Shala of Sacred Sound

14/11/2025

In my Gong Bath and Meditation sessions, I devote my attention to cultivating a sense of gentle curiosity—an open, welcoming space where you can safely explore the deeper layers of yourself.

This week, we’ll journey into the idea that when we are firmly rooted in the Earth’s energy—present, steady, and grounded—happiness isn’t something we chase. It naturally rises from within us.

If you’re longing to cultivate more joy in your life, I’d love for you to join us. This session may be the medicine your heart has been waiting for.

With love,
Rawia Baitalmal Edwards

Reserve your place here:
https://bookwhen.com/rawiabaitalmal/e/ev-sgzdb-20251120184500

15/10/2025

06/10/2025

🌙 The Return of the Shamanic Drumming & Dream Circle 🌙

It’s been a long time coming…
After a year of deep initiations, new teachings, and layers that words can hardly touch — the time has come to return.

I’m so grateful to announce that our Shamanic Drumming Circles are beginning again ✨

This next cycle carries a new focus — the ancient practice of Shamanic Dreaming and Drumming. Together we will explore how rhythm, trance, and dreaming can open portals of vision, healing, and remembrance.

As a Lucid Dream Facilitator and Shamanic Practitioner, my path and purpose are to help others reconnect with the splintered and forgotten parts of the self — to guide the return to wholeness.
Each gathering is a Ceremonial Space, a place to learn, journey, and be supported by a community of kindred spirits walking this sacred path.

The first circle begins soon.
I can’t wait to sit in ceremony with you once again — to dream, drum, and remember together. 🪶💫

📅 Date: 7th November & 19th December
📍 Location: Chester
🕰️ Time: 7pm - 9pm
🔗 Book here:
https://bookwhen.com/rawiabaitalmal/e/ev-szweb-20251107190000

12/09/2025

Did you know that anamnesis means “to remember, to recollect”?

The word comes from Latin, and even Plato described it as the soul’s longing to return home — to reconnect with that place we knew before birth into this human life.

Tonight we gathered as I spoke about the forgetting, and how the soul can journey to remember, and it was such a beautiful circle of souls.

It reminded me how much I’ve missed holding this sacred space.

If you’d like to experience a deep mystical connection to your subtle energy body— to pause, to reconnect, and to live more lucidly — our next sound bath dates are now live on BookWhen. I’d love for you to join us.

https://bookwhen.com/rawiabaitalmal/e/ev-sg7t-20251002183000

23/05/2025

Gratitude for the Living Forest

Each day I step into the Forest that lives on my doorstep — not just a place of trees and trails, but a sanctuary, a teacher, a soul companion. She has held me in ways language cannot hold. In her arms, I have learned to pray not with words alone, but with my presence.

I return to the same places, whispering gratitude into the wind, into the roots, into the streams. Over the years, I’ve witnessed her seasons turn: death into life, silence into birdsong, stillness into wild abundance. Right now, she is teeming — green and full, new life bursting forth. Chicks in nests. Saplings reaching. The Forest hums with the pulse of creation.

And still, the predator walks. The hawk circles. The fox waits. Life and death spiral together in sacred rhythm. This is the truth she shows me: all things are held in balance. Polarity is not a mistake — it is the dance of the divine.

Suffering exists here too — not as something to be rejected, but as a doorway. When we stop fighting it, when we stop trying to separate the sacred from the sorrow, we can begin to see the beauty in all of it.

Prayer, for me, is a way of staying in conversation with this truth. Of listening more than asking. Of seeing the psychic weave of life — how everything is connected, how nothing is truly separate.

Gratitude deepens that connection. It roots us. It reminds us: We are not alone. We are not outside of nature. We are part of the mystery, just as the Forest is.

13/05/2025

The Soul’s Cry for Connection

Is Addiction a Search for the Soul……

Addiction is often seen as a destructive force—but what if it’s also a profound yearning to reconnect with lost parts of the self… or even the soul?

This idea, explored by thinkers like Johann Hari and various spiritual traditions, reframes addiction not as a moral failing or disease, but as a symptom of deeper disconnection.

In his TED Talk, Johann Hari says, “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It’s human connection.”

His work suggests that addiction often stems from emotional isolation, not just chemical dependency. This echoes ancient wisdom: in shamanic traditions, “soul loss” happens when parts of us fragment in response to trauma—and addictive behaviours may be unconscious attempts to call them home.

From personal stories to spiritual writings, we hear the same truth again and again: addiction isn’t just about escape—it’s about longing.
Longing for connection. Longing for self. Longing for wholeness.

What if healing isn’t just about abstaining—but about reconnecting?

Mindfulness, meditation, and soul-centered approaches help individuals return to their inner world with compassion. Rebuilding relationships—with self, others, and spirit—becomes the foundation of deep and lasting change.

How My Work supports this

Addiction is not just a personal struggle for many; it is deeply connected to the soul’s longing for home.

Alongside traditional recovery methods, I offer Kambo—a sacred Amazonian method of spirit extraction —as it is a way to clear the energetic and emotional pathways that block healing.

Kambo supports deep release. I integrate it with shamanic counselling, Shamanic techniques, regression, hypnosis, meditation, breathwork, and other modalities that help client feel safe to let go of old belief systems and invite the soul back into the body, that then open the way to profound transformation.

When we heal the disconnection, we come home to ourselves.

So I ask - Can we begin to reframe addiction—as a sacred call to return to the soul?

02/05/2025

Dying Before You Die: The Path to a Fuller Life

I’ve been sitting with the weight of death lately. Not in a morbid or fearful way, but as a companion—an invitation. Perhaps it’s trickling in more strongly now in the aftermath of my daughter’s recent brush with it. Watching her walk so closely to that threshold left its mark—not just in her, but in me too. I’ve noticed a shift in her since, a deeper gratitude blooming in her presence. A rekindled tightness in our bond.

There’s something about standing so near the edge that rearranges what matters.

And what I’ve noticed, especially in conversations with clients, is how much of our reality is shaped by a deep, often unconscious fear of death. It hides in our anxiety, our need to control, our resistance to change.

But why are we so afraid of something that is the only certainty?
We will all die.
We just don’t know when or how.

Perhaps the fear is biological—a built-in mechanism that compels us to survive. But I also wonder if the deeper terror stems from something else:
From not truly knowing who we are.
From being so attached to the idea of self that the loss of it feels like the end of everything.

We live our lives grasping for permanence—seeking security in relationships, identities, roles, and routines. But permanence is an illusion. The only true constant is change. Everything dies. Everything transforms.

Including us.

And yet, something changes when we come close to death.
I know this from my own experience—having touched that threshold myself. And like so many others who’ve been there, I returned with a knowing I didn’t have before: that there is something vast, boundless, and unshakably peaceful beyond this form. Something real that cannot die.

Those who have crossed that veil and returned often carry with them a deep gratitude and a quiet understanding—that everything is changing, and to grasp or control is to suffer. Peace, it seems, lives in our willingness to let go.

This kind of reckoning invites a different kind of life. A simpler life. One rooted in presence. One that isn’t distracted by the noise of needing more, but softened by the beauty of this moment.

To die before we die is to release the false layers. The identities, expectations, and stories that no longer serve us. It’s not an ending—it’s a beginning. A returning.

When we make peace with impermanence, we return to what is real.
And what is real is always here.
Always changing.
Always inviting us to live—not from fear, but from love.

So let death be a teacher.
Let it guide you inward.
Let it help you remember what cannot die.

And from that remembering, may you truly live.

27/04/2025

Why Kambo Can Be So Deeply Supportive for the Body, Mind, and Spirit

One of the most common things I hear from clients after sitting with Kambo is a profound sense of peace and spaciousness that settles in once the medicine has done its work.

Many clients come to me carrying prolonged, unresolved traumas that have quietly eroded the nervous system, creating a kind of hypervigilance, anxiety, and overwhelm.
What I hear afterward is often described as feeling a deep calmness — a softness — a wholeness — as they begin to return from the ceremony.

It’s as if a heavy noise inside has finally quieted through the purge, allowing vital life force energy to rush back in, and their true rhythm — their original blueprint — begins to emerge once more.

Kambo works on many levels:
It helps to calm and reset the nervous system, easing the body out of chronic fight-or-flight patterns. It can reduce systemic inflammation, support detoxification, and help move stagnant energy that the body has been holding, sometimes for years.

On a deeper level, the calming effect on the nervous system seems to rewire neural pathways, helping the body and mind release old symptomatic tendencies — not just temporarily, but in ways that open doors for lasting change.

The medicine doesn’t just clear the body — it restores the flow of energy that brings us back into the divine dance, a communion with Source.

If you’ve been feeling called to reset, release, and reconnect with your deeper sense of peace, Kambo may be the ally you’ve been searching for.

If you’d like to learn more or sit with Kambo in a safe and supportive space, feel free to reach out.

10/04/2025

“They said — maybe your heart’s not in it anymore?”

And it made me smile… because my heart has never been more in it.

But perhaps not in the way the world measures productivity, or visibility, or output.

My heart is here — deep in the living practice of this work. In the beauty way. In learning to see through the illusions, not just in ceremony or on the drum, but in the tender terrain of everyday life. In family. In rest. In repair.

For the first time in many years, my little family is gathering itself again — drawing closer after seasons of hardship, separation, uncertainty, and pain. We are moving, slowly and imperfectly, towards each other.

Not through talking about healing… but by feeling for it in real-time. Meeting old patterns with new softness. Dancing with the edges of our humanity. Laughing more. Letting love be messy and unpolished.

This is the work.

Not separate from life — but rooted in it.

And it humbles me daily.

Because what is all this medicine for — if not for connection? For seeing with new eyes? For dissolving the walls that once felt necessary but now ache to fall away?

I watch my daughter playing in the sea — wild, free, unburdened — and I feel the ancestors close. I feel their quiet joy. Their witnessing. Their blessing.

This is healing. This is ceremony. This is love moving through the family lines.

And from this place — I know I can serve more fully. Because it’s real. Because it’s embodied. Because the transformation I offer is the transformation I live.

Gratitude for it all.

Gratitude for this life.

Gratitude for family.