About me

I was very fortunate to have been exposed to different cultures and religions from an early age as my parents lived in the Middle East for 30 years. It was there that I was captivated and deeply touched by the devotional call to prayer resounding out into the desert sky 5 times a day. There was something magical, mysterious, and beautiful about the sound which transcended any religious context and spoke directly to my heart. Leading me to want to travel and experience it further, which I did as soon as I had dropped out of university and headed to the Himalayas in India and Nepal in 1988 and 1991.

The whole energy fascinated me and also gave me a deep remembrance, something intangible and beyond words – a familiarity with the sights, sounds and smells. It was also here that I fell in love with Shiva and Parvati! And picked up my first fundamental knowledge around Vedic chants, mantras, tantras, yoga, mudras and pranayama.

Giles Mountain wrapped in a colourful blanket in a wood early morning

I lived and travelled around Australia for 4 years and I soaked up the vastness of the wildly contrasting terrains in that beautiful continent. It is also here that I bought my first didgeridoo in the northern territories a few weeks before heading back to Asia and India again. I travelled with it throughout Asia and it was my most treasured possession. Some of my most favourite memories are chilling in a little village above Almora called Kasar Devi playing the didgeridoo and chanting most days.

I got back to England and then followed a 3-year sojourn in Aberystwyth where I set up the first-ever reggae show on the radio in Wales with a show called Babylon Burndown every Saturday night where I had the chance to interview some of the great reggae artists. Music has always been in my heart and soul. Then life took over and my experiences took a back seat but were still percolating away under the corporate suit I wore for 25 years. During this time I became a father to my 4 beautiful, creative and wise daughters.

Giles Mountain and daughter Tilley painting together

Me and my youngest daughter Matilda, having the best time painting together, I love the way she’s leaping in the air with joy.

I am married to an amazingly talented artist Katrin Mountain and we live in Folkestone with our youngest daughter Matilda in a lovely family home where I hold all my sound baths and treatments in a sacred loft space.

The wisdom gained on my journey so far is blossoming from a rich, varied and wonderful tapestry of joyful life experiences and some deeply challenging and painful ones too that have given me great insights into the human condition and allow me to hold space with deep love, presence, and reverence to all who come for a treatment-be it somatic work or sound healing.

Having left the Corporate world behind after two decades in senior positions at blue chip companies, including Rolls-Royce, Christie’s auction house and two private banks, I have the opportunity to offer, through my sound and somatic work, all the knowledge and experiences accumulated throughout my life.

I qualified from the College of Sound Healing in 2020, as a Somatic Therapist in 2021(a modality called Focalizing) and mBIT coaching (multiple brain integration techniques) in 2022.

Throughout my life, I have always been attracted to the purity of intention and energy expressed, and this has also come to the fore with my art, where I have entered the most creative phase recently with a variety of flow drawings. I surrender to the ‘Now’ moment and let what wants to flow from the open expanse of my heart space. It’s similar to sound healing in that I became a vessel for what wants to be expressed, created, seen, heard or sung in the moment. It’s a sacred, mysterious, healing, deeply nourishing process for me but also for all who have been touched by either my art or experienced a sound or somatic therapy treatment.

One of my clients commented a sound treatment is like a source energy sonic massage for the soul! Something stirs and awakens within, as it did with me over 40 years ago, and helps realign and restore all areas of your being -mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.