The Art & Science of Embodied Sound Design
Mastering the
Sound Journey
Stop following templates. Start composing sound journeys with intention, musical intelligence and embodied understanding.
Join Mastering the Sound Journey
A sound journey is more than a collection of beautiful sounds.
Every instrument brings its own musical qualities.
A combination of notes can create consonance or tension. Repetition can establish familiarity. A change in texture can introduce contrast. Silence can become an intentional part of the composition.
The real skill is understanding how these elements relate, and knowing what to do with them.
A complete sound journey has an arc.
It has a beginning, development, moments of contrast, a peak and a resolution. Individual instruments can have their own smaller musical arcs, while contributing to the larger journey.
Once you understand the principles behind this, you no longer need a fixed sequence to tell you what comes next.
And you can make musical decisions while playing, because you understand what you're working with.
Stop repeating the same session.
Start composing your own.
You already have the instruments.
You already have the experience of playing them.
Now it's time to understand the musical language behind them, and use that knowledge to create sound journeys with your own signature.
You already know how to play your instruments.
Now learn how to bring them together, shape a musical journey and make conscious choices about what happens from the first tone to the final moment.
Mastering the Sound Journey brings together the musical understanding behind your instruments and the practical art of sound journey design.
Through our Embodied Sounds Method, you won't just learn music theory. You'll experience it through your own instruments, hear and feel the relationships between sounds, and learn how to use that understanding when you compose and play.
So you can create complete sound journeys that are genuinely your own, without relying on someone else's sequence or repeating the same session every time.
Your intuition is valuable. It deserves a musical language.
Perhaps you already have a collection of beautiful instruments.
You know how to play your singing bowls, gong, handpan or tongue drum. You have facilitated sessions, followed trainings and collected ideas along the way.
And yet, when you sit down to design a complete sound journey, some questions remain.
- Which instruments actually work well together?
- Why does one combination feel harmonious while another creates tension?
- How do you move from one instrument to the next without losing the musical thread?
- When should you build, repeat, introduce contrast or let a sound fade?
- How do you create a journey that has direction, rather than simply playing one beautiful sound after another?
- And when the session needs a different direction, how do you make a conscious musical choice in the moment?
You might have developed a structure that works reasonably well. But perhaps you keep returning to the same sequence because you're not entirely sure what else to do.
Or you rely on intuition and hope the different elements will come together.
Intuition matters. But when you don't understand the musical relationships behind your choices, you're often guessing.
You don't lose your intuition
by learning music theory.
You give your intuition
a musical language.
Learn it through your instruments. Not just from a screen.
At the heart of this training is our Embodied Sounds Method.
Most music theory is taught intellectually: through notation, diagrams and abstract explanations.
We approach it differently.
You explore musical relationships through the instruments you already own. You hear the intervals, feel the differences between combinations and discover how musical concepts translate into actual playing.
This connects three essential layers:
Understand the music.
Learn the musical principles behind notes, intervals, scales, harmonies, tonal centres and instrument combinations.
Experience the music.
Explore those principles through your own instruments. Train your ear and develop a practical understanding of how sounds relate.
Compose with intention.
Use that understanding to shape complete sound journeys, make conscious musical choices and adapt your playing when the journey calls for something different.
The aim isn't to turn you into a classical musician.
It's to give you the musical understanding you need to become a more independent sound journey creator.
Seven live sessions. One connected learning experience.
This isn't a self-study course where you are left to figure everything out on your own.
You'll move through the musical foundations first, then put that knowledge to work in your own sound journey designs.
Your live training dates
All sessions take place online at 7:00 p.m. Amsterdam time.
Musical Intelligence
- 10December 2026
- 17December 2026
- 14January 2027
Sound Journey Design
- 21January 2027
- 28January 2027
- 4February 2027
- 11February 2027
The training also includes:
- Complete self-paced lessons and learning materials.
- Replays of all the live sessions.
- Feedback on your own sound journey designs during the live group sessions.
- Lifetime access to the course materials.
- Lifetime access to the community.
You'll have time to explore the material, experiment with your own instruments and develop your own sound journey throughout the training.
And you won't have to figure out every musical question on your own.
Five steps from playing sounds to composing journeys
The Language of Sound
Understand the musical building blocks behind your instruments.
Explore notes, scales, intervals, harmonies, tonal centres, tuning and the sonic qualities that influence how instruments work together.
Feel the Music
Move beyond understanding music intellectually.
Use your own instruments to hear and experience intervals, musical relationships and combinations. Learn to recognise what happens when sounds meet, and why certain combinations work differently from others.
Sound & the Nervous System
Explore how the brain processes sound and how musical qualities such as repetition, tempo, silence and tension may influence the listening experience.
Understand why people can respond differently to the same sound, and how this knowledge can inform your musical choices.
The Art of Sound Storytelling
Turn individual sounds into a complete musical journey.
Work with structure, dynamics, transitions, repetition, contrast, tension and release. Learn how to build an arc that takes a listener from the opening tone through development and resolution.
Compose Beyond Templates
Bring everything together in your own sound journey.
Develop your personal musical language, design a complete session with your own instruments and learn to make conscious choices while playing, without depending on a predefined sequence.
You finish with a complete sound journey of your own, and the understanding to create the next one.
You'll leave knowing what to play, and why.
By the end of the training, you'll have the musical understanding and practical framework to:
- Design complete 20–90 minute sound journeys.
- Understand the musical relationships between the instruments you already own.
- Choose notes and combinations with greater intention.
- Work with tension, release, contrast and resolution.
- Create transitions that connect one instrument to the next.
- Shape the development of a journey rather than simply stringing sounds together.
- Improvise and adapt your musical choices while playing.
- Develop your own approach instead of copying someone else's template.
You don't need a bigger instrument collection.
You need to understand what you can already do with the instruments you have.
Created by musicians who understand both the music and the practice.
Eddie & Joy
Sound Healing School
Eddie brings over 20 years of professional musicianship and conservatory-level musical education. His background includes extensive experience with musical structure, composition and the relationship between music and the brain.
Joy brings over 20 years of experience as a singer, dancer and performing artist, with a background in embodied and somatic work. She has also been an embodiment and yoga teacher for over 10 years.
Together, we've spent eight years working in sound healing, facilitating sessions and teaching practitioners.
Over that time, we've seen how much changes when sound healers understand not only how to play their instruments, but also the musical principles behind the sounds they create.
That's why we developed the Embodied Sounds Method: to connect musical understanding with direct experience through the instruments themselves.
We believe sound healing deserves more than guesswork. It deserves musical understanding, practical experience and the freedom to create something of your own.
“Creating a session became clear, easy and even fun.”
“The session design framework made creating a session clear, easy and even fun. Everyone I gave sessions to during and after my exam said they loved the build-up and the flow. It isn't until now that I feel my whole trajectory really comes together.”Dairile
“I prepare my sessions differently now.”
“Not just by feeling, but by knowing what works and what to avoid.”L.
“Now I feel a change in my own sessions.”
“I used to play harmonic, maybe even boring, soundbaths before. Now I feel a change in my own sessions which truly moves me.”Student M.
Your instruments are ready. Now learn what you can create with them.
Mastering the Sound Journey includes the complete learning experience:
- All self-paced Musical Intelligence lessons.
- All Sound Journey Design learning materials.
- Seven live online sessions, from 10 December 2026 to 11 February 2027.
- All sessions take place at 7:00 p.m. Amsterdam time.
- Replays of all the live sessions.
- Feedback on your own sound journey designs during the live sessions.
- Lifetime access to all course materials.
- Lifetime access to the community.
Early Bird Investment
Early bird ends on 16 November.
Pay in full
3 monthly payments
6 monthly payments
The regular price is €999.
Join Mastering the Sound JourneyYou don't need another template.
You need to understand the music.
"I already have my own way of playing. Will this change that?"
No. The aim isn't to replace your personal style. It's to give you more musical options and a deeper understanding of the choices you're already making. You keep your own approach, while gaining the ability to develop it further.
"I'm intuitive. Do I really need music theory?"
Your intuition is an important part of your work. Musical understanding gives you a foundation to build on. It helps you recognise why certain combinations work, understand what you're hearing and make more informed choices. It supports intuition rather than replacing it.
"Will my sound journeys become too technical or structured?"
No. Understanding structure doesn't mean following a rigid recipe. It gives you more freedom to experiment, improvise and make your own decisions. The structure is there to support your creativity, not restrict it.
"Do I need to buy more instruments?"
No. The training is designed to help you understand and use the instruments you already own. You'll explore how different instruments and combinations can contribute to a sound journey.
"Do I need to be a trained musician?"
No conservatory background is required. However, this training is intended for practitioners who already know how to play their instruments and have a basic foundation in sound healing. It isn't an introduction to playing instruments from scratch.
"Do I need to complete Musical Intelligence before Sound Journey Design?"
It really helps to go through Musical Intelligence before we move on to the design part. But you don't have to do it alone: we'll support you with it in the live sessions. And you'll have lifetime access to Musical Intelligence, so you can always come back to it.
"What if I can't attend a live session?"
All live sessions are recorded, both Musical Intelligence and Sound Journey Design, and the replays are included.
"Will I receive feedback on my own sound journey?"
Yes. You'll work on your own sound journey and receive feedback during the live group sessions.
"How long will I have access?"
You'll have lifetime access to the course materials and the community.