Chakuna Machi Asa is an artist, composer, singer, and producer of sound healing music, chakra music, new age music, ambient piano music, and relaxation music. Throughout her life, she has skillfully used sound vibration to activate the awakened natural state of universal being and to inspire personal transformation. She offers music, chant, video teachings, and high vibe energy healing tools such as crystals, handmade wands and jewelry to encourage individuals to explore their spiritual energy. Her newest album, Auroral Magic is a transformative album of piano, vocals, and chant, with a touch of guitar, electronica, and strings.

“Throughout her recordings and live performances, she has artfully incorporated indie, folk, sound healing, chakra music, ambient music and relaxing piano music,” wrote Jonathan Widran in JWVibe. “In creating her latest masterwork Auroral Magic, Chakuna Machi Asa draws upon many of these influences while tapping into a profound sense of connection to her cherished Nordic/Scandinavian ancestry. One of the planet’s greatest natural phenomena, the Northern Lights fit in perfectly with the theme that developed over the course of the album, which she realized was her attempt to use music as a way to get in touch with her own lineage.”

Chakuna released her first album, Activation Sounds: Ancient Chakra Healing Chants in 2013, and Moon Eye: Ancient Healing Sounds in 2014, followed by a single, Pachamama in 2015, and in 2021, an EP with three tracks, The Gift, followed by a single, Ambient Meditation. She has been featured by The Shift Network, The Heart of the Healer, and Shamans Market, and is currently a double nominee in the retailer-selected Coalition of Visual Resources, (COVR) Awards, in the Iconic Music and Stone Jewelry categories.

In an artist interview with Chakuna, she expands upon her song craft to music journalist Robin James, sharing, “My intention as an artist is to help open you up to a new experience of the multidimensional reality of human existence. I always set my intention that any songs I create are healing for the listener. Overall, I am striving to evoke or call upon a more peaceful vibe in your mind, body, heart and soul.” She contnues,”Auroral Magic,” is in honor of my life, my musical gifts, my angels, guides and my Nordic ancestors that are supporting and helping me. This song is a giving back from my heart to the universe in so many ways to honor everything that has been given to me. It represents my experience of the Northern Lights and a feeling of hope that I have carried very strongly in my soul for a very long time. I hope that it brings about these feelings in others.”

The vocals are arranged around the instrumental parts, I hear piano, a little guitar, and electronics with hints of field recordings of nature sounds. These ancestral chants and instrumentals open the door for an important, fascinating, complicated, and unique wisdom that works on a mental and emotional level. The album cover features a powerful woman carrying a handmade staff, on a bright winter day. She is by a frozen lake with mountains in the background. The album title, Auroral Magic, refers to the aurora borealis, the Northern Lights, also the word auroral pertains to the light of dawn and a new beginning. The night sky is filled with magic lights which forecast the future of the earth, and speaks of the spirits of the ancestors.

The staff Chakuna is holding symbolizes the prophecy of the condor and the eagle coming together. Some things about the mystery are unveiled slowly, the meaning of the staff has yet to be understood fully because it has not yet entirely manifested. It is related to indigenous traditions and a reconnection of humanity. Some things are better kept from the human mind because we tend to distort it with our own perceptions that are based on our individual reality.

Chakuna says “I think that’s the best part of mystery related spiritual traditions. We unveil knowledge through experience and from our own viewpoint, rather than reading everything in a book”.

The Earth, America, and perhaps the larger globe and all of humanity has provided us with the legends that we grew up with and they have become the heart and soul of our personal spiritual environment. Some of these important stories have been told for thousands of years, and they are still being told and retold, refitted and reshaped to meet our changing needs, even created anew out of a contemporary woman’s vision. These stories arise out of the Earth’s plants and animals which are integral parts of the human realm. They are embedded in the ancient sounds, languages and flow according to the rhythms of the natural world, at a different pace from that of a technological, man-made environment. Eyes on the clock, most industrialized people are fragmented by the pressing problems of spit-second society with little time or inclination to speculate on the communal nature of the world. Mutually shared and supportive legends about the spirits of our ancestors seem hopelessly beyond the modern vision. Chanuka is specifically trying to bridge a gap between modern culture and our ancient ancestors in herself and then share this with others.

Her roots are mostly Scandinavian, she is a Spiritual Healer, Artist, Vegan, Crystal Lover, and Seiðr, which appears to translate from the Old Norse tongue, something along the lines of “cord, thread, snare, or halter,” originally from the world of looms and weaving, and is related to the mystical Shaman healing practices, with a distinctive Northern European root. With a cord, one can not only bind, but also pull remote things closer. The ancient practice of a Seiðr is concerned with discerning the course of fate and working within its structure to bring about change, and the transmission of healing energy, thus combining seeing the future and taking steps to correct or positively influence the unfolding of destiny. The elements of this music all work together because they’re an extension of nature’s advancement, bringing good thoughts, a healthy mindset and creating an increased feeling of overall well being, which promotes the flow of good energy to protect and guide the people in our lives, and all around. Learn to let go of fears that hold you back in life.

“Since my early twenties when I discovered the use of chanting for sound healing, I have felt like maybe I can only do these chants in a ceremonial space, meditation circle, or energy healing setting where people get what it is that I am doing. And, I always felt like people aren’t going to understand what this sacred art is.” She continues, “I had this knowing that I was to share these healing chants to help people, to ease their suffering, but I often asked myself “how am I going to do this and why is this my calling?” I feel like most people won’t understand what I am even doing. I never want to frighten people with my work because sometimes it is so unique. And then I saw the video on YouTube of Eivor singing “Trollabundin.” The video is filmed outside by the water and it is so powerful. I saw myself in her and I thought well if she can share such unique ancient music with others, then so can I. I also later realized that my connection to her music may be related to the fact that she is from the Nordic region and so are my ancestors. So, it was a connection and healing for me on more than one level. After seeing that video I took a deep breath on a soul level.”

“My great grandparents on my mom’s side were born in Sweden and Finland. My mom said her grandma didn’t want to be assimilated in the United States. She didn’t speak much English and didn’t really want to. I wish I had known her better and that we could have kept our native tongues, because when our family lost our language, I feel like we lost so much of our history. My grandfather spoke fluent Finnish but was encouraged by the government not to pass our languages and traditions down to our family. He told me that they encouraged the family to assimilate and try to speak only English. On my fathers side, I am a descendant of Robert Munro (14th Baron of Foulis), the Foulis Castle, of the Munro Clan in Scotland. Marilyn Monroe is actually my distant family member as we share ancestors of the same line. My lineage is important to me and I am proud of my ancestors and our family history. Honoring my ancestry is one of the main themes flowing through my album Auroral Magic.

“This is part of the expression of the song “Blood of My Ghost.” It is my ancestors singing through me. “Can you hear me?” “Can you hear me?” “Whispering to you through the blood of our ghost.” They are asking you to stop and listen because they have important things to share with you. And, I am their channel to share this energy with you. However, please keep in mind that the only intention that I set for this album was to share healing energy with you. I do not plan out a mental concept or reflective nature prior to creating an album. I let that process flow through me, naturally. I later just reflect on what the album means to me. So, it might take on its own life inside of you as well. I appreciate what it means to each listener and it can vary from my own interpretation. Each person’s own perception, lineage, spiritual nature, and cultural background may bring forth their experience of the album in their own unique way. And, because I feel that I channel my work, I have even found that some of the words that I channel mean the same or slightly different things in different languages where the similar sounds emerge.

“I also feel that cultural and religious oppression has influenced the current fabric of our planet in such a way that has influenced our human evolution. I believe that one of my jobs is to move energies in a way to allow for people to remember the authenticity of our humanity. This is not as extravagant as it sounds though. It could be as simple as knowing and accepting that the feeling of hope is alive inside you and it will never die. Helping you feel safe by reintroducing you to a more earth-based grounded sense of the natural world vibration. Or it could be the awareness that we really do all share a common thing, our nature, which is the foundation of our humanity. And, so I want to also mention how this relates to sound healing for me. You asked about the fabric that Seiðr energetically weaves which is similar to the concept of sound healing. We use the vibrations of sound to transmit energy into the energetic fabric. If you would like more information about the nature of this patterned fabric. One of my favorite books that touches on this concept is “Dancing Wu Li Masters, An Overview of the New Physics,” by Gary Zukav. It discusses our own atomic/molecular structure, how it is in relation to the world around itself and the universal quantum dance of energy that ties everything together. My own interpretations of the energy fabric are made up of a combination of wisdoms from that book, string theory, and my own interpretations of the meaning of time, based on my studies over the years. A couple of my songs on the album Auroral Magic are directly related to my interpretations of time, this patterned fabric, and its connection to gravity. The lyrics for the song “Space Shift” are inside the liner notes. The song “Time Womb” is the other one but it has no lyrics. It is more of a musical interpretation of the cycles of creation and its relationship to this energy fabric.

One of her strengths is crystals, which are in themselves a lifetime of exploration, but as they are big in your online presence, I want to touch on crystals and music/sound, so I simply asked her, “For the curious and uninformed, what do crystals do?”

“Each crystal has a different elemental structure and is made up of electromagnetic vibrating energy. If you sit with different crystals you may find each one may have a different effect on you. Crystals are said to each have their own healing properties based on their vibration and are often imprinted with the energy of their origin. I use the different vibrations of the crystals to accent my art, wands and jewelry that I make. I also show people how to create crystal grids to help ground their intentions, goals and assist in their meditation practice.

Did you know that quartz crystals are actually used to track time in clocks because of their cyclical vibration and they are also used in radios because you can tune them to particular frequencies? The study of crystals is an amazing thing. “I am actually also certified in crystal healing therapy. I learned how to lay crystals on the body to tune the body’s electromagnetic energy field to the frequency vibration of the different crystals to help with energy healing, relaxation and meditation. I usually feel that intuition plays a vital role in the use of crystals. If you are drawn to a particular crystal or crystals that is the one that’s vibration is calling to your electromagnetic field. If you can tune a crystal to a particular electromagnetic frequency then the crystal’s energy can definitely have an impact on you, right? Anyway, that’s a really basic way to start to understand the connection of crystals with our energy field and the planetary field. As they are made of the Earth’s atomic structured frequency. Except of course for the meteorites which vibrate to frequencies that are slightly unique from the crystals made of the Earth’s elements.”

Chakuna’s main social media platform is Instagram. She has over 36K people who follow the daily posts featuring her music, shop, wands, crystals, and energy jewelry.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalsomchakras/

You can find her music Auroral Magic at the platform of your choice: https://chakuna.hearnow.com/auroral-magic

The Artist: http://www.chakuna.com/