By ShirleySienna & Anthony Kilner
How Sound is Your Life is Your Life
Both ShirleySienna and I have worked with sound for many years. As we have come at it from different angles and backgrounds, we decided to write a joint feature article. So, firstly read ShirleySienna’s journey into the magical world of sound. My personal journey into sound, and the healing qualities it brings to our body mind and spirit in various ways, began as a child as my family was musically inclined. We would sit in my grandparents lounge around the piano and sing while my uncles, aunts and family friends harmonised. Voice was important to us. Various instruments, as well as voice, were also in my childhood home: piano, triangles, flutes, recorders, guitars, drums and bongos. I was introduced to the power of sound and vibration by
“We would sit in my grandparents lounge around the piano and sing while my uncles, aunts and family friends harmonised.”
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my mother and by having information readily available in the home on topics such as sound, breath, colour and the aura. Books on spiritualism and metaphysics were also available to me, which is how I discovered Ted Andrews’ books. He wrote on just about anything of a psychic or paranormal nature, back in the 1980’s and 1990’s. His book on sacred sounds explained that sound can heal through vibratory energy and the power of this on the human body. My journey and interest in sound continued into the 2000’s, when I was mentored and tutored by a fabulous sound teacher and author named Llarah Starr. This was just before the time I opened
“…I was mentored and tutored by a fabulous sound teacher and author named Llarah Starr.” a wellbeing centre and crystal shop in Melbourne in 2009, where we had many wonderful drumming and sounding gatherings. The freedom in the knowledge that you do not have to be a singer to be a sounder, is exhilarating and gives you license to make some pretty strange noises. Over the decades, I have continued to instil sounding into the groups and classes I facilitate. People who try this for the first time can be quite shy, but I find they quickly open up and get in the ‘groove’, because as said, there is no classification of talent, just inspiration and intention.