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On Training, Lineage, and Listening: My Certifications as a Sound Alchemist
I am an accredited Sound Alchemist through Medicine of Sound and Bliss Bowls, with formal trainings completed across 2022, 2023, and 2024. These years of study deepened not only my technical skill, but my understanding of sound as a relational and responsive practice rather than a performance.
Julie Jewels Smoot
Jan 252 min read


On Training, Lineage, and Listening: My Nia Certifications
I am a Certified Nia Floor Play Teacher and a Nia First Degree Black Belt.
I name this not as a claim of authority over bodies, but as transparency about the lineage and training that inform my work.
Nia offered me a structured language for understanding movement through sensation, awareness, and relationship rather than force. Through Floor Play in particular, I learned how profoundly regulating it can be for the body to move close to the ground—where support is constant
Julie Jewels Smoot
Jan 252 min read
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