We recently connected with Farris Sukkar and have shared our conversation below.
Farris, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
At the Sound Soul Center, my mission is to facilitate inner coherence and expanded awareness through intentional sound, presence, and ritual.
This mission comes from my own journey. Over time, I came to understand that sound isn’t just something we hear—it’s something we feel, something that reorganizes us at the deepest levels. Influenced by the work of Alexandre Tannous, I approach sound not as performance, but as a precise tool for consciousness—a way to access altered states, dissolve mental patterns, and return to the truth of who we are.
I created the Sound Soul Center as a sanctuary for this work. A space where sound becomes a mirror, silence becomes integration, and each session becomes a portal for transformation.
This mission is meaningful to me because I’ve lived the shift it creates. I’ve seen how intentional sound can dissolve illusion, regulate the nervous system, and open the heart. In a world full of noise, I offer this work as an invitation to listen—truly listen—and remember.
Farris, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
My name is Farris Sukkar, and I’m the founder of the Sound Soul Center—a space dedicated to deep listening, sacred ritual, and the cultivation of inner sustainability through the intentional use of sound and presence.
My journey began in the field of environmental sustainability, where I spent years helping organizations transition to cleaner energy systems. But alongside that work, I found myself asking deeper questions: How do we create sustainability within? How do we clear the internal clutter, regulate the nervous system, and return to a state of natural coherence?
That inquiry led me to sound—not as performance, but as a precise, vibrational technology. A single gong meditation opened a doorway I never knew existed. Since then, sound has become my primary medium for self-inquiry, energetic alignment, and transformation. I’ve come to understand that when we engage with sound consciously, it bypasses the intellect and invites us into a state of expanded awareness, where insight and integration naturally arise.
At the Sound Soul Center, I offer sound meditations, energy attunements, and tools for self-reflection—like The Empowered Self Oracle Deck and The Empowered Path Journal. These offerings aren’t meant to “fix” anyone. They’re designed to invite stillness, deepen perception, and attune people to their own inner guidance.
The people who find this work are often navigating subtle but powerful thresholds—moments of transition, awakening, or reconnection. I support them in listening more deeply, shedding what no longer resonates, and remembering their wholeness.
What sets this work apart is the integrity of intention behind it. Every offering is born from lived experience—years of spiritual practice, fatherhood, sobriety, and moments of profound recalibration. I don’t offer quick fixes. I offer spaces of resonance, where realignment can occur organically.
What I’m most proud of is that this work reflects who I truly am. It’s not curated. It’s not a performance. It’s an extension of my path, shared in service to others.
What I want people to know is this: You already carry the answers within you. My role is simply to create the conditions for you to hear them more clearly.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
A lesson I had to unlearn was that I needed to prove my worth through constant doing. For a long time, I equated value with productivity—climbing the professional ladder, collecting credentials, staying busy. I was successful by conventional standards, but underneath it all was a quiet fear: that if I slowed down, I’d become irrelevant.
The unraveling of that belief started when I moved into the redwoods by the river. Life slowed to a different rhythm. I began listening more—first to the sound of water and trees, then to my own breath, and finally to the still, unshakable presence within me.
I realized that presence is enough. That my being carries more power than any amount of doing. I started sharing from that space—writing books, facilitating sound meditations, guiding others—not to prove anything, but as a natural overflow of who I am.
Unlearning that lesson gave me my life back. Now, I don’t hustle to be seen. I align, I listen, and I let what’s true move through me.
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
One of the biggest pivots in my life came when I realized I couldn’t keep living a split life—one where I was doing strategic sustainability work by day, and deep spiritual work in silence and solitude by night. For years, I tried to keep both worlds separate. I was consulting Fortune 500 companies on decarbonization, while privately studying sound, ritual, and inner transformation.
Eventually, I reached a threshold. The work I was doing externally was no longer feeding me internally. I felt fragmented—like I was hiding the most authentic parts of myself. That’s when I made the pivot. I left the corporate world and began building the Sound Soul Center—trusting that what I had been cultivating in private was now ready to be shared in public.
It wasn’t a flashy leap. It was slow and intentional. I wrote books, built offerings, refined my attunements, and started sharing my voice—not to be seen, but because I could no longer hold it in.
That pivot changed everything. It was less about changing careers and more about choosing wholeness—letting all parts of me come into alignment and be of service.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.soundsoulcenter.com
- Instagram: Soundsoulcenter
- Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/farrissukkar
