Aloka

A sound bath practice, designed end to end: the brand, the website and the rooms.

Client
My own practice
Since
2019
What I did
Brand, website, experience design and facilitation
Recognition
Best Sound Bath Experience: 2025 Winner, 2026 Finalist. Best of Portland Readers' Poll, Willamette Week
A candlelit Aloka session at Bodha Yoga: brick walls, tall windows, crystal bowls glowing on the floor

The room is the product

A Sound Lab is ninety minutes of sound, breath and movement, on the floor in low light. Everything a guest notices is designed: how the mats are laid, where the bowls sit, when the lights drop, what the first sentence sounds like.

Aloka has run weekly at Bodha Yoga since November 2024, and travels to Wild Reed Yoga, the park on Mt. Tabor, workplaces and my own studio, the Attic.

The Attic: dormer windows at dusk, warm lamps, a ring of crystal bowls on a rug
The Attic, my studio near Mt. Tabor, for private sessions of one to six people
Crystal and Tibetan bowls on patchwork quilts in a clearing ringed by fir trees
Park Lab on Mt. Tabor
People resting on mats at Wild Reed Yoga, crystal bowls and a harmonium glowing in candlelight
A session at Wild Reed Yoga
A candlelit pop-up room with tall windows, crystal bowls on the floor and mats laid out
A candlelit Aloka pop-up

Rooms for brands that host

Organizations bring Aloka in for their people: Soho House, TEDxPortland, Lululemon, and Killian Pacific, which sponsored a four-month Aloka residency in Portland's Central Eastside. Each session is designed for the room it happens in, from a small leadership group to a public event.

Crystal bowls and candlelight before a wall of leaf shadows
An in-house session for Lululemon

The website

aloka.org carries the weekly schedule, private bookings, gift cards, a shop and the newsletter. In October 2026 I moved it off Squarespace onto a site I designed and built, with a back office I can run from my phone between sessions.

Visit aloka.org

The aloka.org homepage: the Aloka wordmark in copper over a candlelit session
The aloka.org page about Graham, with his portrait and the Willamette Week award
aloka.org on a phone, with upcoming sessions

Where it started

Aloka began in 2019 as an app: a wellness program where you leveled up through breathwork, yoga and meditation, each level in its own chakra color, on a base of white marble and copper. I wrote the program, designed the brand and the screens, and tested a prototype with users. The practice it pointed to became the business.

A dot-grid notebook page: the first sketch of the app's dashboard, with circles for breath, yoga, meditation and om
An early sketch
The app's dashboard: a copper ring at 57 percent of level one, with counts for breath, yoga, meditation and self-care
The unlocks screen: a black Aloka pin earned at level one
The events screen: an in-person Intro to Everything session in Portland

What guests say

I went into Graham Slick's sound bath feeling a little skeptical, but I left feeling like a whole new person.

June K., on aloka.org

I left feeling rejuvenated, centered, and incredibly peaceful.

Jonathan M., on aloka.org

Tell me about your place.

Tell me what you run, where it is, and what isn't working yet. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so.