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Best Sound Bath Experience — Willamette Week Best of Portland · 2025 Winner, 2026 Finalist
Aloka is a sound ceremony practice rooted in somatic awareness, devotional sound, and the recognition that the body already knows the way home. Graham Slick (founder/practitioner) has facilitated 200+ ceremonies across Portland — in studios, boardrooms, retreat spaces, and living rooms. The work is always the same: help you arrive somewhere quieter than where you started.
Where Aloka happens
Aloka is a sound ceremony practice, not a building. Graham brings the bowls, the breath and the quiet to studios, parks, his own sound bath studio and workplaces around Portland. These are the rooms right now.
SW · Downtown · 124 SW Yamhill
Formerly Yoga on Yamhill. Ground Lab every Thursday, 7–9 pm (cannabis ceremony, 21+), and a monthly Sunday Sound Lab. Twelve mats, candlelight, and the weekly rhythm the practice grew up in.
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SE · Mt. Tabor Park
Ninety minutes of sound, breath and somatic practice on Tabor's forested slopes, under open sky. Let the ground take your weight and the trees do the breathing.
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SE · Near Mt. Tabor
Graham's own studio: a third-floor room under the eaves, set with the full ring of bowls. Private sessions for one to six people — individuals, couples, small groups — and the occasional weekday session open to all.
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SE · 400 SE Grand Ave
Graham's sound bath meets a slow yin practice in Wild Reed's studio (formerly Modo Yoga). Booked through Wild Reed.
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Anywhere in Portland
Offsites, conferences, galleries, new offices, living rooms. Graham designs the ceremony for the room and the people in it — a leadership team of eight or an activation of eight hundred. Space blessings and activations too.
Corporate & private inquiries →
Portland · Wherever's next
We're looking for spaces to activate for longer stretches: a storefront between tenants, a loft, a building waiting for its next chapter. Our most recent pop-up was a four-month residency in the Central Eastside, sponsored by Killian Pacific.
Offer a space →Portland's quadrants
Aloka's studio circuit is growing, one room per quadrant. If you run a studio whose people already seek this kind of quiet, a monthly Sound Lab may belong in it.
Start a conversation →Every space is set the same way: twelve mats at most, low light, the instruments in a ring. What changes is the light through the windows.
Weekly sessions run on a schedule; private and organizational ceremonies are designed around your room, your people and your date.
Founder and lead practitioner; Best Sound Bath Experience, Best of Portland Readers' Poll — 2025 Winner, 2026 Finalist. Meet Graham →
A sound bath is a deeply immersive experience that harnesses the power of sound and meditation to promote relaxation, balance, and holistic wellness. At Aloka, Portland’s award-winning sound ceremony practice, we invite you to explore it in a nurturing, unhurried setting. Our sound baths offer innovative ways to engage with sound and meditation, fostering a profound connection to the body, mind, and spirit.
During a sound bath, participants create a cozy "nest" on the floor with blankets, pillows, or yoga mats, settling into a comfortable position, typically lying down…
Music for the space between.
Each mixtape is curated by a friend of Aloka — a sound healer, musician, or fellow traveler who knows what it means to listen deeply. Some of these songs are heard in our ceremonies. Others live in the quiet hours before and after. All chosen with intention.
Healer Jason Lasley curates our latest mixtape. We invite you to listen.
Aloka is a sound ceremony practice founded by Graham Slick in Portland, Oregon. It isn’t a building. It’s a way of holding a room: bowls in a ring, low light, twelve mats at most.
Thursday nights it’s Ground Lab at Bodha Yoga downtown. Sundays, Sound Lab rotates through partner studios across the city. In the warmer months it’s Park Lab on Mt. Tabor. For organizations, the room is yours.
Lululemon
A session shaped around you, your people or your team: in the Attic, at your home or venue, or at your workplace.
