Hey ,
Firstly, thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Gold Coast Women’s Health & Wellness Expo last Saturday!
It was such a full and beautiful day.
There were strong healing energies moving through that space, and I could feel how much people were arriving with, some fatigued, some curious, others with quiet hope.
It was also the first time I’ve ever held 7–8 hours in a row of sound healing in one day, and it reminded me how much healing is not about becoming someone else.
Sometimes it is simply about becoming less organised around reaction.
And perhaps that is why August has felt so intense for many.
Post-eclipse months often have a way of showing us what is still unresolved.
Not always dramatically. Sometimes just through tiredness, irritability, tenderness, mental noise, or that feeling of being inwardly stretched by too much at once.
If August has felt heavy, or unusually demanding, you are probably not imagining it!
I was reminded the whole month, how the deeper work is not only what life brings us.
It is also what another person’s behaviour brings out in us.
Because it is easy to feel clear when other people are easy to understand.
The real test comes when someone disappoints us, behaves badly, becomes reactive, or difficult to respect.
That is often where our own character is revealed.
Not only in what we see in them, but in what their behaviour awakens in us.
Judgment.
Contempt.
Superiority.
The quiet relief of thinking, at least I’m not like that.
Whici is the part I think we need to observe.
We do not become better by finding someone worse.
Yes, some people need consequences.
Yes, some relationships need boundaries.
But there is still a difference between clarity and humiliation.
Between discernment and superiority.
Between seeing clearly and needing someone else to become smaller so we can feel better.
Another person’s behaviour may explain the situation. It does not get to decide our character.
This is part of what sound keeps teaching me.
Sound does not argue.
It does not need to win.
It reveals.
It reveals where the body has been bracing, where grief is still sitting, where old protection is still shaping the present.
And when we let that revealing happen without rushing into blame or defence, something more honest can begin.
That is also why Sounding September feels so aligned now.
This month I’m part of Sounding September, in collaboration with Peter Hess Sound Academy Australia; a fundraising initiative supporting the Foundation in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
It brings sound practitioners together across Australia, each hosting events in their own communities, all connected by one shared purpose: community, connection, and shared contribution.
And after the recent floods in Nepal, this month’s offering feels even more meaningful.
Sound connects beyond borders.
A session held here can still become support felt elsewhere (sound carries intention).
If you’d like to be part of this with me, my next Sound Bath Circle is held at the Robina Community Centre:
👉 9 September | 5–6pm
👉 23 September | 5-6pm
In case these dates don't suit, I’ll also be part of the Pure Heart Connection Mini Retreats:
👉 13 September | 11-3pm Mudgeeraba
👉 27 September | 12-4pm Helensvale
For this month, 50% all of my sessions after expenses will be contributed to flood-affected communities in Nepal through this fundraising stream.
If you have a workplace, studio, wellness space, retreat centre, recovery centre, or community venue and would like to be part of Sounding September too, please reach out.
I'd be keen to co-host with you, perhaps:
a lunch break sound session for your staff, or
a mid-week corporate sound session, or
a sound bath circle in your own space, or
a retreat-centre offering, or
any community event in support of this fundraising effort.
If you have the space, I can bring the sound.
See you in resonance,
AK
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