Large Groups
Large Group SoundPlay Presentation: Sounds Like M.E. (My Emotions)
Grades: K–12
Group Size: Up to 300 students
Facilitators: 2-3 trained SoundPlay Presenters
Overview:
Our Large Group SoundPlay Presentation is an immersive, sensory-rich journey designed to captivate and calm large student audiences in the Golden Horseshoe Region, including
City of Hamilton, Halton Region (Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Halton Hills), Peel Region (Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon), Toronto (City), York Region (Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Newmarket), Durham Region (Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Uxbridge, Clarington), Niagara Region (St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Fort Erie, Grimsby)
Feel free to contact us if you would like us to consider serving and listing your local region.
Perfect for gymnasiums or auditoriums, this experience brings the entire school community into resonance through sound, rhythm, and breath.
Students quickly experience the power of sound as a tool for emotional regulation, mindfulness, and collective connection. The session includes live demonstrations, hands-on exploration by selected students, and a full-group sound bath experience.
Program Elements
- Seated Breathwork: Calming breath exercises to begin centring the group energy
- Body Tapping Rhythms: Gentle, rhythmic self-tapping to awaken body awareness and circulation
- Vocalization & Humming: Guided toning and humming practices to stimulate vagal tone and inner calm
- Audio-Visual Soundscape: A rich presentation of natural sounds and visual media to tune awareness to environmental acoustics and brain-body relaxation
- World Instrument Exploration: Live demonstrations of global therapeutic instruments such as singing bowls, flutes, gongs, ocean drums, monochords, rainsticks, and more
- Student Star SoundPlayers: A select number of student volunteers get to try 3–4 world instruments in front of their peers, adding interactive joy and leadership opportunity
- Group Sound Immersion: A full-group SoundPlay experience, where facilitators circulate through aisles with instruments, allowing every student to feel the resonance and vibrational effects up close
Learning Benefits
- Introduces the neuroscience of sound, vibrations and vocalizations in a sensory-rich way
- Builds focus, calm, and classroom readiness through nervous system regulation
- Encourages school-wide unity, emotional regulation, and resonant learning collaboration
- Accessible to neurodivergent learners and adaptable for various ability levels
Curriculum & STEAM Alignment
This large group experience is designed to complement Ontario curriculum standards in Health & Physical Education, The Arts (Music, Drama, Dance), and Science & Technology. The program also supports cross-curricular goals by integrating:
1. STEAM exploration: through sound science, artistic expression, music and technology
2. Emotional well-being outcomes: by guiding students in breath awareness, body regulation, and sensory integration
Post Presentation Activities
Teachers are provided with an activity package designed to invite student dialogue, creativity and consolidation of the resonant learning experience.
Why Book This Experience? It's Resonant Learning in Action
SoundPlay Works™ brings resonant learning to life—where students feel deeply connected, engaged, and inspired by what they learn. Rooted in the work of Hartmut Rosa1, resonant learning is about more than just receiving information; it’s about feeling “touched” by the world and moved to respond with creativity, curiosity, and purpose.
Through immersive sound experiences—featuring world instruments, breathwork, and storytelling—we create moments that reduce stress, increase focus, and spark personal growth. Each presentation includes ready-to-use follow-up activities, so the resonance continues in the classroom.
RESULT: Students don’t just hear it. They feel it. They live it. They carry it forward.
Ideal for school-wide assemblies, wellness days, or mental health initiatives, this presentation offers a powerful, unifying experience that helps students regulate, relate, and resonate together.
1 Resonance, A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany and Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt. He is also an Affiliated Professor at the Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York.