Guides
Joanna Bilik (Gongfree)
Visionary Sound Weaver
A renowned sound therapist, performer, and founder of Gongfree, Joanna has collaborated with and carried forward the legacy of Gong Masters like Don Conreaux and Yaelle Eloul Shaphir Lac, teaching extensively across Europe. With over 30 years of training in holistic therapies and esoteric studies, Joanna guides participants with warmth, humor, and intuitive expertise. She is also an accomplished film producer and TV presenter, weaving music, dance, and creative arts into powerful portals for transformation. Joanna regularly inspires audiences at major events like Mind Body Spirit and the OM Yoga Show.
Learn more at: www.gongfree.com
Kwali Kumara
Galactic Gong Goddess & Kundalini Luminary
Kwali Kumara is a magnetic, uplifting, and inspiring Kundalini Yoga instructor and Galactic Gong Goddess with over two decades of mastery as a Sonic Alchemist, specializing in the Art of Sacred Sound. She is the Creatrix of the ‘Kundalini Temple,’ a vast online Emporium of over 222 celestial classes, ceremonies, and meditations.
As a Galactic Guide and Serpent Wisdom Carrier, she anchors a high-vibration, safe, and sacred space for profound healing and transformation to occur. Her nurturing nature, passionate energy, and vibrant, heartfelt enthusiasm for the teachings are highly infectious and deeply motivating.
Kwali is the pioneer of Serpent Healing, a Spiritual Guide, Energy Healer, Sacred Ceremonialist, Yin Yoga instructor, and Starchild Teacher. She is also a mystical Mantra Artist, having produced six acclaimed albums with composer Pete Ardron. Their music is a potent ‘ancient future fusion’ that seamlessly merges her vibrant dance music past with her inspiring yoga teaching present. She is an accomplished Galactic Gong Virtuoso with over twenty years of experience sharing the wisdom of Kosmic Kundalini and sacred frequency.
Over the last decade, Kwali has served as the presenter, host, and curator of the ‘Ceremony Space’ for the Mind Body Spirit festivals in London and Birmingham, supporting the evolution of wellness festivals throughout the UK. She is now in her third year as the Founder and Visionary of her own Holistic Music and Wellbeing gathering, a fundraiser for her ‘Plumed Serpent Sanctuary.’ This is her most expansive endeavor yet; the ‘Elemental Temple Festival’ is the springboard towards realizing her dream of opening a physical ‘Elemental Healing Temple’ to serve humanity in this era of Great Awakening.
She lives in the Fenlands with her partner, their two beloved children, and their cherished menagerie of thirty rescued serpents, three cats, and little dog.
Affectionately known to many as ‘Fairy’ or ‘Kwalilox’ she remains a cornerstone of the spiritual community. A true inspiration and ‘Original Gongster,’ she is one of the rare few Kundalini Teachers who pioneered the ever-expanding Gong and Sacred Sound healing movement in the UK.
*Learn more at: www.kundalinitemple.com