Who are we?
Soundala Therapy was founded in 2016 by Sound Healing Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Rida Kıraşı.
In 2017, Music Composer and Music Therapist Can Dedeoglu joined to Soundala and started to work together in Soundala Therapy.
As Soundala, we form sound art projects, offer individual sound meditation and Somatic Experiencing sessions, organize sound baths and retreats, produce sound meditation albums and give workshops on mindfulness and sound meditation.
Soundala continues to evolve and grow into a tribe with the graduates of the 'Walking the Path of Awareness' training that Rida started in 2015. The training combines methods from meditation, sound, nervous system regulation and movement.
Our tribe combines what they learned from this program with their own authentic tools, and they hold space for those in need with different methods.
Rida Kıraşı
She completed her 'Sound Healing Practitioner' training from the British Academy of Sound Therapy in London in 2015. While graduating, she specialized in gongs, himalayan bowls, drums, vocal practice, and vocal practice with mantras. She completed advanced training with master Don Conreux to deepen in gong.
Realizing that the physical and emotional body carries the traces of the past and the fears of the future, she received a Yoga Therapy certificate from Banu Çadırcı in 2015. She completed the Movement and Dance Therapy certificate program by Mimar Sinan University in 2018 and continues to work with different movement techniques. She deepened in Yin Yoga and took Thai Message Practitioner Training in Thailand.
Chi Gong has been practicing practices such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for a long time and has been using it in his consultancy.
She started meditation with Ezgi Sorman in 2011 and completed her meditation practitioner training with her in 2012.
In 2019, sound healing led her to learn more about the body and nervous system and she started training in Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Analysis with Body Awareness, and Stress Management which lasts 3 years.
At the same time, she is still in the final year of training with Patricia Whitebuffalo 's Shamanic Practices.
After graduating from Tarsus American College, she graduated from Marmara University, Department of Business Administration and worked in an advertising agency in Istanbul. She lived for a while in Helsinki and Berlin.
She went back to college to study Psychology in 2021 at Kent University.
She lives alternately in a forest in Kırklareli and Istanbul. She is a mother of one child, two cats.
Can Dedeoglu
In the sound field of Soundala Therapy since 2017; He deals with technical, aesthetic, performance and timbre aspects.
Graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Music Department, then he continued MA studies on composition at Kraków Music Academy. He tries to melt his interest in many fields of sound and music in one pot and works as a freelance composer/musician.
He combined the sound experiments he has been doing since 2007 with meditation practices. Now he shares all his experience in the meditation and sound retreats, individual sessions, and group sessions. At the same time, he just finished the Music Therapist Certificate program.