Gong Master Training

This summer, the 32nd UK Gong Master Training returns to Hawkwood.
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What began decades ago through the meeting of Don Conreaux and Aidan McIntyre continues today as a living practice of listening, vibration, and awareness.
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Over the years, their collaboration helped shape a training rooted not only in technique, but in a deeper relationship with sound — where the Gong becomes a pathway into listening and transformation.
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Guided by Aidan McIntyre and the GMT faculty, the training continues under the inspiration of Don’s teachings.
His writings remain part of the journey, MEM Yoga continues to be practiced, and although Don can no longer be physically present, he will once again join the training through special live Zoom connections.
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The circle remains alive.
The practice continues.
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We gather again this summer at Hawkwood to listen, to learn, and to enter more deeply into the field of sound.
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“To play the Gong is to enter the ocean of sound.”
— Don Conreaux
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"A very gentle tap with the Aspen mallet allows the bowl to reveal its higher voice."
~ Aidan McIntyre ~

Singing bowls carry a different quality of sound depending on the mallet or technique used.
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Where the gong expands almost immediately into a wide field of vibration, the bowls invite a more focused and intimate listening experience.
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Whether gently tapped or gradually awakened with the wand, both approaches support individual sessions and subtle work on and around the body.
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At Gong Master Training, this aspect of the practice is explored alongside gong playing, offering a more complete understanding of sound as a field of awareness.
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During the training, participants work with Aidan McIntyre's collection of antique singing bowls, each carrying its own unique tones and resonances, shaped by time and carefu use - and always treated with the care these precious master-quality instruments require.
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This year, a selection of these bowls will also be available for purchase.
An opportunity not only to learn, but to connect with instruments that carry a living tradition of sound.

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An invitation into sound and resonance🌀🌀🌀

We are delighted to be part of the May Day Festival at on Monday 4th May.
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A day of community, creativity, and connection — with music, workshops, talks, and shared experiences set within the natural surroundings of Hawkwood.
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During the festival, Gong Master Aidan McIntyre and the GMT team will offer a Gong Bath — an immersive experience of sound and vibration.
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A space to pause,
to listen,
and to be gently carried by the resonance of the gong.
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Whether you are discovering it for the first time or returning to the practice, you are warmly invited to experience the subtle power of sound.
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Join us from 10am to 5pm.

Find out more and explore the full programme:
https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programmes/may-day-festival-2026
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"Every stroke begins in listening"'
~ Aidan Mclntyre ~

The 10-Day Gong Master Training at Hawkwood is an immersive journey into sound, listening, and the practice of vibration.
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Through a wide vocabulary of strokes, different mallets, and direct experience with a range of gongs, participants begin to explore how variation in sound opens a deeper field of awareness.
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Alongside the gong, the practice also includes singing bowls, shruti box, and conch shells - each offering a different pathway into listening.
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Each stroke reveals a different quality of sound shaped by attention, timing, and presence.
What begins as technique gradually becomes listening.
What begins as sound becomes presence.
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Set within the natural surroundings of Hawkwood, the training offers a space for focused practice, exploration, and shared learning.
Join us this summer. Step into the field of sound 🌀🌀🌀

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The Gong is not music.
The Gong is vibration.”


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In a Gong Bath, sound is not performed.
It is allowed to unfold.

Waves of vibration move through the space,
touching the body, settling the breath,
inviting the mind to soften beyond its usual patterns.

There is nothing to do.
Only to listen.

As the tones expand and dissolve,
a shared field of resonance begins to form —
immersive, spacious, alive.

Listening deepens.
Something begins to shift.

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The journey continues with the next
Gong Master Training at Hawkwood.




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There is a lineage that is not only taught,
but lived, refined, and carried forward through time.

Don Conreaux and Aidan McIntyre began working together over three decades ago, shaping what would become the original GONG MASTER TRAINING in the UK.

Since 1993, their collaboration has travelled across countries, continents and generations, forming thousands of students in the art and science of the Gong.

What they created was not simply a training,
but a pathway —
a way of listening, of playing, of understanding sound as a living field.

Today, GONG MASTER TRAINING UK remains the original course they founded,
continuing to carry forward Don’s teachings and vision,
held and developed through Aidan’s guidance and ongoing transmission,
supported by Tim Byford and a circle of facilitators who have walked "The Way of the Gong" through direct study with Don.

A living lineage.
A shared sound.
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“The Gong is the resonant voice of the Universe —
a bridge between the finite and the infinite.”
— Don Conreaux
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If you feel called to listen more deeply,
the journey continues...

The gong is not a drum.

One stroke repeated can become familiar,
but the practice invites something more.

A wider language of touch, a variation of sound, a field of listening.

Through different strokes, the gong begins to reveal its full spectrum.

Listening leads the way.

The journey continues with the 10-Day Gong Master Training this summer at

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Together, we traveled on the 'Way of the Gong' heart and soul.

An ancient sound, carried by breath and open sky.

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The conch shell is one of the oldest sound instruments known to humanity.
Born from the sea, shaped by time, it carries the memory of tides, winds, and distant horizons.

On a bright yet cold day, surrounded by nature, students gathered to practice this sacred call
Breath met shell. Silence met vibration.

And the sound travelled - grounding the body, opening the heart, awakening deep listening.
To sound the conch is not to perform, but to invoke:
~ a return to simplicity, presence, and the primal relationship between human breath and the natural world ~
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This is how the journey with sound begins - with respect, awareness, and a willingness to isten beyond words.
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Begin your own path with the Gong and sacred sound.
Join the next
Gong Initiation (Beginners training)
2-6 March 2026
Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, UK
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Learn more & apply:
https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programmes/programme/28200-gong-initiation
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