Soundhealer Essentials Course 1
- Kristina Bernhart
- 9 dec 2025
- 4 minuten om te lezen
Soundhealing is a very hot topic these days! A lot of people find their way to the world of intuitive instruments and their voice. Thank God!!
I don't know about you, but for me, playing an instrument and singing was an unreachable wish for many many years. Going to a real music school and learning about notes and scales only for the first two years, was a bit too much for me. It seemed back then that playing an instrument was never meant to be for me.
Also my voice was blocked in many ways. I was often too shy to speak, afraid that I would say something awkward, that people would laugh with me, that I would feel stupid. At the end of the day I would often have endless thoughts in my head about the things I should have said and the things I should have said differently, things I better shouldn't have said and so on. Very tiring. This had an other consequence too : I was afraid of people who were more free in this as me, because they could probably ask me a question very unexpectedly. So I tried to hide myself as often as possible, trying to become invisible. It worked to some extend, but I felt lonely often and misunderstood.
Singing was therefor completely out of reach for ever and ever.
Then I discovered a whole new world, yes I know, it sounds really cliché, but nevertheless it was!! It must have been in the year 2008, and I felt quite empty by then, living a life that didn't fit me. In some magazine I read about sweatlodges and somehow this resonated with my being. So I started looking on the internet for places and I stumbled upon Anamcara. They had a quite comprehensive website and the pictures of Roel and Griet spoke to me.
This is a very important step towards healing : finding a safe place, a place and people that resonate with you, where you feel completely safe (although at first there will always be tension and nerves and adrenaline, as you are stepping out of the comfortzone, but that can be a good sign, as long as you notice that your nervous system starts to relax slowly).
In the following years I would attend many sweatlodges, ceremonies, shamanic rituals, reiki initiations and at last the soundhealing year training and slowly I started to open up a little in the sharing circles. I remember being so terrible nervous in the beginning, seeing in the circle how it would soon be my turn to speak : dry throat, cold sweat, trembling inside, adrenaline rush, heart beating out of my chest... aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.
And then...... NOTHING HAPPENED !!!!
Yess, that is the beauty of the safe space. We share something intimate and nothing terrible happens. The circle receives and listens. Trust builds very slowly sometimes, so be gentle with yourself. It took me three years to finally grab all my courage and sing a song in a sharing circle, to roar my deepest womb sound right before crossing a BIG firewalk, and to start being able to socialize a bit with new people.
And it is only in the past two years (2024 and 2025) that I feel so confident that I could genuinely say yes to facilitate the first Soundhealer Essentials Course together with my beloved, Lorenzo.
Preparing for this course, I am (and Lorenzo too off course) using my voice a lot more and I can only confirm once more : the more you practice, the easier it flows.
Tonight we have the last evening of our first series and I can truly say that it was amazing! Wauw, I feel very humbled and grateful witnessing the energy of transformation and healing, remembering the times I was attending courses like this as well and felt uncomfortable at times yet liberated.
It has been a wild ride, this first one. We had to say goodbye to an inspiring beautiful human who participated in the course. Erwin passed away unexpectedly and we came together in the circle to share a powerful ceremony and drumming, to wish him a graceful flight to the other realms. We also said hello to a new little wonder with the name Bavo and we celebrated Stef, becoming a father for the first time. And it doesn't stop there, but for now I feel that the other stories will stay inside the circle. Aho.
But now a few practical words about the course! Ha!
The first thing I can say is that we needed A LOT more time haha. But nevertheless each evening was a good mix between landing exercises, voice liberation, a bit of theory and practicing 1 on 1.
Instruments that we used several times are the Shruti Box, Drums and Tibetan Singing Bowls and the voice. However, to get completely confident using these, we suggest attending the deepening days that are focused on a single instrument, or the practice days.
Interested in opening up your voice and using intuitive instruments? I'll drop a list below with the upcoming events! If you have any questions, don't hesitate, reach out to us!!
May All the Beings in All the Worlds be Happy
Ahoo
Kristina
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