmonic cascade that gives bowls their ethereal quality.

Command a full mallet vocabularySoft-head, felt, leather-wrapped, wood — know which to reach for and why, and how each changes the sound.

Explain the scienceDefine entrainment, name the brainwave bands with their frequency ranges, and describe how monaural beats guide the brain toward meditative states.

Interrupt your own stress responseUse bowls to break the perception–tension feedback loop, downshift brainwave states deliberately, and build a new relaxation baseline.

Run guided sessions for othersWith the technique vocabulary, science foundation, and mallet framework to begin sharing sound with competence.

Sustain a daily practiceEight guided sessions in the library — bowls, flute, breathwork, sleep sounds — invite you to deepen your own practice and embody the fluency of sound.

Module 1

Welcome & History

The origins of singing bowls — 3,800 years of lineage across Asia. What they're actually made of (and why the "seven sacred metals" legend isn't true). Where they're made today and how modern production creates a more consistent instrument.

5 lessons · ~6 min

Module 2

Choosing a Bowl

Small, medium, and large — what each actually sounds like and when to use it. Why every bowl contains multiple tones. And the contrarian take a classical musician gives: why you should ignore the chakra chart when choosing your first bowl.

6 lessons · ~15 min

Module 3

How to Play

The complete mallet vocabulary from soft-head to crystal. Holding, striking, singing — in hand, on cushion, and half-moon technique. Plus the three-question diagnostic for any bowl that won't sing, and the fix for each.

7 lessons · ~11 min

Module 4

Sound & Frequency

First principles: frequency is how often something repeats — drumbeats, sound waves, and brainwaves are all the same phenomenon at different speeds. The four brainwave states with their actual Hz ranges. Why most of us are stuck in one gear.

5 lessons · ~14 min

Module 5

Consciousness & Stress

Entrainment — the brain's frequency-following response, discovered when Christiaan Huygens noticed his pendulum clocks synchronizing in 1665. Why singing bowls are natural monaural beat generators. How sound shifts state without a substance.

4 lessons · ~16 min

Module 6

Structure & Harmony

Harmony and dissonance as a map for the mind. Why stress is dissonance between how things are and how we want them to be. And the insight that separates bowls from playlists: why the brain can't predict bowl sound — and why that matters.

4 lessons · ~14 min

Module 7

Releasing Stress

The stress loop has two levers — perception and physiology. Sound is the interrupt mechanism. How bowls remind the nervous system how to be calm, and what that means for building a new baseline.

2 lessons · ~5 min

Module 8

Awareness & Neuroplasticity

Neurons that fire together wire together. How musicians and golfers retrain technique by slowing to a rhythm — and how sound meditation does the same for the nervous system. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice creates permanence.

3 lessons · ~12 min

Module 9

From Head to Harmony

The capstone. Pythagoras dividing the string. The harmonic series and its presence in galaxies, seashells, and flower petals. Why the harmonies we find beautiful are written into nature — and what that means for the sound of a bowl.

5 lessons · ~21 min

Module 10

Guided Meditation Library

Eight sessions by recording artist Sonic Yogi: the flagship 14-minute singing bowl meditation, chakra flute meditations, a drum and bowl breath practice, hang drum and piano, and Third Eye Bowls with nature sounds. Yours forever.

8 sessions · 45+ min

Lead Instructor

Jonathan Adams
Sonic Yogi

Jonathan is a classically trained musician and recording artist who came to sound healing through his own recovery from acute anxiety. He didn't find a bowl in a yoga studio — he came to it as a trained musician who needed something his training hadn't given him. That journey through the science, the history, and the practice is the curriculum.

Classically trained musician and recording artist

Chose his first bowl by feel, not theory — then spent years understanding why that was right

Guided meditation library includes original compositions across bowl, flute, drum, and hang drum

Teaches the science with the precision of a musician and the empathy of someone who's been anxious

Founder, The Ohm Store

Frank

Frank founded The Ohm Store in 2015 after spending years sourcing instruments directly from master artisans in Kathmandu, Nepal. He built the store on a single premise: that the instrument matters as much as the practice, and that both should be explained without the myths.

Founded The Ohm Store in 2015

Sources instruments directly from Kathmandu, Nepal

Over a decade of working with singing bowls, gongs, and sound healing instruments

Built the brand on mechanism-first education — the science before the ceremony

39 video lessons across 9 teaching modules

Technique, science, neuroscience, philosophy — the complete path

Included

Complete mallet & technique masterclass

Soft-head, felt, leather, wood, crystal — plus full troubleshooting framework

Included

The science curriculum

Frequency, entrainment, brainwave bands, neuroplasticity, parasympathetic activation

Included

Guided meditation library by Sonic Yogi

8 sessions · 45+ min · Bowl, flute, drum, hang drum, nature sounds

Included

Lifetime access on any device

Hosted on Teachable — watch on phone, tablet, or desktop, forever

Included

Singing Bowl & Sound Master Course

Everything above. One payment. No recurring fees.

$197

Medium Bowl · Ideal for Beginners

The Tiger Bowl

A 6-inch handmade bronze bowl with a fundamental tone in the human vocal range — and a pronounced oscillation (the "wah-wah" pulse) that makes entrainment easy to hear and feel. This is the bowl Jonathan would put in your hands for your first session.

Each Tiger Bowl carries forward a discipline of artisanship spanning millennia: metals hand-blended into bronze, passed through fire, shaped by hand, and carefully hammered to finish in Kathmandu, Nepal. Every bowl is one of a kind, made in limited quantity, and guaranteed for life.

6 inchesDiameter

~1.4 lbsWeight

Hand-hammered bronzeMaterial

Cushion + suede malletIncluded

▶ Hear the Tiger Bowl

Why this bowl for the course: the medium size produces the clearest oscillation for learning entrainment. You'll hear exactly what the lessons are describing.

$350

$454

Save $104

Includes the full $197 course + the $257 Tiger Bowl with cushion & mallet.

Get the Course + Tiger Bowl — $350

One bowl, one payment · Straight to checkout

Engraved Medium Bowl · For Deepening Practice

The Large Purity Bowl

Hand-etched with the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" — an invitation to dissolve into pure consciousness and appreciate the blessing of being present. A hand-hammered bronze bowl with a clear, sustained tone and the weight to carry it.

100% handmade in Kathmandu, Nepal in the traditional way. Comes with a suede-wrapped mallet carved from the Nepali Sisau tree and a hand-sewn decorative cushion of Tibetan cotton. Each bowl is one of a kind and guaranteed for life.

6–6.5 inchesDiameter

~1.5 lbsWeight

Hand-etched bronzeMaterial

Cushion + Sisau malletIncluded

▶ Hear the Purity Bowl

Why this bowl for the course: the hand-etched surface and heavier weight give it more presence for sustained singing — ideal for the meditation library sessions in Module 10.

$350

$424

Save $74

Includes the full $197 course + the $227 Purity Bowl with cushion & mallet.

Get the Course + Purity Bowl — $350

One bowl, one payment · Straight to checkout

★★★★★

A must for beginners — quick and easy

"The Ohm Store singing bowl course is awesome! The short videos are very digestible and informative. I am a beginner and felt confident after the course. You guys have mastered the art form of customer experience."

Sue H. · United States

★★★★★

Above and beyond my lofty expectations

"I would compare the rigor of this class to a graduate seminar. Designed to speak to minds from multiple disciplines, to stimulate thought, to launch the student on a lifelong journey... this singing bowl course is an over-the-fence home run. Highly recommended!"

William N. · United States

★★★★★

Very clear and informative

"I love the purity bowl. It has amazing sound! The course is very informative and the presenter is clear and knowledgeable. I am learning quite a bit about the history and going more in depth about stress on our body and how sound helps."

Mary A. · United States

★★★★★

Love all that I am learning

"As a complete novice the course was exactly what I needed. I can learn at my own pace and return to it again and again. The delivery is excellent. I am enjoying the start of my journey. Thank you so much for providing this excellent course."

Julia E. · United Kingdom

★★★★★

The course is a sensation!

"The course is very well done. Jonathan is extremely knowledgeable and entertaining. The graphics are terrific and exciting. I am so glad I took this course. Truly an amazing journey."

Thomas D. · United States

★★★★★

Everything you should know

"This expertly laid out, fun, and in-depth course provides everything an individual with an interest in singing bowls should know. From the basics of how to play the bowls all the way to immersive sound baths and relaxing meditations. In a word — Awesome."

Ted S. · United States

"I'm not musical at all. Will I be lost?"

The guided arc of this course is designed to be truly comprehensive and truly accessible, as a foundational starting point on your journey to sound fluency. The course starts at "which bowl do I buy?" Module 3 has you singing a bowl within the first lesson. Published research found singing bowl meditation worked especially well for first-time practitioners.

"Is this just spiritual stuff I won't connect with?"

The course opens with NIH-published research, explains entrainment through Huygens' 1665 physics experiment, and names brainwave bands with actual Hz frequencies. You will find the curriculum's scientific approach grounding and insightful, without being too dense or hard to digest.

"My bowl won't sing and I've been frustrated."

Module 3 has a three-question diagnostic framework: Is it the bowl? (Rarely.) Is it the mallet? (Often.) Is it the technique? (Almost always.) Most people fix it in under ten minutes once they understand what's actually happening.

"I already have bowls and know how to play them."

Modules 1–3 might be review for you. Modules 4–9 will likely take your practice to a new level you might be craving. The science of what your bowls are actually doing to your nervous system — entrainment, monaural beats, brainwave shifting, parasympathetic activation — is what most practitioners never learn.

"I want to lead sound baths professionally. Is this enough?"

This is the foundation and a strong starting point for aspiring professional practitioners. Technique, vocabulary, science, and a practice library — everything you need to begin to embody the fluency of sound and become a grounded practitioner.

The Art & Science of Sound

Becoming a fluent practitioner of sound.

This course meets you where you are.

The journey of fluency with sound.

Meet The Sonic Yogi

The Art & Science of Sound

10 modules. 47 lessons.

Meet Your Faculty

What you receive

Start this afternoon.
Return to it for life.

One payment. The course and the instrument.

People who found sound.

In their words.

Common questions.

Embody the fluency of sound.

This course meets you where you are.

The journey of fluency with sound.

Meet The Sonic Yogi

The Art & Science of Sound

10 modules. 47 lessons.

Meet Your Faculty

What you receive

Start this afternoon.Return to it for life.

One payment. The course and the instrument.

People who found sound.

In their words.

Common questions.

Embody the fluency of sound.

Start this afternoon.
Return to it for life.