Welcome To Online Gong Master Training
And The Don Conreaux Legacy Project
Welcome
This platform was created to continue the life mission of Grand Gongmaster Don Conreaux (Sept 8, 1934-present) — to share The Way of the Gong.
The Gong is not merely an ancient musical instrument; it is a Teacher — The Gong is the Guru.
As a non-human teacher, a transpersonal guru, its wisdom is untainted by ego or the follies of human nature. Its gift lies in vibration — the universal language of transformation.
Through its living tones and holistic resonance, the Gong awakens what is dormant, balances what is divided, and restores harmony within body, mind, and spirit. Sound healing is now widely recognized for its power to heal and expand awareness. Yet, Don reminds us that Gong Mastery is not mastering the Gong - The Gong is the master teacher, The Guru.
This site is dedicated to preserving and sharing the lifetime work of Don Conreaux, whose dharma is to awaken World Servers for Humanity through the teachings of The Gong.
Every student, from the novice to the teacher, walks this path of purpose — learning that in time, each may become a teacher of teachers themselves.
Namaste,
Yaelle E. Shaphir, L.Ac
(nee Nanaki Joy Conreaux)
Meet Gong Master Don Conreaux
Don Conreaux formerly known as Baba Don and Guru Jagat. Master Don was one of the five original Kundalini Yoga Teachers designated by Yogi Bhajan in 1969. Don studied the gong writings of Dane Rudhyar. He established the Nanak Dwara Ashram Teacher Training 1970-1976 in Phoenix, Arizona. Don received his Kriya Yoga Initiation in Los Angeles in 1953 while studying the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda at Self Realization Fellowship.
Don has produced students of the gong in many countries of the world since and holds trainings internationally. He also conducts his Mysterious Tremendum Gong Consort and Sacred Tone Ensemble.
His Way of the Gong writings include: Gongs of Our Solar System, Magnum Opus of the Gong, Music of Wholeness, The Gong Essays, Sacred Geometry of Starhenge, The Chiometer, and The Kriya Kundalini Gong Yoga Manual.
photo credit: Julie Ansieu
Gong Master Training is a life journey. Those drawn to these teachings have experienced the remarkable and potent feeling tones of the Gong and wish to understand and delve further.
You have arrived! May you be inspired to continue to learn and grow.
Let us work together!
In Lak’ech Ala K’in
I am you, and you are me.
(Traditional Mayan saying)
The Gong has the ability to shift states of consciousness in 30-90 seconds. It is a sound vibrational tool that promotes peace, healing, relaxation and parasympathetic response; in other words, Functional Harmony for the individual/personal, the group/collective and the global/universal.
In our current global climate, in concluding 2025 (#9 completion year) and moving into 2026 (#1 new 9 year cycle), Don Conreaux (91) continues to be passionate that The Gong can and should be used to promote the manifestation of the first day of world peace (full moon activation 2025) as prophesied by the assistant Secretary General of the U.N., international world server, Robert Muller (1923–2010); through the activation and transmutation of the Green or 4th Ray: through the use of Gong Sound Vibrational Healing as a tool for Functional Harmony.
Join the Global Gong Family
We welcome everyone — gong fans, students, practitioners, teachers, and masters — to learn, grow, and evolve through the 18 Areas of Gong Mastery.
Join us for private sessions, group trainings, and online workshops as we explore the teachings of Gong Consciousness and Functional Harmony.
Our Mission
Online Gong Master Training exists to educate and inspire those called to The Way of the Gong. We also honor and feature the worldwide work of Don’s master students and teachers — the World Servers — who continue to plant the seeds of Sound Healing and Peace across the globe.
All students and teachers are invited to join the Akashic Blue Book Registry and the Global Gong Family Map, celebrating the ever-growing community of gong players dedicated to planetary healing.
Please add yourself to the Global Gong Map click here: https://globalgongpuja.com/
2026 CALENDAR
Are you beginning or continuing your extraordinary gong adventure?
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be!
2026 (2+0+2+6=10 → A #1 Year – A New Cycle of Gong Seva (Service) begins...
February
February 12-16, 2026 -San Antonio, Texas
5-day intensive is “Making Sound Medicine with Gongs, Singing Bowls, Conch and Bells.” International Sound Medicine Wheel Gong Master Training at Schroeder Studios
Michael Enderle | 210-621-5521 (text or phone) | HeyokaHarmony@gmail.com | www.soundmedicinewheel.com
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May
May 14-19 2026 - 5-day intensive “1:1 Sound Healing with Gongs, Bowls, and Tuning Forks” International Sound Medicine Wheel Gong Master Training at Schroeder Studios
Host/cofacilitator:Michael Enderle | 210-621-5521 HeyokaHarmony@gmail.com | www.soundmedicinewheel.com
May 31 2026 Wesak
The Full Moon in Taurus (Scorpio Full Moon) Global Gong Puja events: www.globalgongpuja.com
FB: Globalgongpuja Group
AND ALSO" Yaelle & Cara Gonging for The Globe in Los Angeles - Sonavela & Aquagong - Topanga Canyon - Starhenge/Gonging In Nature for Nature and Humanity 3:30-5:30.
June
June 5-8, 2026 – Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
4-Day Gong Master Training
Host: Jeff Howard 📧 jeff@soundtopia.com
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2027
February
February 18-21 "Advanced Gong Specialization Program"
Location: Torreon, Mexico
@CASA SHANTII HOST: ARTURO MENDOZA 📞 +52 87 1263 0377📧 ARTURO.MENDOZAJ@ICLOUD.COM
Per Our Mexico Gong Students Request - From the 2025 October 16-19 Level 1: Sacred Sound Training (Monterrey, Mexico)
This is a continuing and deeper step into the work — A specialized, experiential, and intimate workshop incorporating immersive technology and spatial design elements to support deeper understanding of the teachings and geometries involved in the Advanced Gong Mastery Topics: M.E.M. Gong Yoga of Holistic Resonance, Chiometer, & Starhenge Peace Garden
Feb 19 & 20The core themes for this gathering are: Advanced Gong Mastery Topics: Chiometer, MEM Yoga, Starhenge / Peace Gardens (with Yaelle E. Shaphir, L.Ac & Don Conreaux) & Sound Medicine Wheel Training (with Michael Enderle)
+ Full Moon Puja February 21 2027.
"Registration will prioritize students who have previously trained with us, in order to preserve the depth, coherence, and energetic integrity of the group".
ARCHIVE — PAST TRAININGS & EVENTS
• AUG 2025 – FULL MOON GLOBAL GONG GATHERING (VARIOUS) – GLOBAL HOSTS
SEPTEMBER – EASTERN EUROPE
SEPT 6–13 – STARHENGE BULGARIA TRAINING OSAZNANIE FOREST, KRUSHA VILLAGE, BULGARIA HOST: PAVLINA BOGOEVA (ГОРА ОСЪЗНАНИЕ) 📞 +359 89 629 0278 📧 OSAZNANIEBG@GMAIL.COM 🔗 FACEBOOK EVENT
SEPT 19–21 – CROATIA WEEKEND MASTERCLASS + PUJA, ZAGREB
+ ALL NIGHT GONG PUJA (SEPT 20–21) FOR WORLD PUJA & UN PEACE DAY HOST: BERNARDA BAKULA 📧 GANGLIA.CRO@GMAIL.COM | BBAKULA@YAHOO.COM 📱@BERNADA_BAKULA
SEPT 24–26 – ROMANIA GONG MASTERY & STARHENGE BUILD, BUCHAREST HOST: ELISABETA GHELBER📧 ELISABETAGHELBER@YAHOO.COM
OCTOBER – MEXICO
OCT 16–19 – LEVEL 1: SACRED SOUND (MONTERREY)
@CASA SHANTII HOST: ARTURO MENDOZA
📞 +52 87 1263 0377📧 ARTURO.MENDOZAJ@ICLOUD.COM
OCT 22–26 – LEVEL 2: GONG MASTER PATH (TULUM) @TONALSHOP / TONAL ALCHEMY
HOST: FERNANDA ALMAZAN 📞 +52 55 1320 6079 📧 VENTAS@TONALALCHEMY.NET
DECEMBER – MEXICO
DEC 4–7 – MASTERY OF GONG LIFE: FULL MOON PUJA (PUERTO ESCONDIDO)
CENTRO MEXICANO DE TERAPIA DEL SONIDO
HOSTS: CARLOS VALENCIA & PAMELA DÍAZ CAPISTRÁN SPIRITUALGONG@GMAIL.COM
TOPIC: TELEPHONIC RESONANCE AND THE GREAT TONE OF GONG LIFE
"One of my favorite mentors, who continues to travel the globe teaching teachers to teach teachers "
Many folks like me were introduced to sacred tone improvisation with Don Conreaux and Mysterious Tremendum, synthesizing diverse elements in order to create function harmony.
- Gene Stull
Thank you to all the students and participants of the Global Gong Pujas as well as the GMT workshops and trainings this year. during Grand Gongmaster Don Conreaux’s final world tour for 2025 – The #9 Year of Completion (2+0+2+5=9)
This year, at age 91, Don Conreaux begins the closing chapter of his life’s Gong journey — not as an end, but as a sacred passing of the torch.
In China and beyond, Don Conreaux and Yaelle E. Shaphir, L.Ac visited key cities and sacred sites to bless the land, empower practitioners, and symbolically pass the mallet to the next generation.
Don continues to call on all Gong Players, Teachers, Healers, and Sound Practitioners to gather in unity and collaboration for this powerful #9 year — a time of culmination, connection, and continuation, as well as to ask themselves and each other: What’s Next? 2026 (#1 Year begins a new 9 year cycle)
Be part of Don’s final in-person legacy:
- Trainings
- Workshops
- Starhenge Peace Garden ceremonies
- Concerts for Humanity
- The Universal Agreement blessings
- The Manifestation of a version of the IGMA (International GongMaster Alliance)
💫 These are the last opportunities to train directly with the Grand Gongmaster himself. 💗 Come receive his blessings, teachings, and inspiration.
Let’s walk with him as he walks with us — into the next chapter of Gong Consciousness.
#TheGongIsTheGuru #DonConreaux #GlobalGongFamily #GongMasterTraining #PeaceThroughSound,
🌕 FULL MOONS, FUNCTIONAL HARMONY & SHRUTI'S SONG
“We’ve got the whole world in our hands!”
A Shruti song for the #9 Year of Completion — 2025
The prophecy of the Maitreya Buddha and the 4th Ray unfolds across our genetic memory, calling forth the Rainbow Family of Humanity to awaken — together — on Gaia.
What is the role of the Gong Master Journeyperson during these times?Where will you take your gong?sharing the sound of holistic resonance with others.
A functional harmony is rising.
✨ A global “working together” is no longer a dream — it’s a vibration we can choose to embody. “Every day is a special day in Gongerwood for me, when together gonging with you.”— Shruti (Don Conreaux)
Let us continue to meet these full moons — and each other — in resonance.
💌 HOSTING AN EVENT WITH DON CONREAUX & YAELLE E. SHAPHIR, L.Ac.
We are now scheduling Don Conreaux’s final tours and live/virtual offerings for 2025/6. If you feel called to host, organize, or sponsor a training, concert, or workshop with Don and Yaelle — now is the time.
✨ YOU are the heart of what WE do.
🛠 Hosting Guidelines
1. Travel Expenses
- Don: Roundtrip airfare (Business or First), with 2–3 pieces of luggage
- Yaelle: Roundtrip airfare (Economy or Premium Economy), with 1 suitcase
- Bringing Gongs? Please add extra baggage allowance
2. Lodging & Local Transport
- Accommodations and ground transport for Don & Yaelle
3. Teaching Honorarium
- Don & Yaelle (in-person): $1500–$2000 USD per day
- Don via Zoom & Yaelle live: $1000 USD per day
4. Required Student Materials (Retail value $150 per student)
- Magnum Opus of the Gong, Volumes 1 & 2
- Music of Wholeness (Rudhyar excerpts)
- Gongs of Our Solar System
- Laminated Chiometer Poster
- M.E.M. Gong Yoga of Holistic Resonance Student Manual
📩 If you’re inspired to host, please reach out now to reserve a date and co-create something meaningful for your community and the planet.
#GongForPeace #HostDonConreaux #ShrutiSong #FunctionalHarmony #GongIsTheGuru #YaelleShaphir #MaitreyaFullMoon #RainbowFamily #GlobalGongFamily
Don originated:
- The Gong Yoga of Holistic Resonance
- The title of Gong Master
- Gong Therapy
- The Gong Bath
- The Gong Puja
- Spiritual Free Jazz
- Songs and Concerts for Humanity.
His Way of the Gong writings include:
- Magnum Opus of the Gong volumes 1 & 2
- Gongs of Our Solar System
- Music of Wholeness
- Gong Essays vol 3
- Sacred Geometry of Starhenge
- The Universal Chiometer
- The Kriya Kundalini Gong Yoga Manual MEM.
- Shruti Sutras
- Gong Master Training in The Way of the Gong.
Today in his 88th year he continues to teach the art and science of Sacred Geometry, divination, and designs World Peace Gong & Bell Gardens of which there are now sixteen established Internationally. All are dedicated to the coming first day of World Peace, Planetary Cooperation in a world without violence for our children of the New Millennium.
"For the past 40+ years, Don Conreaux has brought the mystical and entertaining sounds of the ancient bronze gong (tam tam), bells, bell bowls, shofar and the spiral sea horn (conch) to millions of listeners around the world."
He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs as performing artist and talk show guest, holds 2 degrees in Theater Arts. Mr. Conreaux has worked throughout his career in theater, in both film and television in Hollywood as an actor, writer, and director before arriving in 1984 to NYC.
Please Enjoy over 150 archival videos on The Don Conreaux Legacy Project Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@donconreaux:
As a writer, actor and director in theater, Mr. Conreaux was greatly influenced by Alice A. Baily's Esoteric Sound Healing, as well as Gene Youngblood's writings on on the subject of visually induced synaesthesia. In 1969 he produced and directed the first of his "Concerts For Humanity" which was called The Divine Union , and used for the first time, the ancient bronze gong with its powerful 'layering tones'.
Theatrically impressed by Gratowsky, and musically marked by composers Rudhyar and Skriabin; while on a Gandhian Salt March across the US, met Robert Muller of the UN and was struck by Muller's Day of World Peace Concept and its simultaneous ringing of a multitude of gongs and bells.
Conreaux's interest in ancient geomantic powerpoints, sacred geometry, and the inherent power of social rites, such as musical ceremonies using recycled implements of war, brought on the vision of designing special acoustic spaces utilizing principles of 'functional harmony' which empower the collective mind to cooperate non-violently with each other.
Most significantly, The Mysterious Tremendum Consort can also be understood as a resonant tribute to Russian composer Alexander Skriabin's earlier vision of a 'Mysterium' in which attempt to "re-tune the world”.
"The bronze gong has since ancient times been thought to exemplify the sounds of the universe; the sacred conch suggests the sounds of whales, elephants, dolphins, and wolves." These sounds summon the forces of nature," offers Mr. Conreaux. He is a genuine Gongmaster, as well as artistic director of The Mysterious Tremendum Consort and School of Sacred Sound. Previously, Don performed as one of the original members of the singing bowl ensemble called One Hand Clapping.
