Dustin Wells
A guitar at the ocean's edge at dusk

Dustin Wells · Musician. Sound Ceremony Artist. Guide.

Music that moves people.
Experiences that change them.

Somewhere between a live concert, a listening practice, and a contemplative experience through sound — music you lie down inside of, from a lifetime jazz musician trained under a multi-generational sound lineage in Nepal.

Why now

We are the most stimulated people who have ever lived, and the least practiced at listening.

A ceremony is ninety minutes with nothing to answer — no feed, no decisions, nobody needing anything from you. Just sound arriving from every direction, and the slow discovery that your attention will settle if you give it somewhere to land. Most of what people come back for happens in that gap.

Why sound

Sound is a technology — the oldest one we have for changing human state.

A tone can settle a nervous system. A rhythm can move what conversation can’t reach. Long before language, this is how we gathered, grieved, and celebrated — and it works as precisely today as it ever did. I practice it with an engineer’s precision and a musician’s reverence.

The technologies behind the work

Practice daily

108 Moments — one practice a day, one moment at a time.

A ceremony ends. The practice doesn’t have to. Each morning gives you one specific thing to catch yourself noticing, and every time you catch it you move a bead on an eighteen-bead necklace. The counting happens in your hand, so your phone stays in your pocket. Two minutes to begin, seconds at a time after that.

Sunlight through a forest path

The philosophy

Life as ceremony — full attention, real presence, nothing wasted.

The thread

I’ve spent my life inside music — jazz stages, studios, sacred rooms. Now I use it to build states of being.

A lifetime as a jazz musician taught me to listen, improvise, and answer a room in real time. Formal training in sound healing — studied in Nepal under a multi-generational lineage — taught me where to aim it. Every ceremony carries both.

The goal: empowering one billion people to live joyfully, connect to purpose, and ground in presence.

The night sky over the mountains

Gatherings

Upcoming

Hear it first.

Ceremonies, retreats, and releases — the list always hears first.

No noise, no spam. Only what matters, when it matters.