ABOUT JARED BISTRONG

Jared is the Director and Founder of the Miami Sound Institute and the South Beach Sound Healing Orchestra. He is one of seven children born and raised in Miami. His family are descendants of the original “Conchs” (the earliest Florida settlers) who emigrated to Key West from the Bahamas in the mid 1800's. He has been making, playing, teaching, and facilitating  sound journeys for 25 years. He crafts his own didgeridoos, shakers and flutes out of native palm trees and bamboo and his workshops have been featured all over the world. As a college professor, multi-instrumentalist and sound healer, he has been on the forefront of sound healing exploration since the late 1990’s. A master facilitator, his workshops are playful and interactive and provide a profound vibrational sound experience that transforms and energizes participants.

 

Vision

Jared believes that now more than ever, as our culture faces a growing epidemic of stress, it is essential to cultivate the art of collective relaxation and healing. Through shared experiences of stillness and resonance, communities can counterbalance the pressures of modern technology and fast-paced living that impact our minds, bodies, and nervous systems. His vision is to integrate restorative practices—such as yoga, tai chi, sound healing, acupuncture, and massage—into everyday life, bringing these modalities into workplaces, schools, community spaces, and wellness centers.

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As an experiential educator and multi-instrumentalist, Jared has been at the forefront of sound healing exploration, weaving instruments such as the didgeridoo and drums into educational environments and therapeutic settings. He facilitates sound healing workshops across the country for both large audiences and intimate groups, offering experiences at health centers, wellness expos, hotels, spas, retreats, schools, and corporate gatherings, as well as programs supporting individuals in cancer recovery and addiction rehabilitation.

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Background

Jared began to take interest in alternative health therapies after losing his mother to cancer in the mid 1990's. He began using sound as therapy while teaching poetry to homeless teenagers living in youth shelters and to incarcerated women in the prison system. In the 2000's he spent 10 years working with inner-city, at-risk youth, teenagers and disabled children where he utilized sound/music therapy on a daily basis while teaching digital literacy and filmmaking. Jared has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Florida State University and has an extensive background in learning design, multimedia production and workshop facilitation for learners of all ages and levels.

 

He brings a unique approach to workshop facilitation by blending modern-day design concepts and technology with ancient hand-made tribal tools and practices and eastern wisdom traditions.  He is a certified group sound healer in the Non-Somatic Extraordinary Vessel Healing system and is a student of Acutonics sound therapy.

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