By Sunny Lane | The Drift – Tales from the Street
For Debra Fleeger, therapeutic doesn’t dwell in a single place. It resonates. It travels. It echoes off canyon partitions and settles into the quiet corners of lakeside cities. A sound and breath work facilitator based mostly in Sedona, Arizona, Debra has spent years weaving sacred music into her work—and now, she’s taken that providing on the street.
Born in Gary, Indiana, Debra has known as Sedona dwelling for over 20 years. However lengthy earlier than vanlife formally grew to become a part of her id, she and her husband had been already seasoned street vacationers, journeying for weeks at a time in a leisure van, then later in an Airstream. That rhythm of motion grew to become a part of their shared language. Nonetheless, Debra wanted one thing extra intentional for her observe—an area that would carry not simply her physique, however her devices, her power, and her mission.
“That’s when Drifter Vans got here into my life,” she says.
Her customized construct, now affectionately named Padmani (a reference to her religious title, Padmani Akal Kaur), was designed to accommodate her assortment of sacred devices—crystal singing bowls, gongs, tuning forks—with care and stability.
“The lotus, Padmani, is about rising from the mud to bloom,” Debra explains. “That’s what therapeutic is. And that’s what this journey is.”

The primary time she drove Padmani was straight off the Drifter Vans lot, en path to Traverse Metropolis, Michigan for a therapeutic occasion. “It drove so easily I virtually didn’t belief it,” she laughs. “These first few days, I known as Kim extra occasions than I can rely—determining the ability techniques, studying the circulate of issues. He was extremely affected person.”
Whereas she had beforehand traveled in a bigger Sprinter van, she discovered it much less accommodating for her devices. Her Drifter construct, against this, was the primary house that really felt like a sacred container for each work and relaxation.
Embracing Sound Therapeutic Vanlife Throughout the Nation
Now, Debra strikes throughout the nation providing therapeutic classes within the communities she feels known as to serve. Her travels usually take her by the desert Southwest, the place the purple rock silence invitations stillness and presence.
And but, she admits Northern Michigan nonetheless tugs at her soul. “The sunshine on the lakes, the peace within the woods—it at all times whispers to me: keep some time.”

Journey, for Debra, is a sacred mix of spontaneity and intention. Her time on the street isn’t just transportation, however transformation.
“To be on the street is to recollect: simplicity, connection, and peace are at all times inside attain. The journey turns into the session—every mile a word, every cease a breath, every providing a reminder that therapeutic can occur wherever.”
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