Martha Collard
Explore the profound benefits of gongs as you learn practical methods for observing and communicating their effects — and help strengthen the future understanding and credibility of this extraordinary practice.
Experience powerful gong meditations designed to evoke the remarkable state of awe.
Some experiences change you. Others help change the world.
Gongs may have the power to do both.
People who have been in the presence of gong baths often describe remarkable shifts. They leave feeling calmer, more present, deeply restored, and connected to something larger than themselves.
Many speak of profound peace, expanded awareness, and a lingering state of awe that stays with them long after the final note has faded.
Yet, despite these shared experiences, surprisingly little scientific research has explored why they occur or how to measure them.
After decades of guiding thousands of people through gong baths and leading groundbreaking online research during the pandemic, internationally recognized gong master and teacher Martha Collard became convinced that the future of gong practice depends not only on extraordinary experiences, but on our ability to understand and communicate them with greater confidence.
In her new 7-week live video course, Martha will guide you through weekly gong baths, while inviting you to become part of one of the first collaborative citizen-science projects exploring the measurable effects of gongs.
As you immerse yourself in Martha’s structured gong protocol, you’ll learn practical ways to observe changes in stress, wellbeing, sleep, nervous system regulation, and the remarkable state that researchers call awe. Using validated questionnaires, accessible home technology, and thoughtfully designed frameworks, you’ll gain a richer understanding of why gong meditation can be so profoundly restorative.
Whether you’re a gong practitioner, sound healer, meditation facilitator, wellness professional, or simply someone who wants to feel and understand how the sounds of gongs can elevate us into non-ordinary states, you’ll leave with practical tools, a repeatable protocol, and a clear framework you can immediately apply in your own work or personal practice.
And when someone asks, “How do you know it works?” you’ll finally have language for experiences you’ve felt, but have never been fully able to articulate.
What makes this journey so unusual is that the same gong playing that transforms you also helps transform the future of gong practice.
As you contribute your anonymous observations to this groundbreaking initiative, you’ll help build one of the first meaningful bodies of evidence exploring gong meditation… while comparing your own results with those of practitioners around the world. In doing so, you’ll help strengthen the credibility of a practice that has transformed countless lives but remains only lightly explored by modern science.
Whether your goal is to deepen your own relationship with the gong, strengthen your professional practice, or help shape the future of sound healing, this pioneering journey offers a rare opportunity to experience profound restoration while helping more people understand, trust, and benefit from the far-reaching potential of gong meditation.
During this groundbreaking course, you’ll:
- Experience seven professionally guided gong baths designed to cultivate deep relaxation, restorative sleep, emotional balance, and the extraordinary state of awe
- Learn to measure meaningful changes in stress, wellbeing, and sleep using the same validated assessment tools trusted in clinical and wellbeing research
- Build your own citizen-science toolkit with research templates, observation forms, consent documents, and practical resources you can immediately use in your own community or professional practice
- Master Martha’s structured gong protocol to create more consistent and repeatable online and in-person gong experiences
- Optimize your listening environment by understanding how acoustics, room design, playback quality, and other variables influence participants’ experiences
- Discover how to interpret your findings with greater confidence while comparing your own results with those of fellow participants throughout the seven-week project
- Contribute anonymous data to one of the first large-scale collaborative initiatives exploring the measurable effects of gong meditation
- Receive a Citizen Scientist Certificate recognizing your participation in this pioneering international research project
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Martha will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to become part of a pioneering citizen-science project exploring the impact of gongs, as you follow a structured gong protocol, learn to observe and communicate its effects with greater confidence, and help shape the future of this extraordinary practice..
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Martha and experience her teachings through livestreaming on any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Martha’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions are on 2026-10-07 5:00:00 pm.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Martha. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to gain practical tools for strengthening your gong practice with the goal of experiencing profound peace, expanded awareness, and a lingering state of awe.
The Citizen Scientist: Becoming a Pioneer in Gong Research (2026-10-07 5:00:00 pm)
In this first module, you'll discover how your participation in citizen science can help transform intuitive sound meditation into a more respected, evidence-informed practice.
You'll explore why reliable gong research is still so limited, why experiences such as awe are difficult to define and measure, and how standardized protocols and meaningful metrics can help build stronger evidence where little currently exists.
Martha will introduce the framework and methodology that will guide your research journey throughout the next six weeks.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a grounding gong bath that helps you tune in while establishing your baseline vibration through grounding, presence, and intention-setting
- Complete your induction form and establish your baseline stress and mood indicators using standardized self-assessment tools
- Learn how to apply citizen science and action research frameworks to sound therapy
- Explore why experiences such as awe are difficult to define and measure
- Learn how standardized research protocols help ensure meaningful, reliable data
- Close with a universal peace greeting that cultivates harmony, gratitude, and a shared intention for collective wellbeing
Mapping the Inner Landscape: Measuring Positive Changes During a Gong Bath (2026-10-14 5:00:00 pm)
You'll discover how to measure both what you experience during a gong bath and what your body reveals.
You'll explore the difference between subjective experiences and objective biomarkers, learn the strengths and limitations of each, and discover why Martha chose the research methods and home technology used throughout this project.
She'll show you how to gather meaningful data using practical tools you can access yourself.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a gong bath designed to promote deep relaxation, stimulate the vagus nerve, and support nervous system regulation
- Differentiate between subjective experiences and objective biomarkers to better understand the effects of sound meditation
- Learn how to track somatic stress responses using simple home tools and consumer wearables
- Discover how validated psychometric scales can help measure changes in stress and wellbeing
- Explore the strengths and limitations of different approaches to measuring the effects of a gong bath
- Map your nervous system's recovery following your sound journey
Digital Delivery vs. Physical Room: Maximizing the Power of Online Gong Baths (2026-10-21 5:00:00 pm)
You'll explore how digital sound can create profound physical and physiological effects, while examining the differences between online and in-person gong experiences.
You'll discover how sound travels across digital platforms, why audio quality matters, and what you can do to optimize your home setup for both a more immersive experience and more reliable research.
Martha will explain the science behind her methodology and how to minimize digital audio loss.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a gong bath focused on sound clarity, geometric focus, and acoustic brainwave entrainment
- Learn how to optimize your home audio setup for the highest-quality sound experience
- Discover how to bypass digital audio compression using professional software settings
- Explore how digital audio compression can influence brainwave entrainment and the listening experience
- Learn how standardized playback environments help maintain consistent research conditions
- Examine the evidence supporting the physiological effects of remote sound healing
Replicable Procedures: Creating Consistent & Credible Research Environments (2026-10-28 5:00:00 pm)
You'll learn how to translate your online research framework into physical spaces by identifying which variables can be controlled and why consistency is essential for credible results.
You'll explore how room layout, acoustics, instrument placement, participant positioning, and other environmental factors influence both the gong experience and the quality of your research.
Martha will show you how standardized protocols create replicable sound environments that strengthen the scientific credibility of your work.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a gong bath that explores spatial awareness, somatic release, and the influence of physical room resonance
- Learn how to control environmental variables in physical workshop spaces to support consistent research outcomes
- Design standardized room layouts that promote consistent sound delivery
- Discover how informed consent and privacy protocols help protect participants while strengthening research integrity
- Draft client intake and consent forms that support ethical, replicable research practices
Validated Metrics: Measuring Stress & Wellbeing With Confidence (2026-11-04 5:00:00 pm)
You'll explore the clinical surveys that form the foundation of this citizen science project and discover why they're considered the gold standard for measuring stress and wellbeing.
As you walk through the Perceived Stress Scale and WHO-5 Well-Being Index, you'll learn what each question measures, how these tools help evaluate the effects of gong meditation, and why they were chosen for this research.
Martha will show you how to interpret your results with greater confidence while helping build one of the most comprehensive bodies of evidence around gong meditation to date.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a gong bath focused on mental decompression, cognitive clarity, and emotional equilibrium
- Learn how the Perceived Stress Scale and WHO-5 Well-Being Index measure changes in stress and wellbeing
- Analyze the design and scientific validation behind the Perceived Stress Scale
- Explore how the WHO-5 Wellbeing Index supports sound therapy research
- Interpret clinical point scores to objectively track changes in psychological resilience
- Discover how standardized surveys help reduce researcher and participant bias
The Sleepiness Index: Quantifying the Improvements in Somatic Rest & Neurological Recovery With Gongs (2026-11-11 5:00:00 pm)
You'll explore why healthy sleep is one of the clearest indicators of nervous system restoration and discover how the Sleepiness Index helps measure changes in daytime fatigue and overall sleep quality.
As you examine this clinical assessment, you'll learn why it was chosen for the study and how it helps evaluate the effects of gong meditation on rest and recovery.
Martha will show you how to interpret your results and use them to better understand your sleep patterns.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a gong bath that supports delta brainwave entrainment, deep resonance, and profound physical rest
- Learn how the Sleepiness Index measures changes in daytime alertness and sleep quality
- Explore how sound influences sleep architecture and nervous system recovery
- Discover how standardized clinical questions help track changes in sleep patterns over time
- Learn how study data can support evidence-based observations about sleep and recovery
The Grand Symphony: Celebrating Your Findings & Defining Next Steps (2026-11-18 5:00:00 pm)
In this final module, you'll bring together everything you've explored over the previous six weeks as the collective findings from your citizen science project are revealed.
You'll discover how your group's results compare across the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, Perceived Stress Scale, and Sleepiness Index while exploring what they may contribute to the future of sound research.
Martha will help you interpret the results, celebrate your contribution, and explore where this work can lead next.
In this closing session, you'll:
- Experience a closing gong bath that celebrates gratitude, unity, and expansive resonance while completing the research journey together
- Interpret the final outcomes of the 7-week digital gong study
- Compare the results of the online study with previous in-person sound research
- Learn how verified data can help communicate the value of sound healing with greater confidence
- Create a personal plan for continuing your sound research and practice beyond the course
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-09-20 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Martha’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Sounds of the Cosmos
Audio Sound Journey and PDF Collection of Images From Martha Collard
It is said the ancients could "hear" the movements of the cosmic spheres. While sound can't travel through the vacuum of space, sonification allows images from the cosmos to be experienced in a new way - by assigning sound to light and pixels. As breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope come alive through sound, you'll be invited into an awe-inspiring journey through the universe that deepens your sense of wonder and connection.
The Healing Power of Overtones
Video Teaching With Martha Collard and Shelly Reef
Step into the rich and captivating world of overtones with Martha Collard and intuitive harpist Shelly Reef. In this illuminating dialogue, they explore how Therapy Harps, monochords, and gongs each create immersive healing experiences through their unique harmonic qualities. You'll discover how coherent chordal resonance and overtone-rich sound fields can influence emotional states, meditative awareness, and the nervous system in profoundly different yet complementary ways. You'll gain a deeper appreciation for why overtone-based instruments have such a powerful capacity to transport listeners into states of deep relaxation, inner exploration, and transformation.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Wonder and Awe
PDF Collection From Martha Collard
Awe is a profound sense of reverence, admiration, and wonder, often inspired by something vast, beautiful, or deeply powerful - and it can leave us momentarily speechless. In this curated collection of poems and quotations, Martha explores the essence of this elusive feeling and offers inspiration to help you reconnect with wonder in your own life.
Finding Awe
PDF Guide From Martha Collard
Experiencing awe is good for your health. It helps build resilience, deepen empathy, and foster a greater sense of connection to something larger than yourself. And awe isn't reserved for extraordinary moments. Through close observation, childlike wonder, curiosity, and gratitude, you can cultivate it in everyday life. In this practical guide, Martha shares simple ways to invite more awe into your daily experience.
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Join the Global Community
Gong Medicine offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Martha Collard will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Martha Collard
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from gong master Martha Collard, the founder of Red Doors Studio — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to combine firsthand experience with practical observation as you participate in one of the first collaborative citizen-science initiatives in gong playing — deepening your own wellbeing while gaining greater confidence sharing this extraordinary work with clients, students, and your community. Course sessions are on 2026-10-07 5:00:00 pm.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcript after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the insights and practices you found most impactful.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Gong Medicine
We feel honored that Martha Collard has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a gong masterwhose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about helping to build the future of gong playing by joining one of the first collaborative citizen-science initiatives devoted to understanding its effects — while experiencing seven weeks of deeply restorative gong baths and learning practical methods you can immediately bring into your own life and work, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Martha Collard
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Martha Collard is the visionary founder of Red Doors Studio, the first center in Asia dedicated to meditation gongs as well as other complementary ancient practices for emotional wellbeing.
After three decades in management consulting she founded the studio as a center of calm, a place of experiential learning, and a showroom for quality instruments.Her diverse interests and skills combined to create a unique offering with one singular intention — to elicit peace in her clients.
Martha’s career and life path have followed a common theme: elevating others. Stepping down from her position as youngest Partner worldwide in TASA, a Swiss based executive search firm in 1992, Martha established her own company to offer management consulting on a project basis to the corporate sector.
Initially, she pursued alternative practices out of curiosity; then they became a source of personal growth and development.She was the founding chairman of the Yoga Society of Hong Kong and is pursuing higher levels of sound healing. Her focus is on labyrinths, gong meditation, and Kundalini yoga, which have given her balance, strength, and understanding.
Red Doors Studio is the platform through which she makes ancient intuitive practices relevant and accessible.She works with Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre, Cancerlink, special needs families, and a number of schools.
She leads sessions, teaches and performs regularly in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Singapore, New York, and Ottawa. She was a guest speaker at the World Coaching Congress in Mumbai, presented at TEDx in Hong Kong, and was a keynote speaker at the Global Wellness Summit in Singapore.
Her sound and yoga experience includes training with Gong Master Don Conreaux and others. She has trained in singing bowls, overtoning with Mark van Tongeren, voice with Chanara Richmond, integral sound with Svaram Sound Institute, and more.
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