The Vedun musicians devote special attention to the restoration, for the concert stage, of ancient forgotten instruments, foreign musical languages and the pearls and sound codes from the Slavic and ancient Slovene musical heritages. Concerts by the Vedun Ensemble are an extraordinary experience.They are a dance of unusual sounds, rhythms and harmonies, a mirror of the moment, which connects the knowings and consciousness of our ancestors with our contemporary quests, with today’s music and mindset. The essence of these quests, both old and new at the same time, has remained quite similar throughout the ages: the harmony of all-connectedness, the euphony of centeredness.

In their restoration of music, the Vedun Ensemble was the first in Slovenia, Europe and globally, to revive the qualities of spontaneous creativity of musician-mediums. The Ensemble brings to their musical performance a priestly, or shamanic, and healing quality, which was once important, but is overlooked today. In addition, they return to the sound its multi-layered depth, its extraordinary harmonising and healing power and effectiveness. In this way, after decades of staging concerts, now in the Ensemble’s most mature period of creativity, the musicians embrace the responsibility of their roles as artists, spiritual teachers and therapists simultaneously, just like countless generations of initiated musicians before them. They flirt with the past and inspire modern audiences with revived old-new musical languages, sound formulae and unusual, yet interesting performing practices. Balinese Vedic priests identified Vedun musical performances as exceptional spiritual work, globally unique today. As sacred.

The Vedun music performance is a quest for oneness, completeness, harmony, euphony and deep internalization, a feast of diversity and similarity in the historical memory of the cultures and musical practices of the past. The fullness of the meta-sensory dimension in their sound expression elevates the performers as well as the audience and deeply surpasses ordinary musical attempts.

The Ensemble is globally unique. Its musicians, all multi-instrumentalists and singers, under the guidance of the ethnomusicologist and healer (medium) Dr Mira Omerzel - Mirit and on the basis of her research, bring to the concert stage at home and abroad revived pearls from the treasury of Slovene folk songs and instruments, as well as less known ancient sound and musical practices, which were once greatly revered, but are now almost forgotten: for example, performing music in a semi-transcendental state of consciousness and ancient Slavic throat aliquot singing. Music connected with healing and surgical sounds is a unique feature in the rich offer of the contemporary world’s musical performances.

As the ambassador of the Slovene musical heritage, the Trutamora Slovenica / Vedun Ensemble have toured every continent. They have played for children and young adults, as well as for demanding
audiences from musical and scientific circles alike. Mirit and the Ensemble have received numerous artistic, pedagogical and scholarly awards for their work.

The musicians play rare original instruments, mostly from Mirit’s extensive collection. They also play replicas of historic and pre-historic instruments. To perform the harmonising sound they use
instruments of the past periods that were preserved as folk instruments (untempered attunement) until the Atomic Era. In addition, they use shamanic instruments of different cultures and historic periods, which generate a relaxing and harmonising effect with their tone heights and attunements. This is how the musicians and the
medium Mirit weave their timeless harmonising
sound yarn.


About the Ensemble’s leader and lecturer/healer
(medium) Mira Omerzel - Mirit


The founder and leader of the Vedun Ensemble, Mira Omerzel - Mirit, who has a PhD in ethnomusicology, is a musician, healer, lecturer,
seer (knower) and a medium for the transmission of life energies. She is a keeper of Slavic wisdomand the knowledge of different cultures and a link between them. She is also a pioneer in the
research of the dimensions of sound and the global instigator of ethno-archeo-medical musicology. For more than 45 years (since 1971), Mirit has been researching and reviving the Slovene, as well as the world’s, musical and spiritual heritages. Besides decades of research carried out on Slovene ethnic territory and among Slovene communities in other countries, she has visited, together with her son Tine and musical colleagues, numerous wise healers, spiritual teachers, shamans, priests and musician-therapists throughout the world. They have identified her work as something special, different and sacred. She was also the founder of the Trutamora Slovenica, Truta and Vedun ensembles. Mirit studies and teaches the ancient
knowledge of sound and the levels of consciousness, or soul. And together with the musicians, she revives both ancient musical knowledge and the music of the cultures of the world; the wisdom of
the dimensions and powers of sound. The musical performance and energy-sound harmonisation of the Vedun Ensemble (previously Trutamora Slovenica, established in 1978), derives from the
forgotten, overlooked wisdom of the past.

In February 2000, Mirit founded a special school for the understanding and dissemination of spiritual and musical abilities – the Veduna School, a Slavic-Pythagorean Mystery School for the Development of Consciousness and Harmonisation through Sound. In the past, expression through sound and music was inseparably connected with the researching of spiritual dimensions, with the awakening of our dormant spiritual abilities. Performing music in a transcendental
state of consciousness was once one of the most exceptional sacred tools for the expansion of spirit and fulfilment of wishes; it was a tool for understanding the Truth, the good and bad, a tool for
harmonising the world etc.

In her creative projects (as well as in the sound images of the Vedun Ensemble), the ethnomusicologist Dr Mira Omerzel - Mirit connects science and art, theory and practice, tangible and spiritual heritages, objectivity and subjectivity, the audible and inaudible, the past and the present (for the future). During her life, she has carried out numerous scientific, artistic and personal spiritual revolutions. This is Mirit’s creative output, which comprises over four decades of active musical
involvement and almost five decades of ethno-musicological and spiritual research: approximately 50 scientific (ethno-archeo-musicology) papers and eight books; over one thousand noted concerts of the Trutamora Slovenica / Vedun Ensembles at home and abroad, 20 LPs and CDs, over 30 TV themed shows and series, concert and other TV recordings, countless radio and newspaper
interviews. She has held hundreds of public lectures about the essence of sound and wisdom and heritages of the world. From 1995, at her VEDUNA School Mirit has held weekly lectures, courses
and workshops on the laws of existence and life, the dimensions and powers of consciousness and sound, on the Cosmic-Earth resonance – harmonious oscillation and resonance, and on the
spiritual wisdom of our ancestors. Supported by the Vedun Ensemble, she weekly performs an exceptional cosmic sound-energy surgery. She is also a teacher of many Slovene and foreign spiritual teachers and sound therapists. She has her own Veduna school for therapists. She is a medium and sound-energy surgeon, which makes her a rarity on this planet.

Mira Omerzel - Mirit walks unknown paths, the paths of what is hidden and mysterious. For decades, she has been both presenting and playing numerous old instruments on the concert stage. Her
favourite means of expression are stringed instruments and flutes of different cultures. She also sings in ancient styles and heals at the same time. She says she is “harmonising the world”.

She is the author of numerous papers on Slovene and foreign instruments. She has written several books about the forgotten spiritual knowledge of different peoples and civilisations of the world,
as well as books about the power of sound (the most important being her series of books Cosmic Telepathy / www.cosmic-telepathy.com). In addition to numerous forgotten songs, the musicians have restored almost 100 unusual musical instruments for their performances. Mirit’s collection now comprises nearly 300 instruments, which the “singing scientist” has saved from oblivion over several decades. They belong to different musical heritages, traditions and aesthetics, many are rooted in antiquity, in medieval and pre-Christian historical periods. Mirit pursues her musical-therapeutic mission also together with the musicians of the Vedun Ensemble.

She has cooperated with Mojka Žagar in the Ensemble for almost 30 years. Mojka, a mathematics teacher by profession, is a musician and sound therapist of the Veduna School. For many years, she worked as a singer and prompter in the Ljubljana Opera House. She joined the Omerzel-Terlep duo, and later the Trutamora Slovenica trio, during their tenth year of performing to work with them on the reviving of the recordings of folk songs and tunes from the archives. As a pedagogue
of voice nurturing and natural singing, she devotes her attention primarily to the awakening, development and maintenance of the natural vocal qualities of individuals. She is the first teacher of natural voice schooling of this kind in Slovenia. Developing one’s natural vocal qualities is the very foundation of self-healing with voice. A member of the Ensemble since 1988, she participates especially
in the revival of Slovene folk songs and various styles of folk singing and she also contributes by playing various ancient instruments. She has been developing and expanding her vocal and spiritual abilities at the courses and initiations of the Veduna School for 20 years.

Tine Omerzel Terlep (Mirit’s son), is an engineering graduate (IWE). He is a brass player and percussionist. Both of his parents being
musicians, he joined the Ensemble’s concerts for young children in his pre-school years (in 1986, at the age of 5), as a singer of children’s folk songs and a player of children’s instruments and sound-makers. His musical training took place outside official institutions. Only in this way was he able to preserve a feeling for what is natural and spontaneous. His spiritual path began at the age of ten.
Today he continues to eagerly develop and expand his consciousness at the workshops and initiations of the Veduna School. In 1996 (after his voice broke) he rejoined the Trutamora Slovenica Ensemble,
and later the Vedun Ensemble, this time primarily as a trumpeter, singer and percussionist. He was the youngest member of both ensembles for many years. Tine is also a sound-energy therapist of
the Veduna Mystery School, Mirit’s assistant and successor in the cosmic sound surgery. He enriches the Ensemble’s performances with both his exceptional shamanic throat aliquot singing and energy
abilities as a medium.

Igor Meglič, an academic musician and teacher of classical guitar, joined the Ensemble in 2014. He develops his sound-therapeutic and spiritual abilities in Mirit’s Veduna Mystery School. He principally revives forgotten plucked stringed instruments from different musical traditions. He also contributes to the multi-part singing of folk songs.

The younger generation of the Vedun Ensemble, who joined the Ensemble in its sixth seven-year cycle, continue Mirit’s mission and,
under her guidance, increasingly expand their musical interest beyond Slovenia, towards less known ancient Slavic and other musical languages of the world and unusual styles of musical performance. Supported by unusual and mostly forgotten instruments, the musicians enrich and ennoble their performances with them. These restorers and keepers of the spiritual and sound messages of the world’s musical heritage also convey mutual links between the cultures, links between Slovene and foreign sound languages. They expose differences and similarities. They weave a sound yarn across time and space. They pull threads from the past into the present and future. With integrity and dignity, the musicians of the Vedun (Trutamora Slovenica) Ensemble present to the audience both the grandeur of sound and the colourfulness of Slovene and foreign musical
instruments and various musical tools of the past.