Chakuna is an HMMA© Nominee, Grammy® Voting Member, award winning artist, composer, singer, and producer of sound healing music, chakra music, new age music, ambient piano music, and relaxation music. She is a transformative ceremonial sound healing artist with practice in the ancient tradition of overtone chanting and shamanic drumming. She specializes in digital marketing, is a social media influencer, and offers self help resources to teach self care, advocates for mental health awareness, and to helps people reconnect to the wisdom of the planets indigenous ancestors and cross-cultural earth based spiritual practices.

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The Michigan born artist, composer/pianist, singer and producer’s spiritual name Chakuna Machi Åsa also written as Machukuna Chi Åsa. translates from multiple different languages to “Ancestor, Healer”. The name Chakuna or Chukuna comes from the Quechua word Machukuna which means Ancestor/Old Ones. Machi pronounced either Ma-CHEE or Ma-KEE (Ma-Qi), Latin/Spanish/Sanskrit/First Peoples Language and roughly translates to “my energy,”  MA or MAH is a very ancient way of saying "where the center of something sits, exists or is located.. and only you can decree the center of your own energy, place of origin/land, the heart, or seat of the soul.  Åsa roughly translates from Hebrew meaning “healer” and from her Swedish lineage it is pronounced “o-sa” connected to the old norse mythology Æsir or ǫ́ss.  Åsa also means “hope” in multiple different languages because it carries faith in "love/the higher power" at the core of its essence (ēse).

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