Leah Hokanson

Leah is a lifelong adventurer of music, sound and listening—as a group facilitator, community choir leader, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and certified sound healing practitioner. She is co-founder (with Lynette Jackson) of Sound, Belonging & Wholeness, offering programs that explore vocal sounding and intentional listening as portals to Presence, healing and transformation. She also directs the Song Keepers Women’s Choir (Gabriola) and is Music Director at the First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo. She’s worked with many esteemed vocal artists and sound healing pioneers, including Chloé Goodchild, Jill Purce, Rhiannon, and Karina Schelde. Leah holds a master’s degree in piano performance and has served in music ministry for various churches and spiritual organizations for the past 40 years. 

Leah has composed and recorded a number of “Diamond Chants”—musical settings of ecstatic poetry by Rumi, Hafiz, Hildegard of Bingen and others. She has also written, produced, and performed two albums of original songs: Facets (2019) and Portals (2021).