Sound as Medicine
Where Rhythm
Meets Healing
It began on a dance floor, outside, under the open sky. I was at an African-inspired music festival when I felt something shift inside me. Not just in my body but somewhere far deeper. The rhythm, the air, the collective energy of people moving together under the stars lifted me somewhere I had never been before. In that moment I understood something that would stay with me always: sound is not background. It is medicine.
That experience never left me. It planted a seed I did not yet have words for.
Then came Africa. A journey that cracked something open in me. It was where my spiritual path truly revealed itself, where the seeds of everything Anansi Medicine has become were quietly, powerfully planted. I went for the music. Africa gave me so much more.
Looking back I understand why the music moved me the way it did. Through my father I carry the blood of the Kwawu and Akwamu people of Ghana. The Akan people have always known that rhythm is not entertainment. It is ceremony. It is prayer. It is the language the body speaks when words are not enough. That knowing was already inside me long before I had a name for it. The music did not teach me something new. It reminded me of something ancient.
The music I am drawn to is African inspired, rooted in the rhythms, the spirit and the ancestral memory of the African continent, carried forward through artists across the world into something living and contemporary. Music that moves what is stuck, opens what is closed, and reminds the body of something it already knows.
This is why sound lives at the heart of every Anansi Medicine session. Each offering is held within a carefully curated soundscape that honours those roots, so that you do not just receive the energy work. You are held by the sound too.