Shamanic Sound Journey
The Shamanic Journey
Most people come to a sound journey expecting Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, or gongs. What I do is unique, and comes from a completely different place.
My practice began in Africa, working with people who played natural instruments like the didgeridoo, drums, maracas, voice, marimbas, and flutes. Instruments of the earth. Percussion instruments. That is where my work has its roots.
Over 35 years, through festivals and fire circles and intimate gatherings across southern Africa, this practice found its shape. It is held by one person working alone. Not two, not a group of musicians, one. When two people play together they need an agreement about how the sounds will unfold. When one person holds the space, there is no agreement. The journey becomes genuinely unpredictable, genuinely alive, influenced by the environment, the people in the room and what is needed in each moment.
What you will experience is not a performance. It is a container, held open by rhythm and breath, into which you are invited to travel entirely inward.
The Instruments
Of all the instruments used across 35 years of this practice, the didgeridoo is the one that most reliably opens the door to ancestral connection. Something in its frequency reaches further back than the others.
The didgeridoo is among the oldest wind instruments on earth. Its continuous drone works directly on the nervous system and on something deeper still, the body’s held memory, the places where lineage lives in the flesh and bone. People lying in its sound have experienced visions, regressions, encounters with other times and other lives. This is not the practitioner’s doing. It is the instrument’s nature.
The shaman drum provides the anchor. A strong and completely stable rhythm gives the brain something to hold on to, which is what allows the rest of consciousness to let go and travel. A particularly unwavering beat, held without variation, does something precise: it provokes the brain to release and begin generating its own inner landscape.
The rattle moves through the air between the other sounds, marking rhythm, clearing energy, carrying the voice of the forest into the room.
Read the full story of how these instruments came to me many years ago: Experiencing my first Shamanic Journey →
The Ancestral Connection
You do not need to believe in anything to connect with your ancestors. This connection simply exists.
Religions are created by us and our cultures. The ancestral lineage simply exists, because everyone has a mother and a father, and every mother and father had mothers and fathers. Look back seven generations, ten generations, and there are thousands upon thousands of beings who have some part in making you who you are. Their lives are woven into your DNA. They are not separate from you. They are part of you.
This makes them far easier to reach than any external spiritual entity. The sound journey opens that connection not by prayer or ritual belief, but by vibration. The drum and the didgeridoo speak a language the body already knows. When you lie down and stop looking outward, stop reaching toward the heavens or the spirit world, and simply allow the sound to take you inward, into the body, into the being, into your ancestry, something unlocks. Frequencies of healing that are, in the truest sense, ecstatic.
We can also invite spiritual deities and ask for their guidance and protection. The two are not in conflict. But the core of this practice is the vibration, and the vibration connects earth, trees, plants, humans, animals, and ancestral lineage all together, in the same breath, without doctrine and without condition. Each person carries a different ancestral lineage, so each person’s encounter with this sound is a different encounter, I hold the space, but what fills it belongs entirely to you. The spaces between the sounds are where that happens.
Book a Sound Journey
Nixiwaka comes to you. All you need is a quiet room, enough space to lie down comfortably, and a willingness to let go. I bring everything with me.
Sessions can be held in the comfort and privacy of your own home or accommodation, for individuals or for groups. I also have a private sound room where I can work with one or two people at a time
To enquire about a session, reach out directly.