Sound as Medicine
Where Rhythm
Meets Healing
It began on a dance floor in Madrid, outside, under the open sky. I was at an African-inspired music festival with Afro house filling the air around me, and I felt something I had never felt before. Not just in my body but somewhere far deeper. The music, the night sky, the rhythm, all of it lifted me to a place that was euphoric, expansive, and profoundly healing. 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 didn't yet have words for.
Then came Cape Town. I travelled there to see a DJ, again outside, music meeting open air and African earth, and what I found was something I could never have anticipated. That trip cracked something open in me. It was where my spiritual journey truly began, where my path 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.
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. Afro house, deep African sound, earth-based melody, 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 don't just receive the energy work. You are held by the sound too.