Overtone Chanting Meditations
8 tracks, running time ~1hr
With a 10 min interview
Learn ancient Mongolian overtone chanting, a magical meditative vocal technique. Explore the healing and transformative power of your voice, vocal yogas, purifications, mantra and sacred chants.
The Healing Voice week intensive includes Jill's Living Mandala ceremony, her unique psychological process embedded in sonorous and deep spiritual practice.
Find the keys that set yourself, your family, and future generations free; transform clamorous ancestors into benign allies and powerful guides.
| Date | Location | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20260724 2026 July 24-29 | In-Person, Hollyhock |
Family Constellations 5 Day | Register |
| 20261003 2026 October 3-4 | ONLINE | Healing Voice Workshop | Register |
| 20261123 2026 Nov 23-29 | In-Person, Non-res |
Family Constellations Autumn Week | Register |
| 20260911 2026 Sept 11-13 | ONLINE | Family Constellations | Register |
Taking part in the family constellation work is life changing because we experience how much the field reveals. This then heals both us and our descendants, direct or indirect.
Most importantly, this work also teaches us how to tune into the field, something we all can and must do. Normally we’re too busy staying alive, have no experience or simply don’t trust our ability to do it. This work teaches us. It gives us the all important permission, because it requires us to do it as well as increases our trust, so much so that we realise it is not only something we can do, but something we need to do it all times. In other words, by doing this, we learn to tune into whatever we want to at any time we want or need to.
This constellation practice (in which I use chant and ceremony to enable us to touch into the unconscious where most of or issues lie) heals the trans-generational traumas we inherit. These always get passed on down the generations to the living until we intervene.
In addition, how I work gives us the opportunity to articulate our needs and desires, which then usually come true. Many people have said they want to find their life partner or want to have a child or to no longer be estranged from their parents or children, and in most cases these things happen very quickly.
Jack Guinness, who did my in-person Week Intensive just published this article about his experience- in the current (August 2026) issue of British Vogue, it will give you an idea of how I work and it’s benefits. “It Lifted A Weight I Didn’t Know Was There”: How Jack Guinness Unpacked His Ancestral Trauma | British Vogue
Do join us for the online Family Constellation workshop September 11-12-13 or even better if you can, come in-person to the London Week Intensive of this work November 23-29. Although this year the Autumn/Fall week is over (only the US) Thanksgiving day. However I can think of no way better to spend it, with or without family members!
People come from all over the world for this - sometimes many times, as always there is another trauma to remove from the field. My husband Rupert Sheldrake will come in one afternoon and give us a talk on inheritance and... the hot subject in life sciences….Epigenetics. We also have an optional Requiem Mass one evening where Rupert plays the organ, and at one point the priest chants the names of our ancestors that we have given them, while Rupert plays the wonderful Russian Kontakion for the Dead and we light candles for them.
Then on October 3-4 join us to learn about how resonance is now understood to be the precursor to everything in the Universe and by using our voices we can participate in this resonance and change everything - particularly we learn to transform ourself and others to become present and experience the oneness behind the duality of everyday life. I will also be teaching Overtone Chanting, which is the only way we can be "sound in mind and body" as well as many other extraordinary ways of using our voices and meditational means to be present.
See you soon!
Jill
Price: £235 Pounds sterling: Approx. €271, US $319, CAD $439 (exchange rates fluctuate)
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Sonorous Shamanic Family Constellations Unlock the keys to liberate yourself, your family, and future generations. Transform clamorous ancestors into benign allies and powerful guides.
Using a unique blend of chant, ceremony, and systemic family constellation therapy, I help heal the resonant fields of your family. This work clears persistent patterns, restoring harmony and joy.
Traumatic events like accidents, suicides, wars, addictions, emigrations, or separations can leave ancestral wounds frozen in the unconscious family field. These patterns often manifest as inexplicable behaviors in later generations, as we unknowingly "follow" excluded ancestors.
By honouring and reintegrating these forgotten or excluded family members, we restore the integrity of the ancestral field. This profound process dissolves trans-generational patterns, freeing the living and offering healing to future generations.
Transformational Outcomes These systemic constellations can uncover unconscious compulsions and reveal surprising opportunities for deep healing. This process restores aspects of the psyche often untouched by traditional therapy.
Attend individually or with other family members. You do not need to know much about your family and they do not need to be alive.
Price: £179 Pounds sterling: Approx. €204, $239 USD, $333 CAD (exchange rates fluctuate)
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Liberation Through the Ecstasy of Chant Learn and practice the ethereal and meditative technique of ancient Mongolian Overtone Chanting. Overtone Chanting or harmonic chant in its many forms, is originally found in Central Asia—in Mongolia, Tibet and Tuva and is one of the most powerful methods of sound healing or healing with the voice.
In this workshop and sound therapy session I combine transformative breath, mantra, sound meditation, sacred sound, shamanic chant and sonorous dream work. We learn vocal purifications and ways to set parts of the body into resonance, cleanse and tune the chakras, and learn sonorous massage. We heal and purify redundant parts of ourselves so we can be acknowledged in the fullness of our potential as luminous human beings.
Working with the voice in this way empowers our lives, balances our mind and body, frees our voice, bringing physical health, emotional joy and spiritual ecstasy.
Non-residential, Belsize Park, London
Details & RegistrationPrice: £1495 Pounds sterling: Approx. €1704, USD $1970, CAD $2762 (exchange rates fluctuate)
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As November is the period for honouring our ancestors, it will be an in-person Family Constellation Workshop. I will work with everyone in turn. We will also have an optional Requiem Mass for our ancestors as part of it, for those who would like. During this my husband Rupert Sheldrake will play the organ and the priest will chant the names of each of our ancestors as we light candles for them. Rupert will give us a short session on epigenetics, the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and family fields as they relate to his theory of Morphic Resonance.
8 tracks, running time ~1hr
With a 10 min interview
3 tracks, lecture, overtone chanting, guided meditation, running time ~1hr
Vocal teacher Jill Purce gave an inspiring and moving lecture to over a thousand people in Prague on Midsummer's Day.
London / New Zealand, Jan 2026
With Geoff Fitzpatrick and Scott Onstott
London, July 2025
With John Wilks and Natalie Lang
London, Apr 2025
BC Canada, Aug 2025
With Jeanne de Kroon
London, Oct 2024
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Between 1971 and 1974 Jill lived and worked in Germany with the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. In this clip, he describes Jill as a "special messenger" regarding her work with spirals and healing sound. Filmed in Donaueschingen, 1974.
A talk for the 2023 Shift Summit.
With Geoff Fitzpatrick and Scott Onstott.
With Dr Marie Mbouni
Sept 2022
Jill’s talk to the Scientific and Medical Network on healing ancestral patterns through family constellations.
London, May 2019.
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An experiential lecture given at an Advaya & 42 Acres event, London.
A talk with Louise Matson of the Mundane to Magical Summit Series.
A talk with Brandon Beachum, of the Positive Head Podcast.
A talk with Laurie Seymour of the Wisdom Talk Podcast.
A talk with John Acosta of the ZuluOne Podcast.
Jill Purce interviewed for The Way of the Psychonaut.
Interview by Giada del Drago of The Light Conversations podcast.
Interview from the Sound Healing Summit.
Jill talks with Brian James, host of the Medicine Path Podcast.
Jill talks with Chloë Goodchild, international singer, author and founder of The Naked Voice.
Chitheads is an Embodied Philosophy podcast, offering interviews with leaders and teachers from the yoga and wider wisdom community.
Jill Purce talks to Dr Guy Hayward about her pioneering Healing Voice Mandala process. In this, the group itself becomes a mandala incorporating multiple and deep layers of symbolism in relation to the structure of consciousness according to the Tibetan understanding of the mind. Jill does these ceremonies twice a year, each with a different theme, process and practice. The group spends 5 days journeying through the mandala of extended practice and deep psychological explorations.
Jill Purce talks to Dr Guy Hayward about her Healing Family and Ancestors Workshops, describing how she combines chant and family constellations. She discusses the role of the ancestors and how by enlisting them as allies we can transform our lives and those of our families and children.
Part 1 of an interview with Jill on her Healing Family and Ancestor and Healing Voice work. Filmed at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA USA, with Cynthia Cavalli and Gary S. Bobroff, 10th September 2015.
Part 2 of the September 2015 interview, talking about her Mandala ceremonies and including a story of synchronicity during her bethrothal to Rupert Sheldrake at an ancient Welsh church in 1985 (which she has never shared publicly before!)
Jill speaks with Terence about overtone chanting and then provides a demonstration, within a wonderful renaissance rotunda.
An introduction to the healing voice week intensive and mandala ceremony. Recorded in London, March, 2019.
An excerpt from Gaia TV interview with Regina Meredith. The full interview from October, 2018 is available to Gaia subscribers.
Jill Purce pioneered the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, the teaching of overtone chanting, the power of group chant, and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation. She pioneered the practice of honouring and healing ancestral traumas with her Healing Family and Ancestor work and her Resonant Family Constellations, and activated the mandala as living practice with her extended Mandala ceremonies. Her 1974 book The Mystic Spiral, Journey of the Soul was a seminal influence. The Bishop of California describes her contribution to the 1990’s installation of the labyrinths in his Grace Cathedral, San Francisco: "She helped inspire the birth of the modern labyrinth movement. Jill’s groundbreaking work with the labyrinth was inspiring, informative and important…it couldn’t have been done without her work.”
The spiral is a natural form of growth, and has become, in every culture and every age, humanity's symbol of the progress of the soul towards eternal life. As the inward winding labyrinth, it constitutes the hero's journey to the still centre where the secret of life is found. As the spherical vortex, spiralling through its own centre, it combines the inward and outward directions of movement.
In this original and engrossing book, Jill Purce traces the significance of one of our central symbols from the double spirals of the Chinese Yin Yang symbol to the whorls of Celtic crosses, Maori tattoos and the Islamic arabesque. Many of the superb images here were intended as objects of contemplation; for the spiral is a cosmic symbol.
"Jill helped inspire Lauren Artress, the person who birthed the modern labyrinth movement. Jill's groundbreaking work with the labyrinth was inspiring and informative to Lauren, and important... it couldn't have been done without Jill's work."
- Marc Andrus, Episcopal Bishop of California
Interview by Sarah Kirton, MysticMag, May 23rd, 2025
Your work emphasizes the therapeutic use of voice. Could you elaborate on how vocal practices can bring areas of hurt and pain into the light of clarity and illumination?
Scientists now describe almost every aspect of the physical world as resonant. Other traditions have always known this- almost everything resonates. The medieval philosopher Boethius spoke of three kinds of music: musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. By musica mundana, he meant what we now understand as Cosmology and astronomy. By Musica humana he meant what we now call psychology. And musica instrumentalis is human music, created specifically to harmonize our psyches with the world around us.
The past may be another country, but it's a place that can cause extreme suffering for people living in the present. Not just through historical causality or learned behaviours. Jill Purce, pioneer of the sound healing movement, has developed an approach to healing based on the understanding that unresolved ancestral patterns are transmitted transgenerationally.
For Purce there has never been a clear-cut line between science and spirituality. In her powerful voice work, she draws on acoustic research as much as ancient traditions of chant. More than 20 years ago she found a new focus for her interest in healing the continuing effect of ancestral patterns on the living, and how these could be transformed. Now science seems to be catching up with her. Many recent findings, including those on the children of Holocaust survivors, suggest that the effects of severe trauma can be inherited epigenetically through the turning on and off of genes in a away that is not yet understood.
I am not modest — I am trying to re-enchant the world and make it magical again through chanting. I want to reintroduce the extraordinary power of group chanting into our daily lives.
Chanting and singing bring joy and ecstasy back into our lives, by allowing us to acknowledge and become part of a power and dimension beyond our own — to praise and participate with the divine. It can also improve our health by reducing stress levels. Humming as we meditate can stop our mind wandering on to past problems and future fears.
My particular interest in sound probably came to me in the womb, because my mother was a pianist and my father was a doctor. It is the healing and transformative power of sound that interests me most.
My work with sound started in the late '60's when I saw a film of the work of a man called Hans Jenny, a Swiss engineer and doctor who was influenced by the work of Rudolph Steiner. He was showing the effect of sound on matter. He had made it his life work to demonstrate what happens when you vibrate matter with sound in a variety of ways, and used all kinds of different substances...