SOUND HEALING RETREAT · PORT DICKSON, MALAYSIA
Three days where the only thing asked of you
is to put everything else down.
Held in English · All instruments provided · No experience needed
Sound by the waterBowls and gong, facing open sea
Floating sessionsSound received in the pool
Nothing to organiseMeals, rooms and rhythm handled
A small groupEnough people to feel heldTHIS HAS RUN BEFORE
Not a plan. A thing that has already happened, three times.
Three days at La Concha, and the retreat this one grew out of. Everything since has been a version of it.
The second here. Slower, quieter, built around rest more than practice.
Three days, a full house. The edition every photograph on this page comes from.
Most retreat pages ask you to imagine something. This one doesn't need to. The house is real, the group was real, and the photographs on this page are of the people who were actually there in September — not a stock library, and not somewhere else.
The next edition is the fourth time we've done this at La Concha. What changes each time is the group. What doesn't is the place, and the way the days are shaped.
AFTERWARDS
Unasked for, and kept as they were written.
“Somehow, I feel like I came back with a little more of myself than when I left.”
— retreat participant“It’s amazing how we walked into the retreat as strangers, yet somehow our souls connected so naturally.”
— retreat participant“I went there thinking I was simply giving myself a little time to detox, recharge and refresh my body and mind, but I came home receiving so much more than I expected.”
— retreat participantTHE PLACE
Half of what this retreat is, is where it happens.
A house on the water at Port Dickson, on the Malaysian coast, with a pool that runs to the edge of the view and rooms that open straight onto it. There is no lobby, no schedule board, no one else staying. For three days the whole place belongs to the group.
It matters more than it sounds like it should. A gong sounds different with open water behind it. So does waking up with nothing between you and the horizon, and nowhere in particular to be.
HOW THE DAYS GO
Enough structure to rest inside. Not so much that it becomes another schedule.
Day oneArrive. Settle. Restart.Arrival from 3pm · slow tea ritual · opening ceremony · water ceremony at dusk
Most people arrive carrying the week they just left. The first afternoon is deliberately slow — settle in, swim, a slow tea ritual instead of a briefing. The opening grounding journey and ceremony are late afternoon, the first water ceremony at dusk, and a candlelight session before bed for anyone still awake enough to want it.
Day twoFlow. Reflect. Release.Sunrise movement · floating sound awakening · sound meditation · Breath & Colour · twilight water meditation
The one full day, and the heart of it. Movement and aqua exercise at sunrise, before the heat, then floating sound on the water as the light comes up. Sound meditation around midday, a deep rest sound bath after lunch, then a sharing circle and Breath & Colour in the afternoon. The day closes with the twilight water meditation at eight — the session people tend to name first afterwards.
Day threeReturn. Integrate. Home.Sunrise seaside meditation · silent self-reflection · gratitude circle · 11am checkout
Meditation by the sea at sunrise, quiet time to write down what the three days turned up, and a gratitude and farewell circle before breakfast. Checkout is eleven, so nobody is rushed out. People tend to leave quieter than they arrived.
The sessions that give the retreat its shape:
Everything here is an invitation, not a requirement. Take what you need, leave what doesn’t serve you, and let your body set the pace. The shape above is how the days have run; weather moves things around, and nobody is marched between sessions.
WHO COMES
It fits if:
It doesn't fit if:
No experience with sound healing is needed, and no one is asked to share anything they don't want to. Everything is an invitation, not a requirement — take what you need and leave what doesn't serve you. Instruments are provided. You need to bring very little.
THE THREE OF THEM
La Concha is Odam and Claudia’s home. You stay in it, they cook in it, and all three of them run the days.
Leads the sound healing sessions, mindfulness practices and self-healing workshops — the space to slow down and reconnect. Founder of Soul Space Studio and Soul Rice Bowl.
Co-owner of La Concha. Guides the body-centred sessions that support the nervous system and physical release, alongside the sound.
Co-owner of La Concha, and the reason the food gets talked about more than anything except the water. Guides the nourishment side of the three days.
THE NEXT EDITION
We're holding La Concha for the first quarter of 2027. Exact dates, early-bird pricing and what's included go out to this list first, before anything is posted publicly — the last two editions filled from it.
BEFORE YOU ASK
No. Most people arrive having had one sound bath, or none. Nothing is taught that assumes prior practice, and nothing is asked of you beyond lying down and listening.
It's the norm. Most people book alone, and the group size is kept small enough that this stops feeling like a room of strangers within the first evening.
A gentle floating sound bath: you lie on your back in the pool, supported so you don't have to hold yourself up, while sound is played at the water's edge. Water magnifies the vibration, so you feel it as much as hear it. There is a floating sound awakening at sunrise on day two as well, and the twilight water meditation in the evening. Every one of them is an invitation — you can sit any of them out, or receive the session on land instead.
Yes. Past groups have been a mix of English and Mandarin speakers, and sessions are held in English with Mandarin available one to one if that's easier for you.
A room at La Concha, all meals during the retreat, every session and instrument, and a one-to-one with Yap if you want one. Travel to Port Dickson is arranged separately — full details go out with the dates.
A few conditions mean you should skip the sound sessions or take a modified version: a pacemaker, brain or other metal implants; epilepsy or a history of seizures; recent or untreated head injury; a middle ear infection, vertigo or severe tinnitus; a fever or infection in the past 24 hours; or extreme sensitivity to sound. Pregnancy is fine with adjustments — gentler practice in the first trimester, and side-lying or upright rather than flat on your back.
None of this rules out the retreat itself. Tell us when you book and we'll plan around it, and you can stop or step out of any session at any point without explaining why.
The three-day training teaches you to offer sound healing to other people, and ends with a certificate. This is not a course. You come to receive, not to learn a skill.