Our Mission
To help people everywhere relieve stress and access deep states of meditation.
Through immersive large-scale community gatherings, educational programs, and sleep support tools, we offer gentle tools for stress relief, mental health, and nervous system regulation, bringing calm and connection to communities everywhere.
OUR PARTNERS
We’re partnering with Death Transitions, a Bay Area organization that provides end-of-life care & services.
Their network of death doulas and caregivers will be using The Sound Bath App to support those on their end-of-life journey. We sincerely believe these sounds can soothe anxiety and help maintain calm through the threshold of life and death. We also give them our online sound bath training course for free and steep discounts on our in-person training course.
Our Impact
Community gatherings that soothe the soul
'The Sound Healing Symphony' has gathered in beautiful, unique spaces in San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York City and more. Our goal is to share this practice with everyone, everywhere.
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Guided sound meditations
Sound & Regulation Program
Bringing sound-based nervous system care into the places kids already spend their days.
The same tools that help a room full of adults soften help a room full of kids focus, transition, and feel safe. So we built a program to bring them into schools and after-school sites for grades K–12, as part of the daily rhythm — six 30-minute sessions woven into the existing schedule, with staff participating right alongside students.
Join the pilot →
Led by Erika Warren, Certified Trauma Professional — pairing trauma-informed practice with the sound-based tools we've spent a decade refining.
OUR STORY
From a gong chair on the boardwalk to the nation's largest sound baths
Simona Asinovski and Guy Douglas met in Los Angeles in the early 2010s, when Simona encountered Guy's "Gong Chair" on the Venice Beach boardwalk. "The Gong Chair" was an immersive experience Guy created using three gongs and a gravity chair. That encounter led them to create "Gong Flow Yoga" together in 2012. That venture never quite picked up momentum, but they tried collaborating again for "The Holistic Chamber of Sound" in San Francisco, in 2015.
What started as small gatherings has grown into "The Sound Healing Symphony", now home to the nation's largest sound baths, drawing 300 to 1,300 attendees at a time in cathedrals, museums, and other iconic community spaces across San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, and New York.
For over a decade, Sound Meditation Presents has been bringing communities together through the healing power of sound. This year we became a nonprofit! Our goal is to spread this practice, and get sound meditation into urban environments. We are currently working on a project to bring sound baths into schools!
Meet the Co-Executive Directors
Simona Asinovski
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
I come from a culture of anxiety, I struggle with it myself, and I’m determined to overcome it. I believe everyone can learn to experience more peace, clarity, and insight through meditation. I stumbled upon sound meditation in 2011, and I’ve been hooked ever since. What started as a regular practice of listening to sound baths has grown into a daily meditation practice, and into leading the nation’s largest sound bath gatherings, drawing 300 to 1,300 people at a time. I also created the Sound Bath Training Course, which has now trained over 200 students, and I authored a book on sound meditation.
Guy Douglas
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
I’ve been involved in sharing the healing power of these instruments for over 15 years. For me, music has always had a healing component to it, it locked in the moment I first heard the sounds of the gong and Tibetan bowls. I believe that through the power of these sounds, we all have the ability to tap into the subconscious mind, heal dormant pathways, and help open the heart. I lead and conduct Sound Meditation Presents’ large-scale sound bath performances, including The Sound Healing Symphony, bringing the experience of deep sound meditation to thousands of people across the country. It feels more important than ever to share this practice now, especially in these ever-changing times.
Meet Our Board
Geo Morjane
BOARD PRESIDENT
Geo Morjane, President of our Board and resident “Chaos Wrangler,” is often one of the first faces you’ll meet at Sound Baths at Grace Cathedral, where he helps lead check-in. He also hosts San Francisco Community Nights, welcoming spaces for new friends, emotional skills, and movie nights. He has led go-to-market teams at Splunk, DoorDash, and DocuSign, bringing operational experience and a community-first mindset to Sound Meditation Presents.
Debra Chapman
BOARD MEMBER
Debra Chapman is a death doula, grief specialist, and co-founder of Death Transitions, a doula collective devoted to tending the sacred passages of life and loss. A Grief Specialist at YoloCares and volunteer Death Doula for Joshua’s House, she brings her deep presence and care for community to SMP’s board.
Nicolai Safai
BOARD MEMBER
Nicolai Safai is a software engineer with a background in full-stack development and product management. He supports SMP’s board with a builder’s mindset, helping the organization think through technology, systems, and scale as it grows.
Sarah Glass
BOARD MEMBER
Sarah, our singer for The Sound Healing Symphony, started classical piano lessons at the age of 3. A sound engineer, performing musician, and founder of her own private music school, she teaches piano, harp, production, ear training, and more, drawing on a lifetime at the instrument to meet each student exactly where they are. A multi-instrumentalist who moves between harp, voice, and live electronic looping, she brings to the board a belief that has guided all of her work: that music’s deepest value is connection.
Russell Feingold
BOARD MEMBER
Russell is a shamanic sound healer, ceremonialist, and author of Heart Wisdom, with more than 25 years on the path of Peruvian Shamanism and over 30 years of experience in holistic healing, meditation, and energy medicine. Grounded in deep care for community and Pachamama, he is a cherished collaborator on SMP’s board.
Sound Meditation Presents is a nonprofit
Help Us Keep Going 💜
We're passionate about sound meditation because we feel it can open pathways to deeper relaxation. You would not believe how much these events cost to produce.
Your gift helps us keep bringing ‘The Sound Healing Symphony’ nationwide and into the communities that need it most, as well as bring sound baths to schools, hospices and more.
We're a small team with big ambitions. And every donation, big or small, helps us make the world a more harmonious place.
Sound Meditation Presents is a California nonprofit corporation currently pursuing 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Donations are not yet tax-deductible, but will become so retroactively once our exemption is approved. We'll always let you know when that happens, thank you for believing in us early. 💜