About Fiona Whitmore

I was born barefoot on a farm in South Africa, long before I had words for what that meant. The earth was the first teacher I ever had — before Qi Gong, before sound, before I knew there was a name for the kind of listening the land asks of us.

From there my path took an unlikely turn: to Australia, and to opera. I trained as a coloratura soprano at the Adelaide University Conservatorium, earned a teaching degree in early childhood education, and performed with the South Australian Opera and at the Adelaide Festival Theatre — spending years learning what it means to let the body become an instrument, and to let breath and vibration move through you rather than from you. I didn't know it then, but I was already studying sound healing. I just didn't have that word for it yet.

The turn toward healing came slowly, then all at once. Journeys into the outback of Australia with my father, trips to Egypt and to Delphi cracked something open — an old, ancestral sense that sound and stone and silence carry memory, and that some of the oldest medicine we have is also the simplest. Around the same time, I began sixteen years of study with Qi Gong Grandmaster Hong Liu, who taught me to work with energy the way a farmer works with soil: patiently, and with respect for what's already alive in it.

That same closeness to indigenous wisdom led me into film — I co-produced the documentary Women of the Earth: Australian Aborigines (Rising Tide Films), which tells the story of Australia's Aboriginal culture through the eyes of Aboriginal women themselves: their land rights struggles, their Dreamtime ancestry, and the customs they've kept alive.

Those threads — opera, energy work, ancestral sound, a lifelong closeness to the earth — eventually wove themselves into the Healix School of Energy Healing and Earth Studies, which I founded in New York and later brought home with me to Southern California.

I'm also a Feng Shui practitioner and a death doula, work that might seem far from the concert stage but isn't, really. All of it is the same practice: helping people come home to themselves, whether that's through a room, a breath, a sound, or a final passage. I created the Lemurian Sound Healing Technique out of that same devotion — to walking people home to the light within.

These days you'll find me barefoot, sharing barefoot, writing the Barefoot Series of books, and hosting Earth Tribe Radio — a show I began with my dear friend and longtime co-host Jill, and now share with a growing circle of guests and fellow travelers. I live in Northern California with my wonderful husband near our daughter and amazing grandchild, with redwoods, birds, and flowers