BECOME A SOMATIC SOUND HEALER.
Learn the sound. Understand the body. Master the art of holding space. Build the work you’re here to share.
Founding Cohort - Spring 2027 - Helsinki + Online
Maybe you've felt the pull toward this work for a while.
Perhaps you're already a yoga teacher, sound healer, coach or wellness professional, looking for the next step. Or perhaps you're standing at the beginning, wondering how an interest in sound, wellbeing and transformation could ever become something you actually do.
There is a big space between feeling called toward this work and knowing how to do it professionally.
The Somatic Sound Healer Certification exists to bridge that gap.
THIS IS NOT ONLY A SOUND HEALING TRAINING.
Knowing how to play a singing bowl is one thing.
Knowing how to create an intentional experience, understand the person in front of you, hold a room with confidence, respond responsibly when emotions arise and turn your skills into a professional offering is something else entirely.
That is why the certification goes beyond sound.
Sound → Soma → Space → Profession.
YOU DON'T NEED ANOTHER RANDOM CERTIFICATION.
Many trainings teach you the modality. This one teaches you how to learn the craft, understand the body, hold the experience and build the profession.
You are not simply buying four weekends. You are moving from “I'm interested in sound healing” to “I know how to create, facilitate and professionally offer this work.”
SOUND — Learn the craft.
SOMA — Understand the body and the person receiving the experience.
SPACE — Learn how to create and hold transformational experiences.
PROFESSION — Turn the work into an offering, a brand and a career.
MODULE 1 · SOUND
Soma & Sound Method® Level 1
In person · Saturday + Sunday · Helsinki
The tactile, practical foundation of the certification. You'll work hands-on with crystal singing bowls, Tibetan and Himalayan bowls, gong, chimes, rainstick and complementary instruments — learning playing technique, harmonics, sequencing a complete sound journey, pacing and silence, and the somatic elements woven through Soma & Sound Method®.
This weekend is built around practice, not watching. You'll play, facilitate and receive feedback from Eva directly.
Outcome: I can confidently create and facilitate a professional sound experience.
MODULE 2 · SOMA
Somatics, Nervous System & Subtle Body
Online · A weekend, structured for real life
This is where the certification earns the word Somatic. Underneath technique is the person receiving the experience — and this module takes you there.
You'll learn practical somatic foundations: interoception, grounding, orienting, breath, regulation and co-regulation, and how to bring choice and agency into every experience you hold.
You'll build a foundational understanding of the autonomic nervous system, how to recognise activation and overwhelm, and trauma-sensitive facilitation principles — what to do, what not to do, and when something is outside your scope. You are not being trained as a trauma therapist. You are being trained to facilitate more responsibly.
The module also opens into subtle-body education — chakras, prana, nadis and energetic anatomy — drawn from yogic philosophy and integrated into sound work, with historical frameworks and modern interpretation clearly distinguished throughout.
Outcome: I understand how to work with sound through the body, with foundational knowledge of somatics, nervous system regulation, subtle-body frameworks and trauma-sensitive facilitation.
INTEGRATION MONTH
Between Module 2 and Module 3
The value of this certification doesn't only live in the live weekends. Each module follows a rhythm: watch, learn, practise, reflect, build.
During this month you'll complete practice sessions, work through your reflective assignments, integrate what came up in Module 2, and begin developing your signature experience — the one you'll design fully in Module 3.
This is not a pause. It's where the learning settles into your body and your work.
MODULE 3 · SPACE
Ritual, Intuition & the Art of Facilitation
In person · Saturday + Sunday · Helsinki
Many people can learn to play singing bowls. Far fewer understand how to create and hold an exceptional experience. This is potentially the most distinctive module of the certification — where you learn how to hold humans.
You'll work with presence, voice, language, silence and pacing; reading the room; opening and closing a space; holding emotional responses without becoming someone's therapist; and the practical realities of difficult participants and unexpected situations.
You'll learn experience architecture — how to design an intentional arc for a transformational experience, moving through arrive, open, explore, deepen, integrate and return — along with ritual, lunar and cyclical practices, circle facilitation, and sensory experience design: how a room, its light and its details shape what someone feels before a single bowl is played.
This weekend is highly experiential. You'll practise facilitating and receive real feedback.
Outcome: I can confidently create and hold my own signature transformational experience.
MODULE 4 · PROFESSION
Sacred Business & Professional Practice
Primarily online · Structured as a business studio, not a lecture
Many wellness trainings teach the modality and leave it there — here's your certificate, good luck. This certification doesn't end there.
You'll work on your positioning: what you want to be known for, who you want to serve, and how to talk about your work without exaggerated healing claims. You'll leave with a real signature offer — concept, audience, format, pricing, margins and next steps — because a modality isn't an offer, and "I guess I'll figure out what to sell" isn't the goal here.
You'll also build the foundations of your brand, website and content: homepage, about page, offer page, booking journey, Instagram positioning and a launch plan you can actually use. And you'll learn how career pathways in this work actually open — from private clients and circles to corporate wellness, hotels and hospitality — so you know the full range of what's possible, not only studio sound baths.
This weekend runs like a business studio. You open your website and work on it. You write your offer and work on it. You leave with something real, not a notebook of someday ideas.
Outcome: I have something real to sell and know how to begin bringing it into the world professionally.
THREE WAYS TO BEGIN.
NEW TO SOMA & SOUND?
Begin with Module 1 and complete the entire certification.
Founding Cohort: €2,790 incl. VAT
ALREADY TRAINED WITH EVA?
Your eligible previous Soma & Sound training counts as Module 1. Join from Module 2. This isn’t a discount — it’s recognition of the training you’ve already done.
Remaining tuition: €2,100 incl. VAT
NOT READY FOR THE FULL CERTIFICATION?
Begin with Soma & Sound Method® Level 1 on its own. If you decide to continue, your Level 1 training applies toward the complete certification.
€690 Early Bird / €790 Regular
Payment in full or via Klarna financing is available, so the investment is accessible without discounting the work itself.
SPRING 2027 · HELSINKI + ONLINE
January — Module 1: Sound (in person, Helsinki)
February — Module 2: Soma (online)
March — Integration + practice month
April — Module 3: Space (in person, Helsinki)
May — Module 4: Profession (online), followed by Practicum + Graduation in Helsinki
Exact dates will be confirmed with your application.
PRACTICUM + GRADUATION
In person · Saturday · Helsinki
Two to three weeks after Module 4, everyone comes together in Helsinki for the culmination of the certification: final facilitation, feedback, signature offer presentations, reflection and a closing ceremony — followed by certificates, professional photography and celebration.
BY THE TIME YOU GRADUATE, YOU WON’T ONLY HAVE A CERTIFICATE.
Most trainings end when you receive your certificate. This one doesn’t.
You’ll leave with Soma & Sound Method® training and real practical facilitation experience; somatic tools, nervous system foundations and trauma-sensitive facilitation principles; subtle-body understanding and circle and ritual facilitation experience; your own signature transformational experience and real practice hours behind you; and the professional foundations most trainings skip entirely — positioning, a sellable signature offer, pricing, brand direction, website foundations, a content strategy and a launch plan, plus an understanding of the different professional pathways this work can open.
You won’t leave with another notebook filled with ideas for someday. You’ll build your actual offering.
BUILT ON SOMA & SOUND METHOD®.
The Somatic Sound Healer is created by Eva Estlander, founder of the Soma & Sound Method® — built from her own experience training facilitators, leading retreats and building a professional practice around this work. This certification is the professional education pathway she wishes had existed when she began.
A NOTE ON SCOPE.
This certification trains skilled, confident, responsible facilitators — not somatic therapists, trauma practitioners or medical professionals. You’ll learn trauma-sensitive facilitation principles and where the edges of your role are, so you can hold your work with real integrity and know when to refer someone on.