About Jacco Viljoen
Jacco is a cellist, systems thinker, marketer and lifelong explorer of the relationship between inner life and practical life. Resonance Wellness is where those strands are beginning to form one coherent body of work.
The page begins with Jacco as he is now. Music, professional life and reflective inquiry then become the distinct threads of the story.
The person behind the work
Jacco, todayWarm, direct and human before the ideas begin.The person behind the work
The cello taught Jacco that listening is active. A player attends to pitch and rhythm, but also to the living response between bow, string, wood, body and space. That experience became an enduring way of understanding people and ideas.
His working life developed another kind of attentiveness: to systems, evidence, communication and practical consequences. Alongside it has run a sustained exploration of psychology, spirituality, consciousness and the practices that help a person live with greater awareness.
Resonance Wellness does not ask those worlds to compete. It is an attempt to let analytical intelligence, embodied experience, creativity and reflective inquiry inform one another.
Music as lived experience
Music has never been separate from Jacco’s reflective life. In periods of difficulty and change, it has offered companionship and continuity: not an answer, but a way of staying present to what words could not yet hold.
That experience is one reason music belongs within Resonance Wellness. It is not presented as treatment or as a promise of what listening will do. It is part of Jacco’s own history of attention, feeling and meaning.
A recording with the room left in
Jacco recorded this traditional Catalan song at home on Christmas Day 2002. The birds audible outside the room have been left in place; they belong to the atmosphere of the performance.
No autoplay. The performance, birds and domestic room tone are heard as one recording.
From the archive
Recorded and released in 2001, Exodus brings together musical work that preceded Resonance Wellness by more than two decades.
Selected performancesGuide Me Home · Who Wants to Live Forever · Man of La Mancha · Bahia Blanca
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Watch the live performance One piece, carried forward
During an overwhelming period in 1991, this music became a source of steadiness for Jacco. The live performance is shared as part of his personal history—not as evidence that suffering disappears, and not as a prescription for anyone else.
Watch the live performance on YouTubeFour continuing threads
These are not credentials assembled for effect. They are the recurring disciplines through which Jacco has learned.
As a cellist, Jacco knows resonance first as a physical and relational experience: string, instrument, room, player and listener responding together.
His professional life in technology, financial work and marketing has trained him to recognise patterns, organise complexity and translate ideas into useful action.
Meditation, breath, shadow work, philosophy, spirituality and consciousness research have formed a long, non-dogmatic search for meaning.
The value of an insight is tested in how it is lived: in work, relationship, service, judgement and the consequences of one’s choices.
A story still being written
Jacco’s relationship with the I Ching stretches back to 2001 and has changed considerably over time: from reliance on its answers towards a more measured practice of reflection, discernment and personal responsibility.
A thoughtful beginning
If something here resonates, you are welcome to send Jacco a message through the protected contact form.
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