Today we’d like to introduce you to Janelle Corpuz.
Hi Janelle, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I’m the first-generation daughter of two immigrant parents from Sinait, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. My parents migrated to the U.S. in the 1970s and built a life for our family alongside my grandparents and siblings. Much of who I am comes from the lessons and values passed down by my elders. Some of my earliest memories with my grandmothers and aunts are of singing together — sound and song were always present in our home.
Sound has always been a kind of medicine for me. At every stage of my life, whenever I needed healing, music found me again. I was classically trained in piano at six, began vocal studies at nine, and spent nearly a decade as a touring and recording artist before my work evolved into something deeper. After years in the underground hip-hop and fashion industries, I went through a painful fertility journey (8 harrowing child losses) and was told I would not be able to have children. Once again, sound returned as my medicine — and through dedicated sound-based practice, I conceived naturally. My daughter is now seven, and that transformation changed everything for me.
Since then, I’ve devoted my life to understanding how and why sound heals — studying neuroscience, the nervous system, and ancient healing traditions across cultures. In 2019, I founded Jupiter Soundscape, which later evolved into KIN Unified Institute of Sound — an AHNA/ANCC-accredited school dedicated to integrating evidence-based sound therapy into healthcare, early education, and public health. We now train practitioners nationwide, partner with Montessori schools, Regional Centers, and the Veterans Administration, and are recognized by Saybrook University’s College of Integrative Medicine.
Today, my work continues to expand through KIN Global Arts Collective, a cultural arts hub bringing together lineage holders and global healers through music, storytelling, and community gatherings. What began as my own healing journey has grown into a movement to make sound therapy accessible, respected, and rooted in both science and spirit.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road — but nothing that’s worth it ever is. Every challenge along the way was a rite of passage and a spiritual up-leveling. There were moments I wondered if there would ever be time to simply breathe.
Three months after opening my first brick-and-mortar space, the world shut down with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a devastating time – navigating postpartum, learning how to be a conscious leader, and trying to hold space for a community that was also in collective trauma. I was still finding my footing as a new mother while figuring out how to pivot our entire model overnight. That season tested everything – my faith, my boundaries, my capacity, and my identity.
I was also navigating complex business partnerships, learning the realities of cash flow, and facing harsh criticism while still finding my voice in situations that were completely new to me. Through it all, I kept trying to hold onto the essence of why I began this work – the medicine of sound itself. There were times I felt torn between my family and my community, often choosing others over myself just to keep the doors open. Eventually, I realized that true leadership had to come from a different place – one rooted in self-awareness, compassion, and integrity, rather than survival or old conditioning.
When I first began, sound therapy wasn’t as widely understood as it is today. I was bridging two worlds – the intuitive language of vibration and the science behind why it worked – and that meant a lot of explaining, educating, and sometimes being misunderstood. I was building something that didn’t fully exist yet.
Looking back, every hardship became part of the lesson. Each obstacle refined the sound – teaching me patience, humility, and how to lead from the heart while staying grounded in purpose. Those lessons became the true foundation of KIN Unified Institute of Sound.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about KIN Unified Institute of Sound and Global Arts Collective?
KIN Unified Institute of Sound is a nationally accredited educational institute that bridges science, spirit, and community through the study of sound. We’re accredited by the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), offering 40.5 continuing education hours for healthcare professionals – though our programs are open to anyone who feels called to this work.
What makes us unique is our integration of evidence-based neuroscience with ancestral and cross-cultural healing traditions. We train practitioners in sound therapy techniques that include the voice, crystal singing bowls, drums, and Polyvagal breathwork – all within a trauma-informed, research-driven framework. Our programs are vendorized with Regional Centers and the Veterans Administration (VA), partnered with Montessori schools, and recognized by Saybrook University’s College of Integrative Medicine, allowing us to bring sound therapy into early education, mental health, and healthcare systems.
At our core, we teach people how to use sound as a bridge – between the nervous system and the spirit, the practitioner and the patient, the self and the collective.
As KIN continues to evolve, we’ve expanded into the KIN Global Arts Collective, a cultural arts hub that brings together lineage holders, musicians, and healers from around the world. Through live concerts, storytelling dinners, and workshops, the Collective celebrates the roots of global sound traditions.
What I’m most proud of is that our work remains rooted in authenticity. We’re not just teaching technique and giving out pieces of paper; we’re cultivating a temple culture and a movement – one that is rooted in a collective responsibility to educate, to pass forward the medicine of sound in community, so that remembrance becomes a shared act of healing.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I really cant say I believe in luck although I do feel I have been blessed. What some call fortune or misfortune, I recognize as rhythm – the currents of energy responding to the vibration we signal out. Luck is what those unaware of cycles and energy name as chance, but to me, it’s simply the law of resonance at play.
There is such a thing as magnetism – the way alignment calls experiences toward us, not as reward or punishment, but as reflection. I believe more in alchemy than in luck. Nothing that unfolds in the outer world is ever independent from the world within.
So if by chance a stroke of fortune or difficulty crosses my path, I meet it as a messenger – a mirror, an initiation, a stage of evolution. Life, in its own intelligence, keeps attuning us back to harmony. Every rise and fall is part of the same pulse – and when expand our understandings of nature we can see that even chaos has a reason for existing in that time as a part of a greater harmonic.
Pricing:
- $1490 – Sound Therapy Certification – 5 Day Program
- $1575 – Custom Made Crystal Singing Bowls – Tuned to your Resonant Frequency
- $49 Weekly Unlimited at KIN
- $35 – $108 Workshops and Day Retreats
- $288 – Continuing Education Sound Therapy Trainings
Contact Info:
- Website: https://kinunifiedhealing.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/_kin_unified_healing/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kinunifiedhealing
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janelle-corpuz-31959610/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kinunifiedhealing
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/kin-unified-healing-walnut
