"Your basic orientation at a soul level is to rock out with as much goodness as possible. Sacred sound speaks to that, and clears away the stuff that’s made your inherent tendency to gravitate toward goodness hard to see, hard to feel and hard to recognize in your life."
[Fabeku Fatunmise]
Most of us find ourselves caught up in the day to day (if not hour to hour) undulation between ecstatic joy, intense levels of frustration, elation with life’s beauty and then back to inevitable suffering. How can our emotional state turn so quickly from one that is positive into one so negatively charged? Or conversely, how do we become rigidly fixed in circumstances that seem to never change and that drain us of our freedom to choose happiness?
Many are discovering a simple, yet profound way to be shifted into a higher awareness of being and out of negativity using sound and music. Through this process, the inertia is reversed so that one can strike a new balance in life or break through barriers, learning to realize one's true potential. Let's take a closer look at one practitioner of these sacred arts - a professional sound healer from southern Ohio.
Fabeku Fatunmise (www.sankofasong.com) is a gifted and talented sacred sound healer who has worked with sound and music on a transformational level for close to two decades. His practice involves helping individuals learn to shift their energy and become "unstuck." Speaking with him about his work one is struck immediately with his intensity, his personal vibrancy, and enthusiasm for life and for his work. Fabeku explains his passion for sound healing this way...
"Sacred sound healing ties in with my love of music and has deepened and expanded my love of sound in all forms. Music moves me in a way few other things do, so my work with sacred sound feels like a natural extension of that love of music, and its power to touch, heal, and change us."
Fabeku's spiritual background is largely rooted in shamanism, which has maintained a clear relationship to the power of sound for thousands of years.
"Ten years ago, my study of shamanism deepened when I met an extraordinary elder from Africa - Chief Adebolu Fatunmise. Baba Bolu graciously accepted me as his student. He allowed me to learn from him, to be initiated by him, to be accepted into his family."
Today, as part one of a two-part series, we share with you portions from RockOm's recent interview with Fabeku (the full audio of which will be made available in this afternoon's RockOm.net Podcast). Fabeku explains his calling into sacred sound healing and how we can all benefit from sound and music through an understanding of how energy can be shifted into high gear through work with a practitioner. It is then that we can begin to utilize our own abilities to use sound and music, at any time, for "shifting stuff."
RockOm: When did you realize you were being called into sacred sound healing?
Fabeku: I wish I could say I had this big vision, that the "sound healing angels" came to me, but when I first started studying shamanism (some 18-19 years ago) it was through drumming. I bought a hoop drum and realized I could shift the way I was feeling and I was taken by that. I started talking with friends and they thought I was completely nuts but said, "Well, drum for me." And so I did and stuff shifted for them. It evolved out of the work I was doing for myself and seeing how sound shifts stuff for people. I love music and I love to see concrete results when people come to me for sacred healing work.
RockOm: The tagline for your website is “Less struggle, more awesome.” What is it about sound and music in particular that helps us get "unstuck"?
Fabeku: Sound and music bypass the mind. When it comes to sound healing, in particular, it works at the energy level. Everything starts as energy. Sacred sound and music help us go to the roots of what’s going on and change what’s happening there. Sound and music give us access to that blueprint. People can make really big changes, really fast. Stuff can really shift in a flash!
RockOm: Tell us about your sacred sound sessions and what takes place in the course of a session.
Fabeku: There’s two ways to do a session; one is in person, and one is at a distance. It goes back to that energy level - where we’re working. It really doesn’t make much difference if one is in a room or a thousand miles away. The results of stuff shifting are really the same. For distance sessions we spend some time focusing on the intention, and this is really a key part of the equation. It’s what differentiates between making noise and making sound that makes a healing effect.
Be sure to catch the full audio portion of our interview with Fabeku on the RockOm.net Podcast. Also see Part II of this interview.
Tags: Drumming, energy, Fabeku, Intention, music, RockOm.net, RockOm.net Podcast, sacred sound healing, shamanism
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