In-Person & Live Online Monochord Trainings in New York & Los Angeles with Joule L'Adara

Professional Monochord Training for Sound Baths & Sound Therapy

Learn to play with more depth, musicality, and nuance with official USA feeltone Monochord trainer Joule L'Adara, MFA in Music.

Monochords are the ultimate mindfulness teachers. Setting their strings into motion initiates a process that uncovers layers of knowing until what remains is only an awareness of the present moment. This practice of unknowing is the "secret" that opens up all the dormant possibilities within us.

While anyone can strum a monochord, there are skillful ways of playing that elicit either a relaxation response or an evocative response in those listening and receiving its sounds. This workshop goes beyond ego-level improvisation — developing your awareness of what you are doing, what the effect is, and how to reliably recreate it. You'll discover how tiny changes in parameters create totally different responses in the body, and that the key to mastering these subtle variations is to increase your capacity for listening.

This hands-on intimate intensive gives you the opportunity to play, experience, and learn more about the feeltone Monochords — including the Monolini and Monolina body therapy monochords plus the larger Concert and Meditation Monochords. You'll learn:

• How to create a "flying sound carpet" rich with overtones
• How to tell evocative stories on the monochord by changing the 5 playing parameters
• How to differentiate between sound qualities and tuning options
• Practical care, maintenance, tuning tips, and how to change a string
• Basic harmonic theory

In-Person 2.5 Day Monochord Trainings

Location: Beacon, New York (Hudson Valley, approx. 90 minutes north of NYC)
with USA feeltone Trainer Joule L'Adara, MFA in Music

Level 1 — Secrets of the Monochord

The power of overtones & natural acoustic vibration

Learn basic playing techniques for skillfully playing the feeltone monochord, and how to differentiate between meditative and evocative playing.
Workshop Fee: $600 (plus local accommodations — recommendations sent upon signup)

Level 1–2 Intensive Week — feeltone Practitioner Training

For Sound Meditation, Sound Massage, Sound Baths & Sound Therapy

Learn how to offer an entire sound bath using just a monochord. Master powerful playing techniques with specific durations that bring clients into deep relaxation — rejuvenated and conscious with deep inner insight. Each student leads the group and receives feedback.
Workshop Fee: $1,200 (plus local accommodations)

For more on what makes this training transformative, read: How do you learn to play an intuitive instrument?

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Questions? Email Joule directly.