Sonic Sleepover: Overnight Gong Puja

An immersive all-night journey of sound, rest, and vibrational healing.

Join us for a magical overnight experience that will awaken your senses and nourish your soul. Led by world-renowned gong musician Mike Tamburo from Pittsburgh, alongside Brooke Susan and Rachel SantaOlalla, this immersive journey blends the power of sound healing with the serenity of sleep, creating a one-of-a-kind event hosted by Inspire Studio.

Step into a world of sonic alchemy, where the boundaries of time and consciousness dissolve. Mike, a master of 40 overtone-rich instruments—including gongs, bells, sound sculptures, and hammered dulcimer—will weave an intricate tapestry of resonant tones designed to harmonize your body, mind, and spirit. As the gongs play continuously throughout the night, their gentle yet powerful waves will wash over you, supporting deep meditation, cellular healing, and energetic transformation.

Rooted in the sacred tradition of Gong Puja and based on the teachings of Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux, this immersive experience follows ten 45-minute cycles, mirroring the body's natural sleep rhythms. Each cycle supports subconscious clearing, energetic alignment, and deep nervous system restoration, allowing you to reset, awaken higher awareness, and emerge replenished, balanced, and deeply attuned to your inner self.

As the night unfolds, allow yourself to drift into restful slumber or dive into mindful contemplation. The gentle yet powerful waves of sound will wash over you, harmonizing your body, mind, and spirit. Whether this is your first sound bath or you’re a seasoned participant, the experience will leave you feeling deeply renewed and aligned.

Gong Puja Benefits:

• Deep Relaxation: Induces profound relaxation, easing tension and stress.

• Nervous System Reset: Supports nervous system restoration and balance.

• Cellular Healing: Encourages the release of energetic blockages, promoting healing.

• Restorative Sleep: Aligns with natural sleep rhythms for deep, restorative rest.

• Energetic Alignment: Clears blockages and restores balance to energy centers.

• Increased Awareness: Enhances self-awareness and promotes introspection.

• Emotional Release: Helps dissolve emotional tensions for greater clarity.

• Heightened Sensory Perception: Deepens connection to your inner self and the present moment.

• Rejuvenation: Facilitates transformation, leaving you balanced and renewed.

  
  

With: Mike Tamburo, Brooke Susan, and Rachel SantaOlalla

When: Saturday, March 22, 9:30 pm - 6:00 am March 23

Doors open at 8:45 pm to give you time to set up your cozy nest. If you are attending our Equinox event as well, you can just keep your spot.

Where: Presence Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave. (across from the old Inspire Studio) The studio is located just to the left of Bellingham Bar and Grill, upstairs. Allow time to find parking and please arrive 10–15 minutes early to settle in.

Pricing Tier:

• Early Bird Rate (until 2/28): $85

• Regular Rate (until 3/21): $90

• Day of Event: $100

  Students use code STUDENT10 for $10 off.

  
  

• 20% off for monthly auto-pay members; get code from Ruby. Students use code STUDENT10 for $10 off.

  A few sliding scale spots and work exchange positions (setup/teardown) are available. Partial exchanges are also offered. Text Ruby at 360-447-8778 for more details.

  
  

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Payment Note: A credit card fee of $2.75–$3.25 will be included in your total. To avoid the fee (if spots are still available), you can pay via Venmo (@ruby-koa) or Zelle (inspirestudiobham@gmail.com). For check or cash, contact Ruby.

What to Bring:

Create your own cozy sanctuary for the night!

While some blankets, bolsters, cushions, and silk eye pillows with optional lavender aromatherapy essential oils will be available, your comfort is key to fully immersing in the experience. You will be lying down for many hours on a hardwood floor, so please bring whatever you need to be truly comfortable. A yoga mat alone likely will not be enough. Bring whatever helps you sleep at night. Here are some suggestions:

🔹 For Comfortable Rest:

• Camping mat, yoga mat/Pilates mat combo, folding futon, or nova foam pad

• Reclining camping chair or anti-gravity chair (great for those with low back issues)

• Cozy blanket(s) and pillow

• Eye mask

🔹 Extras for Support & Relaxation:

• Water bottle

• Earplugs (in case you're sensitive to certain frequencies)

Each prop can have a powerful influence on your ability to relax and sink deeper into the rest-and-digest state, allowing you to receive the most benefit—so it's best to be prepared.

Tea and snacks will be served afterward, but feel free to bring your own water bottle and/or thermos.

Come rest, dream, and awaken within the sound.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

If you can’t attend, please get in touch. Refunds are typically given when cancellations are made 24 hours before the event starts, as space is limited and we’d like time to contact the waiting list. However, you’re welcome to give your ticket to someone else or let Ruby know what future event or class you’d like to use your credit for.

Note on Hearing Aids:

We cannot guarantee that the sound will be pleasing with hearing aids. If you’re not accustomed to using them in sound healing scenarios, you may want to take them out or turn them down during the sound journey. Positioning yourself closer to the front can help with hearing any guidance.

About the Facilitators:

Ruby Koa:

Ruby, founder of Inspire Studio, has been teaching yoga in Bellingham since 2009. With certifications in Kundalini Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yin, Restorative Yoga, and Gong training, Ruby brings a holistic approach to sound healing, community, and wellness.

Mike Tamburo:

Mike Tamburo is a world-renowned musician, composer, artist and educator. He is known and loved for his transformational live concerts performed on his personally curated set of gongs, bells and other metal instruments. 

A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, Tamburo has focused his talents on metal percussion instruments, string instruments (hammered dulcimer, guitar, zither, shahi baaja), as well as electronic instruments (synths, looping). 

Since 1994, Tamburo has shared more than 2,000 concerts and workshops. He has recorded over 70 albums, both solo and in collaboration with Crown of Eternity, Meisha, Arco Flute Foundation, Psychic Frost, Brother Ong and more, ranging from epic gong music to ecstatic and transcendental string music, as well as folk, drone, space rock, ambient, mantra music and sometimes unclassifiable sounds. This man loves music in all its forms! 

He teaches gong music, both in person and online with School of Gong. He is also a part of the far-reaching ethnomusicology trio, Dig Deeper, with Mitch Nur and Thomas Orr Anderson. Their online classes have explored countless musical concepts with a focus on the cultural and personal uses of sound for healing, meditation, trance, ecstatic states, relaxation, self transformation, perception, psycho-acoustics, scientific discovery, time and community. 

An early adoptee of meditation, Tamburo’s music offers space for journeying, self-exploration and deep introspection. During many of his early performances, he experienced altered states of consciousness and out of body experiences. To understand these experiences, he explored kundalini yoga, energy work, the therapeutic use of sound and how sound impacts consciousness, human perception and self healing. His love for long sustained drones, overtones and psychoacoustics continues to inspire him to explore music in further directions. 

Tamburo is also an interdisciplinary sound artist, instrument builder, video artist, sound therapist, writer and meditation teacher.

Website:       www.miketamburomusic.com

Instagram:   @mike_tamburo

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/miketamburosoundseternal

Brooke Susan:

Brooke is a passionate health coach who offers online training for caregivers and a lovingly curated gift box for patients after working 16 years as an EMT and after surviving leukemia. Brooke has fallen in love with the transformational healing powers of gongs, thanks to Ruby, and now offers sound bath experiences for all. Please visit www.brookesusan.com to learn more.

Rachel SantaOlalla:

Since 2018, Rachel has been guiding others  through the transformative power of sound. Introduced to the art of gong  playing through Kundalini yoga, she pursued further training in playing  the gong and Gong Yoga Nidra and ultimately chose a 24” sidereal moon  gong for its supportive qualities to opening the sacral chakra.Drawing on her background in percussion, Rachel  guides the energy of the room with a dynamic interplay of sound and  silence, blending art and science to facilitate nervous system healing.  Her playing style is subtle yet powerful, designed for those who seek a  softer, more introspective healing journey. To learn more, visit https://www.omnigracestudios.com/.