Healing Methods — Vedic and Tibetan
Nine free lessons on working with other people. This is where the course turns outward, and where the tradition divides into two systems that use different notes for the same chakra and are used for different purposes.
It also covers the parts of Sunita's notebook that have no equivalent anywhere in English: warm water therapy for elderly clients, five-element cleansing, and an eighteen-day treatment programme.
Finish Courses One and Two first. This course assumes you can play a bowl properly, know all seven chakras, and can run a full seven-bowl session on yourself.
The two systems
Most English-language sound healing teaches one note map. This tradition has two, and they disagree with each other completely.
| Chakra | Vedic | Tibetan |
|---|---|---|
| Crown | B | B |
| Third Eye | A | E |
| Throat | G | A |
| Heart | F | D |
| Solar Plexus | E | G |
| Sacral | D | C |
| Root | C | F |
They are not rival versions of the same thing. Vedic healing is used for the chakras and general wellbeing, running crown to root. Tibetan healing is used for stress, anxiety and low mood, and its bowls are arranged differently on the body.
Knowing which system you are working in — and not mixing them mid-session — is the first thing this course teaches.
What will you be able to do at the end?
- Take a proper intake from someone before you touch a bowl, and recognise when to refer them elsewhere
- Run a full Vedic healing session on another person, opening and closing it correctly
- Run a Tibetan session using the second note map
- Give a sound massage, working up from the sacral chakra
- Use warm water therapy with someone who cannot manage a physical session
- Perform Panchatatva five-element cleansing
- Structure an eighteen-day programme rather than offering one-off sessions
The nine lessons
| # | Lesson | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Two Traditions, Two Systems | Vedic and Tibetan side by side — the different note maps, what each is used for, and why you never mix them. |
| 3.2 | Client Intake and Contraindications | What to ask before a session, who to turn away, and the limits of what a sound practitioner should take on. |
| 3.3 | The Vedic Healing Session | The full sequence — incense, prayer, tingsha, the mallet from the crown, and the descending note order. |
| 3.4 | The Tibetan Healing Session | Thirty to sixty minutes, the second note map, and its use for stress and low mood. |
| 3.5 | Sound Massage | Beginning at the sacral chakra and working the spine, hips, legs and toes. |
| 3.6 | Warm Water Therapy | For elderly clients and anyone who cannot manage physical activity. |
| 3.7 | Panchatatva — Five Element Therapy | Cleansing the five elements, with the C, D, F and A bowl layout. |
| 3.8 | The Eighteen-Day Programme | Sound massage, warm water, rest — three cycles across eighteen days. |
| 3.9 | Closing and Waking | How a session ends, the timing rules for waking a client, and aftercare. |
Before you begin — a word about responsibility
Everything up to this point has been about your own body. From here you are putting your hands and your bowls near someone else, often while they are lying down with their eyes closed. That is a position of trust, and it comes with obligations that self-practice does not.
Three things this course will keep repeating.
Sound work supports relaxation, stress and sleep. It does not treat disease. If someone comes to you with a medical problem, the right answer is a doctor — and saying so plainly will earn you more respect than any session.
Consent is asked for, not assumed. Before every session, and again before you place anything on someone's body.
And a certificate from this course is a record that you studied the material. It is not a licence to practise. What makes a practitioner is supervised practice with a teacher, and there is no online substitute for it.
If you intend to work with clients professionally, check what your own country requires. Rules on touch, on insurance and on health claims vary considerably, and none of what you read here overrides them.
What you need
A full seven-bowl set is assumed from Lesson 3.3 onward, since you are working through all seven positions on another person. Lessons 3.1 and 3.2 need no bowls at all.
You will also want tingsha to open and close, incense, and ring cushions — the larger bowls need something to sit on when they are placed beside a person rather than held.
For sound massage and warm water therapy, a heavier bowl with a broad flat base is more useful than a delicate one. The large standing bowls are the ones most often used for that work.
How does the certificate work?
The course ends with ten questions, four options each, drawn from all nine lessons. Answer all ten correctly and the page shows a completion code. That part is free.
If you would like a certificate, enter the code and the name you want printed, and we email your Certificate of Completion — Healing Methods, Vedic and Tibetan within two working days.
The course is free. The certificate is $25. See the certificate.
As above: a record of study, not a licence.
What comes next?
Course Four is the advanced tier — the twelve chakra system, the full twelve-bowl layout, the endocrine correspondences, brainwave states and entrainment, the one-hour session, and Reiki alongside the bowls.
Nine lessons on working with other people. Start with the two systems, because everything afterwards depends on knowing which one you are in.