Sound School Level II is a continuation of and deeper dive into the training from our Level I training. We are accepting students who have some knowledge of sound and music and/or who have completed Level 1 with Katie and Jessica. The 3.5-day training will cover basic music theory, playing techniques for percussion, strings, and sound healing instruments including metal and crystal bowls, Monochords, hand pans, and gongs.
We will learn how to integrate sound and music in clinical practices using a variety of instruments and voice, with discussion and practice of ethical touch, embodied vocal practices, Deep Listening®, and more. CEUs for clinicians may be available depending on your board affiliation.
Katie Down
Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC, MMT, MM, is a licensed creative arts therapist, psychotherapist, board-certified music therapist and EMDR practitioner. She received her master's in music psychotherapy from NYU, and in composition from the New England Conservatory with post-graduate certifications from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's Trauma Studies Program and EMDR Level III through the Parnell Institute. Katie is a professional flutist, multi-instrumentalist, and award-winning composer and sound designer, bringing with her a wide range of musical experiences and approaches from classical, jazz, world music, and free improvisation. She has enhanced her musicianship with intensive voice and Deep Listening training with Rhiannon, Meredith Monk, and Lisa Sokolov and Pauline Oliveros. Katie is an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and guest lectures at NYU, Vassar College, University of Colorado, The School for Visual Arts, Cal State Fullerton, The Jewish Theologic Seminary, and Hofstra University.
She co-leads the Sound School training program with Jessica Caplan at Maha Rose Center for Healing in Brooklyn and Mexico and provides individual and small group intensives in sound work to healing arts practitioners interested in learning clinical techniques in applying sound to their practice. She is a Reiki II practitioner as well and provides Reiki as an adjunctive offering in her clinical practice.
Jessica Caplan
Jessica Caplan is a Hudson Valley-based healing artist and vocalist who works with voice and sound as therapeutic modalities. Jessica is passionate about bringing people home to their hearts through the universal and transcendental power of sound. In her immersive workshops, retreats, and trainings, she cultivates nurturing spaces that support vulnerability, authentic connection, and community. A graduate of the Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute (2013) and Grammy award-nominated artist Silvia Nakkach’s Yoga of the Voice certificate (2017), Jessica has guided hundreds of students in sound trainings in Brooklyn, New York City, the Hudson Valley, and online.
She’s a regular guest sound teacher for yoga teacher trainings, and has facilitated hundreds of sound baths and voice- and sound-based workshops at yoga studios, retreat centers, festivals, organizations, and for private events. As a vocal embodiment guide, Jessica offers a whole-hearted, loving approach to the voice. In addition to her 1:1 voice mentorships, she also offers an online group voice program for women, RECLAIM, which takes participants on a journey to their authentic voice. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Observer, Vogue, and on CBS news. She is a Reiki practitioner, long time yogini, and student of classical Indian singing and indigenous traditions. She's also currently in training to become a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. You can find her recorded music online under her alias Jessonica.
