🇦🇺 Australia Sound Therapy Professional Training
Australia, Gold Coast
Professional training in sound facilitation, nervous system regulation, trauma-aware practice, and wellness business foundations.
  • Schedule and location
    13-14-15 August 2026 - 3-Days Training,
    Schedule: 10 AM-6 PM with 1 hour lunch break
    Location: Gold Coast, Innerbloom Yoga
    Level 1/3084 Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217 (Upstairs at iFLY Gold Coast)

    Join Shantika for a professional 3-day immersive training designed for those who want to work confidently in the modern wellness industry while developing practical healing skills and authentic practitioner presence.

    This program combines evidence-informed education, hands-on sound facilitation, nervous system literacy, client care principles, and real business foundations — helping you build skills that are both meaningful and professionally applicable.

    Whether you are beginning a new path or expanding an existing wellness practice, this training is structured to give you practical tools you can use immediately.

    ✨ What Makes This Training Different
    Many courses teach techniques without showing how to apply them professionally.
    This training is designed to help you become a confident practitioner who can safely facilitate meaningful experiences, understand client needs, and begin building a sustainable wellness offering.
    You will learn not only how to use instruments — but how to create sessions, hold space responsibly, and position your work professionally.
  • 🌿 What You Will Learn
    🔔 Sound Therapy Foundations
    Learn practical application of:
    • Gongs
    • Tibetan singing bowls
    • Crystal singing bowls
    • Therapeutic percussion and supportive instruments
    • Vibroacoustic therapy
    Topics include:
    • Structuring private and group sessions
    • Sound journeys for stress reduction
    • Deep relaxation facilitation
    • Sound and meditative states
    • Creating premium client experiences
    🧠 Nervous System Regulation Foundations
    Understand how wellbeing practices support regulation and resilience.
    Topics include:
    • Stress physiology basics
    • Relaxation response
    • Parasympathetic activation principles
    • Grounding tools
    • Emotional regulation support
    • Creating safe restorative environments
    🤝 Trauma-Aware Practitioner Skills
    Learn responsible facilitation principles including:
    • Consent and boundaries
    • Language awareness
    • Recognising overwhelm responses
    • Offering choice and agency
    • Creating psychologically safe group spaces
    💼 Wellness Business Foundations
    A unique and highly valuable part of this training.
    Topics include:
    • How to start offering sessions professionally
    • Pricing fundamentals
    • Building a signature offering
    • Studio / mobile practice options
    • Retreat and workshop concepts
    • Branding with integrity
    • Growing through referrals and trust
  • 🌍 Who This Training Is For
    This training is suitable for:
    • Wellness practitioners seeking new modalities
    • Yoga teachers and retreat facilitators, breathwork and somatic facilitators 
    • Teachers, educators, coaches and school wellbeing professionals
    • Trauma-informed practitioners and mental wellbeing professionals
    • Psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals interested in complementary wellness tools
    • Doctors, nurses, medical workers, and healthcare professionals seeking restorative wellbeing approaches
    • Rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, movement therapists, and recovery professionals
    • Spa and hospitality wellness teams
    • Professional musicians, vocalists, and singers exploring therapeutic applications of sound
    • Individuals exploring a meaningful career shift
    • Future entrepreneurs in the wellbeing space
    • Anyone committed to personal growth and practical learning
    No previous experience is required for many modules. Both beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome.

    💫 After The Training You Can
    • Offer private sound sessions
    • Facilitate group sound baths
    • Add sound to yoga / breathwork / coaching work
    • Create workshops and retreats
    • Begin your own signature wellness brand or studio
    • Continue with advanced Shantika trainings internationally
  • Cost&payment plan
    Cost for the training 
    AUD $2,000 - regular price
    AUD $1,500 - early bird price, until 1 July
    AUD $1,400 - If you join with friend or family, cost perversion

    To Secure Your Place
    Please send us your full name for certification and a AUD $500 deposit to confirm your booking.

    The Training Fee Includes
    • 3 full days immersive training program
    • Professional training manual
    • Use of all instruments during the training
    • Graduation practice session after completion
    • Official certification upon successful completion
    Flexible Payment Options
    We also offer an installment payment plan if helpful. Please message us privately and we will be happy to arrange a suitable option for you. ✨
  • ✨ Meet Your Trainers
    Svetlana Kaivalya is the Founder and Director of Shantika Sound Healing Academy, an international wellness education platform known for integrative sound therapy trainings, practitioner development programs, and transformational retreat experiences.
    With more than 20 years of dedicated practice in Raja Yoga, Buddhi Yoga, meditation, and sound-based healing arts, Svetlana is passionate about helping others reconnect with inner balance, resilience, and deeper states of awareness through sound, relaxation, and embodied wellbeing practices.
    Over the years, she has facilitated thousands of sessions for more than 7,000 participants, ranging from private one-to-one work to large group experiences for hundreds of guests across different ages, cultures, and wellbeing goals.

    🌿 Professional Background & Certifications
    Svetlana’s training draws from both traditional wisdom and modern professional education. Her background includes certifications and studies with respected international organisations and teachers, including:
    • Sound Therapy and vibrational wellness methodologies: ISTA, IASH, Golden Temple of Nepal, Toronto Sound Therapy, Tone of Life, Vikrampal Gong 
    • Watsu® certified aquatic bodywork training
    • Eternal Flow certified aquatic healing methodology teacher and instructor
    • Reiki Usui Master Level
    • Trauma Awareness training through recognised professional institutes
    • Meditation and yoga disciplines developed through decades of practice
    • Continuing studies in music and breath-based traditions, including Bansuri flute training in India
    This multidisciplinary foundation allows her to create programs that are holistic, structured, and relevant to modern wellness needs.

    🔔 Expertise & Teaching Style
    Svetlana is recognised for combining:
    • Evidence-informed wellness principles
    • Nervous system regulation practices
    • Trauma-aware facilitation
    • Therapeutic sound applications
    • Aquatic bodywork and deep relaxation methods
    • Group facilitation and retreat leadership
    • Practitioner confidence and session design
    • Personal growth with practical professional development
    Her teaching style is warm, experiential, professional, and accessible — helping students gain not only knowledge, but confidence in real-world application.

    🌍 International Impact
    Through Shantika Sanctuary and Shantika Sound Healing Academy, Svetlana has delivered trainings, private sessions, and wellness collaborations with internationally recognised luxury resorts, retreat centres, and yoga communities.
    Her students and graduates have gone on to create wellness offerings and studios across the world.
  • Zara
    Zara is the founder of Mellow Habits, a practice devoted to nervous system regulation through immersive sound and somatic grounding.

    Her work centres on the intersection of breath, vibration and physiological safety — guiding individuals into deeper states of parasympathetic restoration without force or overwhelm. Known for her steady and grounded facilitation style, Zara specialises in creating structured sound experiences that support sustainable regulation rather than temporary escape.

    Over the years, she has guided thousands of participants through group sound immersions, retreat environments and intimate sessions across Australia and internationally. Her approach blends applied neurophysiology, fascia-informed somatic awareness and immersive sound design.

    In facilitator training, Zara focuses on:
    • Nervous system literacy
    • Brainwave entrainment principles
    • Safe and responsive group facilitation
    • On-body vibro-acoustic application
    • Professional integrity within the wellness space.
  • ✨ Why Choose Shantika Academy
    Shantika is an international academy and active practitioner community recognised for combining modern science, traditional wisdom, and embodied practice in a professional, practical, and accessible way
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    Over the years, Shantika has supported more than 9,000 participants worldwide through trainings, retreats, private sessions, and group wellbeing experiences across multiple countries. 

    Our programs have been delivered in international wellness destinations and communities including Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Australia, Turkey, and Europe, with students joining from around the world.

    Shantika was recognised in the APAC Insider South East Asia Awards 2026, receiving the title:
    Most Innovative Integrative Sound Therapy Sanctuary & Academy 2026

    Our community feedback also reflects consistently high satisfaction, with around 200 five-star reviews across our platforms.

    Real-World Experience, Not Theory Alone
    We are not only educators — we are practitioners actively bringing these modalities into real settings, including:
    • Luxury wellness resorts and retreat centres
    • Schools and educational communities
    • Hospitals and healthcare environments
    • Universities and learning institutions
    • Rehabilitation and recovery centres
    • Private client and group wellbeing programs
    This real-world experience helps ensure our trainings remain practical, relevant, and professionally grounded.

    Our Trainings Are Known For:
    • Evidence-informed education grounded in nervous system regulation, stress physiology, relaxation science, and practitioner best practices
    • 20+ years of teaching and practice experience supporting personal transformation and practitioner development
    • Thousands of sessions delivered, from private one-to-one work to large group experiences for hundreds of participants
    • Trauma-aware facilitation with emphasis on safety, grounding, consent, and emotional intelligence
    • Practical hands-on learning so students gain usable skills, not only theory
    • Multi-modality expertise including Sound Therapy, Aquatic Bodywork, Reiki, meditation, and embodied wellbeing methods
    • Warm international community with students from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds
    • Graduates creating their own offerings worldwide, including studios, retreats, workshops, and private practices
    • Premium retreat environments selected to enhance learning, restoration, and inspiration
    • Clear pathways for future practice and business growth in the wellness space
    • Small to medium group formats allowing personal guidance, feedback, and connection
    • Authentic teaching style that values integrity, quality, and meaningful transformation over hype
    Shantika is more than a training provider.
    It is a global learning community helping people transform passion into purpose, and skills into meaningful work.
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