10 Years in the Temples of Egypt
Somatic Voice Coach
Author
Sound Architect
Ancient Wisdom Researcher
Meaghan Maria is a pioneer in somatic voice work, and founder of
the SongLine Project. Her work brings together voice, breath, physiology,
sound, and embodied awareness into a grounded practice
designed not only to restore harmony within the body, but to reconnect
people with meaning, imagination, and the living world around them.
A qualified transpersonal counsellor, musician, arts therapist, and
audio engineer, Meaghan spent more than a decade in Egypt studying ancient wisdom traditions while leading immersive music journeys along the Nile.
Her life’s work has been devoted to exploring how sound, story, breath, and embodied experience can return people to a deeper sense of aliveness — awakening the wonder, connection, and heightened perception once
reflected in many ancient cultures.
Through the SongLine Project, she creates immersive sound experiences
that weave together audio technology, somatic understanding, poetic
imagery, and subtle physiology. Her work aims not only to help release
stress and emotional stagnation, but to expand the experience of being
human — reconnecting listeners to themselves, to nature, and to
the wider field of life itself.
Discover your own voice as a guide.
Your body as a living map.
And the ancient world as a hopeful metaphor for becoming fully alive.
Read Meaghan’s expanded story below if you wish.
What is it that truly heals?
For over a decade that question carried me across the world on a big adventure —singing with whales, up Atlantic volcanoes, in Bali Sound Sessions,with Elephants in Africa, within the stone circles of England, inside the Great Pyramid itself and so much more.
It was a quest triggered by my unusual childhood,
(although I did not know it at the time).
I was born on the edge of the Middle East and grew up traveling the world, spending weekends on archaeological digs, exploring ancient temples, immersed in music, nature, and mythology.
I was a junior member of a Chinese archaeological society at 10 years old. At 16 I moved to the West. It was a difficult and hard transition.
A shift that was worsened when I was struck down by a mysterious illness in my early 20s that no one could fix. One that was only eased by music and expression.
My deep fascination with how music can help emotional healing had begun.
When Nothing Else Worked.
My passion for emotional healing flamed by the fact that for most of my life, I
struggled with chronic health issues. At my lowest point, I spent three years in
crippling pain, taking twelve strong painkillers a day while facing recurring
pre-cancer scares and repeated medical procedures.
Neither conventional medicine nor alternative therapies helped me.
I became overwhelmed by conflicting health advice and eventually gave up.
The turning point came when I stopped searching outside
myself and began to simply feel. Instead of fighting the pain, distracting or
trying to control it, I started listening to it.
I began using vocal sound to express the pain I was in —
sighing, moaning, allowing the body to speak what it was feeling.
The results astonished me.
My pain reduced dramatically.
What I discovered was that pain does not like to be ignored.
That resistance is often what deepens suffering.
And that when we stop fighting ourselves,
something profound can begin to change.
Releasing pain helped me discover deeper layers of fear beneath the surface.
and suppressed emotions I had spent years trying to outrun.
That realisation changed the direction of my life.
I walked away from yet another hospital procedure and began a long journey —
to heal, face my fears, and return to the dreams I had abandoned.
When we are honest about what we fear,
something shifts.
The Birth of Songline
Long before that turning point, I studied Contemporary Music and worked as a music teacher. My students used to arrive at singing class stressed out and I found my rigid academic piano scales did not help them and only made them feel worse. So I started using improvised vocal-sound to ease their tension.
The free form vocal exercises not only opened their voice but opened their world—a fearful student moved across country to live fully, another became a lead singer in a musical, someone else found love after years alone.
Expressive Vocal Work is one of the MOST
powerful tools for releasing RESISTANCE: the
stress, struggle, pain, emptiness we carry.
I case-studied my students. And went on to study over 3 years with Dr Rafael Locke — trained in transpersonal psychotherapy, and neuroscience. He was the first who inspired me to hold the scientific and the mythic in the same hand.
I attended creative voice trainings, ran community programs in expressive sound, receiving two Government Grants I experimented and performed in improvised Vedic, Electronic and Ancient Singing. I used my audio engineering skills to make state altering compositions in audio effects, brainwave beats..
At the same time I was exploring how music, body & environment interconnect.
I studied shamanism with an initiated teacher. And began performing outside in nature. Was a leading old forests campaigner where I found first hand how much impact sound and voice can make in uniting us with nature.
On one of these occasions I met an Aboriginal Elder, who was touched by my work and took me to his ancestral mountain at midnight where he danced his dreaming for me and told me I was the Songline Singer.
I had no idea what that meant at the time, yet that encounter went on to inspire hundreds of performances in nature, singing tours on the Nile, and around the world, a deep fascination with how sound shapes not just individuals, but atmospheres, environments. The Voice & Nature connection is the higher octave of training in the formal Songline Keys Program.
My healing crisis taught me that denied dreams
can live inside us creating stress and pain.
I set off on a worldwide adventure to experience sound.
I journeyed with humpback whales over 2 months listening to their songs, went to Africa to sing with Elephants,
sang in the halls of Angkor Wat, in stone circles of England
as well as lead programs in England, France, Bali, Australia.
Eventually, I ended up in Egypt. Over 10 years, I sang in Egypt’s temples in over 350+ visits, on River Nile yachts, collaborating
with temple heads and Egyptologists. I appeared in the award-winning documentary The Power of Sound,, and shared my
work on Egyptian tours using breath, sound, and silence.
I studied with Dr Ankh H Chabalal — Medical scientist and initiated practitioner of African indigenous medicine learning psychobiology and to read hieroglyphs, psychobiology and found a grounded medical framework for my work.
This was the foundation of my decade long journey creating the Somatic Music System SongLine fusing vocal healing, psychobiology, ancient mythical stories and nature awareness to create a system of healing that is not only about stress releasing but coming home to the Nature within and wihout.
The Egyptian Connection
Rewrite Your Story
You can rediscover inspiration and insight for your life.
My long journey formulating SongLine was driven by the
fact that I wanted to create a system that was
self driven and not dependent on glam spiritual personality media or gurus.
I want people to follow their own glory.
I offer a unique coaching experience to assist you.
That will deepen your journey towards that goal.
Over 4 Sessions, using body focussing techniques we will get
clear on the images, keywords, themes and goals that are important
for you now. And then shape these into your very own individual Sound Alignment Audio. To assist you to continue your progress long after the
session block finishes.
I have found having Audio Immersions are an extremely effective way
to shift old patterns and keep you aligned.
You JUST put the headphones on!
I love this work and have found it to be both practical and soulful
in hundreds of sessions and events.
Discover the difference a somatic approach can make to
accelerate your progress.
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