Yoke Goa, Agonda Beach Road, Canacona, Goa, India
Up to 14 in group
March 15 - 22, 2026
About this Retreat
Janie is a globally established, highly experienced sound practitioner who has been working full time in the sound field since 2017. Originally from the UK, Janie has lived and worked in the US, Spain, China and now India. She set up her first sound studio in the UK in 2017, opened spaces at pioneering landscape hotel Kudhva and award-winning retreat centre Cabilla Cornwall in 2020, and moved to Goa in 2022, where she has established Yoke Goa, a hybrid space to hold Silence & Noise trainings as well as other holistic retreats and creative offerings.
In addition to her expertise in sound artistry, Janie is also a senior yoga teacher and an Usui Reiki Master, with extensive experience of integrating sound into other modalities and teachings. She is fascinated by psychedelia, neuroscience and the quantum field and continues to practice as an evolutionary astrologer.
As founder of Silence & Noise, Janie alchemises sound, science and spirit to explore the edges of the mind and the space beyond; she specialises in creating transcendent psycho-spiritual experiences, deeply relaxing lucid dreamstates, regenerative soul journeys and connections with cosmic consciousness.
Janie is a certified neuroscience coach and has a particular interest in the impact of sound on PTSD, chronic stress and anxiety, ADHD and the neurodivergent experience. She also holds a trauma-informed practice certification.
As of 2025, she is also the Director of Sound Healing & Therapy at CH2 Wellness, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, and dedicated to bringing holistic and alternative therapies to the frontline of medical treatment in India and beyond. As part of the CH2 brief she is currently leading the development of a sound therapeutics research and training programme in association with the National Institute of Naturopathy, on behalf of India’s Ministry of AYUSH.
Janie is super passionate about research-based knowledge, and the need to engage in sacred and powerful work with framework, experience and understanding of its impact. She’s just as passionate about Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy and Blur, and also about coffee, cats and surfing!
You can read Janie’s book “The Healing Power of Sound” published by David & Charles in 2024.
Details of this retreat
Our signature SOUND HEALER TRAINING is an immersive retreat-style event, delivering you a life-changing personal experience as well as the science, energetics and musicality required to develop as a unique and confident sound healer, able to carry the power of sound back to your community and around the world.
This 50-hour, fully accredited training blends ancient sound healing traditions from around the world with modern sound therapy, spiritual applications and creative musical practice. You don't need ANY sound or music experience, just an open heart and mind and a calling to the soundspace!
The course is residential (day access is available on request for those with pre-existing local accommodation) and is held at YOKE GOA, a soulful, relaxed venue in Agonda, one of South Goa's most spiritual and peaceful villages, adorned with a glorious 3.5km white sandy beach (just 100m from our venue), Goa's only good surf, and even blessed with nesting turtles!
The training is limited to 14 spots for an intimate, tailored experience with plenty of 1:1 time in addition to group study and practical workshops. A variety of accommodation from private stone cottages to dorm cabins is available, and delicious healthy brunch and South Indian feast dinner are included in your stay, along with daily sound baths, optional yoga classes and use of our ice plunge! There is a wellbeing cafe and treatment rooms onsite at our gorgeous venue nestled between jungle and ocean, filled with many little safe spaces and hidden hammocks for contemplation, relaxing and private practice.
ABOUT SOUND HEALING
Sound Healing is a dharma, a path, a purpose. It’s also a modern science, a creative art, and requires nuanced space-holding skills as well as deep awareness of psychology, trauma and somatics. To walk the path of soundwork is also, perhaps most importantly, to open the doorway to your own personal transformation as you step through new layers of self-inquiry.
As a qualified Sound Healer, you will have the opportunity to deliver sound in both 1:1 and group environments, offering a diverse range of emotional experiences and benefits to a broad range of guests. After this 7 day immersion with Silence & Noise you will confidently be able to offer:
* Group Sound Journeys/Meditations
* 1:1 Sound Experiences
* Selection of 1:1 Sound Therapeutic Practices Sound Circles
* Corporate Sound Offerings
* Retreat Sound Baths
... and many of your own creative sonic offerings that integrate your own practices and modalities from yoga to reiki, bodywork to breath circles, DJing, dance and beyond. The sky and the stars are literally the limit!
Completing this training will also offer you a personal journey deeper into the mastery of musicology, music theory, sonic creativity and culture, and of course - deepening of spiritual practice and expansions in consciousness.
The course is delivered across 9 pillars:
FOUNDATIONS
SOUND ORIGINS & HISTORY
SOUND SCIENCE
SOUND & ENERGETICS
MUSIC THEORY & MUSICOLOGY
TECHNICAL SKILLS
DELIVERING SOUND
THE ART OF SPACE HOLDING
DIGITAL SOUNDWORK
THE BUSINESS OF SOUND
You'll learn to play 10 instruments including gongs, crystal and metal singing bowls, shruti, chimes, handpan and more.
Please contact us to receive the full detailed brochure by email.
ROOM CHECK IN - 3pm on 15th March
ROOM CHECK OUT - 11am on 22nd March
TRAINING 16th - 22nd March, graduation 1pm on 22nd March, departures from 2pm.