Starseed Evolution with Shannon Sullivan
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Starseed Evolution with Shannon Sullivan
Healing with the Full Moon - Sound Healing & Meditation
I'm looking forward to sharing this interview with you. I had the opportunity to work on a collaborative project with Kristof Lambregts of Belgium. He created a sound healing track and I infused it with Reiki energy and a guided meditation. Our inspiration was the energy of the full moon.
The cosmic language of sound speaks directly to our souls, bypassing the analytical mind and touching something deeper within us. Kristof joins us to share his journey through music and sound. As a sound healer and meditation teacher, Kristof works intuitively with the instruments he plays from singing bowls to gongs to chimes.
Our conversation explores the fascinating process behind creating effective sound journeys. We were then able to blend the healing work we each do into one piece to allow listeners to sit in the beautiful liquid energy of the moon.
Experience this beautiful synthesis of ancient sound wisdom and modern therapeutic practice. Your cells will remember what your mind may forget - that we are vibrational beings in a universe composed of sound.
Kristof Lambregts of Akshara Sound Healing
Website: https://www.akshara.be/
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Shannon Sullivan:
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Blue Heron Creates
This is my music artist name where I share mantras and original songs from many different faith traditions.
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Hi, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm Shannon and this is Starseed Evolution, bringing the wisdom and insight of the cosmos to you. I'm grateful that you're listening. Hi, I'm here today with Kristof Lambregts of Belgium. He's a sound healer and we recently collaborated together on a sound healing and meditation with Reiki, and the intention of the work that we did together was bringing the healing energy of the full moon. Bringing the healing energy of the full moon. I'd like to share this interview with you now and hope you enjoy it. How long have you been doing sound healing?
Kristof:For me, sound has always been a big part of my life actually. So it's hard to say when I started sound healing as a journey, um, but I started playing music, um, when I was 14, 15 years old, but even before I had a very strong connection to sound and music. I, as a kid, I've always been um scared from heavy sounds. They had a huge impact on my life. But also beautiful sounds. They were so strong I had such emotions I could have with certain music, but also with just sound. So it's always been a big part of my life.
Kristof:When I started playing music, it started to make more sense. During that journey, gradually, I've been diving deeper into music, deeper into sound. And then yoga and meditation came on my path. And then you know like naturally, I was drawn to nada yoga and sound meditation and that really made such a big change for me in my own meditation practice. It felt so right, it felt so natural. But I started following this path completely and, of course, as a musician. When I started to teach yoga and meditation myself, right away I was into sound meditation and I started to implement sound healing later on into my practice.
Shannon:When you were a kid and you were starting on the journey of music. What were the instruments that you were drawn to initially when you came into it?
Kristof:I started playing bass guitar, I had some friends one was a drummer, the other one was a guitarist and they were like let's start a heavy metal band. That's awesome and I was like yeah, sounds like a great idea to learn how to play an instrument. So the bass guitar wasn't uh, chosen yet, so so that was when I started practicing playing.
Shannon:Did you move into any other instruments before moving into the sound healing with the crystal bowls and gongs and those types of instruments?
Kristof:went studying music and then I studied like historical woodwind instruments, just like black pipe and some flutes types that are regular here Central European, yeah, all these instruments basically. And then I switched over to the double bass.
Shannon:Oh, okay.
Kristof:Went. Actually, I went back to the bass and that's what I studied back then and then later on singing bowls. I started with Himalayan singing bowls.
Shannon:Mm-hmm.
Kristof:Really to enhance the shavasana at the end of my yoga class and that's how I rolled into it Okay. I noticed oh, this is strong, I have so many musical options but also energetically. That's awesome really. Uh, it really took me over that I, and then I started studying sound healing as a as a modality, as a tool, and yeah, that's when blown it.
Shannon:So do you teach yoga currently?
Kristof:yeah, okay, that's uh. Only two classes a week, yeah.
Shannon:What kind of yoga do you teach?
Kristof:I teach very classical Hatha yoga.
Shannon:Oh, what school did you go to for music?
Kristof:So you have like this I think it's the same in the US we have institutes that teach music, just like music school. It's not like a high school or the normal school where you go, but it's extra on top of the normal school and they just teach music. They teach music history. You get the history, you get playing the instruments. You get the theory behind music, like scores, composing.
Shannon:So if we move into like sound healing part, when you do the, either teaching online, like through Insight Timer, or when you do your recordings for your tracks, how do you choose the different instruments in those tracks?
Kristof:I always start with an intention. Like you say, there's a certain topic, and then I take some time to really feel how I can translate what I want to say in the topic through sound, because I rarely use words on my live streams or on my tracks. I try to explain. It's not the right word, but I want to bring my idea through music and not through sound, so I use it as a way of speech. Basically, it's a universal language to me. So I really feel into what do I want to say and how am I going to say it? And that's what. What will decide which instruments I'm going to use and, if I'm using multiple instruments, what I do too.
Kristof:Um, then I try to decide okay, which is going first and why. Most people have around 20 minutes of time. They need to really calm the mind. First part I always go into silence, into relaxation, try to silence the mind, to silence the monkey mind, and that's usually where the core of the journey is going to expand from. It's going to happen from there. It's going to happen from there. And then in the end, I move upwards again in the energy to prepare people to reawake or wake up again and return to their bodies.
Shannon:You can use many instruments for many purposes, because the way you play them and how you make them sound together is important too, say you start with the intention and then you begin. Do you also allow the instruments to kind of share with you which one of them wants to come in, or is there an intuitive part to it for you too?
Kristof:When I tune into the intention, I often start to hear certain colors of sounds and that's mostly like, okay, this color of sound suits these instruments and that's how I feel into using this instrument or that instrument.
Shannon:And then do you also experience the feeling of it while you're doing it too, you know, like you know, whether it's during a live session or you're creating, um, a track with a certain intention, um, do you yourself also like experience the intention of that music, um with the instruments as well?
Kristof:yeah, in some way I feel the energy and I feel the intention and I experience it, but I do not experience it as people who are receiving this, because I'm in an active state. Um, I have to feel on. Where do I switch um harmonics? Where do I switch singing bowls? How am I going to play it?
Shannon:So you have to be conscious during it.
Kristof:Yeah, yeah, I cannot just go now.
Kristof:You can't drift off with it Like oh wait yeah absolutely and also think a few steps ahead, because like, okay, where am I going with this story? Like, for example, I'm in the himalayan singing balls and I'm I'm playing grounding tones, but I want to go higher in energy. I have to find this because if I switch chords, like I'm playing certain notes, when I move to the next one, I have to take a few steps in between to not make it sound dissonant. So I'm consciously planning to um, much like now I'm thinking what are my next words going to be? It's kind of the same thing, but still I'm really into the zone and into the energy, not thinking about anything else. I'm experiencing it. I'm experiencing the emotions, feeling the collective, so things like that, but then I'm the one who is transmitting it or translating it Right right.
Kristof:That's how it feels. Yeah, yeah it's complex. I think it's much like when you are doing a spoken meditation You're also still speaking, still doing your thing, and you have a different place to be. You're a space holder at that moment and not a participant.
Shannon:Yeah, and it's interesting because a lot of times what happens like when we work together and you sent the track, like I'll listen to the track well, I listened to it once, first time just to feel like the scope of the whole thing, and then, when I sat down with the intention of channeling the, the meditation, like what happens is there's like a it's almost like a movie screen that comes up and it shows me like the journey we're taking, and so what I do is just write down what I'm seeing, basically, and so I have to stay conscious. Right, you know, I can't go into it until afterwards. Then I can take the journey again by listening. I already have written everything down, so then I can also then participate in the energy afterwards.
Kristof:I really, really liked how your words fitted the journey. That was the intention that I created with the singing balls. So it's really beautiful to see how this works out and there is real connection between what you felt. Yeah, what was, what's the music and what's the intention?
Shannon:that is really yeah, because, um well, so what I want to say, like going into like the track that we worked on, the theme that we picked was healing with full moon or with moonlight, and so what we did is Christoph did the sound healing part first and then sent me the track and then I sat with it and listened to the energy of what he created and then from that then wrote the the moon journey for the meditation. When you sat down to create it, what was that process like for you in connection with the energy of the moon and bringing that through the instruments? How did you choose this? Because you worked with the crystal singing bowls, is that right? And how did they talk to you to translate moon energy?
Kristof:So, if you want to talk about that process, Moon energy is always such a powerful energy to me. Why the crystal singing balls? I it really came instantly, um, I've, which was which was funny because I've been going through a period where I've been more drowned to the himalayan singing balls. And when we were talking about the intention, the first thing that came to my mind is like the full moon. It's about clarity, it's about light um, it's not. It's like putting things into a light, looking at it from other perspectives, um, so that's that's what what came through me, and I really felt that the singing bowls were the best instruments to tell this story. They, they, have a light energy. The energy of the crystals itself is wonderful and I can really move through it, almost like liquid light, moving from one tone to another. That kind of blend keeps me from an auditive perspective, gives me this beautiful blend that you have in the moonlight. When you look outside, things are clear, but they're different, and that really spoke to me when I was thinking about this intention.
Shannon:Yeah, because the clear tones of the crystal singing balls really came through, tones of the crystal singing bowls like really came through, and that's kind of how I also see the. I guess the energy of what the moon asks of us from a spiritual, like a metaphorical perspective on our journey is, you know, to most clearly see it it's outside, and then when the moon is full it's its brightest, so it's bringing that illumination, like on our path, you know, into darker spaces and trying to bring clarity. So it's that journey. So in this track it's cool because it's both sound and then the journey of the meditation, and then the other thing that I did was I infused it with Reiki, which has that same light energy, and so, yeah, it was fun to create those two together and, and, um, allow the moon to talk both through sound and words, and and energy so talk about a little bit your business.
Shannon:That akshara sound healing. Where did that? How did you choose the word akshara? And then, um, what other kinds of offerings do you do through your business?
Kristof:that's a great question. Akshara is a sanskrit word, it comes from the back of a beta and it means the uh, imperishable um, the never ending actually, and it comes from akshara brahma yoga, which means the imperishable truth. That is yoga. So um, to me, this spoke most because it's often referred to as the mantra om as well, which is basically the sound of creation, the sound that is always there, that's always moving, and that was so beautiful, uh, to have this akshara and om combined into my music and and my purpose with sound. So that's why I chose the name akshara, okay.
Kristof:And then, yeah, with akshara, my business, um, I. I create uh sound healing sessions, I host sound baths groups. I do this one-on-one as well, both online and offline. That's mostly what I do. Now I'm also setting up a community it's actually already there the community where I'm going to teach everything about sound healing. Oh, okay, it's a great course where you can learn how to play these instruments, how to um use sound as a healing modality, how to host uh soundbots, and everything's all going to happen there.
Shannon:So that's oh, nice something nice for soon.
Kristof:Yeah, oh, that, something like that, and I've been really getting into it from March last year, so it'll be about a year that I've been really working on Insight Timer.
Shannon:Okay, and how often do you offer the live sessions?
Kristof:That depends on how busy I am. I love to host live streams. There was a period that I did one every week. Now it's more like one every other week. That's two or three live streams each month. Often live gets busy and it's a little less. Sometimes it's a little more.
Shannon:Yeah, and that makes sense.
Kristof:I don't want to stress out too much about it.
Shannon:So how do you get ready for a live session, whether it's oh? Do you choose a theme or an intention ahead of time, or do you choose it like the day of, or? How does that work for you?
Kristof:I usually plan it ahead so I can make very clear in the announcements and the description of the live session what it's going to be about. Yeah, most of the time I really plan out something, some intention ahead, something that's relevant for the time of year. I really like to do sessions around the seasons. We just had solstice. I like to move with that as well and with the energy of the seasons. Translating certain topics towards chakras and I work around these chakras is something I do very often as well. I really like to plan and, if I can, I plan them ahead, like I did the chakra series, where I did all of the chakras. Oh that's nice.
Kristof:Separate series, yeah, and then one long session to balance them all.
Shannon:To integrate everything.
Kristof:Yeah, so it becomes like a real something to follow, something to be there and and, and I believe that those are the lives that also have big impacts for people who are showing up, uh, week after week, and, and, yeah, doing doing things, doing the work, doing the meditation so I just want to thank Kristof for being with us today and for sharing his journey and his sound healing with us, and it's been awesome being able to collaborate with him on this track, and thank you so much for being with me today.
Kristof:Thank you, Shannon. I really loved our collaboration. It's really great, and also thank you for this interview and having the opportunity to be in your podcast. It's really beautiful and I wish everyone a wonderful experience during the meditation.
Shannon:I hope you enjoy the sound healing track that we created with the crystal bowls, the guided meditation and the Reiki. Have a beautiful journey. A ringing sound of vibration awakens you, calling you outside. You feel the sound moving in and around your whole body and as you step outside in the night sky, you follow the invitation of the energy and follow the sound. You find yourself walking through an enchanted desert where the night sky radiates with the light of a million stars, each one singing your name. A coyote howls and yips in the distance with excitement, feeling the light of the stars just as you do. As you walk, you find a hand-carved granite bench along the path in the desert and as you sit upon the bench the ringing grows louder until overhead you see the moon placed gently in the middle of the night sky, among all the stars.
Shannon:You greet the moon with a smile and open. Your heart opens. You take in the energy of the moon and her healing light, allowing it to move through your whole body. With each breath you take, you breathe in the song of the stars. The energy of the stars, the energy of the moon and the openness of your, of your cells begin to match the vibration of the moon coming into alignment, all the parts of you that seem dark or hidden Parts of you, that vital energy to the world. Just as the moon shines at night, so too do you, and as the vibration of the moon begins to grow in intensity and light around you, you realize that the moon is humming your name throughout all time, weaving it into the cosmos. You close your eyes and receive this healing light and sound from the moonlight. Thank you, thank you, and the moon gently whispers in your ear. Among the light throughout the night, there is no one so lovely as thee. You look up and see that the moon is smiling over you and she winks and you smile in return. May the healing light of the moon continue to bless you all through the night and into your dreams. Good night, dear friend.
Shannon:Thank you so much for joining me for this episode. I'm Shannon and you're listening to Starseed Evolution. Shannon and you're listening to Starseed Evolution. Thank you again for our guest Kristof, for sharing his sound healing journey with us as well, and I'll provide links in the show notes below to Kristof's website and his Insight Timer teacher page. You can also join me live on Wednesday evenings on Insight Timer Live, and I'll place a link in the show notes below to a list of the events that are coming up. I'm grateful for sharing our sound healing and meditation with you and we'll see you next time. Wishing you a beautiful day, namaste.
