Sūrya Nāda (Maarten Adriaenssens)
Nāda Yogi / Musician / Sound Therapist / Teacher
“I feel honoured and blessed to have received priceless jewels from my teachers and from Life itself. These teachings came in the form of insights, musical patterns, powerful practices and generally pointers towards healing, awakening, liberation and fulfilment. I feel equally honoured and blessed to be able to share these jewels with you and who ever feels the call to receive them. It’s a joy to share sacred music, words, sound and silence.”
Initiations on the path
After some life-changing mystical experiences at the age of 19 Surya departed for the first time to India in 2008. The 10 following years he had a nomadic lifestyle. His travels unfolded alongside an intensive and experiential 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 former guru Prem Baba. He received dīkṣā, initiation into a traditional yogic lineage rooted primarily in Bhakti, Tantra, Jñāna, and Karma Yoga.
Later on, he started practicing and studying Dhrupad - the oldest form of Hindustani classical music - for voice and bansuri, alongside an ongoing study of non-dual Śaiva Tantra.
Throughout his journey Surya learned from both traditional and modern spiritual teachers.
Specializations
Surya specializes in Nāda Yoga (the Yoga of Sound), 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 non-dual Tantra and the practice of Nāda Yoga.
Surya has been playing music most of his life, starting with piano at the age of 9, and masters several ethnical instruments. Today his main instruments are the Indian bansuri flute and vocals.
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 in Belgium. Ever since, he has been managing the center and offering continuous meditation retreats and in-depth sound healing trainings in his own center. In 2026 the center and his managing tasks came to an end.
Surya now shares both his musical work and his in-depth training, offered through the Path of Sound, in a variety of settings and locations.
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