About Lisa Rafel

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“Within truth is where all healing begins.” - Lisa Rafel

Lisa Rafel is a spiritual guide and expert in Vocal Sound Healing™. She is also a playwright, songwriter, and chantress.

Her experiential keynote presentations, classes and workshops utilize her unique style of guided meditation, prayer, wisdom teachings, and embodied energy exercises. Content may be influenced from many teachings and traditions including Kabballah, and indigenous and Shamanic practices from the Tibetan, Mongolian, ancient Egyptians, and Native American cultures. 

Lisa Rafel is committed to supporting a healthier, happier society though her company, Resonant Sounds, LLC  which creates products to enhance Positive Emotional Resonance™ between parents and their babies. Safe In The Arms Of Love, an award-winning book/music set created with collaborators Emmy Award winning composer/producer Gary Malkin and psychologist, David Surrenda PhD proved through clinical trials that music can establish a measurable energetic connection between a mother and her baby that can improve the baby’s health. The Journey Of Our Lives, connects parents with their baby still in the womb.

Lisa’s deep spiritual relationship with the natural world led her to create with Grammy winners Lili Haydn and Itai Disraeli (Opium Moon), Now Is The Time in 2018. This powerful video has been shown world-wide to inspire caring for our planet and each other.

Lisa Rafel is often asked to invoke Spirit to open and close international conferences and events. Her harmonically embedded chants, described as “music that comes from before the languages divided” create an abiding experience of peace. Lisa has sung in Chartres Cathedral in France, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, the Sakya Monastery in Tibet and at sacred sites in Mongolia, Australia, the US and Europe. Her grace filled concerts and concert presentations evoke experiences of joy, prayer, beauty, connectivity and love.

Lisa Rafel teaches classes, small groups and individuals over Zoom as well as in person. She is faculty for The Shift Network, Globe Sound Healing Institute, and Rancho La Puerta (Tecate, Mexico).

Lisa Rafel is a Board member for the Association for Pre and Perinatal Birth Psychology and Health (APPPAH), Past Board member at National Perinatal Association (NPA), and President, Resonant Sounds, LLC.  

Lisa Rafel lives with her husband in Oakland, California.