I created the Aligned Sound Method training because I wished something like this had existed when I began. A sound bath training grounded in the science and spirit of sound - with real theory, real practice, and real time to feel it in your own body before you share it with others, and a community to support the growth and exploration.
No gatekeeping. Just everything I know, passed on with intention and care. If you’ve been feeling the call to share sound - there is just *one more chance* this year in Los Angeles to join and learn.
Sound Bath Practitioner Certification
Los Angeles @reservevenice
June 11 to 14
5 spots remaining - Early bird ends May 24, save $150 🕊️
Payment plans available · Link in bio to apply
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You, me, sound + LA 👇🏽
The Aligned Sound Method
Sound Bath Practitioner Certification
June 11–14, 2026
At our new home in Los Angeles @reservevenice
✨Just 5 spots remaining. ✨
This cohort is intentionally small, so every practitioner gets real hands-on time and support.
In 4 days together, you’ll go from exploring to certified. Learn the science and spirit of sound, get hands-on time with crystal bowls, gongs, drums + more, and leave with the tools, confidence, and community to start sharing this work.
• Pre-training learning module included
• Opening cacao circle + sound bath
• Printed training manual and resources
• 1:1 instrument consultation post-training
• Certificate + 35 Yoga Alliance CEUs
• Alumni community + ongoing support
🕊️ Early bird ends May 24 - save $150.
Payment plans, AfterPay/Klarna and scholarships for those in financial need are available.
Ready? Link in bio to apply or DM to set up a free connection call. 🤍
hi, I’m Bella. 👋🏽 and a little story time about my WHY.
Years ago, I was a school administrator running on empty - burnt out, disconnected, and desperately searching for a way back to myself.
Then I found sound.
Deep into the physical practice of yoga at the time, I needed a way to slow down and be present. My first sound bath was in a hot, dusty, cramped tent at a music festival - and it was pure magic, unlocking the path for me to see and feel the power sound has to shift our inner being.
These practices have carried me through some of my hardest seasons of life - burnout, health scares, moments of deep uncertainty - and slowly brought me back to myself. A fuller, more present version of me.
As a sound bath practitioner, yoga teacher, and mindfulness educator, my deepest motivation is twofold:
🤍 Creating experiences to help others find that same presence, calm, and connection
📚 Helping people learn to share sound in ways that are meaningful, intentional, and true to who they are
I’m a human first. Constantly learning. Constantly evolving. The practices I share are part of my life.
I share them here so you can weave them into your daily life too.
Looking forward to more intentional sharing and connection here. 🤍
🌙 photo by @theyogastrologer
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Sound bath | sound healer training | corporate wellness | retreats
Stability. Awareness. Trust. 🌙
This new moon is bringing in big energy to build a foundation for this next lunar cycle and months ahead.
Here are the journal prompts I’m sitting with this new moon in Taurus -
• What does true stability feel like in my body?
• Where have I been undervaluing myself, my time, or my gifts?
• What do I want to call in that I’ve been afraid to say out loud?
• How does abundance already exist in my life? How can I expand it?
Speak your new moon intentions to help bring them to life 👇🏽
Understanding the foundations of music theory totally changed the way I shared sound. Ever wonder why certain notes and pairings sound “better” together than others?
I still can’t believe some trainings don’t include a basic foundation in music. 🤯
To learn music theory is to explore relationships between notes. Some that feel more grounding, nourishing, and stable - others that are more introspective, or emotional. The key is knowing this framework (and also exploring what it is like to break out of the framework) and how it feels and resonates in your own body.
This is also the part of training students say they were/are the most worried about.
“Do I have to be a musician to share sound?”
👉🏽 No, but some basic knowledge will help immensely to know how to match the sounds with the intention of the experience you’re creating.
As a sound bath practitioner, you want to know how to:
• share notes to help grounding when participants are restless
• intentionally bring in dissonance (and how to avoid it)
• resolve to close an experience sonically
More exploration, knowledge, and tools help you be better versed in how to use and share sound with intention.
Join an upcoming training 👇🏽
Level I Sound Bath Practitioner training
June 11 to 14
Los Angeles @reservevenice
**3 spots left!**
Already completed a training but looking to go deeper? Information for my Level II training will be shared soon make sure to hop on the interest list for details. ✨
I’ve been leading sound in the virtual space for over 6 years.
I can’t believe I’m saying that.
What started with a group request for an in person sound bath in LA for a nationwide wellness brand, turned into a weekly virtual sound offering that started just a few weeks after the world shut down.
That space held me for an incredible few years as we navigated some really tough times. The space has evolved and shifted. People have dropped in and left, yet the same constant for those who have stayed - we all come together for sound. To find restoration, peace, and a little more harmony within ourselves - myself included.
Once a month, I gather this group, and open the invitation for anyone to join.
Always donation-based, share what you can, or simply arrive to receive.
This Sunday 5/17 we gather - 5pm PT / 8pm ET, virtually on Zoom.
RSVP for the link or comment SUNDAY and I’ll send it to you. ✨🎶
Schedule posted on /sundaymeditation
The final learning practical in sound training - graduation class. 🎓
As a group, we design a full sound bath experience - trainees share from start to finish. Welcoming, introducing the experience, grounding the space and participants, a variety of instruments selected to align with the intention of the experience, and intentionally closing the session.
We do all of this for a live group of participants. It is the best, real time learning experience to apply everything explored and learned during the training immersion to see and feel what a live sound bath experience as a facilitator is.
A recent grad shared this in their feedback when asked what the best part of training was:
“👉🏽 GRAD CLASS! I was treasure this special experience - sharing our first live sound bath as a group was beyond. Everyone had a part and the support between all of us was so special. I wish we could do this again and again!”
📣 LOS ANGELES:
Two ways to join this next graduation class on Sunday, June 14th at @reservevenice
1) join training and learn how to share sound!
2) come bathe and reset on Sunday June 14th - link in bio to join
Hope to see you on either side this June. ✨
📹 from our last Los Angeles training at the lovely @astro.gong.yoga 🫶🏽
So you’re a practitioner and want to do corporate sessions? My unfiltered advice below. 👇🏽
Corporate wellness is expanding because stress is systemic, so is the burnout that follows - I know it very well.
Just this week I received an email: “We need to book you for a virtual session - our team is navigating extreme stress right now and all need a break - myself included.”
Sound baths are one of the most effective tools I’ve seen work in these environments. For the individual and for the whole team.
In sharing sound baths for a variety of corporate wellness settings for the last few years - here’s what I share with students and mentees wanting to dive into this space:
1. Ask yourself why.
Is this a space you actually want to be in? Who are these people and do you care about them? Don’t do it for the check. The behind-the-scenes work is significantly more and it shows if your heart isn’t in it.
2. Ditch the wellness language.
Skip energy, chakras, even spirituality. Speak to what they can feel in their bodies and back it with the science. Accessible and grounded wins every time and takes you out of woo woo land.
3. Make it easy to say yes.
Clear offering, clear communication, simple booking. If they can easily picture the experience = better chance of booking.
4. Communicate like a pro.
Respond quickly, be concise, come prepared - contract ready, logistics covered. Plan for extra touch points before the day. How you show up before the event tells them everything about how you’ll show up in the room.
5. Your presence is the first impression.
Arrive early, dress intentionally, advocate for what you need. Check in with people as they arrive - that’s your read on the room before a single sound is shared.
The most I’ve learned about private events, people, and the workforce has come from my corporate clients. And the reason I keep doing this? The person in the back row who didn’t even want to be there, and left with a new strategy for living a little more mindfully.
That’s my whole why and reason for doing it these. ⚡️
💻 Book your corporate session - in person in the Palm Springs area, Los Angeles, and virtually.
Unbox this new tongue drum by @meinlsonicenergy with me & the pups. 🎶
I recently added this to my sound set as a way to bring playfulness and improvisation into my sequences. Each “tongue” is tuned to a different note - this one is in the key of F# minor.
There’s a lightness and flow to the tongue drum that pairs beautifully with other instruments or holds its own as a standalone. It’s also a consistent student favorite - accessible, intuitive, and genuinely fun to explore.
Thank you to @sweetwatersound for sourcing these for us! ✨🎶
This never gets old - SEEing sound. This is cymatics - the study of sound made visible.
When the bowl vibrates and sings, the water moves - and what forms on the surface become patterns, geometric designs we can see.
👉🏽 Structure created purely by sound.
Cymatics, named by Hans Jenny, studied by Ernst Chladni and even referenced by da Vinci and Galileo - shows us that sound travels through matter AND can organize it.
As sound bath practitioners, this matters deeply. Our bodies are made of between 60% - 70% water. See what happens in this singing bowl and we may get a clue in to what is happening within.
I love seeing the connections made during training and being able to see and speak to the power of sound healing. ✨
Sound healing has become one of the fastest-growing wellness modalities — but what truly makes someone a sound healer?
In our latest conversation for Places of Healing, we speak with Isabella Rivera, founder of The Aligned Sound Method Trainings, about the deeper responsibility behind holding space through sound. Beyond crystal bowls and beautiful aesthetics, Bella shares why authentic sound work requires presence, nervous system awareness, mindfulness, ethics, training, and lived experience.
Her work explores how sound can create spaces for grounding, emotional release, restoration, and human connection — while also emphasizing that becoming a facilitator is not about performance, but about deep listening and intentionality.
As sound baths continue to expand into retreats, wellness spaces, schools, and even medical environments, this conversation offers a thoughtful perspective on what it truly takes to guide meaningful and safe healing experiences.
Read the full interview — link in bio.
#SoundHealing #WellnessTraining #PlacesOfHealing #healingjourneys
Often times we have this belief as facilitators that we have to be constantly doing something. Moving the mallets, chiming the bowls, changing instruments frequently.
One of the biggest shifts I see as facilitators grow in their practice is letting go of doing and instead, being present with the group. Shifting away from this being a performance to a very intentionally held experience with sound.
This means slowing down - a lot - to let the body and mind sync up, to let the brainwaves shift and allow the sound to truly bring rest and restoration to the body.
If we are moving between instruments or constantly chiming the bowls, we’re keeping the mind active - and if that’s your intention, great - keep doing it. Often times, it is not.
When we slow down, we are then able to be fully present and hold the physical and energetic space for the group - watching, seeing the cues of the body and mind and responding in real time to what the group needs.
That is the practice of facilitation. ✨
