Here at the Vocal Sanctuary we believe singing is your birthright. Join vocal embodiment and creativity coach, Laura Rose each Sunday, as she speaks with high level creatives about their journey developing their creative voice, pivotal moments in life that led them to shine bright, and practices to awaken your authentic voice. If you’re looking for inspiration and new ways to unleash your voice, you’re in the right spot. Welcome to The Vocal Sanctuary. For more, visit thevocalsanctuary.com
DTO is an award-winning music producer, designing inspirational music that raises the vibrations of the planet. DTO kicked off his career with a spark with his remix of “Love Me” by Grammy-nominated producer, StoneBridge. DTO followed up with Nameless Energy, a yoga soundtrack recognized by Deepak Chopra for the kirtan project “Jai Ram” ft. Tara Devi. Nameless Energy is a music playlist guiding yoga instructors and students through a 60-minute yoga class. This album has integrated into the yoga world as an inspiring, healing, and transformational musical journey.
DTO launched his 2nd album, Infinite Energy with 7 songs for 7 chakras. Featuring seven global artists singing in Sanskrit, English, Spanish, and Italian. Vocalists on Infinite Energy include Anne-Tyler, Kiyoshi, Sita Rose, Sabrina Sapal, Tamara Rodriguez, Hemalayaa, Emma Grace, and Andrea Sáenz. Infinite Energy is the second in a trilogy of albums dedicated to Energy. Radiant Energy was launched 11.11.2019 in honor of the 5 Koshas and Veteran’s Day.
DTO is passionate about creating unique multi-sensory experiences through music designed to elevate human consciousness and give back to our global communities through his work with non-profits. DTO performs his live yoga music internationally with world-renowned yogis and yoginis, including Hemalayaa and Cristi Christensen.
Find, play, and share DTO’s breathtaking and awe-inspiring music on Spotify, iTunes, Soundcloud, and Bandcamp. Fans may follow DTO on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
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Connect with DTOListen to DTO's Music on Spotify here.Visit DTO's Website
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Caytlyn is the founder of Integrative Pelvic Care. Through her online & in person work she supports women of the world in liberating their body from pain & trauma to reclaim their innate power, wisdom, and capacity to heal.
She developed her methodology through her own journey of healing from chronic pain and debilitating symptoms over more than a decade of trial and error. Having survived a traumatic childhood, domestic abuse, and the grief of losing a sibling, she has a deep understanding of the physical and emotional impact that traumatic experiences have on us and how we can alchemize those experiences to return to a deep sense of belonging in our bodies and on this earth.
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Girish is an eclectic artist with roots in jazz, world, and sacred music. His musical talents find expression in a wide array of instruments – including tablas, world percussion, guitar, harmonium, and voice.
For as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. When he was eight years old, his parents gave him a little red snare drum as a bargaining tool to stop him from banging on everything else in the house.
Drumming has always been instinctual to Girish, flowing freely from his fingers and knowing no musical bounds. In his teens, he started experimenting with pop, rock, jazz and orchestral music. His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. "During improvisational sessions," he recalls, "there were these unexplainable moments of synchronicity and intuition that felt like magic."
These moments came just as Girish was feeling pulled toward a sacred life. A college philosophy class inspired him to explore spirituality through Kundalini yoga, meditation, and the study of Eastern scriptures. By the time of his college graduation, Girish was so deep into these practices that he decided to move into an ashram in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Thus began an unexpected journey-a seeming detour that inadvertently nourished his musical artistry.
In this Episode:
Connect with Girish!Visit Girish's Website for information about Retreats and Upcoming Workshops
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Listen to his music here
Get a copy of his book here
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We're so excited to have Wah! on the Podcast.
Wah! is an accomplished musician, record label owner, mother, and one of the founders and leaders of the global yoga community, Wah! has spent over 25 years teaching and performing, helping people relax, improve their health and learn about compassionate relationship. Her book Self-Care: Building a Stronger, Smarter, More Peaceful Self (2020) and card deck offers simple, effective techniques to help manage stress, burnout and depression. She started training nurses and health care professionals in 2018. Integrative Sound Healing was certified by AHNA American Holistic Nurses Association in 2019.
In this episode:
Connect with Wah!Visit Wah's Website
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Catch her livestream shows here!
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Lotus Sky is a musical channel and shamanic guide, born and raised in the Philippines and hailing from the Big Island of Hawaii. Through her initiation in the medicine path, training in multiple healing and transformational modalities, as well as connecting to her star and earth guides as a channel, Lotus Sky blends shamanic wisdom and music as medicine to help people embody their fullest expression and cultivate spiritual self mastery so that they may create a life of impact, freedom and fulfillment. Lotus Sky has been called Nature Spirit, a Cosmic Channel, and Earth Angel, where her voice brings profound healing, and her shamanic offerings are truly transmissions from beyond the veil.
In the episode:
Connect with Lotus Sky
Visit her website:LotusSky.com
Find her on Instagram: @Lotus Sky
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An acclaimed sexologist, psychotherapist and academic, for over two decades Eva's been following her mission to illuminate the ménage-a-trois of soul, sex, and science. Eva's courses are a robust marriage of the profound and the playful, and as a former professor of neuroscience, she bodaciously reminds us that smart is sexy. She's trained extensively in mind-body therapies such as Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt, Imago Couples Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and Mindfulness, and has had the honor of working with some of the great teachers of our time - including David Deida, Esther Perel, Harville Hendrix, Dan Seigel, and many others. When she's not teaching, you'll find her making mayhem on a dance floor.
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Connect with Eva Clay:
Visit her website: evaclay.com
Find her on Instagram: @EvaClay
Get her free download 🌹 self love & pleasure hypnosis here.
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Please stay tuned to what our incredible featured speaker Nicole has to say.
Nicole Lovince is considered a multi-hyphenate talent > Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Podcaster , Public Speaker & Certified Theta Healer. She is the creator and curator of The Goddess Bath Experience. She helps women from diverse backgrounds create and learn to sustain a ritual self care practice called "The Goddess Bath" an intentional ritualistic bath that will transform you inside and out. Nicole brings her unique gifts of performance, ritual bath experience, and intuitive healing methods to the curation of The Goddess Bath Experience. The Goddess Bath Experience also curates monthly events, group coaching programs and goddess bath subscription boxes that include the products and a process that leads women to experience inner transformation. She song writes, produces, and performs original music under the name “Free The Unicorn” in the alternative metal pop r&b genre. She has roles in such films and tv shows as Pitch Perfect and Dear White People...sharing the big screen with stars such as Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Monique, and Brendan Fraser.
Inside the episode:
Connect with Nicole LovinceVisit Nicole's Website nicolelovince.com
Follow her on Instagram @nicolelovince
The Goddess Bath Experience: @thegoddessbathxp
Connect with Laura Rose:Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
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Listen to this inspired session with Monique.
Performing artist, Monique Benabou is dedicated to creating intentional works of art, that tap us into inner strength, hope & worth as we traverse this life as one big human family!
Monique first debuted on the NBC singing competition, The Voice, over 10 years ago and has since has made a name for herself as a powerhouse vocalist and transformational songwriter in the industry.
She has toured internationally with her music and sound healing experiences, as well as worked with and alongside industry superstars such as; Colbie Caillat, Jason Derulo, Christina Aguilera, Preston Smiles, Adam Roa, Ndaba Mandela and brands like ABC/ Disney Network, Pepsi Cola, PTTOW, TEDx and many more.
Monique’s mission is to support others through her music by spreading the messages of unity, hope, perseverance & love and inspiring as many people as she can to use their voice and honor the truth of their path!
Connect with Monique Benabou:Visit Monique's Website: moniquebenabou
Follow her on Instagram @moniquebenabou
Get her latest Single on Spotify
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Listen to the dynamic interview with Madelyn.
Madelyn Moon is a yogic intimacy and polarity teacher who specializes in teaching couples how to make art out of their relationship drama. Madelyn’s coaching programs and online courses empower people to embody both the feminine and masculine energies for the sake of love in their relationships, work, and lives. Her work and story has been featured in hundreds of podcasts as well as various publications such as BBC, The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Thought Catalog, Nylon Magazine, The Daily Mail, Vice, Greatist, Men’s Health, PEOPLE and ABC News Nightline. Find out more at maddymoon.com or watch her viral comedic reels at @madelynmoon
Connect with Madelyn Moon:Visit Madelyn's Website maddymoon.com
Follow her on Instagram @MadelynMoon
Get her latest Book: Artist of Love: The Modern Woman's Guidebook to Unleashing her Creativity, Deepening her Relationships and Becoming the Leading Actor in her Own Life.
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Enjoy our first episode of Season 2!
David Kennet made his debut at New York City's Lincoln Center at age 21 with the internationally acclaimed a cappella group the Star-Scape Singers. He has performed and offered workshops in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, South America, Mexico and China. David was recently featured in MTV’s, “The Hills”. David has also lectured on the practical application of sound therapy at the University of Santa Barbara California, the United States Air Force and Space Force.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with David Kennet:
Visit David's Website davidkennet.com
Follow him on Instagram @david_kennet
Connect with Laura Rose:
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Today, I’m joined by amazing visionary and experience creator, Jules. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as #1 of the “Top 27 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World” and one of the “Top 40 Millennials To Follow”, Jules Schroeder is a musician and visionary on a mission to inspire people to create a life by their own design.
With this vision, Jules created Unconventional Life, a Forbes column and top-ranked podcast for entrepreneurs that features the stories of millennials living from this new paradigm. Unconventional Life has reached millions of people from over seventy-five different countries and has become a global community of like-minded entrepreneurs, influencers, creatives, and thought leaders. Jules herself has always been multi-passionate as an avid cross fitter, yoga teacher, musician and singer, writer, avid traveler and overall life enthusiast.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Jules:
Visit Jules’s Website julesschroeder.com
Follow her on Instagram @julesschroederlife
Listen to her music here
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
Visit my websitethevocalsanctuary.com
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Today, I’m joined by the internationally known intimacy expert and Sacred Sexuality Teacher, Madga Kay. She is a Tantra Teacher and a Relationship Coach for Men and Women, Singles and all forms of partnerships. In her work she combines ancient teachings of sacred sexuality, yoga and energy work, together with social psychology and human behavior. She is helping normalize the conversation about intimacy and sexuality. She is introducing Tantra in the West, by translating Tantric philosophy and practices into the modern world and modern needs.
She studied in Nepal, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Bali, she’s worked with shamans and healers and has gone through many personal initiations. Today she travels the world helping unlock the flow of sexual energy for more passion and aliveness in every person's life.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Magda:
Visit Magda Kay’s Website magdakay.com
Follow her on Instagram @magdakayofficial
Subscribe to her channel youtube.com/c/MagdaKay
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
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Today, I’m joined by the vibrant spiritual teacher, coach, yogini, and Ayurvedic practitioner, Hemalayaa. As Hemalayaa currently resides in Costa Rica hosting retreats, she mentors visionary women to step into creating their spiritual businesses, being in their embodied leadership and magnetizing their clients with ease.
HEMALAYAA'S SPECIALTY?
Musing and mentoring badass women in upleveling their work, relationships and purpose to make a massive positive impact in the world! Hemalayaa’s magnetic energy leads all into a liberated state of being: self-empowerment, inspiration. Power and Purpose. She has been featured in numerous publications such as NY Times, Origin, Yoga Journal, LA Times, and Shape, as well as on the talk shows Ellen, and The Today Show.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Hemalayaa:
Visit Hemalayaa’s Website embodycostarica.com
Follow her on Instagram @hemalayaa
Listen to her music here
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
Visit my website thevocalsanctuary.com
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Today we have as our guest Miriam Elyse, who found Tantric Yoga at an early age into a path that included ALL OF HER. It connected to the parts of herself that hadn’t felt safe exploring; her feminine power and sexual energy. Through these practices I learned that sexual energy is an incredible healing force, not something to be shamed, stigmatized or used unconsciously. Miriam quickly learned that Tantric Yoga does not focus on the act of sex, but about liberating our inner power, our life-force energy.
Miriam Elyse is an LA based Tantra yoga practitioner and women’s sexuality coach. Miriam found tantra yoga on her own healing - she used it to heal past traumas and to reconnect to her own power. Today she works with people to help change unhealthy patterns in relationships, break through blocks to pleasure, and reignite their inner fire. She also leads workshops, trainings, retreats around the world and speaks on panels offering her perspective on sacred sexuality, mind-body empowerment, and healing sexuality as a means of spiritual growth.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Miriam:
Visit Miriam’s Website www.miriamelyse.com
Follow her on Instagram @pleasureasmedicine
Connect with Laura Rose:
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Today, I’m joined by the graceful and world recognized bhajan traditional singer Nina Rao.
Nina Rao learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in south India when she was nine years old. The chants quietly stayed with her until she rediscovered chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. For many years Nina has been Krishna Das' business manager and accompanies him musically as well. In 2007, she recorded the track 'Nina Chalisa' on Krishna Das' CD "Flow of Grace " ; January 2013 she released her debut album, "Antarayaami - Knower of All Hearts"; August 2017 her second album “Anubhav” was released. Nina regularly leads kirtan workshops, and retreats in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York and beyond.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Nina Rao:
Visit Nina Rao’s Website ninaraochant.com/
Follow her on Instagram @nina_rao
Listen to her music here
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
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Today, I’m joined by the incredible singer, songwriter, recording + performing artist, songwriting coach and advocate, Saritah. She has a gift to also empower women to discover and awaken their own true voice, and write their songs, so that they can be a greater vessel for joy, expression, love and healing in their lives and in the world.
Born in Seoul, Korea, raised in Perth, Australia, and currently based in California, Saritah is on a worldwide musical mission to uplift, inspire and activate healing with her uniquely feminine blend of conscious lyrics, evolutionary reggae and acoustic soul flavors.
Her songs are affirmations; revelations; invocations, and she has graced the stages of some of the most revered musical gatherings in the world. Equally dedicated to and passionate about supporting fellow women to activate their voices and songs, and knowing this work is necessary in this time of balance and birthing of a new Earth, she regularly holds workshops, programs and retreats in a container of supportive sisterhood.
Her latest offering, Your Voice Is Love, is a comprehensive program for any woman wanting to deepen her connection to and transform her experience of her own voice. She also has a new album coming this year, which you can check out from the links below.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Saritah:
Visit Saritah’s Website www.thejoyofsong.com
Follow her on Instagram @saritahmusic
Listen to her music here
Connect with Laura Rose:Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
Visit my website thevocalsanctuary.comJoin The Vocal Sanctuary Private Facebook Group
Today, I’m joined by an internationally recognized musician, song composer and mantra enthusiast, Ananda Yogiji
Ananda Yogiji has been a dedicated practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by the Kundalini Research Institute since 2006.
In April 2020, he also completed a 300hr teacher training in the Himalayan Yoga tradition known as Sattva Yoga. In May of 2020, he also completed an 18 day, 60 hour course on the Bhagavad Gita, both the 300hr and Gita courses we taught by Anand Mehrotra, a himalayan yogic master.
In addition to his BA in international and sustainable business, he has a minor in East Asian Religions and studied yogic philosophy at the University of Oregon and the Dharmalaya (2003-2009).
Ananda also completed and taught at numerous holistic yoga and leadership immersions at the Dharmalaya between 2007-2009 (a holistic yoga, permaculture and meditation center in Eugene, Oregon) under the guidance of Ravi Logan.
Ananda spent 4 years learning with Viriam Singh and Kaur in Eugene, Oregon as well as studied under the guidance of master teachers Gurucharan Singh, Guru Singh, Krishna Kaur in the Kundalini Yoga tradition as taught by KRI.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Ananda Yogiji:
Visit Ananda Yogiji’s Website https://jayalakshmiandananda.com/
Follow him on Instagram @Anandayogiji
Listen to his music here
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
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It is an absolute delight to introduce you today to Lynda Arnold, the founder of Sonic Devas Divine Feminine Sound Meditation Experience. Her passion has also lead her to be a Sound Meditation Facilitator, Vocalist & Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Producer and seasoned Performer on a life long mission to build healthy communities through the power of sound and music.
She offers sound healing workshops, private sound baths, singing for wellness sessions at some of the top meditation and yoga studios in Los Angeles and beyond. As a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and music producer, she has spent years collaborating with other artists and bands and touring in support of her releases as Divasonic.
In 2020 she launched the Divasonic Music Academy and her first online programs, Devotional Voice, the Yoga of Piano, Native Flute Magic and Sound Meditation Design.
Lynda has appeared and collaborated at Earthdance, Chopra Foundation, Bhakti Fest, Donna Karen/UrbanZen, Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Mindvalley LA Live, The Shift Network, SXSW, Lightning in a Bottle Festival, UNICEF Events, Burning Man and Lucidity Festival among others. Her intention is to provide a gateway for people to reduce stress, transform consciousness and heal through sound and meditation.
Podcast Recap:
Connect with Divasonic:
Visit Divasonic's Website: www.divasonicmusicacademy.com/
Follow her on Instagram @Divasonic
Listen to her music here
Connect with Laura Rose:
Find me on Instagram @The.Vocal.Sanctuary
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Today, I’m joined by the amazing Soulful Pop artist, Audrey Callahan.
Audrey Callahan is a full-time independent artist out of California who creates meaningful music to inspire, make deep connections, and empower others to achieve their own level of greatness. Her pop infused lyrics are introspective and inspirational.
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Today I'm joined with Unstoppable Goddess, Kristen Lily.
Kristen Lily is a tantra, dance, and empowerment teacher that is here to illuminate people into their sacred sexy powerful selves. She has over 10 years teaching each modality and has created her own line of work. She believes that life is a mixture of both finding your inner power to live your biggest life and falling into life's daily pleasure through the sacred senses.
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Connect with Kristen:
Visit Kristen's Website UnstoppableGoddess.com
Follow her on Instagram @unstoppablegoddess
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Today, I’m joined by world premier visionary-inspirational vocalist, musician, and songwriter, Kiyoshi. He has a deep passion for empowering humanity. He is a purpose driven wordsman whose fusion of upbeat hip-hop and soulful sounds sends lightning bolts of conscious energy and thought into audiences around the globe. His rhythms and rhymes are rooted in social, spiritual, and political awareness to provoke the world to listen and feel what is true. Kiyoshi and his band engage audiences worldwide with a highly interactive and authentic stage performance, getting the crowd dancing and moving like no other. He’s performed and collaborated with a plethora of talented musicians and producers including the Beats Antique Orchestra, The Polish Ambassador, Luminaries Crew, and many more.
Kiyoshi has been featured on countless media outlets including American Airlines Mag, Buzzfeed, Vice, Fox, MTV, and opened up for notable acts such as Zap Mamma, Aloe Blacc, Xavier Rudd, Mayer Hawthorne, Slum Village and more. He was recently featured on the “Ready to Live” Health & Wellness mixtape executive produced by Stic of the legendary hip hop duo Dead Prez amongst other rap heavyweights including Nas, KRS-One, Busta Rhymes, Jadakiss, Styles P, and others repping a healthy lifestyle through hip hop culture.
In this powerful conversation, Kioshi shares his journey of overcoming shyness through performing. He talks about activating the voice and using it for healing and empowerment. Tune in to hear more of our conversation about how to get started with spoken word and freestyling.
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