Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicholas Tomaskovic-Devey.
Hi Nicholas, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
There were a series of synchronistic events that brought me into an undeniable clarity of needing to become an acupuncturist, sound healer, reiki practitioner, and herbalist.
Those synchronicities probably began when I was a child in all honesty, but continued to develop as I studied world religion in college, spirituality, energy healing, yoga, nada yoga, breath work, plant medicine and holistic health into my 20’s and 30’s.
These synchronicities included powerful dreams, meetings with teachers, healers, wisdom keepers, elders, nature, the cosmos, and more.
Once I graduated Acupuncture School at the end of 2015, I got three jobs in Baltimore and a beautiful apartment in Bolton Hill where I could see clients and where my plants and crystals would be happy. My first three jobs were a community acupuncture site in Federal Hill, Penn North Recovery Center, and Dee’s Place Recovery Center, offering ear acupuncture, and community style acupuncture to those on their healing journey.
I have always considered myself an activist and a humanist, knowing in my bones that if we are not all free, none of us really are.
Working at Penn North, a true bastion of Light in West Baltimore near what was then the largest open air drug market on the east coast if not the country, we would treat dozens of people at a time with Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture and turn what felt like a pretty chaotic space, into a cathedral of meditators.
When I began playing sound healing music and leading meditations with ear acupuncture, people began having very deep healing experiences. It didn’t take me long to realize that very simple acupuncture mixed with guided meditations, and intentional Sound Scapes was extremely efficient at bringing people into what we could call regenerative states of consciousness.
When I say Regenerative states of consciousness, I mean, Reseting the nervous system, harmonizing the Heart, bringing rhythm to the lungs, and helping bring recipients into the depth of their being underneath the river thoughts, beliefs, addictions, pain, trauma, and opinions.
I worked with a lot of people who were really at rock bottom, and I saw how with literally hundreds of people, how group centered vibrational medicine could bring people back towards peace, center, and wholeness. It began to become clear to me that what our society really needed on a large scale was a culture of care, and spaces where people can have access to deep states of self healing, gnosis, and meditation – and – that we had the technology to do this.
Around this time I ordered a crystal bowl set off of eBay, an acquaintance loaned me a large gong while they were traveling, and I began opening up my voice in new ways that felt very good. I began collected second hand sound healing instruments from all over the east coast, and became kind of obsessed with the clarity of presence and thought that could come from these instruments when played with intentionality.
I had a knowing inside of me that if I could offer people simple acupuncture with live sound medicine, it would work, and it would work well. In 2022 once the height of the Covid Pandemic was over, I could feel the power of the spring equinox post pandemic shut down, and I knew it was time. I made a few phone calls to the local yogis I knew and found St. Lukes Church on the Avenue. St Lukes is a bastion of life in Baltimore, with dozens of weekly community events from yoga classes, child care, food not bombs, to Irish music classes.
I asked Pastor Jim if I could build the Acupuncture-Sound Bath in the sanctuary and he said absolutely. I asked my network of sound healers and acupuncturists to help, and they began to come through in so many ways, again and again, and still do.
I knew that we could provide high quality vibrational medicine in teams in ways that I had never heard of or seen before and that it would matter to a whole lot of people.
I began putting together what I claim to be one of the nicest if not the nicest crystal bowl sets on the east coast if not the country, with 6 big bass bowls, multiple octaves, and all the sharps and flats so we can make any chord, and in theory, vibrate and resonate all the physical and energetic structures of the human biofield.
In 2023 our codirector Sophia Wise-One from Philadelphia appeared having heard about what we were doing from some of her best friends. As a Childhood mystic, and highly trained and talented teacher and healer, she told me that she was obsessed with healing and efficiency, and that what we were doing was the most efficient thing she had seen at helping the general population reach deep states of healing without drugs or medication or dogmatic beliefs systems. She began helping us hone our craft to make what we do better and better at serving the people of Baltimore and Planet Earth.
Through our collaborations we have developed a replicable methodology for bringing groups of people into and out of deep states of healing.
We have been offering Acu-SoundBaths at St Lukes Church on the Avenue in Hamden for over 3 years now, as well as providing vibrational medicine to many inner city recovery centers and for special events around the city.
After winning best of Baltimore for 2025 for wellness and sound baths, we have begun offering hands of Reiki in addition to acupuncture and ambient Reiki during our 90 min sound baths.
We believe that if every major city in our country had a daily acupuncture sound bath that was affordable, beautiful, and heart centered, health care costs would dramatically fall in our country, peoples happiness levels would rise, inner genius would be activated and heightened, and there would be places for people to receive a culture of repose, regeneration, and care, helping to transform the collective consciousness towards, circles, vibration, heart centered being, self healing, gnosis, wisdom, freedom, and joy.
It is one of my missions to bring this to fruition, and Baltimore is the beginning.
Of course we need funding to make this possible.
I founded Harmony Works as a 501-c3 Non Profit because I believe healthcare should not be enacted “for profit,” and I knew that as a non-profit we would be able to receive tax deductible donations that could launch us into greater realms of service, communion, harmony, healing, and joy.
If you would like more information or to help us, visit our website at www.harmonyworksinc.org
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
We ask for a 44$ Donation at the door with no one turned away due to lack of funds. This is almost unheard of in our country, and I believe it is necessary to make this kind of medicine accessible to the people at large. People pay us all sorts of things, from 1$-111$ per session. Paying my team well has been a journey, often in the first two years, I would not pay myself or would greatly lower my pay from the donations in order to pay acupuncturists and sound healers what they deserve for their expertise.
Finding funding for what we are doing is paramount, so people can come and receive on a large scale.
I believe that the more people who have access to this modality, the more of a collectively regulated nervous system we will have, lowering health care costs, crime, stress, and increasing peace, wisdom, and kindness.
Working out of St Lukes has been a journey, with street sounds and locals with mental health illnesses causing occasional difficulties. We would very much like to have our own space that is acoustically sound and where we can leave our approximately 60 instruments that we set up and break down every week.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
We run weekly Acupuncture Reiki Sound Baths for the people at large.
Almost no one is doing anything like this in our country. Some people are doing similar seasonal events, we are running twice weekly for 3 and a half years working with large groups as a team to create vibrationally harmonized spaces for people to heal in. We are known for our exquisite sound healing instruments and musicians, vocalists, and hands on healers. I am most proud of our team, leadership, friendship, our 25 crystal bowl set, gongs, AND our other specialty offering, the Heart Song Initiative or Open Vocalization Circle. In this Circle every week from 5-6pm we invoke the divine force of Harmony, and the Mystery of our Hearts songs, and open the space for people to make Whatever Sounds they Want. This is consistently a gorgeous experience, with people weeping, yelling, laughing, and most importantly, singing improvised melodies from their hearts, with no orchestration, and as few normal words as possible to make thinking less needed.
The harmonies and melodies that come through people and our group are stunningly beautiful, moving, and full of hope for our world. Again, nobody is doing anything like this that I am aware of, and the possibility for people to express themselves and work for greater individual and collective freedom is massive.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
You know I used to be nervous that people would steal my ideas. I am no longer of that mindset as if someone can pull this kind of thing off, they should. It is a lot running a healing arts community, a team of healers, with a visionary mission. My advice to anyone starting out on a similar venture, would be to have a great team of people you like to make music with, be around, and trust. I wish I knew how fulfilling it would be to help thousands of people over the past few years soften and come into greater wholeness.
Pricing:
- Suggested 44 dollars with no one turned away due to lack of funds
- 99$ monthly membership
- Tax deductible donations
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.harmonyworksinc.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmony.works_/
- Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/harmonyworkswellness
- Youtube: @Harmonyworksinc
