“Author of Grieving Awake | Speaker | Sound Meditation Guide | Grief, Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening, Ritual & Mysticism”
I'm the author of Grieving Awake, a speaker, mindfulness meditation guide, sound medicine women and creator of a sound and ritual-based framework for transforming grief into awakening.
I call myself a skeptical mystic. I love science for the how and spirituality for the who. I'm fascinated by where neuroscience, consciousness research, contemplative practice, and lived experience meet.
My work is deeply personal. Years before my son Weston died unexpectedly at eighteen, I had a near-death experience that forever changed how I understood consciousness. After his death, I experienced what I believe was an ongoing after-death relationship with him. Whether someone interprets those experiences spiritually, psychologically, or through the lens of consciousness research, they transformed my life. The framework I now teach emerged through that season of profound grief, deep listening, and daily practice.
For more than a decade I've guided people through meditation, sound, and embodied ritual. Today I help people move beyond simply surviving loss toward remembering who they are beneath it. My work explores why grief can become a catalyst for awakening, how sound changes our relationship with the body and nervous system, why ritual is essential for transformation, and what it means to embody a life of greater presence, truth, trust, and love after everything familiar has fallen away.
Loss isn't just about what or who we lost - it's also a journey of becoming someone new and I am passionate about letting people know that it's a profound portal into the depths of your truest nature - your soul and your purpose for coming to this life in the first place.
I love conversations that are both intellectually rigorous and spiritually expansive. I'm just as interested in the science of grief and consciousness as I am in the mystery that refuses to fit neatly into our current understanding. My hope is never to convince people what to believe, but to invite them into deeper questions and practices that help them live more fully alive.
Dr. Rev. Joya Sosnowski is a spiritually connected sound healer offering a spiritual process and practices through sound, drum, voice and somatic movement to narrow the gap between what you know and what you're being. Your life is your spiritual path - so turn up your light and walk it guided by you
