Earth Tones, a heart-opening sound healing ensemble featuring four extraordinary sound healers coming together to weave a living tapestry of elemental sound. This immersive experience draws from the natural world — the grounding resonance of a wooden upright bass, the breath of wooden flutes, the crystalline purity of singing bowls, and the shimmering tones of metal hand pans.
As these Earth-inspired instruments blend in harmony, you’ll be guided into a meditative soundscape designed to open your heart, raise your vibration, and reconnect you with the rhythms of nature. Allow the Earth to sing through you.
Meet the Sound Healers
John Paul is a Nashville-based sound healing practitioner and professional musician who works at the intersection of sound, spirituality, and human connection. He’s facilitated hundreds of sound baths including frequent sold out performances. Rooted in a lifelong relationship with music as a healing force, John draws from jazz, communal singing traditions, mantra, and meditation to create immersive sound experiences that restore balance and presence. His musical foundation was shaped in New Orleans, where he studied jazz and music business at Loyola University and absorbed the city’s deeply spiritual musical traditions both inside and beyond the classroom.
John’s sound healing practice is informed by decades of participatory music-making and a devotion to music as a communal and transformative act. He has served as Music Director for the acclaimed Beer & Hymns sing-along series, collaborated in kirtan and mantra projects, and studied crystal singing bowls with Kayce Laine. John is a certified sound healer through the Sound Healing Academy (UK), and his work is guided by a simple intention: to help people reconnect—with themselves, with one another, and with the world through sound.
Massood Taj – Massood’s wide range of experiences expands 20+ years of work in the fields of Sound Meditation, Mindful Music, & “Deep Listening” programs in therapeutic settings, healthcare environments (cancer wards), schools, universities, senior care facilities, special needs communities & mind body retreats.
He’s a master shakuhachi player, a Japanese bamboo flute traditionally used for the practice of “Suzen” by Zen monks in a form of sound meditation with focus on breath control & production of harmonic overtones aimed to cultivate mindfulness and inner stillness.
Born in a Persian culture & a Sufi heritage of poets like Rumi and Hafiz who color the themes and the tone of the discourses, satsangs and musical circles he facilitates.
Chrissy Kirkwood – Owner of Music Monastery & Leader of Nashville’s Kirtan Choir
Steve Rubio – Studio Percussionist, Teacher & Sound Healer