Sound Meditation Design
12-Module Live Online Training
Oct 15th 2026 - January 21st 2027
Tap into the Power of Sound to Inspire and Heal the World
Are you excited about using the power of sound for the transformation and well-being of others?
If you’ve been feeling like you want to develop more confidence leading groups while expanding your skills and knowledge in the healing realm of music, this is the perfect place to launch your vision! It’s time to elevate your energy and your offering using the power of sound as your guide to heal and transform your communities. You will connect more deeply on the soul level with sound and music while learning how to bring this transformation to others.
Sound Meditation Design returns with the addition of the Sound Meditation Design Manual
Sound Meditation Design has been part of my teaching for many years, evolving alongside my own work as a musician, educator, sound practitioner, producer, and facilitator.
Since I last offered the full training, I’ve continued to teach, research, collaborate, produce, facilitate, and mentor practitioners while refining many of the ideas at the heart of this work. That ongoing process eventually became the Sound Meditation Design Manual — a comprehensive resource that brings together the principles, practices, and creative approaches I’ve developed over decades of working with sound.
With the completion of the Manual, it felt like the right time to bring the training back.
This refreshed version of Sound Meditation Design builds on the original program while expanding it with new material, deeper resources, and the perspective that comes from years of continued practice and exploration. The Manual now serves as the foundation for our 12-module journey, allowing our live sessions to focus more deeply on listening, demonstration, discussion, experimentation, and real-world application.
In many ways, this training is both a return and an evolution — honoring the foundation of Sound Meditation Design while bringing the work fully into where it is today.
What Is Sound Meditation Design?
Sound Meditation Design is more than learning how to play sound healing instruments. It is the practice of understanding how sound, silence, music, space, and intention work together to shape an experience.
At its core, this work begins with listening.
Listening to tone, texture, rhythm, resonance, dynamics, and silence. Listening to the room, to the people in it, and to the way an experience is unfolding in real time.
From there, we learn how to make more intentional musical and creative choices: when to introduce sound, when to leave space, how to create contrast, how to build an arc, how to work with voice and instruments, and how to support a meditation without overcrowding it.
Sound Meditation Design is not about following one formula or copying someone else’s style. It is about developing the sensitivity, musical awareness, practical understanding, and confidence to create experiences that feel coherent, thoughtful, and authentic to you as a facilitator.
The goal is not simply to make beautiful sound.
It is to understand why you are choosing a sound, what role it is serving, and how it contributes to the experience as a whole.
Are you the next transformational sound meditation designer? This training is for...
- Sound healing practitioners and sound bath facilitators ready to deepen their skills, musicianship, listening, and approach to session design
- New and emerging sound practitioners looking for a comprehensive foundation in sound meditation and facilitation
- Musicians, composers, and music producers interested in bringing their musical skills, creativity, and understanding of sound into meditation and wellness environments
- Yoga and meditation teachers who want to integrate sound more intentionally into classes, workshops, retreats, and private offerings
- Vocalists and voice practitioners interested in toning, mantra, chant, vocal meditation, and the voice as an instrument for sound-based practice
- Wellness practitioners, holistic professionals, and bodyworkers interested in incorporating sound into an existing modality
- Experienced facilitators looking to expand their confidence, creative vocabulary, technical knowledge, and ability to design thoughtful, intentional sound experiences
This program will prepare you to facilitate sessions in any environment with confidence and ease.
The 12 Modules
1
Introduction to Sound Meditation
Take a deep breath. Set your Intention for this exploration into knowledge, wisdom and consciousness
2
Cultivating Deep Listening Skills
Enhancing perception and awareness through listening, and connecting with sound and slience
3
The Devotional Voice
Exploring the power of voice in sound meditation with key principles and techniques to share, open and expand our most valuable instrument
4
Sound Healing Instruments
Overview of sound meditation instruments and understanding their unique properties and purposes
5
The Science of Sound
Explore the basic principles behind sound and vibration. Learn how to apply science in sound work
6
Music Theory Essentials
Basics of music theory and musicianship skills for creating harmonies and balanced soundscapes
7
Designing Group Sessions
Planning, designing and executing successful group sessions with intention
8
Private Sound Sessions
Tailoring sound meditation for individual needs. One-on-one facilitation and personalized experiences
9
The Chakras and the Elements
Understanding the chakras and their significance and incorporating the elements into sound meditation
10
Collaborative & Thematic Sound Meditations
Creating experiences with others & designing thematic sound journeys
11
Audio Technology for Sound Healings
Utilizing audio technology in meditation sessions and integrating recorded or live sound elements
12
Sound Business & Event Production
Building a sound meditation business or practice and producing sound meditation events
Your Sound Meditation Transformation…
By the end of the training, you will have developed:
- Stronger deep listening skills and greater sensitivity to sound, silence, space, and pacing
- A more refined sense of musicality, including tone, texture, dynamics, rhythm, harmony, and transitions
- Greater confidence in designing intentional sound meditation sessions for groups and private clients
- Practical ways to integrate voice, toning, mantra, and vocal meditation into your facilitation
- A clearer understanding of key sound science and acoustics concepts and how they relate to meditation practice
- More awareness of how to choose and combine instruments intentionally, rather than relying on quantity or habit
- Stronger skills in session structure, arc, timing, and integration
- Greater ease with collaboration and co-facilitation, including thematic and multi-practitioner experiences
- Foundational audio technology literacy for microphones, mixers, amplification, recording, and live/recorded sound
- More confidence making creative and facilitation decisions in real time
- A clearer sense of your own voice, style, and approach as a sound meditation facilitator
- A practical framework for bringing all of these elements together into a cohesive, thoughtful, and professionally presented offering
What Is Included
The Final Sound Meditation Design Project
The final project is an opportunity to bring the principles of Sound Meditation Design into your own creative and facilitation process.
Throughout the training, you will begin developing an original 30–60 minute sound meditation concept and session plan that reflects your own interests, style, and approach.
Your project will consider the full arc of the experience, including intention, pacing, sound choices, silence, voice and/or instruments, transitions, technical considerations, and the facilitation principles explored throughout the 12 modules.
Rather than following a fixed formula, the goal is to demonstrate how you are applying what you have learned to create a sound meditation experience that feels thoughtful, coherent, and authentic to your work.
The project gives you a practical framework you can continue refining and potentially bring into your own classes, private sessions, events, retreats, or professional offerings.
Your Coach, Lynda Arnold
Lynda Arnold (Divasonic) is a musician, sound meditation educator, producer, author, and facilitator with more than three decades of experience in music and over two decades working in sound-based meditation and wellness.Over the past 20+ years, she has facilitated hundreds of sound meditation sessions, workshops, retreats, trainings, and immersive experiences, supporting individuals and groups through practices rooted in deep listening, voice, musicianship, and intentional sound design.
As founder of Divasonic Music Academy and author of the Sound Meditation Design Manual, Lynda brings together devotional voice, sound science, audio technology, musicianship, and facilitation into a comprehensive approach to working with sound. She holds a Bachelor of Music from DePauw University and a Certificate in Sound, Voice & Music Healing from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her teaching supports practitioners in developing greater confidence, musical awareness, creative sensitivity, and their own authentic approach to sound meditation facilitation.
Why Work With Me?
Here’s what I want you to know about the level of my work and how I’m unlike every other coach out there... Not every coach has—
- 20 + years of real world, proven experience in the sound healing arts as a facilitator, speaker, performer and coach to thousands of people
- The innate ability assist people in defining their musical and healing practice in accordance with their unique wisdom and gifts
- Multi-faceted experience in music production, event & ceremony creation, musical coaching, energy healing, musical mastery and community building
- Facilitated sessions for thousands of people and seen the powerful effects of this work time and time again
- 30 years experience teaching music to people of all ages, genders, backgrounds and cultures
- Collaborative expert and artistic director of the most potent medicine music women's ensemble on the planet, the Sonic Devas Divine Feminine Sound Meditation Experience
- A beginners mind … meaning I am an eternal student who is always researching, experimenting and discovering new ways to transmit this work
Testimonials
Dennis and Kathy Lang
This Sound Meditation Design (SMD) course has expanded our capabilities on multiple levels. As co-teachers of yoga, meditation and mindfulness, we integrate live sound and vibration in our practices, workshops and events. This course has enhanced our musicality, instrument choice and instrument mix, venue adaptation, as well as strengthened our knowledge and use of audio technology for the best deep listening experience for our attendees. This course is an absolute must for those interested in Sound Meditation or for those experienced practitioners looking to improve their knowledge and offerings.
Liana De La Rosa
Lynda is an amazing mentor and such an inspiring musical healer. I LOVED the journey she took us on and I honestly didn't want it to end. She was so generous with all her amazing resources and has so much experience and such an impressive musical background. I am forever grateful for all the guidance, the teachings and support she gave me through the sound meditation design process. I truly feel blessed that I had the opportunity to work with Lynda and I can honestly say, she helped me gain the confidence I needed to continue on this path.
Carlos Militante
As a musician and creator this class was the perfect remedy to my curiosity of what sound meditation was all about. I was looking for a deeper intention to my music and what I found was so much more. It’s not only helped with music but with my overall creative process. The reframing of sound meditation as a design made so much sense to me and has resonated in my approach. From science and music theory to the elements, chakras, ragas and intention of each instrument, Lynda has done an amazing job covering all the bases of sound meditation. I highly recommend beginners or seasoned vets looking for more meaning to their craft to take this class. Suuuper grateful and glad to have taken this.. and also to have plugged in to this community.
Stephanie Nicholas
Lynda is an amazing teacher and artist who is full of knowledge to share regarding so many aspects of sound meditation design. I feel more confident in creating sound journeys and believe the course was well rounded in terms of theory and practice. I feel like I’m more on track after this course and feel more confident with designing sessions, choosing instruments, using devotional voice, understanding the benefits and being more in tune with the audience.
Annie Evans
I recently completed the Sound Meditation Design course with Lynda. It was truly transformational. Music has always been a really important aspect in my life however none of my music education has shown me the power of healing in sound like Lynda's course. She prepared us with all of the tools necessary to successfully start our sound healing practices. Her warm energy and guidance provided a safe learning space and created a wonderful community within our cohort. She provided all of us a safe space to grow not only within our musical journeys but our personal healing ones as well. I cannot recommend this course enough, it has inspired me so much and I am forever grateful.
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