Discovering the Sound Vessel

Kala aka Sound of  Kala aka Karla Maria Poschmann is a certified music therapist, a sound healer, an artist/performer, a creator, a musician, a kundalini practitioner, a songstress who has a clear connection to the world and waves of sound. When she was little, she knew she didn’t want to be a pop star, she wanted music always to be a place of play. To play instruments. To sing.  Then she discovered the vessel of sound: this allows her to play within this melodic world. And in this discovery of the sound vessel, she unlocked the strength of her own voice. 

Videos taken of Kala performing show her sitting surrounded by resonant clear quartz pastel sound bowls. Her hands move around the pink, the blue, the green. Her ears tapped into the room around her. Her blue eyes gaze as she listens. People laying down, eyes closed, deeply elsewhere. Using specific frequencies, sounds, instrument and voice, Kala can take a disharmonious energy body and bring it into harmony. 

“When someone wakes up from a session, it takes them some time to return (into the room). Sound travels through the fluid of our body and works on a cellular level so we can literally feel the frequencies within us. These sessions allow them to  reacquaint themselves with trust and surrender to the experience. They thank me for allowing them to find the inner world within themselves. It allows them to bloom.” 

Kala is Karla’s chosen stage name. Like sound, she is a travel frequency. She tells us how time does not exist, there is only the present moment. So when she creates the space for sound healing she is improvising in that moment, grounded in her knowledge and experience. 

“Sound healing is an art of improvisation.”

As a receiver of Sound Healing you are lying down, in stillness, receiving vibrations and frequencies. Dancing with her Sound Bowls, her voice, drums, she uses her instinctive senses to create a soothing space for receivers to enter, and then be activated by the sound. 

Especially women. Women have historically used songs to capture moments, to express, to share wisdom, lessons, love. It throngs in us an quintessential essence that we all understand. Women have an intrinsic connection between our womb and our voice. Within the womb each human first hears the sound of our mothers voice. 

“It is impossible to not hear someone crying or being emotional through their vocal cords. Even the most professional singer or performer cannot hide from their voice the emotions are experiencing. Our voices communicate not only with the words we choose, but they resonate with the patterns of sound we create and the movements that create them. The natural rhythms of song, to the precise timing of a consonant, these patterns guide our daily communication. Humans can understand each other, even if we don’t speak the same language. Song allows us to connect, to hear each other's bodies. Melodies are storytelling.”

Blooming Inner Visions 

At Zazi the artisans we work with sing while they are weaving, or clacking at the looms, or spinning wool. Like laughter, the songs/sound animate the textiles. It connects.

The more time spent with Kala the more you become aware that her choice to not be a popstar, is because she has an inner knowing that she is a magician - where sound and music are her magic. She opens portals between humans to reconnect to the inner touch of sound of voice, and our authentic beings.

“To sing out loud the feelings you house inside. To hear through sound, what lies within and then bloom with those visions.”

Kala’s leaving gift is that all the sisterhood sing in the shower, uninhibited. So, Zazi sisters, may we all take our soaps and sing oh-so-loud in the shower!