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Biography
Helen Pickles is a musician, voice facilitator, and holistic practitioner devoted to the healing power of sound, expression, and embodied presence. Based in the UK and available worldwide, she brings rare ceremonial depth to every stage, circle, and sacred space she enters.
"When we know our voice, we know ourself — and we lead from sovereignty."
With roots in classical music, yoga, Bhakti, somatic healing, and years immersed in healing communities in both the UK and Peru, Helen's path has been a journey of reconnecting voice with emotion, spirit, and authentic human expression. Experiences with sacred music, plant medicine traditions, improvisational vocal practices, and periods of deep personal transformation have all shaped her understanding of voice as a pathway into the body, the unconscious, and the soul.
Through voice activation, breathwork, movement, meditation, improvisation, and play, Helen creates grounded, heart-led spaces where people can soften self-judgment, release emotional blockages, and reconnect to the natural freedom and power of their voice.
Her philosophy balances playfulness and surrender with practice and discipline — integrating both structure and flow, masculine and feminine energies. She believes creativity is not about perfection, but about returning to a more open, childlike state of connection with life. Alongside joy and expansion, Helen also welcomes the deeper emotions that can arise through the process — inspired by Ram Dass' phrase "grist for the mill," she sees suffering not simply as something to overcome, but as part of the alchemy of healing, awakening, and transformation.
Helen's guitar is not background music. It is ceremony. She brings the same attentiveness to a festival stage as she brings to a medicine space — and the two are, for her, the same thing.
What She Offers
Festivals · Ceremonies · Kirtan · Events
Ceremonial guitar and vocals for ayahuasca ceremonies, kirtan evenings, wellness festivals, women's events, and intimate sacred gatherings. Helen understands the ceremony space from the inside — she plays from within the container, not outside it. Available solo or as part of a wider musical facilitation team.
Groups · All Levels · 90 min – Full Day
Somatic, body-led workshops that use movement, improvisation, and ceremony to help participants find their voice — literally and figuratively. Designed for yoga studios, wellness festivals, retreat programmes, and corporate wellbeing events. No musical experience required. Groups of 8–30 people.
Community Gatherings · Regular or One-Off
Held gatherings where people come together to open their voices and their hearts. Not a class, not a performance — a circle where all sound is welcome. Can be hosted as a standalone evening event or embedded within a retreat or festival programme.
Multi-day · Resident Musician or Co-Facilitator
Available as resident ceremony musician or vocal co-facilitator for multi-day retreats — women's immersions, plant medicine-adjacent retreats, yoga and embodiment retreats. Helen brings both the musicianship and the ceremonial grounding that makes music in retreat feel sacred rather than decorative.
Lineage & Training
Helen's training is named, verifiable, and rare. In a field where credentials are often vague, hers are specific.
Listen
The most direct introduction to Helen's voice, her path, and her philosophy is this 45-minute podcast interview — recorded in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
For live performance clips and ceremony music recordings, please contact helen@colibriheartsong.com — video materials available on request.
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Technical
Helen travels light and is flexible. The below represents a standard requirement — she's happy to work with what's available and discuss alternatives.
Booking
For festival bookings, ceremony musician enquiries, retreat residencies, and workshop programming — reach out directly. Helen reads all enquiries herself.
