Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 59 videos.
59 videos
Ivan Rados discusses shamanic practice and inner transformation in this recorded conversation from Sedona on The Smoke Trail.
SmokeWallin
The whole 2021 Sendesaal concert: throat singing, igil and doshpuluur, four voices and the sounds of the Tuvan steppe.
JARO Medien (their own label)
Nakai plays the cedar flute for the better part of an hour, talking between pieces about where each one comes from.
Library of Congress
The trio's full concert at the University of Chicago, with the different throat-singing styles heard one after another.
The University of Chicago
Anna Breytenbach demonstrates interspecies communication with a great white shark.
Dean Jefferys
Ivan Rados discusses consciousness, healing and sacred geometry in this short talk.
G. Michael Turner
Bayo Akomolafe on Yoruba culture, his upbringing and decolonizing storytelling.
The Story Talks Back
Bayo Akomolafe on time, crisis and slowing down, at The Long Now Foundation.
The Long Now Foundation
Ivan Rados speaks with host Rick Archer about his awakening and his path into shamanic and consciousness work in this Buddha at the Gas Pump interview.
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Chemutengure sung over the mbira, with the layered voices that belong to the ceremony as much as the instrument does.
Zimbabwe Mbira
Clay Lomakayu Miller interviewed by Rick Archer.
Clay Lomakayu Miller on shamanic healing, teachings and vision quests.
Overcoming The Dragon
A talk on working with the elemental world in practice rather than in theory.
Gatekeeper Trust
A short practice from Villoldo's energy-medicine work for starting the day well.
Original source
A teaching on the fundamentals of African shamanism, from his own channel.
John Lockley
A short live performance of the song Depi m soti nan Ginen, sung in Haitian Creole.
Erol Josué
An English-language interview in which Erol Josué discusses his life as a Vodou priest and singer and the making of his album Pelerinaj.
SAMA: Music & Art
A longer live performance recorded for radio, Erol Josué singing with the Fla Vodoun ensemble in Haitian Creole.
Radio Television Caraïbes
A full set at the third Festival de Música Medicina in Peru, with whistles, ocarinas, shells and water vessels.
Alonso Del Rio
A teaching on the jaguar as a power animal within Andean shamanic practice.
Ivan Rados talks about love, healing and shamanic practice in this BlisstOut podcast video interview.
Soul Culture Podcast
Gula Gula, hear the voices of the foremothers, sung in full with her band at Kautokeino.
Mari Boine (own channel)
From his own channel, on bringing Xhosa healing practice to Western students.
What he makes of the two words after years of collecting accounts of near-death experiences.
Dr. Mark Pitstick
Forty-six minutes in the KEXP studio, played straight through, with the group introducing the songs between them.
KEXP
Pat McCabe in conversation with Thomas Hübl on what the Lakota and Diné traditions she carries say about the feminine, and about the repair that asks for.
Thomas Hübl
A long interview with the Peruvian anthropologist on the Andean tradition he was initiated into, in German and English.
Inka World
Forward Kwenda plays the mbira piece Manhenga solo, a full instrumental recording.
Forward Kwenda - Topic
An hour with Mari Boine on what a joik actually does, the shame the Sámi were taught about it, and the world it assumes.
Nordic Animism
The song he wrote for his mother, sung without amplification in a television studio on Maui.
Malika Dudley
Ivan Rados and breathwork teacher Feodor Kouznetsov meet for the first time and discuss their respective healing practices.
Feodor Breathing
A full concert of chant and song at the Kennedy Center in Washington, in the Hawaiian language and the oli tradition he trained in.
The Kennedy Center
A complete Alash concert of Tuvan throat singing and traditional instruments, recorded and published by the Library of Congress.
From 1996, on owing each other and the world something that can never be settled.
Alabama Men's Conference
A long interview on perceiving the living intelligence of landscape, and on singing as a way of meeting it.
A longer studio recording of Nhemamusasa, the piece whose name means building a shelter of branches.
Shumba Records
Musekiwa Chingodza plays and sings Nhemamusasa yePasi, one of the oldest pieces of the Shona mbira repertoire.
A long unhurried conversation and playing with Nakai, filmed in 2024 at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
LTV East Hampton
Sainkho Namtchylak sings Old Melody and puts the Tuvan words on screen with a transcription, for anyone who wants to learn it.
Sainkho Namtchylak
Tito La Rosa on sound as medicine, and on the ancient Peruvian instruments he plays, in a conversation for the Meet the Masters series.
Soundings Mindful Media
A long-form interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump about his work as an evidential medium.
A portrait of the Tuvan singer made by the New York venue Roulette, with performance and conversation about where her voice comes from.
Roulette Intermedium
A song written for the elemental beings, from her own channel.
Susan Raven
Forward Kwenda performs the mbira piece Tadzungaira in a filmed solo performance.
ShumbaRecords
A conversation on Grief 2 Growth about his book The Afterlife Frequency.
Grief 2 Growth
Ivan Rados explains his practice of allowing, accepting and letting go with gratitude as a formula for healing.
INTRONAUT
A conference talk from 1995 on initiation as something a village does, not something a person buys.
Pat McCabe on right relations as a practice rather than an idea: between the masculine and the feminine, between people, and between people and the land.
advaya
A short film with the group in Tuva on where khöömei comes from and what it is imitating in the land around them.
Far Off Sounds
Documentary profile of animal communicator Anna Breytenbach.
Real Wild
A full session episode: Nakai on being given the flute in the early 1980s, and on what the instrument carries that a trumpet does not.
Comfort Road Sessions
A short documentary on the Peruvian sound healer and his work with pre-Columbian instruments. In Spanish.
CampusTV
Mari Boine tells how the joik was shamed out of her family and how she took it back, singing as she goes.
TEDx Talks
On the kinds of account he treats as evidence for survival after death, and the weight he gives each.
A short talk on the two questions he says people tend to reach only when something has gone wrong.
A long conversation on what it would take for people to come home to the living world, and on the ceremonies that keep that relationship in repair.
For The Wild
A short talk in English by the Sami law academic on why indigenous peoples often cannot trust state courts to protect their rights.
Ande Somby
A talk in English on indigenous artistic rights and yoik as a Sami cultural practice, from a legal scholar's perspective.
HowlRound Theatre Commons
A short performance of traditional Sami yoik songs about Arctic animals, sung solo without accompaniment.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
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