Susie Nelson-Smith is the Director of The Karyna Centre and the Crystal Sound and Light Institute and is based in Sydney, Australia. Susie brings her passion and fascination for life and its mysteries to every aspect of her teaching, performing and personal life. Since the age of 12, she has been a student of religion, spirituality and the esoteric mysteries.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, History and Philosophy in 1984 and a Post Graduate degree in Communication Management in 1991. She worked as Chief Executive Officer of a Training Centre for specially disadvantaged and long term unemployed people for 12 years and was a Justice of the Peace for 20.

A practicing Natural Therapist for over 30 years, Susie shares her love and passion for sound, crystals and transformation by teaching and guiding people to activate their own inner wisdom.

Susie is currently focussing on teaching professional 12 month courses and special interest workshops in Crystal Sound Therapy (CST) with crystal bowls (accredited with IEHA) and Crystal Vibrational Therapy (CVT) using crystals and gems (accredited with IEHA)

Susie initially studied and graduated as a Teacher of Crystal Healing from the Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts with Katrina Raphaell in Hawaii and has been teaching since 1995. Over the years Susie has changed the course to make it her own whilst maintaining the effective and beautiful teachings of Katrina. In 2004 she began teaching the current Crystal Vibrational Therapy (CVT) 12 month accredited professional training and study program.

Initiated as a Reiki Teacher and Master on the island of Kauai in 1995, Susie's love for practising and teaching the simple and profoundly beautiful energy of Reiki continues to express itself in all her work.
The transforming effect of sound and crystal vibrations on the body and energy field led Susie to travel to Sardinia and Sicily in 1998 where she immersed herself in crystal energy, participating in a crystal bowl workshop and teaching crystal healing throughout Italy. Returning in 1999 to continue teaching, Susie taught crystal healing in Sicily, Lugarno, Torino (Turin) and Tuscany and crystal sound meditations with crystal bowls in Torino.

Susie began developing her professional program of training and study in Crystal Sound Therapy (CST) in 1998 and began teaching the course in 2000. The 12 month Certificate IV course became accredited in 2004.

Susie has travelled extensively. She has taught her range of specialties and performed her unique Crystal Sound Concerts in Australia and overseas. For 10 years she travelled up and down the east coast of Australia from Mission Beach in Queensland to Bruny Island in Tasmania with her Travelling Troubadour Tours. Susie has taught overseas in places such as New Caledonia, Italy, the USA - Hawaii, California, Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Vancouver in Canada.

In 2007 Susie met American Sound Therapist and Director of the Healing Music Organization - Amrita Cottrell. Together they taught the Crystal Sound Therapy course in the USA. The first course was taught on the island of Kauai, Hawaii and in the following 2 years a larger group of students joined Susie and Amrita on the Oregon coast.

Susie taught her first dedicated International Crystal Sound Therapy group in Bali in September 2013. Students from Holland, Cambodia, USA and Australia joined Susie for a 12 day Retreat for the face to face component of the 12 month training and study program. The 2nd International CST Retreat in October was presented over 14 days in Cambodia. The first 4 days of the course in Phnom Penh and the next 10 in the beautiful energy of Siem Reap home of the 900 year old Temple complex of Angkor Wat. In 2015 the 3rd International course was taught in Australia at a stunning retreat centre on the Central Coast near the Ourimbah State Forest in NSW. The 2016 International Crystal Sound Therapy "Path of the Heart" retreat will be presented at the picturesque, gorgoeus Yanada country retreat in the Hidden Valley of St Albans overlooking the MacDonald River in June.

Creating and publishing four crystal bowl CDs - "Opening the heart to compassion", "Opening the heart to JOY" and "Opening the heart to LOVE" Susie’s latest CD was released in September 2014. It is a crystal bowl musical healing journey called “Crystal Alchemy” and features special guest musician - Master Percussionist David Jones.

Trained and qualified in Aromatherapy, Swedish and Remedial Massage and Reflexology, Susie integrates Holistic and Spiritual Counselling, Mentoring, Meditation and Stress Management techniques, Colour Therapy, Vision Enhancement and Relationship Support using her full range of healing modalities in workshops, concerts and her private practice.

Susie’s focus is to create an experience of deep transformation with love and respect using her many healing tools including Alchemy, classic and therapeutic clear crystal singing bowls, essential oils, colour, crystals, gems and guided meditations.