Jill Purce launched the international sound-healing movement in the 1970s with her rediscovery and teaching of ancient, magical healing vocal techniques combined with overtone chanting and powerful group chant. She pioneered the practice of healing ancestral traumas with her Healing Family, Ancestor, and Resonant Family Constellations programs.

After her postgraduate fellowship in the biophysics department at King’s College London, where she worked with Maurice Wilkins (Nobel Prize for DNA), she lived and worked with German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, exploring the spiritual dimension of music. She learned overtone chanting in the Himalayas with the chant master of the Gyutö Tibetan Monastery. Jill has been following the philosophy and practice of Dzogchen since 1978 when she started working with the late Tibetan Lama, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. 

Jill, who lectures and conducts workshops internationally, has taught at the English National Opera, the English Shakespeare Company, and in hospitals, schools, monastic communities, and businesses. Over the past 25 years, she’s presented “Healing the Family and Ancestors” workshops, a unique combination of family constellations, chant, and ceremony. Her recordings include Overtone Chanting Meditations and The Healing Voice.