Biography
Founder, Head of the Sound Therapy Department

Mario Blažević
Petar Hess® sound therapist
Mr. Blažević’s journey to sound therapy began in his early years. From a young age, he asked interesting questions about his own existence, its meaning, and the principles of reality that surrounded him. He felt that our existence on this planet was not merely existential in nature but part of a whole that has coherent direction and purpose, despite what he saw in the behavior of others around him and the environment itself.
Founded ZEN SOUND, London in December 2013
Head of the Sound Therapy Department at Sankalpa Center since 2016.
He started his life with a severe speech disorder—stuttering. After a decade of dealing with this disorder and various therapies, he was recommended yoga breathing exercises, not knowing where this practice would lead him. At the young age of thirteen, he was introduced to the system of Yoga in Daily Life by Paramhansa Swami Maheshwarananda, beginning his lifelong journey of self-listening and introspection.
While finishing technical high school, he showed an exceptional affinity for computer programming. Moreover, he was fascinated by the object paradigm, patterns of object programming, and information exchange. Inevitably, as was his nature, he began to intuitively feel the correlation between the object paradigm and the functioning of the psyche. In short, he began to sense that our mind, consciousness, and subconscious were very similar to the programs he was programming. To satisfy this need for understanding, he directed his free time towards improving his psychoanalytic skills through Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Transactional Analysis, inspired by the work of Gustav Carl Jung, continuing his life as a computer designer and manager.



Although seemingly successful and lucrative, the job of a manager and computer designer was not without its consequences, which stress and lack of recovery and rest cumulatively bring. In his late twenties, he experienced a breakdown. On a beautiful summer Saturday afternoon, seemingly unprovoked, he fell to his knees and was left breathless, with the sensation on his left side fading. At that moment, his faithful friend Alibija, a Labrador and Retriever mix, came under him and lifted him. She helped him reach the cordless phone on the bed and call for emergency assistance. At that moment, he finally began to understand all those texts that spoke about listening to one’s body, taking time for oneself, being in the moment and present, and, most importantly, realizing what his life mission was not.
After a brief recovery from the panic attack, he decided to end one part of his life by quitting his job and turning towards himself and a more detailed exploration of psychodynamics and psychoanalysis. On this journey, he encountered sound therapy, which, when he first experienced it through a sound bath, fulfilled his need for further improvement in psychotherapeutic disciplines and turned towards studying sound and its impact on the human body and mind. On the recommendation of a good colleague, he became acquainted with the Peter Hess method and further improved in sound therapy.
Simultaneously, his life journey took him to London, England, where, as a certified sound therapist, he began working in the alternative department at the renowned St. John’s Hospice, specializing in the recovery of patients after chemotherapy and stroke recovery. He also opened his private practice, ZEN SOUND, in December 2013, which introduced him to a new spectrum of clients and improved his multiculturalism. While studying the impact of sound on our brain and exchanging experiences with local neuropsychiatrists and neurologists, the area that intrigued him the most was neurology and brain plasticity. He was particularly thrilled when he hypothesized that neural connections could be more easily reprogrammed with external sound stimulation, and his ultimate excitement came when he methodically confirmed that the specific frequency spectrum of Peter Hess therapeutic sound bowls had an impact on the brain’s frequency spectrum. With his knowledge of the object paradigm, he uncovered a new model of programming human behavior, which is not predefined or conditioned but self-aligns and self-corrects, demonstrating the beautiful characteristics of sound intelligence that the bowls exhibited in working with patients recovering from strokes.
In his further work as a sound therapist, he developed unique models of group and individual work, and his life journey changed its course. After five years of working in England, he gradually began to relocate his base to his native region, where he was closer to his faithful friend Alibija.
He integrates his experience as a computer designer and manager into his further work, where he teaches his students about an inspirational and creative model of living through workshops, and in individual work, he focuses on body and breathing awareness, which he calls primary living strategies, inspired primarily by personal experience, insights, and practice.
Mr. Blažević’s credo is “Be the change you want to see” – M. Gandhi, and it is now more than ever his moral compass and guiding thread. He lives his life calling boldly and devotedly, inspired by every client and patient who passes through his practice, as this realization rests on the belief from his early childhood that we are all connected, good returns good, and we are part of a functional whole where only when an individual begins to perceive themselves as part of that larger environment do meaning and purpose begin to take on new dimensions, and our being rewards us with joy and peace in return.