ABOUT | Purnama Music Medicine

About pUrNamA

SINGER, SONGWRITER & SOUND HEALER
INDIGENOUS WISDOM KEEPER

YOGA & PHILOSOPHY TEACHER
CEREMONIALIST

Born to a Swiss father & a Balinese mother, I feel blessed to have grown up with two richly diverse cultures, religions and ways of life.

This unique upbringing has widened my horizon and allowed me to see the world through different lenses. It also helped me to foster an open heart & mind that guides me to this day.

My upbringing did not only bring blessings, but also posed many complex challenges.

Especially my teenage & young adult years were marked by trauma, abuse and depression. Feeling deeply misunderstood in my family and the environment I grew up in, I moved out of my parents’ house as soon as I reached 18 years old, on a quest of healing.

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Guided by my intuition and following the flow of life, I soon travelled to places around Europe, the Americas, and North Africa.

During these times, I worked every job I could find in order to sustain myself and my travels - from catering & hospitality, to teaching languages, to photography. I was often self-taught, unafraid of accepting new challenges and making mistakes as a way of learning.

Everywhere I went, I encountered the same beauty, creativity, and shared humanity. It showed me how interconnected we are and how more alike we are than we are different. We truly are one.

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Art, music & community have always been my guiding lights.
They have been the medicine to help me get through the darkest of times.

From learning temple dance as a child in Bali, to drumming with brothers in Marrakech, to attending ceremonies in the jungles of Peru – whenever I felt like I was straying too far away, these experiences brought me back to Source and the ancient wisdom of my soul.

This is why I am dedicated to be an artist - to share some of this light with you, and with the world.

My missioN

We all have our own unique power.
The power to love. The power to inspire. The power to change.

Once we become aware of this power, we realize that it is in our hands to create a reality that we desire.

A world of harmony, abundance & peace.

Through sharing medicine music and the wisdom of indigenous cultures that I’ve grown up with or learned from, I wish to raise our awareness and our consciousness to the ultimate truth:

That we are loved, that we are free, and that we are infinite.

I am in service to the tools of life that help to bring us back home.

Awakening ancient memory, creating a world of community & togetherness.

I hope that through your visit to my online & offline spaces, your life gets enriched in some way!

We are the seeds of freedom.
Let us spread & become the forests of change.

I am deeply devoted to creating sacred spaces for people to gather,

united through the universal language and power of music & rituals.

May they strengthen our ties as human beings – both to each other and the natural world – and enrichen the human experience, reminding of our ability

to create heaven on earth.

May every step I take carve a fragment of a better world.

My Journey

My journey into medicine music began in 2016, during my extensive travels through Latin America at age 23.

Before this transformative chapter, my life appeared fairly conventional. I held a degree in hospitality and studied at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in the School of Management and Law. Yet, deep within, I always sensed something was missing.

During my time in Latin America, I immersed myself in diverse communities, volunteering and living in sacred spaces, and first started to teach yoga—a practice that has been part of my life since childhood—and exploring the world of medicine songs.

In early 2018, I delved deeper during a three-month stay in Morocco, studying music, helping out at events and discovering the rich culture of traditional Gnaoua music. It was there that I learned to play guitar and percussion under the guidance of African musicians who became my friends, supporters, and mentors. One of them Amine Fartoute, my guitar teacher who became my dear brother.

In 2017, while living in the depths of the Amazon jungle, I received a clear message: to return to Bali and reconnect with my ancestry and lineage.

Thus in 2018 I returned to Bali, where I have lived ever since.

Here, I completed my formal yoga teacher training with SOHA Yoga, guided by Daniela Mandala and Sharada Devi, both of whom belong to the lineage of Sri Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

To this day, I continue my studies of Vedic wisdom, Sanskrit, and mantras with Sharada.

Musically, I have been fortunate to learn from world-class artists here in Bali. I first started tapping into my voice with vocal alchemist Yin Ling, classical Indian music teacher Hari Bhakti Leo Dey, legendary vocal artists and sound healing teachers Nestor and Charli Kornblum, and explored traditional Greek songs with Marlia Coeur from Cyprus. Other music teachers I have learned from are Paulina Magus, lead vocalist of Ilahi Sufi Qawwali, and Tahir Qawwal, leader of Fannah-Fi-Allah.

I became a certified Sound & Energy Healer under Lola Lhamo and Susanne Anaya's guidance, receiving transmissions on Daoism and using Tibetan Bowls as a tools for healing .

Singing with masterful kirtan leader Punnu Wasu and his father, Sevadar Babaji, has further refined my vocal skills, I've had the honor of supporting them in numerous kirtans, performances, and sound healings in Bali and in Switzerland.

I have had the blessing to have collaborated with most of my teachers in some form or the other!

One of my most cherished collaborations has been with the internationally renowned kirtan group Hanuman Project. I first joined in 2020, offering Balinese wisdom transmissions, and later as a singer.

I’ve also been a guest teacher at Hanuman Project's EnChanted Retreats in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

In 2022, I began studying emotional regulation and relational dynamics with The Embodied Awakening Academy. I participated in their Fundamentals of Tantra weekend and later assisted as both a musician and facilitator in their weekend immersions, as well as their weeklong Living Tantra Retreat, from 2022 until 2023.

That same year, I began assisting in medicine ceremonies. I met and travelled with Mocha Noke Kuin, spiritual leader of the Noke Kuin, and received many transmissions of Amazonian tribal music and traditions.

Since 2023, I have been teaching Yoga Philosophy and Mantras at the 200HR Yoga Teacher Training of Bhakti Yoga Summer.

In 2024, I embarked on training in Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation with Atira Tan.

Beginning of 2025, I joined the Sound & Energy Medicine Association to teach Mantras & Medicine Music in their Bali courses.

The deepest well of my wisdom and inspiration comes from my Balinese ancestry.

My grandfather has served as the village priest of Bedulu until his retirement in 2023. For decades, he has conducted and overviewed different ceremonies and rites of passages for the people of our village. My family has carried out these sacred duties for countless generations, most probably hundreds of years. I feel honored to be his oldest granddaughter.

In our lineage, the title of village priest is traditionally passed to the eldest son. My mother as the eldest daughter does not receive this title, which instead falls on her younger brother. Nonetheless, I feel the wealth of spiritual knowledge in my DNA.

I continuously practice to deepen my connection with this ancestral knowledge, which continues to guide and infuse all my offerings. My family continues to teach me every day about community, family values, humility, and devotion.

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