The Sound Temple @ Medicine Festival

Text by Temple Hayes, Photos by Laura Sequoia

A stage dedicated to devotional singing formats, sound journeys and sonic workshops, debuting this year at Medicine Festival.

This harmonious stage was a birthing, with so many hands and visions involved. The Sound Temple became a safe haven for all festival goers to ground, to go into the heart, and feel held.

Temple spent most of his Medicine Festival in this vortex of sound and devotion, managing the ins and outs, keeping it running on all cylinders, and hosting some amazing acts (including Soneiro)!

Some of the highlights were the performances by Nessi Gomez, Fia, Aleh Ferrera, Radhika Das, Natan Rabin and Adrain Freedman. A world music stage in essence, featuring medicine music,  traditional ragas,  ecstatic kirtan,  Brazilian samba,  mbira music from Zimbabwe, and more.

On Sunday during our closing act Temple had a profound moment, noticing the energy exchange of devotional music, how it moves frequency and energy through the room, how the participants & facilitators co-create this space of quantum frequency.

How the sound holds us, how we hold and create the sound, how it’s an infinite melding and weaving of waves, structures, movement and, most of all, love.

Enjoy some special impressions from The Sound Temple from this years Medicine Festival in this blog post

Curated & Envisioned by two of the founders of Medicine Festival - George & Moshe, managed by Temple, supported by an amazing team of 20 volunteers.