Meditative Chants And Sacred Mantras

A Minimalist Invocation At Biohacker Summit 2022 Helsinki

On Friday, 3 June 2022, in Helsinki, Finland, the Belenos Group of Arts brought its Belenos show to the stage at Biohacker Summit 2022 Helsinki, offering a performance that distilled ritual, rhythm and presence into a handful of words.

Known for a decade of visually striking ensemble work, the Helsinki-based professional performing group has built its reputation on flow arts, polished choreography, and memorable fire and light shows. Yet in this brief presentation, the speaker, Belenos Group of Arts, turned to something more spare and interior: a mantra-like sequence that suggested acceptance, repetition and stillness.

A Sequence Built On Surrender

The show opened with a simple instruction: “Let it be.” In four syllables, the performance established its emotional register. The phrase carried the familiar force of release, of allowing events to unfold without struggle, and it framed the rest of the sequence as an exercise in non-resistance.

What followed was not argument or exposition, but invocation.

The Rhythm Of “Ram” And “Sa”

The next utterance, “Ram,” introduced a sacred and meditative resonance. Positioned alone, it acted as a pivot between the opening statement of acceptance and the rhythmic cycle that came after.

Then came the deliberate pattern: “Sa. Sa. Sa.” The triple repetition gave the piece its pulse. It created cadence, structure and a sense of disciplined return, as if the performance were tightening its focus with each recurrence.

The repetition did not expand meaning so much as deepen it. Each “Sa” felt less like a new statement than a renewed descent into concentration.

Ending In Absolute Presence

The final word, “It,” arrived with striking economy. After the release of “Let it be,” the resonance of “Ram,” and the circular rhythm of “Sa” repeated three times, the conclusion landed on a single, bare pronoun.

That closing gesture anchored the sequence in immediacy. It suggested not abstraction, but direct presence: the thing itself, the object of attention, the final point where language stops and awareness remains.

A Brief Performance With Meditative Force

The transcript of the Belenos show was concise: “Let it be. Ram. Sa. Sa. Sa. It.” Six segments, separated by punctuation, formed the entirety of the spoken structure. But within that brevity lay a complete internal arc, from acceptance to resonance, from repetition to arrival.

At Biohacker Summit 2022 Helsinki, Belenos Group of Arts demonstrated that performance need not be expansive to be affecting. In this spare vocal sequence, the ensemble offered a language of stillness, one that reduced expression to its essentials and left behind the feeling of a mantra suspended in air.

Frequently asked questions

What was the Belenos show?

A performance that distilled ritual, rhythm and presence into a handful of words, brought to the summit by the Belenos Group of Arts, a Helsinki-based professional performing group known for a decade of visually striking ensemble work.

How did the sequence open?

With a single instruction: Let it be. In four syllables the performance established its emotional register, carrying the familiar force of release and framing everything that followed as an exercise in non-resistance rather than argument or exposition.

What was the structure of the piece?

The word Ram introduced a sacred and meditative resonance, acting as a pivot into the rhythmic cycle that followed. Then came the deliberate pattern of Sa repeated three times, giving the piece its pulse, before it closed on a single bare pronoun.

About the event

This recap is part of the Biohacker Summit 2022 Helsinki series, recorded in Helsinki on 3 and 4 June 2022. Read the summary of the whole event or join the next edition, HOLOLIFE Summit 2026 Amsterdam, on 14 and 15 November 2026.