ISTA Wave Makers Conference 2024
Harmonizing Minds & Transforming Lives
Reserve Your Seat NOW! Save $100 with Early Bird Discount Until May 1st, 2024
Sept 20th, 21st & 22nd, 2024
Sarasota, FL
Join us for 3 days of leading edge presenters, educators, vendors and performers from the leading edge of Vibrational Medicine and Sound Healing. Attendance satisfies the 30 CEU’s required for our ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioners. Enjoy learning, networking, expanding your experience and knowledge in the field of Sound Healing.
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ISTA Wave Makers Conference 2024 When: Sept 20th, 21st & 22nd, 2024 Where: Embassy Suites by Hilton Sarasota, FL Join us for 3 days of leading edge presenters, educators, vendors and performers in the filed of Vibrational Medicine and Sound Healing. Attendance satisfies the 30 CEU’s required for our ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioners. Enjoy learning, networking, expanding your experience and knowledge in the field of Sound Healing. Registration includes access to all events of your choosing, discounted hotel rooms, certificate of attendance and thirty continuing education credits for ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioners.
Meet Your 2024 Wave Makers ISTA Conference Presenters, Work Shop Facilitators and Performers
Joshua Leeds
Joshua Leeds is a music producer, sound researcher, and educator. He specializes in psychoacoustics – the study of the effects of music and sound on the human nervous system, and bioacoustics – specifically, how human sound affects animals. His books include The Power of Sound, Through a Dog’s Ear, and Sonic Alchemy. His latest book, Soundwork on a Hot Rock will be published in 2024.
Joshua’s 50+ application-specific soundtracks are used in clinics, classrooms, homes, and animal-care facilities worldwide.
He is currently on the faculty of The Shift Network’s Sacred Sound Healer Training Program. Previous teaching positions include San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies and The New York Open Center.
Joshua is an advocate for sonic activism in a world out of balance.
Mandara Cromwell
Mandara Cromwell, D.C.M. (Doctorate of Cymatic Medicine), is an American woman entrepreneur and inventor, who is the CEO and President of Cyma Technologies, the manufacturing company for her own inventions – the AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence devices. The AMI 750, an advanced sound technology device, was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Fields of Science and Medicine in 2013. In 2002, she coined the term “Cymatherapy” to refer to wave therapy based on the work of Dr. Peter Guy Manners, with whom she studied extensively. She continues to promote sound as a healing modality throughout the world. As a way of forwarding the field of vibrational medicine (specifically sound therapy), Ms. Cromwell founded (ISTA) the International Sound Therapy Association. Since 2006, the organization has been producing conferences to bring new voices together in the field of “sound science.” Ongoing classes, trainings and programs are offered by ISTA and Cyma Technologies in numerous cities throughout the US.
In 2017, she produced the Atlanta conference “Cymatics: The Art and Science of Making Sound Visible,” which featured never before seen sound-made-visible images of the healing frequencies found in her own sound therapy devices. She acted as co-producer on two short films created at the University of Florida utilizing cymatic images: “dance divine” featuring dance, yoga and the sound images, as well as “Full of Stars” a short film showing three dimensional views of the healing frequencies. In 2019, she released her first book, “Soundflower: The Journey to Marry Science and Spirit,” which includes many stunning cyma glyph illustrations.
Tony Nec
Tony Nec was born and grew up in Malawi, a small country in south-east Africa, in 1957. As a teenager, he attended a school in England run by Catholic monks where he first experienced the power of Gregorian chant. While at university in the 1970s, he was inspired by Tibetan monks to participate in a structured meditation program, involving visualisation, mantra chanting and silence.
In the mid-1980s he participated in various workshops and personal development courses, including mountaineering with the Outward Bound Trust and shiatsu with Elaine Liectie in Glasgow, Scotland.
Between 1988 and 1981 he studied for a Diploma in Shiatsu and Oriental Medicine in Bristol, England with Keith Philips. He also holds a Certificate in Meta-Coaching from the International Society of Neuro-Semantics led by Michael Hall and a Diploma in Sacred Sound Therapy from the Colour of Sound Institute (now called The Sound Healing Academy) with Rachael Burnett.
He has been involved with the Integral movement since 1995, following the work of Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber, Marilyn Schlitz and Jorge Ferrer, among others. He studied Integral Transformative Practice with George Leonard at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California and Theory U with Otto Scharmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. Tony also studied intensively over 5 years with Rob Preece, a psychotherapist, artist, Buddhist meditation teacher and author, based in Devon, England. In 2011 Tony co-founded Wise and Thrive , an international company based in England and is the Principal of The Sound Healing Academy and co-director of The Sound Therapy Shop. The Sound Healing Academy (SHA) is an international educational project, teaching Integral Sound Healing. It delivers self-care and professional practitioner training globally, both online and in-person. Tony lives with his wife and business partner, Jane Satchwell, on a small organic farm in Cornwall, England along with cats, chickens and..
Sara Auster
Sara Auster is a world-renowned sound therapist, meditation teacher and author. She has spent the past decade introducing sound baths to diverse audiences and unique environments all across the globe. Sara’s transformative experiences and original teaching method have made her a leader in the health and wellness space, bringing deep listening and sound meditation to the mainstream.
Named one of 50 Innovators Shaping the Future of Wellness by Sonima and recognized as a top meditation expert by Oprah Magazine, she has also been featured in print, online, and on television, including Billboard, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, VICE, and Vogue.
At its core, Sara’s work explores how sound and listening transform space – both physically and psychologically – for the purpose of creating connection and healing. She has facilitated intimate events in public schools, hospitals, boardrooms, nonprofits, and has guided large-scale mass meditations at iconic sites like MoMA, Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage and Madison Square Garden.
Ben Carroll
Ben Carroll is a master musician and sound healer whose music has touched the hearts of people around the globe. His most recent album, “Becoming Light,” reached top 10 on Billboard’s New Age Chart generating worldwide airplay. With his continued studies in metaphysics, consciousness, and the effect of sound & vibration on the body & mind; Ben gracefully transitioned his career from being a Universal Recording Artist to utilizing his talents in service to the ascension of humanity during this time of awakening. His goal is to help foster elevated states of consciousness by utilizing sacred sound to facilitate deep inner peace, healing, and alignment with the higher frequencies available to all at this time.
Main Website: https://www.soundheals.us
Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bencarrollmusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/bencarroll
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/innerselfsustained
Natalie Brown
Composer, educator, sound healer and multi-instrumentalist, Natalie Brown, has travelled the world performing, recording and teaching music. She was trained classically, starting violin at age 4 and has taught high school orchestra for 14 years. She is the founder and operator of Sounds Heal Studio, providing one-on-one and group sound healing sessions and workshops as well as practitioner training through the International Sound Healing Academy.
She completed Nada Yoga (Yoga of Sound) teacher training in Rishikesh, India. She also has training and certifications in Reiki, craniosacral therapy, Qigong, acupressure and is an Advanced Level Certified Bio-Well Practitioner. Natalie’s podcast, Sounds Heal Podcast, explores using sound for health and wellness with interviews of top innovators & practitioners in the field. It has been recognized as the #1 music therapy/sound therapy podcast on the web.
Mike Tamburo
Mike Tamburo is a world-renowned musician, composer, artist and educator. He is known and loved for his transformational live concerts performed on his personally curated set of gongs, bells and other metal instruments.
A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, Tamburo has focused his talents on metal percussion instruments, string instruments (hammered dulcimer, guitar, zither, shahi baaja), as well as electronic instruments (synths, looping).
Since 1994, Tamburo has shared more than 2,000 concerts and workshops. He has recorded over 70 albums, both solo and in collaboration with Crown of Eternity, Meisha, Arco Flute Foundation, Psychic Frost, Brother Ong and more, ranging from epic gong music to ecstatic and transcendental string music, as well as folk, drone, space rock, ambient, mantra music and sometimes unclassifiable sounds. This man loves music in all its forms!
He teaches gong music, both in person and online with School of Gong. He is also a part of the far-reaching ethnomusicology trio, Dig Deeper, with Mitch Nur and Thomas Orr Anderson. Their online classes have explored countless musical concepts with a focus on the cultural and personal uses of sound for healing, meditation, trance, ecstatic states, relaxation, self transformation, perception, psycho-acoustics, scientific discovery, time and community.
An early adoptee of meditation, Tamburo’s music offers space for journeying, self-exploration and deep introspection. During many of his early performances, he experienced altered states of consciousness and out of body experiences. To understand these experiences, he explored kundalini yoga, energy work, the therapeutic use of sound and how sound impacts consciousness, human perception and self healing. His love for long sustained drones, overtones and psychoacoustics continues to inspire him to explore music in further directions.
Tamburo is also an interdisciplinary sound artist, instrument builder, video artist, sound therapist, writer and meditation teacher.
www.miketamburomusic.com
Instagram.
@mike_tamburo
Siubhan Clark
Siubhan began using sound therapy as part of her Reiki practice in 2019. It felt like a natural extension of the energetic healing of reiki to utilize Crystal Singing Bowls tuned to the specific frequency of each chakra. She then began using Chakra tuning forks when she traveled to Ireland to work with her Competitive Irish Dance clients who were attending overseas competitions, because bringing the singing bowls with her would have been too difficult.
As a Yoga Teacher, Siubhan began introducing singing bowls in a class setting and realized the profound healing her students received from the sound and vibration of the bowls.
With a desire for more knowledge of this healing medium, Siubhan enrolled in the Celtic School of Sound Healing in Dublin Ireland in the fall of 2022. She completed this year-long course in September 2023 having received certifications in Advanced Sound Therapy, Advanced Sound Bath Facilitation, Celtic Shamanism, and Gong Master.
Siubhan offers one on one Reiki Healing and Sound Therapy as well as group Sound Bath Healings and Yoga classes in Chester County PA.
Frank Gomez
Frank Gómez is the Creative Director of Empowered Marketing. He is a WordPress Expert & Graphic Designer
Empowered Marketing started with the founder, Frank Gómez, wanting to understand how things work. Frank was an active and curious child. His mother was happy when his nap time came each day as she was able to get a rest. Unfortunately after two years he began to take his energy to the crib and did not rest well. In the interest of her relaxation, she placed a transistor radio in his crib. She thought that the knobs and buttons would occupy and silence him for a while. Finally, after the radio was placed in his hands, the room became quiet. Mrs. Gómez assumed that he finally began to sleep. She was thankful that she got the rest she needed. That is until she went into his room to gather him from his nap. Rather than find him sleeping she found him holding a completely deconstructed radio, wires springing out and parts all over the mattress. Frank’s father says this was a sign of things to come. Ever since Frank has tinkered to see how things work. Understanding how things work leads to Technical Excellence™.
After starting an engineering job in his 20’s he realized that he liked design. He taught himself AutoCad and started doing engineering drawings for a naval architecture firm and doing side work as an amateur graphic designer. Within a few years he started building websites and learned more about graphic design and marketing.
Since its genesis, Empowered Marketing’s technical excellence distances its products’ performance from its competitors. Websites are nimbly able to attract and retain clients. Websites are hosted on a premium web hosting platform built for speed and security.
In 2019 he made a commitment to develop accessible websites (websites that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act) and has performed accessibility remediations on many websites. Also, he is committed to Sustainable Web Design and using best practices which has served him and his clients well.
Empowered Marketing’s mission is: “We Empower You with Insights, Best in Class Technology and Impeccable Customer Support.”
Stephanie Heidemann
Stephanie blends her unique background in healing and the arts into her modality of Authentic Voicework®: Yoga of the Voice. Heidemann obtained a B.A. in Expressive Arts Therapy from Indiana University, and Certification in Massage Therapy (and Reiki Master) from the Association of Research & Enlightenment. She studied classical voice technique with Brenda Boozer (NY Metropolitan Opera) and movement therapy with Fanchon Shur (Growth in Motion). She performed with award-winning a cappella world music group, VIDA (IMG-Artists), The Resonance Project, HuDost, and currently is the lead singer with the SomaVibe Experience. Stephanie has done artist residencies at Hundredth Hill (Indiana), and Hermitage Artist Retreat (Englewood, FL). She has recorded her own arrangements of early Spanish music (part of Sounds True, inc. compilation “Songs of Mary”) and original music for 20 years. Stephanie resides in Bloomington, IN raising her son, and teaches Nāda yoga workshops/retreats. Learn mor: https://authenticvoicework.com/
Conference Schedule
Conference schedule is subject to potential changes to accommodate for additions and schedule changes of presenters. ISTA will keep attendee’s up to date if and when changes are made. Elective choices can be made closer to the event, be certain to keep our emails whitelisted in your inbox.
Presenter Application
Be An ISTA Conference Presenter
Teach, engage and educate at an ISTA conference. We are seeking leaders in the field of Sound Therapy and Vibrational Medicine to offer presentations and continuing education courses to our Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioners and attendees. Submit your information and proposed course, workshop or presentation for inclusion in our conference and more.
Vendor Application
Be An ISTA Conference Vendor
Display and sell your products, educational services or sound healing professional gear at an ISTA Conference. Limited vendor tables are available for Sept 20th, 21st and 22nd at our Sarasota, FL ISTA Wave Makers Conference being held at the Embassy Suites. One 4×6 Table is provided with two chairs for all vendors. Vendor’s enjoy free wi-fi and three days of networking with the leading edge sound healing and vibrational medicine practitioners, performers, educators, suppliers and presenters. This is your opportunity to create a strong network of like minded individuals to collaborate and co-create with. Vendor fee: $699 for all three days. Please fill out the form below for consideration. Spot’s are filling fast, join us!
Be Part Of ISTA History
Past Conferences:
- 2015 Manifest Expo, Atlanta, GA
- 2015 Cymatic Conference, Atlanta, GA
- 2017 Cymatics Conference Atlanta, GA
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my conference fee refundable?
As a 501c-3 non profit we are not offering refunds for the conference ticket purchase. If you are unable to attend you may transfer your ticket to another by sending an email to info@istasounds.org. Your purchase is considered a tax deductible donation.
Do we get a special rate on hotel?
Yes, once you have purchased your conference ticket you will receive an email with a direct link for special ISTA pricing at the same hotel the conference is being held.
How do I select my workshop electives?
Prior to the conference an email will be sent allowing conference attendees in order of purchasing their ticket the opportunity to choose their workshop electives. Signing up early allows you the best chance to ensure you get into the workshops you would like to attend. It is our intention to record all workshops for replay later as part of your conference ticket price.
Do I have to be a member to attend?
No, this conference is open to anyone wanting to enhance their knowledge of sound as a medicine and as sound for personal wellness. If you are an ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioner this will count as your 30 CEU’s for your certification. You can become a supporting member if you want to help our mission.
I still have question how do I contact someone?
We are a 501c3 and as such do not have paid staff. We work to provide these amazing opportunities strictly through volunteers. At this time you can find your answers by reviewing this entire website. You can also find us on Facebook.
What organizations will accept my attendance as CEU’s?
Please check with your organization to see if you can submit your attendance as CEU’s. At this time ISTA does not have any cooperative agreements for cross continuing education credits for other alliances or certifying boards. Conference attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.
Is the conference available virtually?
Due to expense and logistics we do not plan to broadcast this conference live via the internet or virtually. If we are able to video record sessions from the conference we will provide it to attendees post conference.
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