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Jonathan Goldman is an award-winning musician, composer, writer, teacher, and chant master. An authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics, he is the author of several books and the founder and director of the Sound Healers Association. Jonathan won the Coalition of Visionary Resources Visionary Author of the Year award in 2026. He has created numerous albums including the first studio recordings of the Dalai Lama's Gyume Tibetan monks, the first recording featuring dolphin sounds, and the award-winning Chakra Chants. He pioneered many sound therapy techniques now used worldwide, including "Vowels As Mantras" and "Overtoning." Jonathan leads Healing Sounds Seminars throughout the United States and Europe and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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New edition of the classic guidebook on sound healing

• 2023 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award

• Presents a step-by-step process of vibrational activation using sacred and healing sounds and explains in detail how to perform vocal harmonics to transform and heal

• Shares many easy-to-follow sound healing exercises, such as “Vowels as Mantras” for chakra chanting and “Overtoning,” a powerful sound healing technique

• Offers more than 100 minutes of exclusive audio downloads featuring recordings of sound healing exercises, guided meditations, and sonic excerpts to help you experience and embody the power of harmonics

In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic guidebook on sound healing, internationally recognized master teacher Jonathan Goldman presents a step-by-step process of vibrational activation using sacred and healing sounds.

Sharing many easy-to-follow sound healing exercises, such as “Vowels as Mantras” and “Overtoning,” Goldman explains in detail how to perform vocal harmonics--a form of overtone chanting--and experience their transformative and healing powers. He shows how harmonics can be used as sonic yoga for meditation and deep relaxation as well as to enhance energy and resonate the chakras, the energy centers of the body. Exploring the vibrational principles that underlie the framework of the universe, including frequency and resonance, Goldman explains how harmonics represent the colors of sound and affect us on all levels, bridging body, mind, and spirit. He explores mantra and chakra chanting, sacred vowels, vocal toning, conscious listening, cymatics, sonic shamanism, magical incantations, and many other vibrational and sound healing techniques.

Providing the basis for how and why sound can heal and transform, this new 30th anniversary edition of Healing Sounds also offers more than 100 minutes of exclusive audio downloads featuring recordings of sound healing exercises, guided meditations, and sonic excerpts to help you experience and embody the power of harmonics.

Zusammenfassung
In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic guidebook on sound healing, Jonathan Goldman presents a step-by-step process of vibrational activation using sacred and healing sounds.

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Prelude to the 30th Anniversary Edition

Welcome to the 30th Anniversary Edition of Healing Sounds. It is extraordinary that, so many years after the first publication of this book, I should have the honor and ability of being able to write a new beginning. I am calling this piece, for the sake of its relationship to music, “prelude” because, in music, that means “something that serves as an introduction.” It is my intention to provide something short and sweet.

Healing Sounds has changed my life. So have harmonics. They have both been the foundation upon which all my other work has been based. As such, there is literally nothing I would change from the text of the very first edition. Everything in it continues to be true and correct and is relevant now more than ever.

Every book, every teaching, and, in fact, all the recordings that I have created and released have utilized the information, techniques, and materials in Healing Sounds as their core. This is now thirty years’ worth of material that I am talking about, that has included activities and manifestations from all sorts of media--radio, television, internet, recordings, magazines, newspapers, books, and much more including lots of live and in-person appearances whether they were teachings, performances, or presentations--and they all utilized Healing Sounds.

There is information in this book that, gratefully, has now become a sort of mainstay in the field of sound healing, so much so that often people are not aware of Healing Sounds as the source when they repeat information or exercises from it. This is really a blessing because it means that Healing Sounds has been a foundation not just for me, but for the field of sound healing as a genre.

I always hoped that sound healing would be publicly accepted and recognized as more than a fringe area of activity. This has occurred in a greater fashion than I could have ever believed. Sound healing has grown and grown--it well may be considered the staple for much of new, modern thought and the human potential movement. Today, if the subject somehow involves the field of meditation, alternative healing, or any of a number of different topics, you’ll often find some sort of reference to “everything is vibration,” “we need to raise our frequency,” or something like that. These are the basic tenets of sound healing, and they are here for you to encounter and explore.

Most of the above references did not originate with Healing Sounds, but they’re most certainly found within these pages and were most likely popularized through this book. These and many other concepts are abundant in our world now. When I first wrote Healing Sounds, there might have been perhaps a few dozen books that had manifested--throughout the ages--with information about sound as a therapeutic and healing modality. Now there are hundreds, if not thousands. I give thanks for the current abundance of information.

I would suggest that within the pages of this book is so much more information that has yet to be incorporated into the consciousness and awareness of those working with sound for health and transformation. Healing Sounds contains a treasure trove of material--it is a cornerstone of sound healing and it has within it many more jewels of information and techniques yet to be mined.

There is a smorgasbord of information in this book. A potpourri of techniques that can be utilized. A plethora of essential topics and teaching--from Pythagoras and sacred geometry to Tomatis and the power of the ear and listening, from Kabbalastic God Names chanting to chakra/vowel sound resonance, from the Tibetan “Deep Voice” tonality to neuro-resonance with harmonics. Perhaps one of the most important concepts that manifested uniquely in Healing Sounds is the creation of the formula “Frequency + Intent = Healing.” It is more relevant now than ever.

Nothing in this book is stale. Nothing in it needs to be replaced. When I recently reread it, it simply reminded me of all the amazing things about sound, and of the experiences of my life in this field, that continue to be resonant. It’s all still relevant. It’s all still accurate. As I reread it, I was amazed at the extraordinary information in it. I trust that as you delve into these pages, it will be a great learning experience for you.

Knowledge and understanding of harmonics is incredibly useful, particularly for those interested in the use of sound as a healing modality. As attention to the therapeutic and transformational ability of sound continues to grow, it is now time for those with interest in this subject to begin to expl…