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2018 I left a job that was no longer serving me, commuting to Boston 20+ hours a week. I began volunteering in my community and started networking in New Bedford as a business consultant. Began walking my wild dogs in groups in a very important club that keeps my dogs and me active.
2019 I tried yoga for the first time, after meeting a teacher at a networking meeting. First kundalini yoga class was in February. Yoga retreat to Costa Rica in May. Learned how to meditate. Found the power of Pura Vida! and the healing nature of the jungle. Got my first job in Clinical Trials as a Project Manager.
2020 The world shut down and people (millions of them) started dying every day. I learned about Holy Fire Reiki from a gifted medium nearby, and began YTT. I went on my first writing retreat and realized that I actually AM A WRITER. I connected with a beautiful human being and we became soul sisters. Attended my first experience with my favorite duo for Sound out in the woods in Rehoboth. I started hiking 4000 foot mountains in New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. I connected deeply with my dog group outside. Developed a deep connection to Mother Earth and created lasting friendships near where I live.
2021 Began work with a Shaman. More sound. Did excruciating work digging into the depths of my shadows and trauma. Painful, transformative work. Learned about the Elements, and how to use them to heal myself. Had many healings with powerful healers. Released so much. Connected with my ancestors. Was lit on fire in more ways than one and in a very safe container, thanks to heart centered and Motherly teachers. Received my Holy Fire Reiki and Usui Reiki Master. Got a job as a Senior Project Manager at a great global software company.
2022 Went to Naples Florida for winter, where I worked during the day, but connected with Cypress trees and the swamplands on weekends, and before and after work. Fell in love with the unique wetlands. Dove deep into the waters of Fort Lauderdale and the Keys. Wrote many, many pieces and stories about my experiences. In March, I embarked on my journey as a Level 1 Kundalini Yoga teacher. In June, began Ministry school in a very powerful first weekend. Summer brought the height of my transformation with Kundalini Yoga. Rebirthings that deepened my gifts, as well as my tribe. I literally met and connected with so many people, all very powerful and gifted spiritual leaders, mediums and earth based healers. In May, received my first rite of the Munay Ki, the Rite of the Womb, which shifted more within me. Continued with Munay Ki Rites. In October, I received my Level 1 Kundalini Yoga certificate. I taught my first Kundalini yoga class at the magical Ashram in Millis right before Christmas.
2023 Opened my own healing center with one of the dear friends and soul connections I met in 2022 in an incredible cotton Mill in the beautiful city that has become my community. New Bedford. In March, I began school to be a Trauma informed Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Therapist.
On the last day of April, (yesterday!!) I became a Minister after another profound weekend connecting with vulnerable women and men of service. More soul connections in a sacred container. More gratitude. More love.
Everyone we meet is our teacher. Everyone we think is our worst adversary has a lesson for us, if we just pause and allow it to process through our bodies. If we heal our own pain first, in whatever way resonates with us. Life is hard, but the inner work is how we learn how to connect better with others, and the collective. The inner work never stops. The space we give ourselves is where we find the beauty in ourselves and in the other. So many different ways to access the greatness inside.
What is Wahe Guru! ? - We say Wahe Guru! in Kundalini Yoga to call upon the Divine light; to elevate the Spirit and Divinity within us. The Divine Teacher within.
Today is May 1. I have so much gratitude for where I am now. I am eager to teach, learn, and keep to my path so that I may help and serve others.
Sending Love and Divine Light to you all today and always!
Julie Silvia - Devi NamDass Kaur
Updated: Apr 27, 2023
In February, I had a zoom call with Jaime Allen Poyant and he explained the background of how he and Alan Stonewolf began their journey together with Sonic Field. We were honored to host Sonic Field for our first weekend open on March 11th! We plan to have many more sacred sound events including Jaime and Sonic Field. Please check out the recording below, as Jaime tells of the process of the Sacred Sound Immersion, and speaks to the future events and offerings happening all over! Definitely click on their link to learn of their upcoming events. You can also find Jaime and Sonic Field on social media:
Website: sonicfield.us
Facebook: Sonic Field & Jaime Allen Poyant Sacred Sound & Space
Instagram: Sonic Field & Jaime
You Tube: Jaime
Sonic Field and Jaime Allen Poyant Sound make appearances all over New England, so if you can't catch them at The Current, you can be sure to catch them elsewhere!
Updated from original post on 26Feb on 27April2023
Updated: Feb 26, 2023
Last Saturday was a beautiful, breezy early June evening, with clear skies. I was the first one there, and I saw Jaime first, as I drove up up the long driveway, and then Alan. They were sitting across from each other, two opposing points at either side of the grassy clearing. Alan's yard is beautiful, and the perfect setting for an outdoor event. Many trees shelter the area which in Rehoboth, Ma. I was 30 minutes early, which would make everyone who knows me laugh, because I am notoriously 20 minutes late for everything. I was excited about attending this event, as it was the first outdoor sound event that I could attend in 2022. I parked my car and found the perfect spot in the yard for me to unpack my bag of fun. I laid out my yoga mat, put on my lightweight hoody, took my drum and rattle out and carefully propped them against a tree that was perfectly situated, in the yard. The rest of the attendees started trickling in over the next half hour, making the circle complete. Some I knew from other Sonic Field events, and others were faces I hadn't met before.
The Process
Sonic Field offers a signature Sound Immersion. The event typically starts out with Jaime or Alan giving a descriptive introduction and welcome to folks, as well as the itinerary for our time together. We are warmly greeted, and invited into the space. We find a seat or spot to lay down in. We are asked to set an intention, which could be a prayer for someone else or an affirmation of our own need. Alan will then start us off in the sounding. The tones are relaxing to start and really allow for participants to allow rest into the space. After we are literally transformed in our bodies from this frequency of instrumental and voice sounding offered and that is unique every time I participate, we are then invited to join in. There are handmade spare drums and rattles available for use, and for purchase if anyone feels inclined.
Sharing the Love
We are invited to drum and rattle and sing and dance, with Alan starting us with a simple beat. It isn’t about how well someone sings or whether or not we carry the beat well on the drum. We begin to express ourselves. It is here where the intentions and prayers that we each brought, that were baked into our hearts and bodies as we passively rested in the sacred sound frequencies at the beginning, are brought down to our fiery bellies, as we power the collective intentions in community in the form of drumming, voicing, dancing and expressing ourselves in the community. After we have the opportunity to beat our drums, shake our rattles, dance and sound our voices like a pack of wild wolves, howling at the moon (at least, that's how I felt on Saturday night!!), Alan and Jaime bring out 1 or 2 large gathering drums, where we stand in 1 or 2 circles, depending on the group, venue and vibe. We pause for a moment, as we are again asked to bring our intentions or prayers back to our awareness. From there, either or both of our hosts will begin with a beat, and we continue to play, dance, beat and use our voices In sacred circle around this large, hand made, gathering drum life force. We continue to express ourselves in this beautiful heart thumping way, sending our intentions, emotions, healing vibes up and out. Letting go of whatever we need to, back to the Earth. Releasing with every collective beat of the drum, pounding our feet into the Earth. Sending the prayers and intentions to wherever they need to go.
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. -Albert Einstein
The Journey of Feeling
Typically, the only words I have at the end of these events to verbalize my gratitude are “wow, that was totally awesome”. Pretty weak for such a profound experience. I am literally dumbfounded after each event. Tongue tied because the energy of my body is vibrating to the point that I am distracted and overwhelmed by how good I feel. The peace that these experiences instill in my heart and bones is beyond any vocabulary I have. There is something about this entire experience - from the passive immersion, to the group beating and rattling, to the heated sacred circle of drumming together, it truly can’t get dumbed down to words. I will keep trying!
This past Saturday night, during the Immersion segment, I had propped myself up against Alan’s tree, legs were out in front of me, eyes closed and I was wrapped in my blanket. I felt the vibration of the Earth, and the wind moving the trees in a subtle chorus. Alan began playing the digeridoo. My hips trembled and my bottom and my legs seemed to soften in a pretty dramatic way, as if I was growing roots and becoming one with the ground beneath my yoga mat. Although it felt like I wasn't, when I finally opened my eyes, I was in fact still sitting there with others. I had not grown physical roots, after all. I definitely went somewhere else as I listened to the sounds. At another point, when I heard the flute, and the guitar, I felt strong emotion, like I remembered something, and I let tears flow. Again, this doesn't happen every time, but those tears needed to flow. When Alan began to share his wide ranging voice, and Jaime shared his, it softened me even more. Their voices hold a power that must be experienced in person. At that point of almost sleep, it truly felt like an ensemble of hundreds joined them with the tremendous and resonating ranges of sounds that they emitted. I kept my eyes closed and just rested in it all.
Last Saturday was a special night, because we were outside, and because there were so many really beautiful people there experiencing the magic of this event. The sharing that happened at the end of the night by many, especially the newcomers was deep and beautiful. Not everyone shared, and there is really no pressure to say a single word, but we all stood their together and held space for each other. I can't say that I know what everyone was feeling, but I do know that we stood their for quite awhile. I imagine that my body wasn't the only one still buzzing like it was made of happy bees, buzzing in harmony. Many of us joked that we never wanted to leave the space. As we lingered there, a single lightening bug danced above us like a star within our reach.
We need this.
I want you to feel the sounds of the flutes, the drums and the glorious digeridoo, and recognize your body and how it hums along. How the sound touches your bones and organs as if it is pushing you to heal. I want your skin to hum and heal your body from the outside- in. This is what happens during a Sound Immersion with Sonic Field.
An experience with Sonic Field will leave you feeling amazed at what just happened. These are just two guys from southeastern New England, who facilitate a welcoming, therapeutic and expressive space for all. I want you to join in and bask in the love and openness that truly validates what it means to be a human in our best possible form. What it feels like to be free, and to express yourself with absolutely no judgement. I hope you have the opportunity to join Sonic Field in one of their upcoming events and feel for yourself the purity that resides in our human form and how beautiful we can be in a space that is cultivated from our own well intentioned hearts.
Being outside in Mother Earth, the trees, and all of her living, beating, end-of-spring creatures is nothing short of a miracle. I am at a point in my life, where I crave loving community and nature. I crave the need to express myself in whatever way I can in a healthy way. Saturday night sound is an opportunity to release the anxiety that a work week and life overall brings, and any anger that I didn’t even know I had, yet somehow gets released without even trying. I truly feel acceptance and love and everything good that I am grateful for in humans during and even days after these experiences. These sound events anchor my weeks and they are raising the vibration of my own soul. I did not know that is what would happen to me, when I experienced my first event with them, but I sure am grateful for their facilitation, and for the community that I have connected with at all of their events.
Sonic Field is Jaime Allen Poyant and Alan Stonewolf. They have events all over New England almost every week. Please find Sonic Field on Facebook here, or visit their website at www.sonicfield.us
I experienced my first sound event with Sonic Field in September of 2020, outside at Alan’s house. I have joined them in building my very own drum at one of their Drum and Rattle building events at The Soul Purpose , and am excited to be attending another Drum and Rattle build event in July at Quantum Health & Wellness, where one of my oldest and dearest friends will join me to share in the experience of creating our own sacred sound tools. In March, I spent a full day with Sonic Field, for their inaugural class Intro to the Art of Sacred Sound Healing, offered at The Soul Purpose, in Swansea, MA.
