UK, a healing therapy that uses sound to induce a meditative state. Her sound bath healing sessions are an improvised meditative concert that supports states of deep relaxation, where stress release and healing can occur. This experience can provide many of meditation's benefits, without the discipline—such as increased focus and clarity, decreased anxiety, stress relief, and a heightened capacity for empathy. It is an acoustic sound healing journey that relaxes the mind and activates the body's natural energetic healing system. It incorporates yoga movements, healing sounds, vocal toning, singing bowls, planetary gongs, drums, aromatherapy, meditation and other healing tools to transform the nervous system ultimately relieving stress and stagnant energy blocks. In 2020 Begum founded Sister's Circle, a monthly moon meet for women to come together to share creativity through storytelling, movement, music and herbs. Style Begum uses installation, film, photography and text, and has created her own distinct visual language and aesthetic. Her work combines cinematography and storytelling. Her main interest is the visual arts. Her work is influenced by East and West, and predominantly explores the relationship between people and their environment with themes of migration, exile, memory, identity, gender and femininity as seen in myth, divinity, both historical and contemporary. She draws her influences from the natural world, figurative painting, religious iconography, mystical philosophies and the cultures in which she was raised. The stories together with her own personal experiences are the cultural axis of her work. Personal life Begum lives and works in London. She spends much of her time in West Africa working on New Horizons Africa (co-founder), an international music and arts initiative based in Lagos, Nigeria and Living Legacies (co-founder), a traditional music archive in the Gambia. Begum divides her time between producing international projects and her own artistic practice as a visual and performance artist. She is the founder of Studio Chand Aftara, an artist's collective dedicated to the exhibition and production of experimental cinema and a space of cultivation, archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness. Her work has been widely exhibited in film festivals, museums, galleries and cinematheques worldwide. Begum is a regular practitioner of yoga, meditation and the healing arts and often visits solitary retreats in UK, India and West Africa. She is a pescatarian and fasts twice a week, a practice that has been passed down from her mother. Filmography Film Performance / Stage Novels, CD & DVD See also