ABOUT JASON
A simple introduction.
A sense of place.
A life shaped by listening.
Jason Friedlander is a sound practitioner and host of presence-based gatherings in the Far North of New Zealand.
He lives at Taupō Bay, where his work is deeply connected to nature, stillness, and the experience of presence. Through sound journeys, deep listening, and intimate group gatherings, Jason creates spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and rediscover a sense of inner peace.
Jason’s path has been shaped by contemplative traditions, non-dual teachings, and years of spiritual exploration. Teachers whose work has influenced him include Rupert Spira, Jeff Foster, and Leonard Jacobson.
Today his work is less about teaching and more about creating environments where presence can be felt directly — through sound, silence, and connection with the natural world.
JASON’S STORY
Sound as listening.
A journey of stillness and discovery.
Returning, again and again,
to what is true.
There was a time I felt lost. Not outwardly — I had a role in the world, a place in my family’s business. But inside, I was aching. I felt stuck, stifled, unable to express the deeper calling that had always lived within me. Even as I began to meditate, to play the didgeridoo, and to quietly work with clients, I carried a silent confusion — a sense that I didn’t quite belong in the life I was living.
For years, I moved between two worlds: the visible and the hidden. And over time, the hidden began to call louder.
Eventually, I stepped away — not because I had the answers, but because I could no longer ignore the truth. I was being asked to surrender. To meet myself in a way I never had before.
The path since has been anything but linear. There have been moments of profound grace, and moments that unraveled me. I’ve worked with sacred plants, silence, spontaneous healing, and the mystery of sound. Through it all, something kept guiding me back to presence — to the breath, the body, the land, and the still point where sound begins.
I’ve come to trust that what we seek is already here. Beneath the fear. Beneath the striving. Beneath even our ideas of healing.
Now I live simply on the land in Taupō Bay, Aotearoa. I offer sound not as performance, but as prayer — a vibration that can guide us back to the truth of who we are. I hold space not to fix, but to witness. To meet whatever is here with reverence and love.
A SENSE OF PLACE
This space is a homecoming —
to silence,
to sound,
to breath,
to being.
I wonder if it’s possible to truly capture the transformation that unfolded within me upon arriving on this land — a place that enchanted my spirit and ignited my heart.
The people I’ve met here are nothing short of extraordinary, each encounter a thread in the sacred weaving of my journey.
I followed my heart, my light — and everything within me to its unwavering. It wasn’t just a personal truth; it was the truth, mesmerizing, immense, undeniable. How wondrous, how wildly beautiful to know this in every cell of my being.
I placed a small piece of greenstone in the arms of the pōhutukawa. It had been given to me to plant in the land as a quiet act of commitment — a way of saying to this place: I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere. And in that gesture of rooting and belonging, the earth received me, and I offered myself in return.
Here, deep peace dances on the breath of the wind — supporting, uplifting, giving wings to movement unseen. The wind carries it forward, this offering of love, this blessing of becoming.
Your path is within you… don’t
seek to change the world, change
yourself and the world will
change around you.