Sound Healing with Annette
Bristol Gong Baths
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I'm Annette Shaw, musician, sound medicine weaver and teacher.
I have been tuning in with sound, colour and energy since childhood.
It has a way of transforming our lives, retuning and restoring us,
almost without us even noticing it happening.
This energy field stores, carries and expresses all that we have experienced.
Sound, directed with intention and high integrity dissolves energetic disturbance and
turgid stagnation, loosens energetic knots from trauma and wounds and allows the energy field to flow, illuminate, expand even more into radiance and wellbeing.
I work with this outer energetic field, and the infinite energy within and
somehow there is no difference between.
Sound works through the layers, transmuting, retuning with entrainment.
Sounding through the blocks we've assembled, whether we are aware of them or not, speaking to us from beyond time and space.
The more we can experience this and begin to allow our perceptions to change, the more we atune ourselves to our inner knowing, resources, wisdom.
We raise our vibrations and dimensional experience to the highest levels
possible at that time.
Seemingly imperceptible shifts, can change everything.
The gong is one of the most powerful tools for Sound Healing, carrying a vast spectrum of tones unmatched by any other instrument. When played with skill and presence, its deep vibrations move through the whole being—restoring balance on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.
We can picture the body as a musical instrument, with different life experiences and ways we gather to cope, hindering us from resonating at our true natural resonating frequencies.
The gong acts as the re-tuning force, bringing everything back into harmony,
our entire being immersed in a bath of sound.
Integrity and intention are vital when working with an instrument of such depth and power. In the right hands, the gong is more than music, it is a practice of healing, a release of tension, a path to deep rest, and a doorway into meditation and spiritual growth.
Upcoming Events
College of Sound Gong Practitioner Training
Sun 25 Jan
|Bishopston
The College of Sound Healing's Gong Practitioner Training Course is a CMA certificated programme offered over 5 weekends across one year. The training provides 70 hours of formal in person instruction, enriched with personal practice, coursework, case studies and more
Time & Location
25 Jan 2026, 10:00 – 17:00
Bishopston, 162 Gloucester Rd, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8NT, UK
About the event
The College of Sound Healing’s Gong Practitioner Training Course© is a CMA-certificated programme offered over five weekends across one year—a journey into the heart of sound and its transformative power.
The training combines 70 hours of formal in-person instruction with personal practice, coursework, case studies, reading, and one-to-one mentoring, guiding participants to cultivate both technical mastery and a deep resonance with the subtle, healing currents of the gong.
Through this programme, participants awaken the knowledge, skill, and inner sensitivity to step fully into the role of Certified Gong Practitioner, facilitating therapeutic sessions for individuals and groups with presence, intention, and attuned energy. The course invites a sacred relationship with the gong—not merely as an instrument, but as a living, vibrating ally of transformation and healing.
This programme was created for the College by Sheila Whittaker, ensuring that the training honours tradition while opening a pathway to the profound, sacred potential of…