Master Gong Practitioner – Ojai, California
August 22
$795
Master Gong Practitioner Training
Master Gong Practitioner Training
August 22-24, 2025 • Ojai, California
Learn and experience how to use the gong for sound healing, therapy, yoga, and personal transformation with Mehtab Benton, the originator and author of Gong Yoga and Gong Therapy.
This certification course is for sound healers, therapists, yoga teachers and students, and everyone who wishes to use the gong in their practice, teaching, and healing modalities.
In-Person Training!
Due to the comprehensive nature of the course, Mehtab only offers this event in-person.
This is the only time this training will be offered in 2025.
What to Expect in the Master Gong Practitioner Training
A comprehensive training which covers basic and advanced gong playing techniques and how to use the Gong in a wide variety of healing and therapeutic applications.
In this hands-on course you will have the opportunity to practice and play many gongs with individual attention from Mehtab and a team of gong trainers.
You’ll learn and experience:
- Basic and advanced gong playing techniques to create a sacred sound journey
- Selecting gongs, mallets, and equipment for a professional presentation
- Creating sacred soundscapes with multiple mallets, gongs, and other sound healing instruments
- Developing a personal self-healing practice with the gong
- Creating and using intuitive playing patterns and gong sessions for different populations
- Gong playing for therapy, relaxation, and meditation
- Using Gong Maps™ to work with chakras, energy channels, and the four energies of the psyche
- Working interactively with sound healers to create a gong playing session
Who is this suited for?
This certification course is for sound healers, therapists, yoga teachers and students, and everyone who wishes to use the gong in their practice, teaching, and healing modalities.
Additional Fun!
There is space for additional gongs –let us know if you wish to bring yours!
You may also bring other sound healing instruments to use in your practicum group presentations.
View Mehtab’s On-Demand Gong Courses
Certification for the Master Gong Practitioner Training
Upon completion of this course, you will receive a certificate of completion from the International Gong Yoga Association as a Master Gong Practitioner.
This course is an approved 20-hour CEU course through Yoga Alliance (YACEP)
Schedule
August 22 | Friday 1:00-6:00 pm
August 23 | Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
August 24 | Sunday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Training Fee for the Master Gong Practitioner Training
$795
About Mehtab
Mehtab Benton has played the gong since 1994 and has trained students, yoga teachers, therapists, and musicians in the art of playing the gong in Europe, Australia, Asia, North and South America. His book Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment Through Sound has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Slovenian, Greek, and Chinese. His other books on the gong; Teaching Gong Yoga: Theory and Practice and Gong Therapy: Sound Healing & Yoga are used worldwide to train professional sound healers. He has been a practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga for 50 years and a certified lead Mentoring Yoga Teacher Trainer.
Course Facilitators
Laura Benton, a Hatha and Kundalini Yoga Teacher trainer in Austin Texas, has used the gong in yoga classes for 30 years. She has facilitated gong trainings in Asia and Europe and brings divine feminine energy into her playing.
Tara Matthews is a KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer and the owner of Soul Body Ojai yoga studio and healing center in Ojai, California. She is an Associate Gong Training and an accomplished yoga teacher of 26 years.
Location for the Master Gong Practitioner Training
Ojai, California • Soul Body Ojai
206 N. Signal St., Ojai, CA, United States
