Today we’d like to introduce you to Tia-Marie Ravi Jaspreet.
Tia-Marie, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I’m Tia-Marie Ravi Jaspreet — a vocalist, medicine musician, nonprofit CEO, sound healer, and single mama. Music has truly saved my life.
As a Black and Native American woman from the Mattaponi Nation in Virginia, I grew up without deep access to the cultural lineages and ancestral wisdom that shaped my peoples. I’ve always felt that absence — a quiet longing to reconnect to something ancient. Sound and music became the way I found my path back. Through rhythm, vibration, and the songs of the natural world, I began to remember what had never been truly lost.
I’ve always been connected to music, but singing began as a form of healing for me. It felt good to use my voice — to finally say what I needed and wanted to say. Sound has always been medicine, even before I had the language to describe it. When I discovered mantras and began using my voice as prayer, everything changed. Singing became my way of connecting with spirit — a devotion, a remembering.
Through this path, I met beautiful friends who carried songs and prayers from Indigenous and traditional lineages. With them, I experienced the power of singing freely — surrounded by people who felt like family. Each song became a moment of rewriting my childhood, reclaiming the voice that had once been silenced. Singing healed my inner child and reminded me that the voice itself is medicine.
In time, I joined Eres Medicina, a sound-healing and medicine-music band sharing songs of love, prayer, and spirit to uplift others and remind them that we are the medicine we seek. With them, I deepened my practice in sound healing — I still remember sitting with a rattle in hand, learning, listening, and feeling the transformation.
Eventually, I realized how much this work had changed my life, and I wanted to share it with others — especially those who might not have access to sound healing due to cost or limited opportunities. I thought, if we call it healing, shouldn’t it be accessible to everyone?
That question led me to create The Sound Healer Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to sound healing, medicine music, and community wellness. We’re a network of over 70 sound healers, musicians, community members, and facilitators united by one goal — to make healing through sound accessible to all, regardless of income or background.
We host donation-based community sound baths, collaborative healing events, and outreach programs that center inclusivity, diversity, and genuine human connection. Our work is guided by three core principles:
Accessibility: Healing should never be a luxury. We create donation-based events, community-instrument programs, and scholarships that open the experience of sound healing to all.
Collaboration: Our sound healers donate their time to serve schools, hospitals, and nonprofits — weaving music, mindfulness, and care into spaces that need it most.
Education: Through open houses, seasonal gatherings, and creative workshops, we introduce people to the foundations of sound healing, voice activation, and collective care.
The Sound Healer Collective has become a growing movement — one that nurtures both the healers and the communities they serve. Our vision is to build a world where sound healing is recognized not as a luxury, but as an essential part of wellness and community care.
For me, this work is more than an organization — it’s a living prayer. It’s the sound of homecoming for those who, like me, are remembering who they are through music, through community, and through the earth herself.
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?
Oh, it has definitely not been a smooth road. The Sound Healer Collective began from a genuine desire to bring people together, but I had no blueprint, no model, no step-by-step instruction on how to build a nonprofit rooted in healing and community care.
When I first started in 2024, I was reaching out to sound healers and medicine musicians one by one, sending messages on Instagram, sharing their events, and uplifting their work however I could. I wanted people to know that there are many ways to experience sound healing, and that it doesn’t need to be exclusive or hidden. In the beginning, it was just me, social media, and a big vision.
I was doing everything while still working full-time and being a mom. I was building the directory, promoting events, hosting gatherings, learning nonprofit structure, and figuring out how to hold space for so many different personalities, backgrounds, and approaches to healing. It was overwhelming at times.
One of the hardest parts was learning how to build a sense of collective when people are used to working individually. Sound healing can be a very personal and sometimes private practice, so creating a shared space where healers felt safe, respected, and valued took patience and trust-building.
But the more people I met, the more aligned the vision felt. Every gathering, every conversation, every person who said, “Yes, I want to be part of this,” reminded me why I started. It’s been a process of growing slowly, intentionally, and in community, letting the Collective form itself rather than forcing it into a structure too soon.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
My work lives at the intersection of sound, spirit, and community. I am a vocalist, medicine musician, and sound healer, but my work extends far beyond performance. I guide people back to themselves, to their breath, their voice, their memory, and their inner sense of belonging.
I specialize in voice activation and helping people reconnect to the medicine that already lives in their body. I use sound, vibration, guided presence, ceremony, and somatic awareness to create spaces where people can soften, release, and remember who they are.
In addition to my music and sound healing work, I offer:
Dreamwork guidance, helping people understand the messages, archetypes, and ancestral memory present in the dream realm.
Earth-based ritual and ceremony facilitation, supporting individuals and groups in connecting to nature, spirit, and the quiet wisdom within.
Cann+Blissed ritual experiences, where cannabis is honored as a plant teacher and used with intention for creativity, emotional processing, and spiritual connection.
Creative and spiritual storytelling, through photography, videography, and visual expression that captures the unseen, the symbolic, and the sacred within everyday life.
What I’m most proud of is that everything I share has grown from lived experience — not something I learned in a class or copied from another tradition. My work is rooted in reclamation: remembering who I am and helping others remember themselves too.
What sets me apart is that my approach is relational and embodied. I don’t try to fix people or lead them anywhere outside of themselves. I hold space for people to remember what has always been within them
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My work comes from a place of remembering. The lineages, teachings, and ways of being that shape me were interrupted across generations, and I’ve had to find my way back without a map. Because of that, everything I share — whether through song, ceremony, dreamwork, or community building — comes from reverence, patience, and relationship. It’s not performance. It’s a return.
When I share sound, I’m not just offering music —
I’m offering a way home.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
I’ve always been drawn to learning and expansion, especially when it comes to understanding myself and my place in the world. I tend to read in an intuitive way. I don’t always finish books cover to cover, but I take in exactly what I need, when I need it. The teachings settle in my life, not just in my mind.
One book that really impacted me is The Missing Element by Debra Silverman. It helped me understand my emotional patterns and challenges in a compassionate way. It taught me to honor who I am instead of trying to reshape myself into something that doesn’t fit.
Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen shifted my relationship with my thoughts. It helped me learn how to step out of my mind and into presence, where things feel clearer and less overwhelming.
The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martín Prechtel changed the way I understand grief. It helped me see grief as something sacred, something tied to love. It reminded me that grief is not a problem to fix, but a testimony to how deeply we care.
And Plant Spirit Medicine deepened my relationship with nature and reminded me that the earth communicates in ways beyond language. It supported my spiritual path in a way that felt like remembering something old and familiar.
But honestly, the biggest resources in my life have been experiences. Community gatherings, music, silence, dreams, prayer, time with nature. Books open the door, but life is where the teachings take root.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thesoundhealercollective.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesoundhealercollective
- Facebook: www.instagram.com/themedicinehousela
- Twitter: www.instagram.com/aspiritualnature
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@themedicinehouse
