Mandala Voices

The word Mandala means “circle” or “centre” and, in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, is a spiritual symbol that, through its essential geometrical shapes, represents the Universe and the eternal process of creation-destruction-creation. Mandalas are often used in meditation, to focus our attention on the here and now. In Buddhist tradition Mandalas are drawn using different coloured sands, just to be destroyed when finished, to symbolize and remind us how material things are just impermanent.

Principles of impermanence and meditation, together with mutual deep listening and sharing, are the basis of this very unique project. Instead of composing Mandalas with coloured sands, we give birth to Sound Mandalas© that guide us in discovering unexplored worlds, towards the very centre in each of us and taking us very close to each other. Through the spontaneous singing/chanting, born from a deep mutual listening, emotions, feelings and memories arise, giving a new and more harmonious order to the inner emotional chaos, thanks and through the singing/chanting. Attending a Mandala Voices concert is an unforgettable experience: here you can give free space and voice to your emotions, you can feel the relationship between you and us, experience the actual energy of the place in which the event is held. All of this gives life to totally unique and unrepeatable compositions, each single time.

Mandala Voices were born by the end of a long course day at Accademia di Medicina Vibrazionale. Before greeting each other and going home, we sat in a circle and started singing, playing with our voices, sounds just naturally emerging from our hearts and bellies, rhythms being created by our hands. We let all our tension go, and fears and weariness, gently abandoning ourselves to the beauty of what was happening. We got its immense value on that very moment.

Mandala Voices is an act of love that makes your hearts and ours to beat together, while we co-create Beauty, infinite spaces, freedom of expression and silence, where you can finally stand still in deep listening.

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Who We Are   

Founder, Lead Vocals, Backgound Vocals, Frame Drum, Percussions, Darabouka, Kalimba, Tibetan Bowls

LAURA SCHMIDT
Sound is a fundamental part of what we call Life and the auditory and musical language is something common to all human beings, of all races, language or age: music is an universal language.
Music, sound and rhythm are a basic part of me, as well, of my soul and my own way to be in this world. When I walk down the street I often sing to the rhythm of my steps, I’m fascinated by the “voice” of every single object, to the point that – at home – they often stare at me as I start creating rhythm with whatever happens to be in my hands.

I’ve been singing jazz as a professional for many years and more than 20 years ago I got interested in therapeutic arts. In 2012 I founded Accademia di Medicina Vibrazionale, aiming to spread the knowledge in Soundtherapy.

Mandala Voices is the natural evolution of this path, started more than 40 years ago and which has found the perfect condition to soar just now. I’d like to borrow a quote by Paulo Coelho to express the innermost meaning of my life, of what I do and who I am “The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

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Co-founder, Lead Vocals, Backgound Vocals, Frame Drum, Percussions, Tibetan Bowls

DANIELA CAVALLINI
A multifaceted soul, passionate and rebel, but strongly rooted as well.
Sound has always been part of my life, from early childhood, when I would walk through mixers and other instruments for electronic music, up to my arrival in Milan into the Accademia di Medicina Vibrazionale, starting the professional course to become a Sound-Vibration operator.

I went deep into the less known folds of sound, those of video-art and multimedia production, passing through the madness of silence in video-artistic installations and the pauses between breaths of the subjects filmed.

Sound has always been the primal inspiration for the visual image, never the opposite. This is why I went for a sound journey, studying the multimedia sound of John Cage, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, at firts, and aiming towards the therapeutic side of it, studying ritual instruments like singing bowls, crystal bowls, gong and - thanks to Accademia- the use of my voice, diapasons and frame drum.

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Lead Vocals, Backgound Vocals,
Frame Drum, Percussions, Shruti Box, Tibetan Bowls

CHIARA COMANI
After many years on the path of Core Shamanism, I heard a sort of calling emerging, stronger and stronger: it said “sound, music, voice”. Music has always been a very important part of my life, even if I’ve often perceived a sort of void about it, as I had never been able to formally study an instrument. Nonetheless the presence of music has been a constant in my life, as I’ve always been an eager listener and because I’ve worked behind the scenes in a live production agency.
What has emerged in the last years, though, has a different hue, more direct, closer to a kind of research and to the attempt to understand the thin liminal layers that sound and vibration – born from Voice, Drum or Singing Bowls - can touch and how they work in our body and soul. The triggering instinct is to look for what the ancients already knew and did, in families, circles, tribes, places where sound is healing, heritage, culture, root and tradition, always emotion. I’m trying to do this for others and for myself: Mandala Voices are the answer that was sent my way.

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Lead Vocals, Backgound Vocals,
Frame Drum, Percussions, Tibetan Bowls

ODETTE DI MAIO
The power of sound has always captured me since I was a child singing the songs I heard on the radio.

In adolescence, in addition to deepening my knowledge of music and the study of the guitar, I started an eclectic training course in different holistic areas, thus starting my spiritual growth as well. I have been a reikist for many years and I have always been involved in astrology, in which I find a symbolic language that is fascinating and useful as an instrument of personal knowledge.

Music has always been the protagonist of my life and also represented my profession: I am in fact a professional musician and singer-songswriter, with several live projects and recordings and collaborations at international level.

After obtaining a diploma as a counselor and courses on energy techniques, I finally rediscovered my voice as a therapeutic tool: learning to express myself in new ways I learned how the music contains a very high healing power and allows the transmission of my deepest and most transcendent spirituality.

Attending the very valid Academy of Vibrational Medicine I met Laura, for whom I have great esteem and gratitude, and I joined the Mandala Voices group with great enthusiasm, to whom I immediately tried to bring my contribution of passion, creativity and professionalism.