Ceremonial Musician  ·  Vocal Guide  ·  Medicine Woman

Colibri
Heartsong

When you find your voice,
you find yourself.

"When we know our voice, we know ourself —
and we lead from sovereignty."

Helen Pickles

Helen Pickles

Her Story

She didn't set out to become
a musician.

Helen is a musician, voice facilitator, and holistic practitioner devoted to the healing power of sound, expression, and embodied presence. With roots in classical music, yoga, Bhakti, somatic healing, and years immersed in healing communities in both the UK and Peru, her path has been a journey of reconnecting voice with emotion, spirit, and authentic human expression.

"I was so unexpressed — and hence probably quite depressed. Suddenly I felt expressed, and it was like: wow."

Experiences with sacred music, plant medicine traditions, improvisational vocal practices, and periods of deep personal transformation and suffering have all shaped her understanding of voice as a pathway into the body, the unconscious, and the soul.

Through voice activation, breathwork, movement, meditation, improvisation, and play, Helen creates grounded, heart-led spaces where people can soften self-judgment, release emotional blockages, and reconnect to the natural freedom and power of their voice.

Her philosophy balances playfulness and surrender with practice and discipline — integrating both structure and flow, masculine and feminine energies. She believes creativity is not about perfection, but about returning to a more open, childlike state of connection with life. Alongside joy and expansion, she also welcomes the deeper emotions that can arise — seeing suffering, as Ram Dass put it, as "grist for the mill": not simply something to overcome, but part of the alchemy of healing and transformation.

Lineage & Training

  • 2 years holding kirtan, song circles and cacao ceremonies
  • 2 years facilitating ayahuasca and huachuma ceremonies
  • 200 hr yoga teacher training
  • 3 years of plant dietas, Shipibo lineage — Maestra Ynes Sanchez, niwe rao xobo (Pucallpa) · Maestro Ricardo Amaringo, nihue rao (Iquitos)

Work Together

Four ways
to step in.

Everything Helen offers begins from the same place — your voice, your body, and what's waiting to come through.

01

Voice Sessions

One-to-one · Online & In Person

Private vocal sessions that go far beyond technique. Expect somatic work, inner child exploration, movement, and improvisation — all in service of the voice that's been waiting inside you. Available online globally and in person across the UK.

Book a session
02

Song Circles

Group · UK & Online

A held space where people come together to open their voices and their hearts. Not a performance. Not a class. A circle where your sound — whatever it is — is welcome. Regular gatherings across the UK and online.

Join the next circle
03

Retreats

Women's Immersions · Upcoming

Multi-day immersions weaving voice activation, somatic release, ceremony, and community. Rooted in the traditions Helen has trained in, held with the care she has built over years of sitting in sacred space. Join the waitlist for what's coming.

Join the waitlist
04

Live Performance

Ceremonies · Festivals · Events

Helen plays guitar in ceremony — a rare thing. Available to perform at ayahuasca ceremonies, kirtan, wellness festivals, women's events, and intimate gatherings. If you're looking for a musician who understands sacred space from the inside, reach out.

Get in touch

On the work

Run the dirty
tap water.

There is a moment before clarity where everything is murky. Where the sounds that come out are strange, or ugly, or embarrassing. Where the voice cracks, or refuses, or says something you didn't expect.

This is the work. Not the polished note. Not the correct technique. The running of the dirty tap water until it runs clean.

"It's not just about the voice. It's everything — somatics, inner child work, all the stuff I've really done to be here. I'm constantly doing it and constantly learning."

Helen's approach moves through ceremony, body movement, improvisation, and permission — permission to be imperfect, to be ugly, to be too loud, to take up space. What tends to come up is almost always the same: I'm not good enough. What moves through is always different.

The voice isn't broken. It's been waiting.

Listen

In her own
words.

Helen joined the SolSeed Podcast to talk about singing, medicine, the eating disorder that started it all, and what it means to lead from your voice. It's the most honest introduction to who she is and what she offers.

SolSeed Podcast Ep. 03 — Singing as Healing with Helen Pickles
Singing as Healing — SolSeed Podcast Ep. 03 Watch on YouTube

"The body is a sound machine. We're allowing sound to come out — and we're allowing spirit to come through."

Helen Pickles

"I just want my life to be like a musical. And it is. It's this beautiful musical — and I'm still going through the challenges."

Helen Pickles

"Music is a bridge — the language of life. It doesn't even have to be words."

Helen Pickles

Voices from the Circle

What people say.

"Working with Helen completely changed my relationship with my own voice. I came in convinced I couldn't sing. I left having made sounds I didn't know were in me."

— Placeholder Name Voice Session Client

"The song circle was one of the most unexpectedly moving experiences I've had. Helen holds the space in a way that makes the impossible feel easy. I sang in front of people for the first time in my life."

— Placeholder Name Song Circle, Brighton

"Helen's musicianship in ceremony is like nothing I've witnessed. She reads the room, she reads the medicine, and she plays from a place that can only come from deep training and genuine devotion."

— Placeholder Name Retreat Participant, Sacred Valley

The Circle

Stay close
to the song.

Letters from Helen — occasional, honest, never spam. The first one includes a song. Join when a circle is gathering near you or online, and be the first to hear about retreats before they open to the public.

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Book & Connect

Ready to
work together?

Whether you're curious about voice sessions, want to bring Helen to your event, or just want to find out when the next song circle is — reach out. She reads everything herself.

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