Dr. Nicholas Peters
My work is based around three interconnected areas: music, sound and mantra therapy, and research and teaching. My extensive background in music and live improvisation, coupled with my doctoral research into ‘Spiritual Musicking’ forms the basis of my sound therapy practice. I completed my Sonic Arts Ph.D. at Coventry University in April 2019 with a programme of study combining my music and shamanic practices. My study was entitled "Golden Sunset, Blue Rain: The Shamanic Journeys. A Practice-Based Investigation into 'Spiritual Musicking' and Its Creative Music-Making Realisations." The music from my doctorate, Golden Sunset, Blue Rain, Vols. 1-4, has been commercially released, and it is available to listen to on Spotify and many other streaming stores.
Alongside being a sonic artist/composer/improviser/music-maker/'Spiritual Musicker', I lectured undergraduate Music, Music Composition, Music Performance, and Music Technology students at Coventry University between 2010 and 2022. I was also a Guest Lecturer on the MSc in Mindfulness and Compassion. I now teach privately, including delivering a specialist session on the Transformation and Heart Based Practices Diploma, a course run by Dr. Liz Sparkes.
As a sound therapy practitioner, I specialise in metal Himalayan singing bowls (including rare antique bowls) and mantra chanting. I offer a range of treatments for individuals and groups, both face-to-face and online. To read more about the treatments I offer, please visit the Sound & Mantra Therapy page on my website.
Here on Eventbrite, I advertise my upcoming group sound baths, my online sound baths, my collaborative events with other wellbeing practiitoners, and my Himalayan singing bowl workshops.
If you have a question about my sound baths, or the individual sound and mantra therapy treatments I offer, it may already be answered on this FAQs page on my website.
I am accredited with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) in sound and mantra therapy, shamanism, meditation teaching, and chakra balancing and energy healing.
I release meditation and sound bath music commercially and my compositions are played every day by tens of thousands of listeners around the globe. My new age 'Dreams of the Deep (432 Hz)' composition, and my singing bowl composition 'Contemplating Dhyana' have both featured on The Sleeping Forecast on BBC Radio 3 Unwind. I have also recorded and released a full 108 repetitions of the great Mahamrityunjaya Mantra. My music is available on all the major streaming services, including on Spotify, on Amazon Music, and on Apple Music.
Listen to a playlist of my singing bowl music and nature recordings on Spotify.
Listen to a playlist of my original shamanic music on Spotify.
Listen to a playlist of my singing bowl music on YouTube.
Meditation, Singing Bowl and Sound Bath music releases:
Listen to Dreams of the Deep (432 Hz) - a relaxing New Age dreamscape, as featured on BBC Sounds 'The Sleeping Forecast'.
Listen to Mother Earth - an EP of my shamanic music featuring the sounds of a local stream, a cabalonga waterfall shaker and an antique Manipuri singing bowl.
Listen to Rain and Thunder Therapy - an EP recorded during the summer thunderstorms and rain showers in 2023.
Listen to Sound Bath: Himalayan Singing Bowls and Rain - an EP of antique singing bowls recorded inside underneath a skylight window during a heavy rain shower.
Listen to Spirit of the Himalayas Shamanic Singing Bowl - a single featuring the sounds of my rare antique Himalayan shaman bowl.
Listen to Sound Bath: Seven Jambati Himalayan Singing Bowls - a 7-track album designed for brainwave entrainment, recorded using the seven antique Jambati singing bowls shown in the album artwork.
Listen to Mindful Moments with two Goalbati Singing Bowls - an EP featuring the sounds of two of my rare cup Goalbati singing bowls, as shown in the EP artwork.
Listen to Mindful Moments with Ancient Jambati Singing Bowl - an EP featuring the sounds of the antique Jambati Himalayan singing bowl, as shown in the EP artwork.
Listen to Elemental Balance - a single featuring the sounds of four antique Manipuri singing bowls played together.
Listen to Divination with Himalayan Urna Singing Bowl - a two-track single featuring different bowl playing techniques using my very rare antique Himalayan urna singing bowl.
Listen to Namaste to a New Day - a single performed on three antique Himalayan singing bowls: a Naga pedestal bowl, a Goalbati (genie) bowl, and a Jambati singing bowl, combined with the therapeutic sounds of the dawn chorus recorded in Hale, Altrincham.
Listen to Tranquil Space for Inner Calm - a single performed on an antique Mani singing bowl and an antique Jambati singing bowl. Track 3 features the sound of these bowls combined with the dawn chorus.
Listen to Down to Earth with Chakli Himalayan Singing Bowl - a single performed on a rare antique Chakli trapezoid Himalayan singing bowl. Track two features the sounds of the bowl combined with the dawn chorus, and track three features the sounds of the bowl combined with a gently flowing stream recorded near the River Bollin in Hale.
Listen to Two Shamanic Himalayan Singing Bowls and Stream - a single performed on two rare shamanic Himalayan singing bowls as shown in the artwork. The recording of these two bowls is blended with the sounds of a local stream recorded by the River Bollin in Hale, Cheshire.
Listen to Kundalini Awakening - a single performed on the three rare Himalayan singing bowls shown in the artwork: a Remuna bowl (back left), a Thadobati cup bowl (front centre), and a Tantric shaman bowl (back right).
Listen to Chaturanga Dandasana - a single performed on the four Himalayan singing bowls shown in the artwork: a Thadbati cup singing bowl, a Tantric Shaman singing bowl, a large Naga pedestal singing bowl, and a Naga pedestal cup singing bowl.
Listen to Contemplating Dhyana - a single performed on the three Himalayan singing bowls shown in the artwork: two Dolpo tantric singing bowls and a Thadbati cup singing bowl.
Listen to Concentrating on Dharana - a single performed on the four Himalayan singing bowls shown in the artwork: two Jambati and two 'Naga' pedestal bowls.
Listen to Tantric Dawn - a single perofrmed on the three Dolpo tantric Himalayan singing bowls shown in the artwork, combined with the therapeutic sounds of the dawn chorus recorded in Hale, Altrincham.