Integrity & Sound
The Evolution from Magic to Medicine
Sound Training Institutions & Collectives
Together, we can harmonize our training standards, elevate our professional impact, and ensure that the next generation of sound healers goes out into the world grounded in truth, backed by quality, and united in purpose.
Laboratory for Sonic Integrity
Born from everyone, for everyone. We gather in the shadow of the Annapurna range to strip away the “hype.”
Beyond the Circle
Post-Conference Journeys & Immersions
(Expanding Your Stay in the Himalayas)
A laboratory for
sonic integrity.
PurnaCon was born from everyone, for everyone. We gather in the shadow of the Annapurna range to strip away the hype around sound — and study what actually moves through stone, water, cell, and consciousness.
No mysticism without measurement. No measurement without wonder. For three days, biophysicists, sound practitioners, ecologists and contemplatives sit in one circle and ask a single question: what does sound truly do to a living system?
Three days. Three dimensions of human experience.
Each day strips away one more layer between sound and self — from the cells of the body to the will of the world.
Why it works on the body
The ethics of the aura
Our mission in the world
Purna Yoga Retreat
A purpose-built sanctuary beneath the Annapurna range in Pokhara, Nepal — where sound moves through stone, wood, and open sky.
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Real mornings at Purna Yoga Retreat
The Evidence Ledger
● 6 ACTIVE LINES OF INQUIRY
PurnaCon holds questions, not dogma. Every line of inquiry is presented with its method and its uncertainty — so you can tell the signal from the hype.
Cellular Resonance
Does targeted frequency shift cellular behaviour and repair?
Structured Water
Sound's imprint on the coherence and memory of water.
Cardiac Coherence
Tonal intervals, breath, and heart-rate variability.
Plant Intelligence
Acoustic response and growth signalling in flora.
The Biofield
Mapping the body's energetic envelope — honestly.
Listening & Silence
The neurology of deep attention and stillness.
The circle of practitioners
Manohar Shrestha
E-RYT 500 yoga teacher and certified Sound Therapist who weaves healing instruments into a practice of returning home to ourselves.
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Peter Effenberger
Pioneer of planetary sound therapy and biodynamic agriculture, bridging the wisdom of the earth with the harmonies of the cosmos.
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Maya Steinberg
Biodynamic Breathwork facilitator and Reconnective Healing practitioner; two decades guiding sound healing and somatic release.
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Ram Chhetri
Rooted in Vedic chanting, Vipassana and Sufi traditions — for Ram, the space between two sounds is where the listening begins.
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Cyril Mathieu
Gong and monochord shaped into an acoustic threshold — sound used not to add anything, but to clear the space for silence.
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Joseph Schmidlin
Classical osteopathy meeting sonic vibrational medicine; frequency as a precise tool for physiological alignment.
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Walter Siegfried Hahn
Biodynamic gardener of fifty years and an activist for silence, leading groups into instantaneous soundscapes.
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to resonance.
PHASE LOCK ACHIEVED
Disconnection
You step off the noise of the world and into silence. The body is braced, the signal scattered.
Listening
Breath slows. Sound enters stone, water, and skin. The nervous system begins to find the beat.
Coherence
Frequency and physiology lock into phase. The separate becomes the shared — a circle in tune.
Resonance
You carry the tuning home. What was felt becomes how you live, listen, and lead.
A geocentric view
of living frequency.
Long before the spectrometer, humanity tuned itself to celestial cycles. PurnaCon revisits the geocentric cosmos — not as astronomy, but as a map of relationship: the rhythms our bodies, our water, and our seasons still keep with the sky.
Each orbit is rendered as its sound — the frequency of a planetary year, transposed into the range of human hearing.
Sound is a Biological Necessity.
Not a Luxury Trend.
This is a call to those who believe that sound therapy is a biological necessity, not a luxury trend.
Join us to move beyond the shallow waters of the casual “Sound Bath” and dive into the deep currents of Vibrational Medicine.
Let us meet in the silence of the mountains to anchor the integrity of our voices and co-create the future of human resonance.