Introducing: Tamara Klien

Meditation has been part of my life for over a decade, although for years no one around me knew that I was doing it. It was like this secret weapon that I had discovered for myself. Having worked in an incredibly fast-paced environment of the Fashion PR world, it helped me through very stressful periods of time. Frankly, I think that’s the only thing that saw me through it for so long!

Deep down I knew that eventually I would make something more holistic my main thing, but I didn’t know where to start at first. In 2017 I finally decided to do my Yoga Teacher Training in Vinyasa Flow. Although Yoga is a very important part of my spiritual and physical practice, it didn’t feel right for me to be teaching it at the time.

Fast forward a year later and I attended my first gong bath, quickly realising that sounds can transcend you into very deep meditative states. Really fast too!

That’s when it clicked. So, following an intense training and years of facilitating many sound meditation sessions, I am passionately dedicating my life to just that.

The people! Whether it’s clients who attend my events, the sound meditation community who are so supportive of each other or sceptics who have opened up to this practice for the first time with me. They are the reason I wake up in the mornings, excited to be doing what I do.

I can’t say if it makes me unique, but I would say that I try as much as possible to be authentic to myself. This means not caring what others think or do; or what the ‘latest trend’ is, in the holistic and spiritual world.

I am just being me and that can perhaps sometimes be a little surprising. I actually am known to swear a fair bit, I have a very loud laugh and I’m utterly clumsy. None of these traits are particularly what you’d expect from your blog-standard spiritual person…

What matters to me are good intentions and respect for the practices or learnings that I am passing on to others, particularly from cultures that aren’t my own.

It’s that trippy and floaty feeling it leaves me with for hours after a sound bath. Sometimes even a whole day. A deep, inner interconnectedness of some sort that cannot be described, but needs to be experienced…

Non-negotiables on a daily basis are: meditation (at least 20 minutes), exercise/movement, greens with lunch and dinner and I drink a lot of water every day.

Since moving to the British seaside, I have been lucky enough to be able to do most of those things surrounded by nature, aka the ocean. I swim nearly every day, go running and/or do yoga. My yoga practice varies depending on what it is that my mind and body need. Sometimes it’s a faster vinyasa to get a sweat on, other times Kundalini to balance the chakras or when I’m feeling tired Yin always sorts me out.

I’ve recently stopped drinking alcohol altogether and would like to fully give up coffee, both of which have profound influence on our brain activity. Working with sound wave frequencies, means I can reach deeper states of consciousness. I want to stay as clear as possible so that I can experience its full potential, which is awesome by the way.

My diet is predominately plant-based, but I’m not strictly vegan. I try my best to be environmentally conscious and healthy by eating organic, locally sourced whole foods. My fridge tends to be very colourful!

Oh, and I cannot be without Kombucha. It’s good for the gut but mainly it’s my wine replacement these days. My go to local brand in Saint-Leonards-on-Sea is Booyah; and when in London I swear on Jarr.

Our brains are constantly on complete information overload. Bearing in mind that not so long ago there was a time pre-internet, let alone social media. We didn’t have to process nearly as much information as we do now.

Add to that the fear-inducing daily news reports we’ve been exposed to in the past two years since COVID. No wonder our minds are racing the moment we come to calmness.

I think we’re slowly understanding that we’re not in tune with ourselves. Practices such as Sound Meditation, Breathwork or slower-paced movement classes like Yin can be hugely beneficial to slow down. It serves as an anchor and makes the whole experience of connecting mind and body flow much more effortlessly.

My aim is to develop my own meditation technique inspired by different disciplines but rooted in my Latin American ancestral lineage. I don’t quite know how and what, but sounds will play a significant role.

What I do know, is that we’ve forgotten how to live in harmony with our planet. It’s for that reason that I believe we should be paying more attention to how ancient tribes lived and connected with their natural environment.