Sonia Kreitzer is a singer, songwriter, meditation guide and sound healer who makes music as Doe Paoro. Based between Los Angeles and Costa Rica, she works at the point where ritual, voice and contemplative practice overlap. Her catalog has passed 50 million streams, and she has roughly 357,500 followers on Spotify. But the numbers are the least interesting part of the story. What distinguishes her is a body of work that treats music as a spiritual and healing art form, not as atmosphere, and a set of community commitments that extend that idea beyond the recording studio.
For anyone searching for her music, the name to know is Doe Paoro. Sonia Kreitzer is the name she uses for her broader practice as a healer, guide and organizer.
The most clearly documented thread in her background is her study of Tibetan Opera singing at the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts in Dharamsala, India. She credits those teachings with helping her embody her voice, and the phrasing matters. The claim is not that she acquired a technique but that the training changed her relationship to the instrument she was already using.
The public record does not give a date for that study, name a teacher, or describe a single moment of rupture that redirected her career, so it would be inaccurate to dress it up as a conversion story. What can be said is that her work reads as the product of accumulation. Her practice has grown from years of studying the subtle language of plants, ancestral wisdom traditions and dreamwork, alongside training in mindfulness, yoga and trauma-informed modalities. Her meditation and somatic work developed in parallel with her music, and the two now inform each other.
Serious listeners should resist the temptation to treat this as a formal lineage with an unbroken line of transmission. Tibetan Opera is the one specific tradition she names, and her songwriting is better understood as a translation of that training into contemporary forms than as a faithful presentation of the repertoire. Her approach is a blend, and she has not framed it as anything else.
Her central instrument is her own voice. Many sound healers work primarily with bowls, gongs or synthesized drones. She builds from sustained pitch, resonance and breath, with arrangements that leave considerable space around the vocal. The ritual weight of the music comes from repetition and sustain rather than volume.
Her catalog runs on two tracks. One is the sound-healing work, most clearly the 432Hz Chakra Suite series. The other is a set of songwriter records that carry the same material into fuller song structures. It is worth noting that the 432Hz tuning is a belief-based choice that many acousticians dispute, and her work is framed as ritual and resilience, not as medical treatment.
She argues, in her own bio, that music can be a technology for resilience, repair and more equitable realities. That sentence explains why her work sits comfortably in both a gallery setting and a community circle.
Her four full-length records are:
- 432Hz Chakra Suite, Vol 1 (January 29, 2021), seven tracks organized around tuning and chakra imagery.
- 432Hz Chakra Suite, Vol II: Sacred Sounds (August 26, 2022), seven tracks extending the first volume's structure.
- Living Through Collapse (September 19, 2025), twelve tracks, the thematic center of her recent output. A three-track remix release followed in April 2026.
- The Whole Inside (March 13, 2026), fifteen tracks, the most recent and clearest statement of her songwriting.
Among her singles, Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (2021) takes its title from a Sanskrit prayer. Others include Someday Soon (2020), Divine Surrendering (June 2022), Emergence (Chill Versions) (July 2022) and Watering the Roots (2026). Remixes by Auntie Flo (Teach Us of Endings), Taiina (Phases) and Mose (All My Life is a Ceremony) show producers pushing the material toward electronic textures. Podsongs, Vol. 10, a thirteen-track compilation, appeared in October 2022.
The titles themselves, with their endings, roots, emergence and ceremony, trace the concerns that run through the work.
Her career outside the healing world is substantial. She has toured with The Gipsy Kings and KT Tunstall, collaborated with Peter Bjorn & John, RAC and Son Little, and performed at Bonnaroo, Osheaga, Desert Daze and Envision. Her music has appeared on radio, television and film, and her bio lists features from the BBC, NPR and New York Magazine, though readers who wish to cite specific coverage should confirm it at the original outlets.
She has also offered sound healing at LACMA and the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, and has shared her work in ceremonial and therapeutic community settings internationally. Few artists move between a festival stage and a museum hall with a practice that does not change shape to suit either.
Her recent work is active and varied. The Whole Inside and Living Through Collapse arrived within about six months of each other, and new singles have continued into 2026.
Beyond recorded music, she is a steward at Tierra Valiente, a community committed to building decolonized and post-capitalist futures. She also founded Activating the Voice, a learning series that supports people in voicing what has been historically silenced. The public record does not describe session length, group size or format, so those interested should ask directly. Because her meditation and somatic work draws on mindfulness, yoga and trauma-informed modalities, sessions are likely to emphasize pacing, breath and body awareness over performance.
No upcoming events are currently listed. Her official site, doepaoro.com, is the most reliable place to confirm appearances, retreats and releases.
She reaches two audiences that do not always overlap: listeners who come to her through indie and electronic music, and practitioners who follow contemplative and healing arts. The material is not for everyone. Those wanting danceable energy or a steady pop groove will find the records slow and spare. Those wanting clinical claims or a single named master will find neither. Her explicit political framing around decolonization will suit some audiences more than others.
That specificity is part of why she matters. In a field that often trades in generalized calm, she insists that voice work is connected to who gets heard and what repair requires. Her newer songs engage grief, collapse and loss directly, which makes them less soothing than a newcomer might expect and more durable for it.
For a first listen, The Whole Inside is the natural starting point, with the Chakra Suite volumes for those drawn to practice. The first encounter is likely to be quieter and longer than expected, since the music asks for stillness before it offers melody.