Singing Bowl Workshop Level 1–3 · 22–23 August 2026 · Studio Wellnesia
There is a particular moment after a singing bowl is struck.
The sound appears immediately, but it does not stay still. It expands. It changes. It travels through the room before gradually dissolving into silence.
To really hear it, we have to pay attention.
Perhaps this is why working with sound can offer something especially relevant to contemporary life: an invitation to slow down long enough to notice.
On 22–23 August 2026, Studio Wellnesia welcomed participants from different cities for a two-day Singing Bowl Workshop Level 1, 2 & 3, facilitated by Adeline Windy, Founder of Singing Bowl Indonesia.
Across the weekend, the studio became a place of sound, experimentation and shared learning. Singing bowls resonated through the room as participants learned techniques, practiced with one another, asked questions and exchanged personal experiences.
Yet underneath the techniques was another kind of practice taking place. The practice of listening.
From Receiving Sound to Holding Space
Learning to work with a singing bowl begins with something deceptively simple: creating sound.
A bowl can be struck or played around its rim to create sustained tones and vibrations. But learning to work intentionally with those sounds requires more than knowing where or how to place a mallet. It requires attention.
The Level 1–3 pathway introduced participants progressively to the practice, beginning with personal exploration and moving toward applications that can support practitioner development:
- Level 1: Participants explored the foundations of singing bowl practice and its application to personal mindfulness and self-practice. The curriculum introduced experiential elements including breathing, visualization, movement and approaches to balancing and self-awareness. Here, the learning begins with oneself. How carefully are we listening? What do we notice when sound changes? What happens when we stop trying to produce something and simply observe?
- Level 2: The perspective shifted outward. Participants began exploring practitioner-oriented applications of sound and vibration, including approaches intended for working with another person and sound meditation involving multiple instruments. The relationship with sound changes. The question is no longer simply, What am I experiencing? It becomes: How do I create and hold an experience responsibly for someone else?
- Level 3:Â Participants deepened this exploration through further techniques, including approaches to balancing and Yoga Nidra accompanied by singing bowls.
Together, the three levels provided a foundation for participants interested in incorporating singing bowls into their own wellbeing practice and, with appropriate continued training and professional responsibility, facilitating experiences for others in private one-to-one or group settings.
Learning From the Person, Not Only the Method
Guiding the weekend was Adeline Windy, founder of Singing Bowl Indonesia.
Her work brings together singing bowls, sound-based practices, yoga, breathwork and rehabilitation training. Through Singing Bowl Indonesia, she has developed progressive Level 1–3 training designed to move participants from personal experience toward practitioner development.
But workshops such as this are valuable for another reason:Â They allow knowledge to be transmitted through presence.
There are details that are difficult to understand from a manual alone: how strongly to play, when to soften, when to wait, how to observe another person’s response, and perhaps most importantly, when not to fill a space with sound.
Technique matters. Sensitivity matters just as much.
For Studio Wellnesia, this is an important part of practitioner development. Learning a wellbeing modality should not simply mean accumulating techniques or certificates. It can also mean developing awareness, responsibility, curiosity and greater sensitivity toward the people whose wellbeing we may eventually support.
What Science Is Beginning to Explore
The growing popularity of singing bowls has also generated increasing scientific interest. And this is where curiosity needs to be accompanied by perspective.
Research investigating singing bowl interventions has reported encouraging findings relating to areas such as relaxation, anxiety, mood, sleep and quality of life. A 2025 systematic review in Integrative Medicine Research, for example, examined 19 clinical studies from eight countries, including nine randomized controlled trials.
Another 2025 systematic review examining quantitative research in adults reported that many included studies observed improvements in anxiety, depressive symptoms or wellbeing measures, while some investigated physiological outcomes including heart rate, heart-rate variability and brainwave activity.
Earlier research had already pointed in a similar direction. A 2020 systematic review published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine found preliminary positive outcomes but emphasized that the evidence base remained limited and methodologically varied.
That qualification is important. The emerging research gives us reasons to continue investigating sound-based practices—not reasons to overstate what they can do.
At Studio Wellnesia, we prefer to approach singing bowls as a complementary mindful wellbeing practice: a way of exploring relaxation, attention and self-awareness rather than presenting sound as a replacement for appropriate psychological or medical treatment.
Wellbeing deserves both openness and discernment.
When Individual Practice Becomes Collective
Something else happened during those two days that cannot easily be captured in a workshop curriculum. People met.
Participants travelled from different cities and arrived carrying different experiences, professions, questions and reasons for being there. Some were interested in personal practice. Some were developing their work within wellness. Others were simply curious.
They practiced side by side. They listened. They exchanged stories. They learned from the facilitator, but also from observing and experiencing one another.
And slowly, a workshop became a community.
This matters because psychological wellbeing is not exclusively an individual pursuit. We develop through relationships, too—through feeling heard, sharing experiences, encountering perspectives different from our own, and spending time in environments where curiosity and learning are welcomed.
Sometimes growth happens quietly within ourselves. Sometimes it happens because someone beside us shares something that allows us to see differently.
The vibration may begin with one bowl. But the experience becomes collective.
In a Noisy World, Listening Is a Practice
Modern life rarely asks us to listen completely.
We answer messages while eating. We think about tomorrow while finishing today. We move between screens, conversations, responsibilities and information with very little space between them.
Even wellbeing can become another task:Â Exercise completed. Meditation completed. Steps completed. Sleep tracked. Goals achieved.
Sound offers another possibility:
Listen. Hear the first strike. Notice the tone as it expands. Notice how it changes without your intervention. Notice the moment when you can no longer tell whether you are hearing the sound or remembering it. Then notice the silence.
There is nothing particularly complicated about this. And perhaps that is precisely the point.
Mindfulness does not always require adding something more to our lives. Sometimes it begins by becoming more available to what is already happening.
Wellbeing as an Ongoing Education
The Singing Bowl Workshop also reflects a larger direction for Studio Wellnesia. We see a wellness studio as more than a place to attend a class. It can also become a place to learn.
A place where movement, psychology, mindfulness, community and complementary wellbeing practices can meet. A place where practitioners continue developing their knowledge. And a place where people who are simply curious about wellbeing can explore it thoughtfully, without needing to become experts.
- Yoga can invite us to inhabit the body more consciously.
- Meditation can help us observe the mind.
- Community reminds us that wellbeing is relational.
- Sound asks us to listen.
Through collaborations with practitioners and educators such as Adeline Windy and Singing Bowl Indonesia, Studio Wellnesia hopes to continue creating learning experiences that bring together practice, professional development, human connection and thoughtful inquiry.
Not because one weekend will transform everything. But because meaningful development rarely happens all at once. It happens through practice. Through repetition. Through curiosity. Through people.
After the Last Bowl
Eventually, every sound returns to silence.
At the end of the workshop, the bowls were packed away and participants began returning to their respective cities and everyday lives.
But something travels home with them. A technique to continue practicing. A question they had not considered before. A new connection. A deeper awareness of sound. Perhaps even a different understanding of what it means to listen.
For participants moving toward practitioner work, the weekend also offered another foundation from which to continue learning how to facilitate thoughtful sound experiences for individuals and groups.
For others, perhaps the most useful thing they carried home was simpler:Â the reminder to pay attention.
At Studio Wellnesia, we believe psychological wellbeing develops through many interconnected experiences—movement and stillness, knowledge and practice, individual reflection and human connection. Our workshops are part of an ongoing commitment to create spaces where people can develop their own wellbeing while also learning how to contribute thoughtfully to the wellbeing of others.
Because wellbeing does not have to stop with ourselves. Like vibration, it can travel.
Learn. Practice. Listen. Connect. And allow wellbeing to resonate beyond yourself.
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Are you looking for a space to explore movement, mindfulness, and meaningful learning? Discover our ongoing classes and upcoming special events on the Studio Wellnesia Timetable, or visit our Homepage to learn more about our holistic approach to wellbeing.
- Research Notes & Further Reading The scientific discussion in this article draws primarily from peer-reviewed systematic reviews examining singing bowl interventions, including research published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine (2020), Integrative Medicine Research (2025), and Healthcare (2025). Current evidence suggests potentially beneficial psychological and physiological outcomes while also highlighting methodological limitations and the need for stronger clinical research. Workshop curriculum and facilitator information are based on official materials from Singing Bowl Indonesia and Adeline Windy’s professional profile. Editorial note: Sound-based wellbeing practices are complementary approaches and should not be interpreted as substitutes for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical assessment and treatment.
