The Art of Gong Playing & the Sacred Stillpoint

With Gong Master, Catalyst for Emotional Wellbeing & Founder of Red Doors Studio
Martha Collard

Discover the gong as an ancient and effective tool for calming the mind, awakening inner peace, and dissolving stress, illness, chronic ailments, and pain.

Experience the cleansing and renewing power of Martha’s signature “9-Stroke Gong Meditation,” inspired by the numerological energy of 2025 to help you release what no longer serves you and prepare your spirit for a new cycle of possibility.

When was the last time you were transported to a profoundly relaxed, dreamlike state of bliss?

Martha Collard, a pioneering voice in the modern revival of sacred gong practice, affirms that the rich and immersive soundscape of a gong bath can take you back to that safe, transcendent space.

As the founder of Red Doors Studio in Hong Kong, home to Asia’s largest personal collection of meditation gongs, Martha has witnessed the pain, fears, blocks, or chronic conditions of hundreds of students be dissolved vibrationally — not with effort, but by surrendering to the healing power of sacred sound.

She explains that the gong’s vibrations enter the body, move through energy pathways, dissolve blocks, and return your frequency to a balanced, harmonious state.

Unlike singing bowls, tuning forks, or other sound-healing modalities, Martha teaches that the vibrations of the gong are so powerful that they penetrate the entire body at a cellular level…

… and the frequencies actually reconstruct your cells for optimal health and wellbeing.

Martha has spent years helping people find peace through meditation gongs and complementary ancient practices such as Kundalini yoga. She brings gongs into hospitals, schools, and corporate spaces, and works with cancer patients, special needs families, and children to facilitate deep healing.

In this informative free online event with Martha, you’ll explore the history and science of gongs, understand what makes them uniquely powerful, and learn how their soundwaves unlock clarity, healing, and harmony within.

Martha will also guide you through the powerful “9-Stroke Gong Meditation” — a practice rooted in the symbolic power of the number 9 — to energetically cleanse and attune your body and spirit to the possibilities of the year ahead.

For centuries, gongs have been used with yoga practice to help you return to your essence and remember the deep, eternal stillness that lives within.

Whether you're a sound healer, yoga or meditation teacher, wellness practitioner, or someone seeking natural ways to relieve pain or emotional stress, Martha's teachings provide a powerful foundation for how and when to integrate gongs into your life or practice.

This immersive introduction to the healing potential of the gong invites you on an ancient, proven path to transformation, healing, and higher guidance with one of the most knowledgeable and experienced gong practitioners today.

Martha will share why the inner state of the gong practitioner is just as important as the gong itself, and why the gong is one of the most profound tools we have to not only heal ourselves — but our planet, as well.

Expect to emerge more relaxed and renewed — and inspired to join a growing movement of sound healers tuning in to the frequency of peace for global healing.

Join Martha and let the gong restore your energy, relieve pain, and deepen your spiritual connection as she guides you to your inner stillpoint — and opens a space for release, reflection, and renewal through the sacred 9-stroke gong meditation.

In this illuminating online event, you’ll:

Learn the rich history and modern uses of gongs — unlocking their potential to support spiritual awakening, emotional healing, and inner peace
Experience the “9-Stroke Gong Meditation,” designed to align you with the numerological energy of completion and renewal for 2025 — and help you let go of stuck energy as you harmonize your body, mind, and spirit
Explore the unique characteristics of gongs and how their diverse frequencies can help you cultivate balance and restore harmony within your body and mind
Understand how the strokes, mallets, and the intention of the player shape the gong’s energy, enabling profound shifts in your consciousness, mindset, and emotional state
Gain insight into the latest scientific research validating the physical and emotional benefits of regular gong sessions — and how these powerful vibrations can support overall wellness and healing

During the event, you’ll also hear about Martha’s new 7-week live video course, where you’ll delve more deeply into the art and science of the gong as an ancient and effective tool for breaking through blocks, connecting with Source, awakening inner peace, and dissolving stress, illness, chronic ailments, and pain.

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What People Are Saying About Martha Collard...

“... mind-blowingly unbelievable.”

Martha’s musicianship, sensitivity, and hospitality are world-class. It’s been a week and a half since I had the opportunity to experience a gong bath with her, and the response I posted on social media that evening says it all: I have experienced sound baths. I have given sound baths. I have a deep appreciation for what sound can do to the mind, body, and soul. But I just got out of a gong bath by Martha Collard (of Red Doors Studio) that was mind-blowingly unbelievable.

Rev. Dr. Timothy TenClay

Long Island, New York

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“This gong session was deeply therapeutic and infused with spiritual healing.”

I have been to many gong healings, yet everything changed when I received a gong healing at Martha’s Red Doors studio. This gong session was deeply therapeutic and infused with spiritual healing. I realized that Martha sets up a space and plays in a way where the spirits lead the session to allow for shamanic journeying, healing, and transformation. I also felt that the spirit of the gong called me into service. Fast-forward a year later and I was back for gong training with Martha. I wanted to learn how to play the gong for healing vs performance and I received what I was after. The gong training was deeply transformational and has resulted in an ongoing relationship and respect for the spirit of the Gong, the spirits of the room, and the power of working with sacred intention and in sacred space.

Sharon Bolt

Australia

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“... the magic of the gong... can change one’s life, anytime, anywhere, forever!”

Thanks to your dedication and passion, Martha, I wake up every morning with a new frequency that vibrates in my body and connect me with my whole being. When I play now, it is with a deep understanding of the connection between the gong and the Universe. I intend to keep exploring, keep discovering, and keep playing as often as I can to let people know about the magic of the gong and how it can change one’s life, anytime, anywhere, forever! I thank you with all my heart for teaching us this ancestral art and pouring your whole heart into it.

Manale Ganiere

Yoga teacher, Switzerland

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“There has been a definite before and after in my journey as a sound healer.”

I was already active in sound healing when I had the opportunity to attend Martha’s gong course. It changed the direction of my practice by opening up an entirely new dimension through the gong. Martha demonstrates passion, wisdom, and meticulous attention to detail in her teaching. With carefully crafted material, she left no stone unturned in her rigorous demonstration of how to effectively play the gong. My confidence increased 100%, and since then I have widened my influence out in the world with the precious knowledge I gained from her. There has been a definite before and after in my journey as a sound healer.

Alice Dow

Founder of HeartTones Sound, New York City

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“I cannot thank you enough for sharing your exceptional, unique powerful expertise and gifts.”

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear form someone who attended the Global Wellness Summit in Singapore telling me how your gong baths and main stage performance changed their lives, Martha. I think it is fair to say you were the talk of the summit, and that’s quite something. It’s particularly noteworthy because our audience, as you know, is invitation-only, C-suite executives, mostly running multinational corporations. For them not to just experience what you offered, but to be so moved by it, is a testament to the power of what you do. I was also personally moved by your work, and if it were possible, I’d make sure you were present at every future summit. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your exceptional, unique powerful expertise and gifts. It was a remarkable, memorable experience.

Nancy Davis

Chief Creative Officer and Executive Director of the Global Wellness Summit

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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.