OUR PRACTITIONER COMMUNITY
Every member of our practitioner team shares our love for sound and our passion for helping people find more balance in their lives. They are always available before, during and after sessions to support your experience. You can also contact us to arrange a private sound healing experience with anyone of our team members.
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Carlo Volpi
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Carlo Volpi is a designer and visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art in London. A keen meditator with nearly 20 years of experience, he has trained with several organisations and sound healers in the UK. In addition to working with sound and mindfulness, Carlo is a biodynamic massage therapist and is currently training to become a body psychotherapist at LSBP in London. His journey in exploring the relationship between body and mind has taken him to integrate his creative fashion practice with spirituality, hoping to bring therapeutic sound and mindfulness more prominently in education and design.
Mark Smallman
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Mark has always been interested in the ability of music and sound to calm the mind. When he had his first gong bath, he was blown away by the ability of the instrument to induce effortless meditation. Inspired by a quote from the late DJ Andrew Weatherall who said ‘you’re never going to have that feeling of hearing a record for the first time again, but if you look into the eyes of someone who’s hearing it for the first time... it’s the next best feeling’, he’s keen to share the positive energy of the gong with people who have not already encountered it.
Martina Saorin
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Martina is a 200hrs certified yoga teacher, specialised in Hatha Yoga as well as being an Advanced Yin Yoga teacher, Restorative Yoga Teacher, Level 3 Reiki Master, and a Sound facilitator. She trained with the highly respected Don Conreaux, The Tone Of Life in Poland, and Sheila Whittaker in London. She feels so blessed to have found another modality that truly resonates with her and has been studying Sound Therapy with the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) in UK since April 2018.
Nina Gan
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Nina is a qualified Kundalini and Naad (sound) Yoga Teacher based in London. Having practised various forms of Yoga and meditation for over 20 years, it was Kundalini that landed and led her to train further, with encouragement from her Teacher Sivaroshan. Nina’s background as a Makeup Artist in the film industry has enabled her to quickly tune in with people and instantly put them at ease. She teaches with lightness, compassion, and humour – her classes are for everyone!
Pablo Hernandez Urzola
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Pablo After 15 years in a stressful corporate job, Pablo’s life changed in Bali with his first gong bath. He was floating, had visions, lost all perceptions of space and time. Back in London he became a gong bath ‘groupie’, but his work life was becoming so stressful he was reaching breaking point. He then discovered Sound Therapy and underwent treatment. Starting to work with Sound helped Pablo to rebalance, take care of himself, and improved his productivity, relationships, and his whole outlook. Friends soon noticed and said, 'Give us the trick!’ So three Sound Therapy courses later, he launched his own Sound Therapy practice to help others find the positivity he did.
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Sara is a certified 200hrs Vinyasa Yoga teacher and trained in Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound). She will open the gates to the healing power of vibration that will leave your body relaxed, rejuvenated and at peace with the world around you.
Sara Ubaldi
Satu Taggart
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Satu is a certified sound therapist. She creates her gong baths in her Mongolian yurt in Tottenham, London. Satu discovered the art of playing the Himalayan singing bowls on a workshop run by Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino. After various introductory courses in other areas of sound therapy, Satu studied at The British Academy of Sound Therapy and learned to play the gongs, drums and chant with the professional guidance of the tutors Lyz Cooper and Clifford Sax – she was certified as a Sound Therapist in 2011.
Selma Studer
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Selma is the founder of GONG.
After spending more than 10 years leading marketing and communications at Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, Selma decided to follow her passion for wellness and help people do something about the stress and anxiety that ravages so many lives. Through GONG, which she founded in 2018, she is bringing the meditative and revitalizing experience of gong baths to people all over the world, helping them find more space in their minds, less tension in their bodies, and greater health and balance in their lives overall.
Interested in joining the GONG community as a practitioner or staff member?
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Contact us at hello@aboutgong.com