Chakana Sound

Where the spa becomes a studio.

Chakana Sound is where the artistry of founder Mardi Ritchie brings together original music, live voice, acoustic instruments, sound healing, meditation and scent in intimate immersive experiences for one person or a room of eight.

Part sound bath, part live composition, each immersive experience moves between silence, resonance, song and stillness. Crystal and Tibetan bowls, guitar, voice, gong, drums, chimes and elemental percussion are woven with original compositions from the Ascend collection (music composed for these experiences), creating a sonic landscape that is deep and completely original.

Choose to experience it alone, at one of Chakana’s monthly public immersions, or privately with your own group

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The Chakana Ascend

A private immersive sound experience

90 minutes | $450

Contact the spa to book.

Created for those standing at life’s thresholds: in transition, burnout, or seeking profound renewal.

A space to stop, listen and be carried by music – allowing the mind to quieten, the body to rest and something deeper to come into view.

You simply lie down and receive, while the magic of sound moves through you.

Chakana Ascend brings Mardi’s music off the recording and into the room, as six original songs – Surrender, You’re Beautiful, Keep Breathing, Hypnotic, Slow and Temple – merge into one continuous stream of song and sound.

Performed live within an evolving soundscape of voice, guitar, piano, crystal and Tibetan bowls, gong, percussion and atmospheric sound.

Mardi moves between live voice, instruments, song and silence. She leads you through a guided meditation as sound surrounds the body, scent accompanies the music and song opens different emotional landscapes as the experience moves through the six worlds of Ascend.

One person. One private performance.

Chakana Ascend was written and created for this experience and produced by Sean Carey at Church St Studios, Sydney.

“Having tried many beauty treatments throughout my career, the encounter with Mardi’s Ascend sound healing was an entirely new experience. What unfolds is beyond anticipation. It’s an amazing treatment. Mardi customises it for each client and it’s very different from anything out there.”

– Kirstie Clements
Author & former Editor-in-Chief, Vogue Australia

Private Sound Healing

Tuning fork therapy, sound healing & meditation.

60 minutes | $255

One person. One room. Sound created around you.

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A private sound healing session created entirely around the person receiving it.

Tuning fork therapy forms part of the treatment, with vibration applied to specific acupressure points and meridian pathways on the body. Drawing on principles used in East Asian medicine, the forks offer a non-invasive way of working with these points through sound and vibration rather than needles.

From there, the session expands into crystal and Tibetan bowls, gong, chimes, drums and elemental percussion, with meditation, acoustic guitar and live voice woven through the experience.

The experience responds to the person and to what is present on the day, moving intuitively between vibration, resonance, silence, meditation and song.

Created for times of stress, depletion, emotional overload or when you simply feel out of balance.

The combination of focused vibration, sustained sound and silence creates space for the body to settle, the mind to quieten and your attention to move away from the constant noise of everyday life.

One person. One hour. Sound created around you.

“The body is an instrument. I tune in and feel; find the rhythm. I listen to the vibration of the
body as the voice of the soul. I harmonise with it, creating a medicinal space for healing and self-awareness.”

Mardi

Sound Bath Immersion

Chakana’s monthly public sound experience
90 mins | $150 per person

Limited to 8 guests

(Private group bookings available contact the spa to book)

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This is sound experienced from the inside.

A Sound Bath is an immersive form of deep listening. You lie down, close your eyes and allow layers of sound and vibration to move around and through you. Your only job is to receive.

At Chakana’s sound-baths, only eight people share the room. Each person has their own deeply comfortable reclined bed, with space to properly settle in for the full 90 minutes.

From there, Mardi creates a live soundscape around the room using voice, original music, crystal and Tibetan bowls, gong, guitar, drums, chimes and elemental percussion.
The composition is created live, moving between music, vibration, rhythm and silence in response to the people within it.

At the heart of the experience is original music, from the Ascend collection, written and performed live by Mardi. Songs woven in around instrumental sound, taking the experience beyond a traditional sound bath and into an immersive musical experience – created to carry you past the noise of everyday thought, beyond the breath, and into that quieter place we so rarely reach.

For some, that means profound rest. For others, emotion, imagery or unexpected clarity emerges. You don’t need to know how to meditate or make anything happen. You simply lie down and allow the experience to unfold.

This is where Mardi’s work as a therapist, singer-songwriter and sound artist comes together. Years spent listening through touch inform the way she listens through sound – knowing when to build, when to pull back, when to strike a note and when to leave silence.

Eight people. Eight beds. Ninety minutes. One live composition that will never exist in exactly the same way again.

“Mardi is the consummate host and has a beautiful voice crossed between Feist and Mazzy Star. WOW!
I was blown away by the sound bath Mardi has created. It is thoughtful, authentic and inspiring.”

Belinda Aucott

The Chakana Ascend Music Collection

The Chakana Ascend is an original collection of songs composed by founder Mardi Ritchie.

Each piece was written to amplify and deepen the Chakana experience.
The music is the sonic counterpart to the Ascend aroma range, crafted to settle the nervous system, and evoke renewal from within.

An intimate expression of the Chakana philosophy where scent, sound and song converge. Created not only to be heard, but to be felt.

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