On 21 April 2026, Lizzo gathered some of her favorite artists and collaborators in Los Angeles for something that resisted easy categorization. Part conversation, part music, part collective awareness – the “Conscious Music Circle” brought together a group of creatives and one very extraordinary guest: Sadhguru.

Held outdoors, the evening opened with Sadhguru in conversation with the artists gathered. He started simply, almost disarmingly: “Life is just a combination of two things – a certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy. You may think many things about yourself, but actually, you’re just a certain amount of time and certain amount of energy. Energy runs out or time runs out. One of these things will happen to all of us.”

From there, the conversation moved fluidly – from the nature of time and mortality to the extraordinary complexity of the human body, the quality of attention, and what it actually means to live well. Sadhguru spoke about prana, or life energy, and how its intensity determines the quality of everything we experience. “If your life energies are at a certain level of intensity,” he said, “what someone does in ten years, you may do in one year.”

Sadhguru also spoke about the five layers of the human system described in Yogic science – the annamaya, manomaya, pranamaya, vijnanamaya, and anandamaya koshas – noting that most people never learn to work beyond the physical and mental dimensions of their lives.

He was characteristically direct about mortality. “When we were born, we got the death sentence. And they don’t tell you when and how.” But rather than leaving it there, he turned it around: “The more you realize that you have a limited amount of time, the more exuberant you should become, because it’s a limited amount of time.” A Shankaran Pillai joke that drove home the point drew plenty of laughter.

The Q&A that followed was candid and at times personal. Artists asked real questions and got real answers. One exchange that landed particularly hard was about memory and why so many people feel stuck. “Most human beings are slaves of the memories that they carry,” Sadhguru said. “And most of the memories that you carry are unconscious, so they play out. They arrange things within you; they arrange things around you.” 

The whole point of sadhana, he explained, is to rise above that cycle – not to erase memory, but to no longer be driven by it. “You cannot be fully conscious if memory is playing up, because memory is a repetitive, cyclical process. You keep going in circles.” And if the practice doesn’t lift you above those circles naturally? “We have to put you in a spin dryer. Then, you’ll want to come out.”

Sadhguru has a way of making the profound practical and the esoteric experiential. He spoke about bliss not as a lofty spiritual concept but as something measurable, even biochemical.

Research shows that practitioners experience a threefold increase in brain‑derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and endocannabinoid levels rise by about 70 percent within six to twelve weeks of practice. “They are saying the bliss factor in the body is 23 percent higher than sexual orgasm. That’s how it should be all the time. Look at me – always blissed out,” he said.

Then the music started.

SZA, Doechii, Baby Rose, James Fauntleroy, UMI, Aneesa Strings, Dizzy Fae, Tanerelle, QUIÑ, and Xiuhtezcatl gathered in an open-air jam session that was entirely unscripted. No setlists, no stage, no separation between performer and listener.

Lizzo picked up her flute – what followed was described by some as a “spiritual anthem.”

At one point, some in the circle broke into a simple refrain that seemed to echo their spiritual practices: “Breathe in, breathe out.”

As the music flowed on, Sadhguru stood swaying gently to the melodies.