Initiations on the path

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After some life-changing mystical experiences at the age of 19 Surya departed for the first time to India in 2008. As that which caught his interest wasn't available as a university study, he started a nomadic lifestyle for about 10 years. His travels went hand in hand with an intensive study of Yoga, Tantra, meditation and sound healing, which brought him to all corners of the globe. Most of these 10 years were spent in northern India and Nepal. Surya learned from and lived with several spiritual teachers and shamans, in particular his guru Prem Baba, and got initiated (through diksha) in a traditional yogic lineage. Throughout his journey he learned from both traditional and modern spiritual teachers.

 

Cultivated gifts

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Surya specialised in Nada Yoga, healing sound and sacred music. He deeply cultivated the sense of listening, the practice of meditation and the teachings related to it. Surya draws from ancient lineages and simultaneously aims to adjust these teachings to the modern western world. He lives and teaches from the vision of (nondual) Tantra Yoga,  which he studied (and still studies) both in a modern and traditional context. 

 

Surya has been playing music most of his life, starting with piano at the age of 9, and masters several ethnical instruments. Today he mostly plays the Indian bansuri (flute), though more than any instrument he favours the power of the voice.

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Professional activity

 

Since 2012, Surya has been offering Sound Healing treatments, concerts, workshops and in-depth trainings in Belgium, Turkey, India and other places.  In 2018 he founded Akasha Retreat Center together with his brother Floris Adriaenssens and partner Sophie Snoeckx. Ever since that time he manages the center and has been offering continuous meditation retreats as well as in-depth sound healing trainings. Surya values the cultivation of a like-minded community (sangha) of spiritual practitioners. He has has been nourishing this through a daily cooperation in the spirit of karma yoga (selfless service) at the Akasha retreat center. Surya builds bridges between East and West, different cultures and spiritual traditions, old times and new times. 

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Current activity

 

In the last couple of years Surya has been devoted to the textual study and practice of the traditional path of nondual Tantra, along with a musical practice of Hindustani classical music. He recently decided to take a 1-year break of teaching (in 2025). After that he will no longer offer trainings under the umbrella of 'sound healing', but rather focus more on 'nada yoga', and thus the practice of meditation related to sound. As for now, in 2025, Surya is starting the podcast ‘Sounds of Awakening’ and currently works on the creation and production of a new musical album.