Leah Hokanson
Leah is a lifelong adventurer of music, sound and listening—as a group facilitator, community choir leader, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and certified sound healing practitioner. She is co-founder (with Lynette Jackson) of Sound, Belonging & Wholeness, offering programs that explore vocal sounding and intentional listening as portals to Presence, healing and transformation. She also directs the Song Keepers Women’s Choir (Gabriola) and is Music Director at the First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo. She’s worked with many esteemed vocal artists and sound healing pioneers, including Chloé Goodchild, Jill Purce, Rhiannon, and Karina Schelde. Leah holds a master’s degree in piano performance and has served in music ministry for various churches and spiritual organizations for the past 40 years.
Leah has composed and recorded a number of “Diamond Chants”—musical settings of ecstatic poetry by Rumi, Hafiz, Hildegard of Bingen and others. She has also written, produced, and performed two albums of original songs: Facets (2019) and Portals (2021).
Events with Leah Hokanson
Contemporary Ecstatic Chanting (6 Week Series)November 9 - December 14, 2026
Since time immemorial, humans have gathered in spiritual communities to sing and chant together. Community singing is, in essence, community building, opening us to our sense of shared humanity and to Spirit, Source, the Divine, whatever language you choose, through voicing a common purpose and intention together. Join Leah Hokanson for a 6-week Contemporary Ecstatic Chanting series, offering an opportunity to come together each week in song, connection, and shared intention. The chants are “Diamond Chants,” original musical compositions written by Leah to be accessible to all, regardless of singing ability. Playfully referred to as “ecstatic pop,” Diamond Chants blend…