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"She's a wizard", I overheard someone describe Lani Rocillo at work. Or maybe it was "a witch", said with respect and admiration, but you get the idea. She is a sound healer and a medicine woman. This is one way how it works: you come to Lani's sound bath, and after chanting om and aah for few times you lay down on the floor and immerse in the sounds she conjures with her gong, sound bowls and other instruments. Enchanted by the sound waves traveling through your body and whole being, you lose the track of time, relax and fall... And when it ends and you start coming back you feel that you spent that time somewhere else, in other dimensions, and now you are renewed.
However she's not a kind of wizard or witch who tries to impress everyone by using big words or putting on a show. She surely is dedicated to her work as a sound healer, but when you meet her she's grounded, gentle, friendly, delightful and the most unassuming person. And often the unassuming people are the most interesting and powerful.
That's exactly how I found Lani when we had this easygoing conversation last summer. It was accompanied by Natural High guest co-host Lasse Maijala, and it turned out he had visited the same power place, Mt. Shasta in Northern California, where Lani had one of her life changing experiences – and after the festival they both were heading to Lapland. Talking about coincidence.
Somehow we also ended up talking quite a bit about differences of summer and winter, as well as darkness and how to deal with it, so the timing of the release of this episode is very appropriate.
And funny enough, Lani just visited Helsinki and held a Cacao and Sound Healing Ceremony here on 11.11., which I had a pleasure to experience. When I asked her what keeps her coming back, she said that she feels connected to this land, and since the festival she's been back in Finland four times! Now she's travelling to South-America for a while, but I have a feeling we Finns will have an honor to meet her again.
▶ Lani Rocillo's website
▶ Lani on Instagram
▶ Music for meditation / Ahrkh Wagner with Lani Rocillo (YouTube)