Sound Bath Sessions 109: Madeline Bandera

My next stop was with Maddy Bandera at her space, Concentric Circles Of Healing, nestled in the Kampong Bahru conservation area. A fellow Filipino and 20-year veteran of the corporate world, she followed a calling to a different path which grew out of her own meditation and energy healing practice she had been doing before the pandemic.

Maddy began the first recording with a short meditation, then mainly played the metal bowls. In the latter part of the session, she picked up a bowl and struck it as she moved it from left to right, its vibrations subtly affecting the ringing of the stationary bowls passing below it as she played them. This session was quite profound for me. Nothing happened. It was as if the sounds belonged there, like they were always there. A perfect equilibrium.