ABOUT | Purnama Music Medicine

Hello world!
My Name is 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.

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.

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.

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 Offerings

Music Medicine & Voice Liberation

Alchemy Ubud Sacred Fire & Cacao Ceremony-1

Rituals & Ceremonies

Balinese, Vedic & Indigenous Wisdom

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.

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The Goddess is not some conceptual theory, nor some image we have on an altar as a symbol.

The Goddess is the directly tangible quantum field, the subtle vibratory energy that is the pulsation behind everything in existence. It’s the energy that scientists point to as matter. The Goddess is that which exploded as a big bang from a single point of emanation into universes, worlds, devouring black holes, vibratory sound, the movement of wind and churning of ocean currents, the sprouting of plant life toward the sun, the swirling patterns of thoughts and emotions. She is the impulse behind evolution, the energy behind birth and death, she is decay and fungus, the intricate weaving of mycelium and the spirallic formations of fascia between muscle and bone.

She is the yearning of the child reaching for its mother, the spinning of the spider and its web, the crackling of fire as she devours. She is the mantras, the yantras, the sonic sounds sung by her devotees. She is the pattern of words and speech, poetry and myth. She is you reflecting back to you through this post. She is your next breath, your next thought, your next movement, your next impulse.

She is that which asks us to lay down our ego, our ideologies, our likes and dislikes, and our illusions that make us believe we have control and a plan. She asks us to devote not to a god outside of ourselves, but to the organic pattern of LIFE.

She asks us to stop forcing and grasping and to quietly sink into her rhythm, her cycles, her patterns. She asks us to slow down, listen quietly to her pulse and realign our bones, our energy, our breath and our minds into the patterned mandala that is the source of all timeless creation. To live in relation with the earth, the waters, the fire and the wind in this time of great distortion.

Join us for 7 days of devotion to the ANIMATE goddess. Through ritual, devotion, somatics & sādhanā we step into a journey of descent & ascent the Healing Waters of Yeh Mampeh. 🌹

18-24 November 2026
@bumicintabali

Reach out to book one one of the last spots 💌 
With love & devotion
Evy & Purnama ♥️

Living in Bali as a Balinese is not always easy.

Of course, I feel immensely lucky and blessed to call this unique & special island with such vibrant culture my home. 🌺

But seeing the growing disregard for our people and culture, the corruption from our governments, and the wealth inequality that makes many Balinese sell off their lands, is heartbreaking.

I wrote this song, “Meme Kauk”, in inspiration by the chants I heard my grandmothers sing at ceremonies in the temple. A call for us people of Indonesia to remember our roots, to honor Mother Earth, and remember what truly matters. 🍃

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This Sunday at @alchemyyogaubud we are offering TILEM - a New Moon Ceremony infused with Balinese rituals, accompanied by songs I composed in Indonesian & Balinese.

Come and join us as we sing the songs in the languages of the spirits and ancestors of this land, make our offerings and set intentions for the new cycle ahead.

May respect & reciprocity for this island and its indigenous people blossom and rise 🌼🌙✨

Featuring @evakandra @ladymega_ & @basouki_uki

With so much love ♥️

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#balievents #newmoonceremony #balinesesongs #medicinemusic

MEDICINE FESTIVAL

One of my highlights by far during this summer of sharing music was @medicinefestival

Transformative is not an adjective I dare to use often, but here I felt it.

Right at the very beginning, one of the stage managers told us: “This is not just a festival, it’s a 5 day long ceremony that we all are going through together” - and oh, how deeply I got to experience that. 🍃

In the first days, amidst the worst heatwaves and droughts that Europe has ever seen, I came down with a really nasty flu and sore throat. For 3 out of the 4 times I sung on stage, I had almost no voice.

While the festival had to deal with a fire ban and water scarcity, my own inner critic came out very strong during those days, testing my spirit. I went through a hell lot of self-doubt and wondered what and if my presence even contributed.

Among the withered landscapes, songs for the waters where shared abundantly. Where usually there were fire ceremonies, we prayed to the waters instead.

Against my own inner drought & critics, I am glad I pushed through and ended up sharing a Water Prayer that I learned from my Moondance lineage in the Hanuman Project Forza Feminina set on the Goddess Fyre stage. 🌹🔥

Finally, on the last day of the festival, the clouds graced us with coolness and sprinkles of rain. Thanks to all the medicines and remedies that my friends shared with me abundantly, that’s also when I got to be back in my full power and joy and receiving the blessings 🌞

It felt equal to me like the last part of a ceremony, after the shadow work when all pieces start coming together, and bliss takes place where hard work was present.

Whew. What teachings!

Thank you Medicine Festival for being truly one of a kind festival. Thank you for all the wisdom keepers who held down the field with us - so many wisdom keepers from around the world united. Huge gratitude the epic festival team with some of the biggest hearts and most genuine smiles I’ve ever met. ♥️

And of course my biggest gratitude to @hanumanproject for this sangha. Sometimes I feel we’ve been doing this for lifetimes. What a blessing & honor 💕✨

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#medicinefestival #medicineuk #festivalseason2026

I thank life for bringing me my two dearest & closest Balinese sisters @evakandra and @ladymega_. Loving these pictures of us one of the last women’s fire ceremonies in Bali 🔥

It is a strange feeling sometimes to be half Balinese in Bali. It is like living in two parallel worlds that rarely touch each other.

One world is full of devotion, responsibilities, family life, temples & offerings, a humble life where we eat 𝘛𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘬 or 𝘙𝘶𝘫𝘢𝘬 from the warung next door for 5k.

It clashes at times with the other world, one of freedom & decadence, where a meal can quickly cost 100k with fancy names, and where I often need to jump in as a translator to avoid misunderstandings.

And yet, I am home in both of them.

For years, I had wished for friends who understand both worlds.
Who understand the rituals & duties of one side, and the clashes with the other.

And I am so glad that not only have I found them, but they also come and share in my ceremonies 🥹 

Thank you Eva & Lady for being in service to Mama Bali.

I look forward to the next ceremony together & pray for many more memories to come 🌹✨

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Bali, I will see you soon ♥️ 

Swipe to see my upcoming offerings, many joined by this fam!  

📷 thank you so much @kantorowiczeye for taking these beautiful pictures! 
🔥 thank you @kristamariestarr for having been the amazing fire keeper in these photos  

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#balinesewomen #balievents #baliceremonies #ubudevents #balilife

Oh, Swiss Summer 🌞

As I write this text, I am filled with emotion.

Such love I feel for this sacred land, these mighty mountains, the lakes and rivers that cleanse me, and this grounded, loving, sweet community.

Yet on an emotional level it has been a deeply challenging summer. The droughts, the heatwaves, and my own emotions. I am healing from a heartbreak, but the heartbreak decided to follow me here. Hurt has been a constant companion as I moved through triggers & faced the deepest abyss.

Amidst it all, friends have shown up who have held me through this summer, listened to my side of the story, and confirmed to me that even though I sometimes might be a little dramatic, I am deserving of love & respect.

Being away from Switzerland for such long times on end, I sometimes wonder if I am still part of the community here … and then all of you show up, show me love, include me, come to the events I create, listen to the music I make, and I sincerely can’t put into words how much it means to me 🥹🫶🏽

As a teenager in Switzerland I dealt a lot with loneliness, racism, discrimination & confusion. The move from Bali at 10 years old made me question where I belong - too white to be Balinese and too brown to be Swiss.

So feeling this community now is a truly healing experience and my gratitude is beyond any words. A testament that by staying authentic & true to you, with patience & time, all will fall into place.

To everyone who has shared love & appreciation with me, whether in person or through text or thoughts, and especially those who support my events & projects, know you have a very special place in my heart ♥️  •  Being in ceremony is my way to be in service to life, and after a hectic & eventful summer, I invite us into a sacred space to collectively slow down, unite our voices & hearts in song, and send our love, our intentions & prayers into the ethers.

I look forward to come together this Friday for a New Moon Ceremony at @soulcity_zurich 🕯️🌙✨  •  Pictures by me from a hike a few years back in the alps with soul sis @jelena.devi ⛰️

First picture by @iam.letizia

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#swissevents #swissalps #switzerland #kakaozeremonie #mantrasingen

When you meet strangers who feel like soul family 🤍

This is the energy I wish to create in my offerings & ceremonies!

After knowing of each other’s works through social media & meeting backstage at last year’s @healplaylove, I finally met with @laiapascual.artist to connect deeper.

This is our first time making music together, and I absolutely love how our voices dance with each other. We look forward to sing for and with you under the New Moon at @soulcity_zurich 🌑🌙✨

With dear brothers @spirosstefanis and @stevenesteven1 on percussion and mrdinga to bring to you a full power musical ensemble to elevate our voices & prayers.

It will be an evening of sweet community, cacao, kirtan, medicine music, sound healing, uniting & aligning our intentions for this new cycle.

I look forward to seeing you in the space 🥰🌹

Con amor,
Purnama

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#livemusic #singersongwriter #kakaozeremonie #mantrasingen #zurichevents

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My Journey

early Beginnings

Ceremony, Music & Spiritual Studies

2025 – present

Moondance Switzerland - Metzli Tepeyollotl
Deepening of ceremonial practice and learning within Mexica tradition

2025 – 2026
Supporting Traditional Wixárika Ceremonies
With Abuela Doña Micaela and Anna Maria Magdalenah

2025
Sound & Energy Medicine Association
50-hour Sound & Energy Healer Training, Bali

2024
Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation
Courses with Atira Tan, online

2023 – present
Bhakti Yoga Summer Teacher Trainings
Teaching Yoga Philosophy

2023 – present
Vedic Philosophy Studies
With Sharada Devi, online

Focus on Bhagavad Gita, Vedic Mantras, Puja and Vedanta

2023
Supporting Traditional Noke Kuin Ceremonies
With Mõcha Kamenawa

2022 – 2023
Embodied Awakening Academy
Studies in Emotional Regulation, Relationship Dynamics & Tantra; as both student and supporter, Bali

2019
100-hour Yoga Teacher Training
SOHA School of Healing Arts, Bali
Focus on Advaita Vedanta, Vinyasa & Iyengar Yoga

2018
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
SOHA School of Healing Arts, Bali
Focus on Vinyasa & Hatha Yoga and Philosophy

2018
Artist Residency — Essaouira, Morocco
Three months of studying guitar, drums, and Gnaoua music

2017
Comunidad Arco Iris — Iquitos, Peru
Community exchange: teaching yoga and community building in the heart of the Amazon; learning foundational ceremonial practices, including firekeeping, over six weeks

2016
Language Immersion & Cultural Exchange
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
studying Spanish and living with an Indigenous family for 4 weeks

... and countless hours devoted to personal practice, sādhana, nature quests, darkroom and meditation retreats, fasting in nature, and sitting in ceremony with teachers from diverse traditions.

Professional Experience & Academic Background

2018 -- 2023
Villa Bodensee Bali
Community Leader & Venue Manager of my family's guesthouse

2016
Exchange Year at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015 -- 2017
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
School of Management and Law
BSc studies in International Management (not completed)

Swiss Federal Vocational Baccalaureate in Business Administration

Swiss Federal VET Diploma in Hospitality

Highlights

of my journey

a few

Grateful for MY ancestors

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. 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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Hello world! My Name is Purnama

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SINGER, SONGWRITER & SOUND HEALER INDIGENOUS WISDOM KEEPER

YOGA & PHILOSOPHY TEACHER CEREMONIALIST