Sound Healing & Wellness Workshops
Beading & Sound is an Indigenous lead wellness workshop that weaves together beading as a cultural, creative practice with gentle crystal singing bowl soundscapes to support wholistic well-being. Grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, this workshop creates a calm, inclusive space where youth, adults, and Elders can gather, create, rest, and reconnect—together.
Beading or tea blending offers a hands-on way to slow down, share stories, and express identity, while sound provides non-verbal support for grounding, focus, and nervous system regulation. Together, these practices nurture balance across the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of wellness.
Purpose & Intent
This workshop is designed to:
- Support multi-generational connection and learning
- Strengthen cultural identity through beading or tea blending as wellness
- Offer a low-barrier, trauma-informed space for rest and creativity
- Use sound as gentle support for calm, presence, and reflection
- Encourage relationship to self, community, and land
Guiding Indigenous Wellness Principles, The workshop is guided by:
- Wholistic balance and relational wellness
- Learning through doing, observation, and story
- Respect for lived experience across generations
- Reciprocity, consent, and care
- Land- and season-aware approaches (when appropriate)
Crystal bowls are offered as a wellness support and are not a replacement for ceremony or medical care.
Workshop Structure
Length: 2–5 hours | Depending on wellness workshop selection
Group Size: 6–15 participants | Individual or smaller group session available
Participants wear comfortable clothing, bring a pillow, and mat to lay or sit on
Session Flow:
1. Welcome & Grounding – gentle opening, intention setting, and orientation
2. Beading with Sound Support – participants bead at their own pace while soft crystal bowls play in the background
3. Restorative Sound Pause – optional guided rest with crystal bowls
4. Closing Reflection – voluntary sharing and collective closing
Youth, adults, and Elders are encouraged to sit and bead together, allowing for natural mentoring, conversation, and quiet reflection.
Materials & Accessibility
- Beading supplies provided
- Crystal singing bowls tuned for grounding and calm
- Chairs, tables, and optional floor seating
- No experience required
- Participants may opt out of sound or sharing at any time
Each participant leaves with their beadwork or tea blend as a personal reminder of care and intention.
Outcomes
Participants may experience reduced stress, increased calm, cultural pride, creative expression, and strengthened intergenerational relationships. Communities benefit from a culturally affirming, inclusive wellness offering adaptable to diverse ages and settings.
Facilitation
The workshop is facilitated by an Indigenous wellness facilitator experienced in Indigenous wholistic wellness approaches, beading as cultural and mindfulness practice, trauma-informed facilitation, and crystal bowl sound healing in community settings. Local protocols and community needs are respected and prioritized.
Stand alone session or options to add a beading / tea blending . Check out the facilitation fee break down on the relevant tabs. Or contact: wanderingwapos@gmail.com
