Learn to design deeply transformative sound-healing experiences for yourself and others — whether you’re a novice or seasoned musician — as you acquire musical skills in a variety of instruments and enhance your intuitive process.
Blend the vibrational power of instruments together — including Tibetan and crystal bowls and many more — and infuse your being, instruments, and sacred space with the beneficial and balancing properties of nature’s five elements.
Would you like to learn how to create beautiful, nurturing, sound-healing journeys? To bring yourself and others into a state of deep relaxation and lure people into the present moment, where the rest of the world — and current challenges and worries — fall away?
Would you like to be able to carry yourself and others into an altered level of consciousness — a space in which awareness is heightened and clarity and transformation can occur — through the power of vibrational medicine?
Even if you have no musical experience whatsoever, you can gain the knowledge — and cultivate the musicianship, presence, intuition, intention, and skill it takes — to design powerfully healing immersive sonic experiences to uplift and guide people into a harmonious state of flow and perfect alignment.
Bodhi Starwater, sound healer, musician, and author, creates exquisite sound-healing journeys, and he’s eager to teach you how you can, too.
He offers you his extensive experience, breadth of wisdom, and unique approach of integrating the power of the five elements to orchestrate effective and beautiful healings with the instruments you can gather.
Bodhi has been working with sound meditation, sound healing, and sacred sound journeys for more than 40 years, having trained with Tito La Rosa, Paul Horn, Allaudin Mathieu, and many other artists around the globe.
Over the decades, he’s added many instruments to his orchestra, including conch shell, charango, guitar, Tibetan bowls, feathers, keyboards, drums, rattles. And exotic flutes from around the world. His music is used in yoga studios, health spas, and health care practitioner offices and has been heard by millions on multiple streaming sites.
He teaches privately and publicly, and now YOU have an opportunity to join him for a highly informative and experiential hour-long event, where he’ll walk you through his process of creating what he calls “sonic ceremonies.”
Bodhi’s sound healings are unique in that he incorporates the energies of five natural elements, (earth, water, fire, air, and ether).
He says we are all made up of these elements, and when they’re balanced within us, we’re at peace.
So, depending on his intention for any given sound bath, he integrates the elements in distinct ways to create the most powerful combination of sounds that will balance the music and your system.
How does this work? Take a look at the various elements, the internal experiences they awaken, the sound-healing principles they represent, and which instruments correspond best with each:
- Ether, representing the principle of intention, creates a sense of spaciousness and clarity, using the voice and drone
- Fire, representing the principle of entrainment, inspires transformation and purification — and activates energy, movement, clearing, and releasing — using the rattle and gong
- Water, representing the principle of cymatics, stimulates fluidity and flow, promoting emotional healing and relaxation, using Tibetan and crystals bowls and the ocean drum
- Earth, representing the principle of binaural* and isochronic beats, brings stability, grounding, and a sense of calm and presence, using the drum and didgeridoo
- Air, representing the sound-healing principle of harmonics, represents openness and expansion, promoting a sense of freedom and lightness of being, using the flute and feather
*For an in-depth definition of binaural beats and its uses in meditation, please read this disclaimer.
The great art and skill is harmonizing them all together — and Bodhi can show you exactly how to do that and establish a sacred container for deeply personal and specifically directed experiences to take place.
Join Bodhi in his new 7-week live video course, in which he’ll teach you how to play a variety of sound-healing instruments...
... infuse yourself, the space, and the instruments with the power of the elements...
... and put them all together to design intentional sonic ceremonies, uniquely tailored to align with your intuitive hit about what you and your listeners need in the moment.
During the program, you’ll have the opportunity to practice (and Bodhi will demonstrate) a wide variety of instruments — harmonica, voice, rattle, gong, singing bowls, various drums, bells, guitar, charango, didgeridoo, feathers, and flutes.
And, don’t worry if you don’t have all — or even any — of these instruments! As the course progresses, you can decide which instruments you want to acquire and eventually master to offer the most effective sound experiences for you.
You’ll learn techniques for creating effective sound-healing journeys, including setting intentions, gently invoking and harmoniously blending natural elements and sounds, allowing room for stillness and silence to enable integration, intuiting individual and group needs...
... and safely entering and exiting “portals” — transitional states of consciousness that can be accessed and navigated to elevate the healing experience during sessions.
During this musical skill-building and consciousness-expanding course, you’ll:
- Learn how to harmonize elements with your intuition and creativity, using different combinations and sequences to create deeply relaxing and holistic sound-healing experiences that promote healing and balance in the body, mind, and spirit
- Understand the characteristics, qualities, and associations of each element in relation to sound, vibration, and healing
- Combine your instruments with the energies of the elements — focusing on one in each session — to deliver stunning, transformative, and healing sound healings that nourish the soul
- Receive instruction in a wide variety of instruments (no previous experience required!) to increase your musicianship and heighten the impact of your sonic ceremonies
- Uncover how different sound-healing instruments align with the 5 elements and learn ways to incorporate them, tailoring your sound-healing sessions to achieve the intention of the healing practice
- Explore ways to establish a sacred container, a focused and intentional space that deepens the effectiveness of your sound-healing sessions by creating a powerful, impactful, and supportive environment for transformation
- Acquire techniques for entering and exiting sound-healing portals, transitional states of consciousness that can be accessed and navigated during sessions to elevate the healing experience
- Cultivate the capacity to release old patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you or your listeners through the power of sound — offering an experience of rebirth and renewal
- Experience practices to expand and harness the power of your breath for enhancing your own presence during sound-healing practices and amplifying the experience for both you and those receiving your sound bath
- Recognize the significance of incorporating space and silence into sound healing practices to facilitate integration and assimilation of healing energies
- And much more...
For Bodhi, harmonizing the elements is about creating a balance between the different energies represented by each, and using them in a specific sequence that reflects their energetic flow.
Bodhi will guide you in using your breath — the breath of life and the breath in your own lungs — to increase life-force energy and create a sense of openness and expansion.
You’ll also learn a few fundamentals of music theory to help you blend your instruments into a musical orchestral sound.
By the end of the seven weeks, you’ll have everything you need to craft exquisite, transformative sound-healing journeys — not only to be of service to others with the restorative musical landscapes you design, but to calm your own busy mind, release tension, and create an internal environment where your body can heal itself from the repercussions from stress and strain.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Bodhi will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully design deeply transformative sound-healing experiences for yourself and others, infused with the energy of nature’s five elements.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Bodhi and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Bodhi’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Bodhi. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to create transformative sound-healing experiences for yourself and others, acquiring musical skills in a variety of instruments and learning how to blend them together with the energetic qualities nature’s five elements.
Module 1: Introduction to the Five Elements for Creating Powerful, Transformative Sound-Healing Experiences (October 16)
Explore the ancient wisdom of the five elements — earth, water, fire, air, and ether — and their connection to sound healing.
Discover the power of intentional sound — and how, by working with the elements and the principles of sound healing, you can learn to produce powerful, transformative experiences that help you and your listeners align with your true natures.
Begin to understand which sound-healing instruments to choose for creating specific experiences — opening portals to construct distinct sound-healing sessions.
In this session, you’ll:
- Understand the characteristics, qualities, and associations of each element in relation to sound, vibration, and healing
- Discover how elements interact with and influence one another in the context of sound-healing practices
- Learn about the importance of balancing the elements within yourself and in the environment for optimal healing
- Develop a foundational understanding of how to incorporate the five elements into your sound-healing practice
- Practice the Ocean Wave Buddha Breath and a simple harmonica exercise
Module 2: The Element of Ether to Connect With Your Inner Wisdom & Intuition (October 23)
As you bring the Indigenous concept of the “directions” into your practice, begin in the center with the element of ether.
Ether is the element of space and infinite potential. It’s the most subtle of the elements and represents the space in which all other elements exist.
It doesn’t have the movement of wind, the heat of fire, the coolness of water, nor the firmness of earth. It’s “akasha,” the sky — boundless, formless, completely free. Ether is the beginning of All, holds All together, and moves through All.
This is where you find your inner music. Explore ways to work with ether within the context of sound healing, and discover how it can help you connect with your inner wisdom and intuition.
It’s here that all things begin and it’s here that you begin your journey.
In this session, you’ll:
- Delve into the realm of ether, the fifth and most subtle element in sound healing
- Understand the connection between sound, vibration, and the expansion of awareness
- Experience techniques for using the drone, humming, and vocalizing with a simple vowel practice and chant
- Develop the ability to incorporate ether practices into your sound-healing sessions
Module 3: The Element of Fire for Transformation, Purification, Vitality & Empowerment (October 30)
Move to the east and the element of fire — the place of the sunrise.
Known as Grandfather Fire in the Huichol tradition — an Indigenous community that resides in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico — fire is the first healer. It’s the element of transformation and purification. It represents the energy of change and the power of the sun.
The element of fire in sound healing can help you release old patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you. It symbolizes death and transformation and opens the door for rebirth and renewal. It corresponds to vitality, courage, creativity, and motivation.
Through the use of instruments such as gongs and rattles, which have a strong percussive quality, the element of fire can be used to create energy and movement, purifying the container of your practice.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the transformative power of the fire element in sound healing
- Understand the relationship between sound, vibration, and energy activation in the context of the fire element
- Explore instruments and techniques that resonate with fire, such as gongs and rattles
- Develop the ability to incorporate the fire element into your sound-healing sessions to enhance vitality and empowerment
- Learn techniques on the rattle and gong
Module 4: The Element of Water for Emotional Release, Healing & Deep Personal Expression (November 6)
Move to the south, the element of water — the ocean, rain, rivers, and streams. This gentle element represents emotional flow and the power of the moon.
The energy of water can provide a sense of calm and peacefulness in your life. When balanced, it offers a sense of emotional connection and openness, allowing you to flow with your emotions and express yourself more freely.
Combined, water and emotion move energy and information from one place to another. Water flows to the lowest level and, entering smoothly, fills any space. Mother Ocean is the birthplace of all living things on earth. She invites surrender and the allowing of our experiences, whether labeled positive or negative.
In sound healing, the element of water can be used to create a sense of relaxation through the use of instruments such as Tibetan and crystal bowls, rainsticks, and ocean drums, which have a gentle and soothing quality.
These sounds can release emotional blocks and help you find a sense of flow and ease in your life. Water has the power of beauty — to inspire growth and compassion. It’s a gentle and flowing force, representing fluidity and connection to the Divine Feminine.
In this session, you’ll:
- Dive into the realm of water and its connection to emotions, healing, and the flow of energy in sound-healing practices
- Understand the relationship between sound, vibration, and emotional release within the context of the water element
- Explore instruments and techniques that resonate with water, such as singing bowls, ocean drum, bells, guitar, and charango
- Learn how to harness the water element to support emotional healing and enhance empathy and intuition
- Develop the ability to incorporate water practices into your sound-healing sessions to promote emotional balance and harmony
Module 5: The Element of Earth for Grounding, Stability, Balance & Nourishment (November 13)
Moving to the west and the element of earth, learn how earth has the quality of stability and grounding. It represents the physical body. The element of earth is associated with a sense of safety and inner security.
The energy of earth can also be used to release anxiety. Earth is represented physiologically in our bodies through minerals like zinc, potassium, and magnesium.
Earth is the element most associated with mountains, forests, and fields. The most stable of all the elements, it’s the body of the planet herself. It represents grounding and connection to your physical body and all living beings.
Through the earth element, you can connect to your collective past, all that transpired before your birth, and all that will continue after your death. Like a good mother, the earth element is nurturing, protective, and firm.
By working with instruments that have a deep and grounding quality, like the drum and didgeridoo, you can start to feel grounded and connected to your physical body.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore the earth element and its connection to stability, balance, and nourishment in sound healing
- Understand the significance of resonance and grounding techniques in creating a strong foundation for healing
- Experience the power of various instruments and tools that resonate with earth, such as drums and didjeridoo
- Learn how to harness the earth element to enhance relaxation and reduce stress
- Develop the ability to incorporate earth practices into your sound-healing sessions to promote overall wellbeing and self-care.
Module 6: The Element of Air for Higher Perspective, Increased Ease With Change, Better Communication & Improved Connection to the Shamanic Realms (November 20)
Moving to the north, come back to the breath and the element of air. Air is the element of movement and has the quality of freedom. It represents the power of the wind and the breath of life. This element is often associated with the sky and clouds.
Air is unstable, ungrounded, light, swift, and etheric. It offers a higher perspective. It’s through air that you’ll be able to connect to the upper realms of the shamanic world. The breath of life, and the breath in your lungs can guide you and help you reflect on your experience on earth.
Air is also the element of communication, new perspective, and the mind. It can act as a bridge between the earth and fire elements, as it connects physically with the burning of material. A fire can only burn as long as it has access to air.
Air is part of the transformation process that takes place within, enabling your ego and mind to burn away and be released — so the new can unfold. The air allows the process of burning to take place. Wind currents direct where the flow of water goes. Air stores and categorizes information, as does the mind.
In sound healing, the element of air can be used to create a sense of openness and expansion through the use of instruments such as flutes, feathers, and chimes, which have a light and airy quality.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore the world of air and its connection to breath, communication, and prana (life force energy) in sound-healing practices
- Understand the relationship between sound, vibration, and the movement of air through the body
- Experience techniques and instruments that resonate with air, such as the flute and feathers
- Develop the ability to incorporate air practices into your sound-healing sessions to promote self-expression, communication, and energy flow
Module 7: Harmonizing the Elements to Create Potent Sound-Healing Experiences Tailored to Individual & Group Needs (December 4)
Learn basic music theory to harmonize the elements together in sound healing, crafting a balanced and transformative experience. Focus on all the elemental energies to design a sonic ceremony that flows naturally.
Understand the importance of using your intuition to guide sessions and create a space for deep healing and alignment.
Use key techniques and tools, including intention-setting, creating smooth transitions, incorporating stillness, establishing sound portals, performance, flow charts, and harmonious connections between instruments.
The goal is to create a healing journey tailored to individual and group needs.
In this session, you’ll:
- Develop the skills to combine instruments, sounds, and techniques that resonate with each element in a sonic ceremony — to address imbalances and promote an overall sense of wellbeing
- Cultivate the ability to unite the elements within your body and energy field, enhancing your personal sound-healing journey
- Understand the importance of creating a nurturing and sacred healing environment that supports the harmonious flow of all five elements
- Discover how to combine the wisdom of the five elements to create balance and harmony in your sound healing practice
- Learn about music theory and how to harmoniously blend instruments together
- Determine the key and the mode of your instruments using the modal matrix and the circle of fifths
The The Art of Creating Sound Healing Journeys Bonus Offering
In addition to Bodhi’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Tao of Music
PDF Book by Bodhi Starwater
Enjoy this series of short vignettes of Bodhi sharing stories about his life in music. Learn awareness exercises to help you experience life as music. Discover what it takes to embrace music as sonic nourishment in your life. Understand how to appreciate your environment, and recognize that it’s always a part of your sonic landscape.
Excerpt From 5 Elements of Sound Healing
PDF Introduction and Chapter From Bodhi Starwater’s New Book
Get a taste of the content of Bodhi’s new five elements book, and how It can help you create your own sound-healing practice. Learn some of the keys to designing sound-healing journeys for both personal and professional use. This book will help you sense if sound-healing is something you’d like to include in your life path.
What People Are Saying About Bodhi Starwater...
— Nikki O’Malley: “It Wasn’t Until I Met Bodhi
That I Started to Connect the Dots to Figure Out How to Play Music”
Bodhi is the kind of extraordinary teacher who meets you where you are and makes you feel incredibly welcome, capable, competent, and engaged at every level. I love the integration of the elements and understanding how they work together. I look at them as building blocks, and I was able to associate instruments with them in a new way.
I feel so peaceful and grateful for Bodhi sharing his craft. He’s a master at what he does. If anyone is on the sound healing path or a musician, they could truly benefit from what Bodhi has to offer because he understands sound in a way that not a lot of people do.
Bodhi is the best teacher that I’ve come across. I’ve been a sound healer for over 10 years, and he’s assisted me with better understanding music theory, guiding me on the path of making really harmonious music.
I’m grateful to Bodhi because he took the difficult things and made them simple. I feel more confident that I can work with other people and we can blend our tonal instruments together. I would never have tried that before.
Working with Bodhi was a magical learning experience. I came in loving music but not knowing a lot about how to put it together. He is a phenomenal teacher.
Join the Global Community
The Art of Creating Sound Healing Journeys offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Bodhi Starwater will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Bodhi Starwater
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Bodhi Starwater, sound healer, musician, author, and creativity coach — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to design deeply transformative sound-healing experiences using the power of the five elements — ether, fire, water, earth, and air. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Art of Creating Sound Healing Journeys
We feel honored that Bodhi Starwater has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a sound healer, musician, author, creativity coach, and teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about creating powerful sound-healing journeys of your own, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Art of Creating Sound Healing Journeys — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before October 30, 2024 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Bodhi Starwater
About Bodhi Starwater
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After hearing multi-talented musician Paul Horn play flute in the Taj Mahal, Bodhi Starwater knew, at 15, that the silver flute would be his lifelong companion. Over the years he has added many other instruments to his orchestra, including exotic flutes from around the world, conch shell, charango, 12-string guitar, Tibetan bowls, feathers, harmonica, gong, drums, and rattles.
Bodhi’s been working with sound meditation, sound healing, and sacred sound journeys for over 40 years. He's studied with Tito La Rosa, Paul Horn, Allaudin Mathieu, and many other artists around the globe. His music is used in yoga studios, health spas, and health practitioners’ offices. His music has had millions of plays on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming sites.
Bodhi, who has a deep love for the natural world, worked many years as a wilderness and river guide. Playing his flute in the forest, inspired by the sounds of nature, he developed his own, unique style of improvisation within the healing music modalities. He’s been a featured artist at many festivals and conferences around the world, including the International Conference on Shamanism.
He has 18 original albums in his portfolio, and is the founder of the touring and recording ensembles Sonic Transfusion... Crystal Wind... and Rhythm Matrix. He’s had two #1 flute albums on the Zone Music Reporter International New Age Music Chart, including Deep Dream in 2020, and Trans Ukraine in 2006. His latest book is titled 5 Elements of Sound Healing.
In 2021, Bohdi created the Soundscape Oasis, a sound-healing temple sanctuary in Mt. Shasta, California. He offers group and private sound-healing journeys for concerts, festivals, yoga classes, meditation groups, retreats, and conferences.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What are Binaural Beats and how do they work?
Although binaural beats are widely used and generally considered safe to use for most people, they may not be right for everyone. Before deciding whether or not you wish to use this optional technology, please read our guidelines for optional use of binaural guides here.
The Shift Network recommends that you always conduct your own research and consult with your healthcare provider(s) prior to engaging on a new regimen or practice.
