The British Academy of Sound Therapy - BAST

BAST have a therapeutic focus in our training. We emphasise therapy-based training, preparing students to apply sound therapy in diverse healthcare and wellness settings, whether it’s group sound therapy, individual sessions, or soundbath relaxation groups.

We are now enrolling for 2025! To start your therapeutic sound journey, request a prospectus from our website: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

I live abroad or am unable to travel, can I still study with BAST?

Yes, you can! The majority of our courses include a distance learning option so you can study virtually. Your lessons will be provided live over Zoom so you will need to attend certain sessions but in-person attendance isn’t required.

Distance learning is available for 5 of our 7 courses. Those excluded are the Tuning Forks Therapy course and the Arts Therapy course.

To find out more, request a prospectus: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

Our most in-depth Sound Therapy course is the Practitioner Level Diploma in Sound Therapy course.

A practitioner can treat specific conditions and work with a client in a potentially deep and transformative way as well as with groups.

Our course offers you a comprehensive, high standard of professional training in a range of different instruments. Choose 3 or 4 instruments* to major in from the following. Tuning forks, Gongs, crystal bowls, voice, drum, crystal pyramids, Himalayan singing bowls and monochords.

To find out more, request a prospectus: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

Supporting with simple sound therapy tips for a healthier mind:

✨ Breathe deeply and reset
🎶 Create a calming playlist to soothe your senses
😴 Prioritise restful sleep for mental clarity
🧘‍♀️ Attend a sound bath to experience deep relaxation

Sound therapy helps guide you into altered states of consciousness, enhancing your overall well-being.

Our Holistic Voice Therapy course offers both 1-2-1 and group work, using two unique therapeutic approaches:

1️⃣ Passive Voice Therapy – Gentle tones and overtones help guide clients into a deep meditative state, promoting physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

2️⃣ Vocal Processing Techniques – Practitioners use 22+ voice, breath, movement, and visualization exercises tailored to the client’s needs. Research shows these techniques can boost immunity by increasing salivary Immunoglobulin A, a key part of the body’s defense system.

Join us to unlock the healing power of your voice! The early bird discount ends on 31st October. Request a prospectus: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

Discover a relaxed and fun therapeutic method to improve well-being at our sound and voice arts therapy course! 🎶✨

Our course covers:
🎶 Drum circles, rhythm groups & soundscapes
🎶 Exploring the ‘sonic landscape’ & the importance of space and place
🎶 Vocal improvisation & creating beautiful ‘tone poems’
🎶 Voicescapes, community voice groups & creative games
🎶 Using sound to navigate life’s challenges with therapeutic techniques
🎶 Sound, voice & movement in creative arts therapy
🎶 How musical intervals affect the mind, body, and emotions
🎶 The science behind why sound is so transformative
🎶 The 7Rs Method for deep experiential processing

Find out more in our prospectus: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

This week is National Work Life Week. One of the biggest stressors we see as therapists is those who have an unhealthy work/life balance.

Those in stressful work environments can have raised cortisol and imbalance hormones which could cause stress-related illnesses.

Our research shows that just 13 minutes of music a day can be enough to help with relaxation. So this , take some time out for yourself.

Try our music platform, LifeSonics and experience music as medicine.

“Listening to LifeSonics’ tracks was enriching on so many levels. I felt bouncy and alive the next day, ready to tackle any challenge I faced.” – Amanda Harrison

The first 7 days are free! Go to Lifesonics.com to start your free trial today.

Discover the power of voice therapy with BAST at one of our upcoming Voice Therapy courses! Enrol before 31st October for a course discount.

🟤 Learn vocal anatomy & physiology
⚪ Explore neuroscience & psychology behind therapeutic voice work
🟤 Boost immunity & balance neurotransmitters with your voice
⚪ Develop your voice with breath-work and vocal exercises
🟤 Experience voice-bath relaxation & the PramAna sequence (like Tai Chi)
⚪ Master 22+ vocal processing techniques to improve well-being
🟤 Use the 7Rs Reflective process to create a transformative therapeutic space

Ready to unlock your voice? Find out more about our Voice Therapy courses: https://buff.ly/3Q0NdMQ

BAST’s methods are supported by research, offering programs aligned with modern health practices. Students gain a deep understanding of the effects of sound on overall health, making this program ideal for those seeking evidence-based sound therapy training.

If you’d like to find out more about our 2025 courses, request a prospectus from our website: https://buff.ly/4gxAugX

The first musical instrument used by our ancestors was the voice, it is the essence of us. We carry it with us always, making it the most powerful (and convenient!) instrument we own.

Using the voice for health stimulates us from the inside out, uplifting us, increasing our immune response and brings us closer together.

You can learn more about using the Voice in either of our 2025 Voice Therapy courses! Find out more on our website.

"The medicine of the future will be music and sound." - Edgar Cayce (1877-1945)

We are making music the medicine of today through our sound and music initiatives. Our music platform LifeSonics features hours of specifically composed music by our director Lyz Cooper who has dedicated her life to improving health and wellbeing through sound. Her mission is to share with you her knowledge and ability to support your every day through specialist music composition.

Try Lifesonics to support your wellbeing at Lifesonics.com.

Earlybird discounts are now available for those who enrol into any of our 2025 courses!

Enrolment is open, in 2025 you can choose to study:

🎵 Group Sound Therapy
🎵 Practitioner Level Diploma in Sound Therapy
🎵 Holistic Voice Therapy
🎵 Group Voice Therapy
🎵 Sound and Voice Arts Therapy
🎵 Group Sound Relaxation
🎵 Tuning Forks Therapy

If you have any questions, ask us below!

Apply on our website: https://buff.ly/3GXNSux

We can all say that at some time we’ve been moved by music.

This is because music provides and provokes a response, which is universal, ingrained into our evolutionary development, and leads to marked changes in emotions. Our mental health and physical health are so connected that this improves our overall wellbeing.

By harnessing the way we respond to music, sound therapists can direct therapeutic benefit to many different health problems.

Having fun with my new drum. Learning about in order to integrate with my dreamwork.

A big warm welcome to our 2024 GST students who start their journey into therapeutic sound today!

We are so excited to have you with us and can’t wait to get started.

Creative therapies boost health and wellbeing by bringing us together for a mode of expression.

Our Sound & Voice Arts Course aims to help people to use therapeutic sound for relaxation, stress, pain control and management and mood-state . By combining therapeutic sound with creativity, we merge two successful methods of enhancing wellbeing together.

So let’s make music together for fun and for health all in one at our next Sound & Voice Arts Course - starts March 2025.

In a busy world that never stops, we more than ever need relaxation on the go. Often we can’t make it to a therapeutic sound session, or our diaries are too messy.

LifeSonics makes this easy for you. Your account can be logged into 24/7 on your phone or computer and is ready to provide you with tracks for relaxation and wellbeing at any time. Tracks vary from 3 minutes to 1 hour so whatever your time frame, you can benefit from time out.

Listen in for free for 7 days at Lifesonics.com.

There is evidence to show that positive state of mind has a huge impact on our overall health and well-being and contributes to not only management of symptoms but also to a quicker recovery (Lamers. et al. 2012).

In the BAST method of sound therapy we work with a client’s belief about their symptoms rather than just with the symptom alone. We also work with the ‘stuff’ of life, such as bereavement, relationship, career and family problems – basically anything that a person considers is preventing them from living a life full of flow, potential and positivity.

We train all our therapists to look at health and wellbeing this way for the best well-rounded method.

Dates for our 2025 courses are now live!

In 2025 choose from:
🎵 Group Sound Therapy
🎵 Practitioner Level Diploma in Sound Therapy
🎵 Holistic Voice Therapy
🎵 Group Voice Therapy
🎵 Sound and Voice Arts Therapy
🎵 Group Sound Relaxation
🎵 Tuning Forks Therapy

You can also combine courses to receive a higher level of qualification and get a discount by merging courses. Enrol early here: https://buff.ly/3GXNSux

Music for your needs and your feelings. Ask our Sonic Prescription generator on LifeSonics to help you find tracks to support you each day.

Our music at Lifesonics can help with:

💙 Stress
💙 Sleep
💙 Anxiety
💙 Pain
💙 And more!

Find your peace through our music platform on demand. Start your free 7-day trial at Lifesonics.com.

We now have dates for our next Holistic Voice Therapy course.

This has become one of our most popular courses so make sure you secure your place early.

You can choose to study online, or as a mixture of online and in person modules. This is a higher level qualification focusing on 1-2-1 therapy where you’ll learn to give treatments using voice, breath, visualisation & vocal processing techniques.

Find out more: https://buff.ly/3Q0NdMQ

Enrolment ends today for our Group Sound Therapy course - put your application in before midnight to secure your spot!

You’ll learn how to provide a mixture of techniques including sound baths and gong baths - You’ll learn to work with him bowls, crystal bowls, gong and therapeutic percussion.

You’ll also learn how to use the drum to improve health and wellbeing and rebalance the system of your participants through drum journeys and the rhythm of life.

Take your groups through transformational processes using sound.

Choose to study either online through distance learning or choose blended learning with in person modules. Enrol here: https://buff.ly/49ecM5c