Juan Gabriel Guttierez : Ancestral Sounds

Juan Gabriel was born and brought up in Bogota, Colombia out of a musical background and was encouraged and influenced in particular by his grandmother Gladys Sayer who was a famous opera singer in her own right. His musical talent began early and continued with classical and popular studies of guitar, piano and singing. His father and grandfather were deeply spiritual, which Juan Gabriel inherited, and so the environment was ripe for him to mature into the inherently sensitive, spiritual and musical person he is today.

More recently he has studied Tibetan Buddhism and vibrational sound healing, using traditional instruments and his own voice to create ancestral and mystical sounds, and consequently he has developed a profound experiential and philosophical understanding and practice of both. These practices have evolved, particularly over the last two years, thanks to the wisdom and teachings given by his teacher Jan van der Stappen –a renowned shaman, medicine man and healer who has gained direct experience from different ancestral and cultural traditions worldwide- and Jill Purce. Juan Gabriel has also had the great fortune to meet and work with authentic Native Indian shamans and healers from the Amazon, the Mayans and the North American Lakotas. www.ancestralsounds.org