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PROGRAMS
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2010
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The
INCONCEIVABLE CONCERT
March 12 - 8PM
At Voice Loft
Not to be Missed!
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Healing
& Subtle Energy
Teaching and Workshop
with Lama Tharchin
March 27
4:30 to 8:30
at Voice Loft
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Devotional
Chanting
resumes
Thursday evenings
at Voice Loft
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Medicine
Melodies:
with Silvia Nakkach
April, 24 - 25
at CIIS
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Drumming
Workshop Series
Enjoy DRUMOLOGY
The Art of stress-free Traditional-Drumming
with Val Serrant
MAY 12, 19, 26
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DEVOTIONAL
CHANT
& RAGA SINGING
MAY 22-23
in ASHLAND, OR
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Pure
Rasa
Sacred Art meets
Wild Nature
in Kona, Hawaii,
May 26, June 1st
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THE
SRUTI BOX
ESSENTIAL WORKSHOP
June 8
at Voice Loft
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Sound,
Voice and
Music Healing
June, 16, July 22, August,
28
at CIIS
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Returning
to Vox Mundi Project birthplace!
A Musical Journey to ITALY
July 1 to 7th
at Villa Lina, Ronciglione
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Teacher
Training
July 13 11-7:30PM
At The Voice Loft
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ANNUAL
MUSIC RETREAT
THE X SUMMER INTENSIVE
In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ca
July 15-21/2010
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STUDY
ABROAD:
Bahia & Rio, Brasil
Sacred Chant & Dance,
Magic &Healing
July 28-August 12
TBA
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Yoga of the Voice
Intensive Training
Voice, Sound and Music Shamanism
at THE VOICE LOFT
October 15 - 17
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The
Art of Improvisation
Silvia and David Darling
September 24-26
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Music
for Healing & Transition Program, Inc
October, 22
at The Voice Loft
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Study
Abroad
Amazing
Music Journeys 2010
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2011
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STUDY ABROAD:
INDIA
Devotion and Divine Anarchy
January 2011
Varanasi, Rajasthan & Delhi
for small group
Register Now
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| About
Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice
It is an international project
founded in 1988 by award-winning composer, former
psychologist and voice-culturist Silvia Nakkach,
it is the only organization of its kind devoted
to researching, teaching, and preserving sacred
and cross-cultural of vocal arts and music. Students
study in depth the integrative use of sound, chant,
and music to transform consciousness, to support
healing processes, and as a spiritual practice,
enhancing the connection between mind-body-spirit.
The programs include; preservation of recordings
of unusual vocal arts, performances, healing arts
training, and study abroad programs to countries
and cultures where sacred music is still a vital
component of daily life, spirituality and community.
Vox Mundi sponsors the internationally renowned
Yoga of the Voice certificate
training. The Vox Mundi Project and School is
based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with centers
throughout the USA, Europe, Brazil, Argentina,
and India. Vox Mundi is one of the few creative
arts organizations today that supports the education
and performance of secret arts and thousands of
healing music artists, revitalizing the experience
of music as a liberating spiritual practice.
Vox Mundi Project and School of
Sound and the Voice
4053 Harlan St, #202, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
e-mail: voxmundi@yahoo.com
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Yoga
of the Voice™
Liberating
the Voice through Mantra Chanting
Silvia Nakkach
January 31 – February 2, 2010
Course Details
“ Chanting is a significant
and mysterious practice. It is the
highest nectar, a tonic that fully
nourishes our inner being. Chanting
opens the heart and makes loves flow
within us. It releases such intoxicating
inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor,
that simply through the nectar it
generates, we can enter the abode
of the Self.” Swami Muktananda
This course offers
in-depth experience of the various
dimensions of the healing voice: the
contemplative, the expressive, the
shamanic, and the ecstatic. Embark
on a beguiling sound healing journey
as renowned composer and music healer
Silvia Nakkach introduces the Yoga
of the Voice, a set of nada yoga,
bhakti and shakti chanting practices
to calm and focus the mind, balance
the body, and transform consciousness,
offering a precise integration of
the discipline of yoga with contemporary
techniques of singing, sound healing,
music therapy and improvisation to
rediscover our true energetic nature.
We also explore scientific and creative
ways to overcome any vocal impediment,
becoming familiar with transcendental
uses of sound. Each session includes
breathing practices and an evocative
repertoire of Tibetan and Vedic mantras,
Indian ragas, magical seed sounds,
vocal meditation exercises, kirtan,
and shamanic songs from Afro-Brazilian
and Native American traditions. The
voice wanders through an ocean of
trancelike sounds, creating optimal
coordination between left and right
brain hemispheres that results in:
decreased muscle tension, lowered
blood pressure, improved circulation,
relief from stress, emotional harmony,
increased mental acuity and enhanced
creativity. Liberating your voice
bolsters confidence in your professional
path and personal sadhana (spiritual
practice). The practices you learn
can be directly applied to sound healing,
yoga classes, chanting circles, and
psycho-spiritual growth. We will discuss
the different stages of setting up
and maintaining a regular sacred sound
practice. Playing skills in simple
instruments will be included. This
course is open to all levels of musical
experience.
Presenter
Silvia Nakkach
Silvia Nakkach M.A.,MMT; Named by
Utne Reader magazine as one of forty
cutting-edge artists that will shake
the art world in the new millennium.
She has cultivated a voice that transport
the listeners into the heart of devotion.
She is pioneer in the field of sound
and transformation of consciousness,
an award-winning composer, a psychologist,
a voice-culturist, and an author.
She has created an innovated repertoire
of vocal therapeutic techniques that
have become landmarks in the field
of sound and music therapy, and voice
coaching. She is on the faculty at
the California Institute of Integral
Studies in San Francisco where she
is the coordinator of a Certificate
program on Sound, Voice and Music
Healing. She is the founding director
of the international Vox Mundi School
of the Voice and the creator of the
ground-breaking Yoga of the Voice
training.
Cost
Tuition: US$325. Add 4 nights' accommodation.
For accommodation rates see rates.
Arrival and Departure
Please plan to arrive at the Yoga
Retreat at least one day before the
start of the course and to leave at
least one day after the course completion.
We recommend that
you spend at least a few days in the
Yoga Retreat before the start of your
course. This allows your body and
mind time to rest, re-energize and
be nourished by the ashram environment.
You can then begin your study feeling
relaxed and refreshed. You may also
wish to stay for some days after the
end of the course to allow the learning
from your study to integrate more
fully into your consciousness within
the supportive environment of the
ashram. If you decide to arrive early
and to stay longer, please register
for the Yoga Vacation Program for
those additional days. Please see
calendar of events for guest programs
on offer around the time of your visit.
Reservations
Please register on line or print the
application form and fax it to the
Yoga Retreat at fax number: 1-242-363-3783.
Then call to give a credit card deposit
and to confirm your reservation at
1-866-446-5934 1-866-446-5934 or 1-242-363-2902
. A US$150 deposit is required for
your registration. For our cancellation
policy please see cancellations.
Tuition Discounts
If you enrol simultaneously in more
than one course, discounts apply as
follows:
2 courses 5% discount
3 courses 10% discount
4 courses 15% discount
5 courses and more 20% discount
Payment for all courses
registered for is required in full
on arrival in the ashram.
To register
http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/index.php?page_id=2005
Yoga
of Sound and Voice Training
Certification Course
with John Beaulieu and Silvia
Nakkach and Michael Knapp
Dr. John Beaulieu
N.D., Ph.D. and Thea Keats Beaulieu
January 24 - 31, 2010
Course Details
In the Yoga of Sound Training you
will discover the importance of sound
in yoga tradition and learn different
methods to integrate sound and healing.
When yoga traditions are united with
modern science the result is an accountable
approach for using sound in the healing
arts and a greater understanding of
the use of sound in yoga practices.
Yoga of Sound Training integrates
Cymatics, the science of wave phenomena,
molecular research, and yoga philosophy
into a practical and effective approach
for working with sound.
The training begins
with teachings on the universality
of vibration and how to perceive ourselves
as beings of sound through the practice
of special methods of observation
and evaluation. Special emphasis is
given to understanding and perceiving
the universal movement of sound and
rhythm in all aspects of life, and
developing the skills to evaluate
these movements into quantifiable
behaviors. These behavioral categories
were given the names Ether, Air, Fire,
Water, and Earth in yoga philosophy
and were used as the basis for the
application of sound, music, visualization,
movement, and dance in healing and
yoga practices. Students will learn
how to evaluate and work with the
five elements for healing and increased
well-being in all aspects of life.
Specific methods are taught to tune
the nervous system and balance the
five elements. These include the use
of BioSonic tuning forks, toning,
five element voice, movement and music
analysis, visualization, and the art
of mantra. Special emphasis will be
given to the effect of "OM-ing"
and other uses of sound in yoga classes.
The material presented
emphasizes the relationship between
the healing arts and the practice
of yoga. Sound and yoga teachings
can be integrated into the practices
of medicine, nursing, massage, acupuncture,
energy healing modalities, psychotherapy,
osteopathic and chiropractic medicine.
Understanding the relationship between
sound and yoga empowers the practice
and teaching of yoga. If you have
ever wondered about sound and music
and how it effects yourself and others
or if you want to learn how to use
sound to help yourself and others
--- then this course is for you.
BioSonic Repatterning™
training is world recognized and represents
the highest training standards in
the field of Sound Healing.Certificates
recognised worldwide will be available
for all graduates of the course. Please
see www.biosonics.com
for more information.
Curriculum
Cymatics: The science of waves
Nitric Oxide: The molecular science
of neurotransmitters and sound
Sonic Anatomy: The body as sound and
Five Star Evaluation
The levels of listening
How to use tuning forks for healing
Five element voice and movement evaluation
Behavioural evaluation of the five
elements
Science, mantras, and how to give
mantras for health and well-being
The healing power of music and how
to recommend music
Toning: Using the voice to release
stress
Presenters
John Beaulieu N.D., Ph.D.
John Beaulieu N.D., Ph.D.is a world
leader in the use of sound for healing
and well-being. He has practiced meditation
and yoga for forty years and oversees
molecular research on the healing
effects of music and sound. He is
the author of Human Tuning and Music
and Sound In The Healing Arts.
Thea
Keats Beaulieu
Thea Keats Beaulieu is a dance therapist
and past principle dancer for the
Isadora Duncan Dance Companies of
New York and San Francisco. Her speciality
is integrating five element movement
patterns and music through a unique
series of exercises.
John Beaulieu has
invited Silvia Nakkach and Michael
Knapp to present "Yoga of the
Voice™" as a part of this
program. Please see Yoga of the Voice™,
Silvia Nakkach, Michael Knapp
Prerequisite
This course is open to all.
Certification
Course graduates receive a certificate
signed by the Sivananda Ashram Yoga
Retreat and Dr. John Beaulieu. Upon
completion of the training each student
will also be eligible for a BioSonic
Repatterning™ certificate. BioSonic
Repatterning™ certificates are
world recognized and represent the
highest training standards in the
field of Sound Healing.
Cost
Tuition: US$450.00. Add 8 nights’
accommodation. For accommodation rates
see
rates.
Arrival and
Departure
The course starts at 11:00am on January
25 and ends at 6:00pm on January 31.
Please plan to arrive
at the Yoga Retreat at least one day
before the start of the course and
to leave at least one day after the
course completion.
We recommend that
you spend at least a few days in the
Yoga Retreat before the start of your
course. This allows your body and
mind time to rest, re-energise and
be nourished by the ashram environment.
You can then begin your study feeling
relaxed and refreshed. You may also
wish to stay for some days after the
end of the course to allow the learning
from your study to integrate more
fully into your consciousness within
the supportive environment of the
ashram. If you decide to arrive early
and to stay longer, please register
for the Yoga
Vacation Program for those additional
days. Please see calendar
of events for guest programs on offer
around the time of your visit.
Reservations
Please reserve your accommodation
by going to register
on line or print
the application form and faxing
the form to the Yoga Retreat at fax
number: 1-242-363-3783. Then please
call us to give a credit card deposit
and to confirm your reservation at
1-866-446-5934 or 1-242-363-2902.
A US$150 deposit is required for your
registration. For our cancellation
policy please see cancellations.
Tuition Discounts
If you enrol simultaneously in more
than one course, discounts apply as
follows:
2 courses 5% discount
3 courses 10% discount
4 courses 15% discount
5 courses and more 20% discount
Payment for all courses
registered for is required in full
on arrival in the ashram.
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Policy
If
tuition is paid in full, a refund
of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if
only a deposit was received
for any Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Follow
your Bliss
Walking
Together the Path towards
Manifestation and Service
A Mentoring and Advanced
Leadership Training for Voice
and Sound Practitioners
A Yearlong cohort Program facilitated
by Silvia Nakkach and other
cutting-edge leaders in the field
Meeting in the Field of Personal
and Social Transformation, Education,
Transformation, Education, and
Performance through Sound,
Voice and Music
Facilitated by Silvia
Nakkach
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February
20 - 11-6Pm
first session of the core
group
at The Voice
Loft, Emeryville
Please bring some simple ready
made organic food to share
Fees: $1,650 - or three
instalments of $ 600- for
other payments plans please
contact the office.
Pre-Registration Required
- Minimum Registration deposit
of $600
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About the Yearlong Mentoring &Training:
“Mentors
are midwives to the psychic birth
of a dream… mentors are bridges
between the individual genius and
an ancient lineage of creative divinity.”
Michael Meade
The Intention
To support, teach,
guide and empower a small group
of sound and music practitioners
in their journey towards professional
development and manifestation of
their dream work and service.
As Chagdud Tulku
Rinpoche would describe:
Through my Buddha nature, I’ll
be like a mapmaker who has traveled
to the place you want to go and
can show you how to reach your destination
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During more than
30 years of uninterrupted and evolving
practice as and music educator and
an active musician, I realized that
close and in-depth ‘mentoring’
is the precious ‘link’
towards realization, or building
the mandala of a healing artist
life and work. I have studied and
received the support of my main
teachers for as long as they have
lived, and that is the main reason
behind the clarity, devotional bliss,
and success of my path. I realized
that this is the missing piece that
my students and sound practitioners
- at all levels - are longing for
in their practice in the world,
and as an essential aspect of their
spiritual freedom.
Through this Advance
Training my intention - as a midwife
of the birth of consciousness through
sound - is to bridge that gap, to
share the journey, to ignite the
motivation when seems to weaken,
to offer and designed teachings
according to the evolving interest
and the stages of manifestation
of the particular practitioner’s
aspiration.
The Format;
Collaboration and Benefits
Sound activates
our memory and our intellect immediately.
The healing effect of sound in the
psyche and the body is profound
and the pace of sound and brain
research is happening at the speed
of light. On the other hand, working
with sound can make us feel anxious,
as we identify with its intensity
and power, and we attempt for more
and faster information and achievements.
Thus, we will highly benefit from
having individual guidance and a
community of practitioners to collaborate
and to share our steps towards manifesting
our sound aspirations, while refining
our skillful means and quality of
service.
The ideal stage
or community for this kind of achievement
is a small group of practitioners
with similar interests, and with
diverse cultural background and
skills. The group will be a cohort,
meaning that we will start and end
with the same people.
Sharing
the Mystery
We, the teachers,
always can teach more, and new things
from our infinite repertoire of
practices and music, but the teacher
rarely knows how much the student
was able to absorb, learn, and integrate.
Each person capacity and ways of
listening is a mystery. The most
abundant and sophisticate information
is available at all times, although
taking more and more classes with
many teachers might leave little
time for in-depth integration and
nurturing silence. Indeed, it might
lead to fusion and confusion.
To reach the
top of the mountain we need to find
the path that's best for each of
us, but the important thing is that
we go forward step by step and not
keep changing paths.
Areas of
Study ~ Partial List
Music and Sound
Therapies,
Shamanic Healing,
Voice Development
Steps to develop a Business in your
field.
Group Dynamics.
Steps towards Spiritual Realization
Master classes, healing, and clinics
with the most accomplished cutting-edge
professional in the field of Music,
Shamanism, and Transformation of
Consciousness
What You
will Learn, Experience, Share, and
Develop:
Understand and
enjoy cycles of gestation and creation
Releasing and detaching from Self-criticism
Inviting passion and exploration
Ways to cope with practical matters
such as performance anxiety and
financial hardship
in your way towards building a business
in sound and music healing.
Professional skills on Energy Balancing
through the use sound and chanting
Identify and healing of ancestral
and inner wounds that might delay
your development
Engaging the spirit world, the shamanic,
and the sacred nature of your creative
inquiry
Conveying rasa (passion-deep aesthetic
emotions) in all expressions and
practices
Effective communication and dialogue–
with your dream-work, with others,
and with spirit
How to pace your intention, purpose
and stages of manifestation, in
time, practice, and silence
Support in maintaining a positive
and productive daily practice
Revealing and nurture your devotional
Self, helping you to believe in
what you believe
Entering non-ordinary states of
consciousness through singing and
making music
Learning to foster and engage in
Creative Collaborations
Becoming familiar with the spiritual
dynamics of your quest
Group Facilitation
How to open and
close resonant fields
How to facilitate groups and music
circles getting people’s attention
and the best of all participants
Balance the role of studying and
leading
Faculty
~ Partial List
Main Mentor & Master Interweaver:
Silvia Nakkach, M.A.,MMT
John Beaulieu, Val Serrant, Pauline
Oliveros, Alba Lirio, Jeanne Franke,
Christine Stevens, Julie Berghofer
and Clive Robbins, and various international
musicians, shamanic practitioners
and healers.
- The faculty will
be chosen according presenters availability
and the particular participant’s
interests and inquiry ~
Time,
Schedule and Stages of Development
The initial timing
to get acquaintance with your
aspiration, the mentor and the
group is a year – with a
possible extension of three more
months - according to the particular
circumstances. Initially, will
have a year commitment. We will
meet every month from February
to February, except in August.
The schedule includes a-daylong
(11-6 pm) weekend meetings that
alternate every other month with
a-three- hour evening meeting.
Each practitioner will have at
least one or two individual session
with the mentor during the Training
as needed. The first group meeting
will be a-day-long weekend
in February 2010.
Complete Schedule
will be Final according to the
availability of the Core Group.
Flexibility will be appreciated.
• The
First Stage of the training
consist in seminars and master
classes, outreach in the community,
and the creation of events that
involve and evolve the practitioner’s
topics and areas of interest.
All kind of resources and supervision
will be available.
• During
the Second Stage
of the mentoring and training,
the practitioners become the teachers.
They will be presenting their
modalities and topics in the form
that they prefer, or is appropriate
for the particular theme. For
example, those who are interested
in performance will offer concerts,
those interested in particular
forms of sound remedies or music
healing will offer clinics, those
interested in yoga and sound will
offer classes, etc. These events
will have the rest of the group
as the audience, except for Performances
and Musical Offering that might
be open to the extended community.
Most of these events will be attended
by the mentor, or mentors, and
will be taken as an opportunity
to evolve the practice towards
manifestation.
• During
the time in between meetings practitioners
will have a customized curriculum
of practices, recordings, and
home assignments
• The Third
Stage is sound ritual and ceremonies.
We will celebrate together your
accomplishments.
The whole, the
sacred, and the aesthetic evoke
each other, Gregory Bateson
Who Should
Attend and Might Benefit
Musicians, Singers, Kirtan leaders,
Yoga teachers, Nurses with an
interest in sound, Yoga of the
Voice students and practitioner
of Sound, Voice, and Music and
Transformation of Consciousness,
Therapists, Health Care and Shamanic
practitioners that are interested
in clearing, refining, and developing
new way to communicate their gift
and skills, build a successful
business, and have a guidance
and a community to share their
evolving practice and process.
Admission
Requirements
Admission will be open till April
1st. Contact the Vox Mundi office
via e-mail ASAP and request a
phone interview with Silvia Nakkach
at 510- 595 0819.
The very limited number of participants
of this cohort requires that those
who will form the core group make
a positive and comfortable connection
among themselves and with the
main mentor.
SCHEDULE: Group
will meet once a month 3 or 6
hours except for the month of
August - It will be a field trip
weekend and a two day weekend.
FEES:
1,650 - if paid in full.
- $1,800- in instalments
Includes all
group sessions with all teachers,
home curriculum, and individual
mentoring and healing sessions.
Payment in instalments
is available – through Bank
deposit or Pay Pal
THIS PROGRAMS REQUIRE
PRE-PAID REGISTRATION
To
Register:
Download & Print and Mail
a Registration Form with your
payment
Make your check payable to
Vox Mundi
If Payment
through PAY PAL must add a
4%.
Address: Vox
Mundi Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the
School via email at all times:
voxmundi@yahoo.com
This operation
is safe and is through PAY
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2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
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Special
Workshops with chant master, Silvia
Nakkach
AWAKEN THE SPIRIT OF THE
VOICE with SILVIA NAKKACH
We invite you to Free your voice
and learn to soar into who you are,
with prayer and devotion. A weekend
of Chant, Improvisation, Voices
of our Ancestors....Yoga of the
Voice tm, a spiritual practice,
creating medicine and sound health
with the voice. A remarkable pioneer
in the sound healing world and chant
master, Silvia Nakkach is coming
to Santa Fe, NM to facilitate a
weekend transformational journey,
to open the heart through the voice.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Please call for more information
at 505-471-5676 or 660-2526. Beauty
Be in Song!
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more and listen
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Friday, June
5th 7pm-9pm
Sat., June 6 10:30am5:30pm
Sun. June 7 10:30am-1pm
$200
You can also attend one day.
Ask about pricing for one
day.
To register for this special
workshop please reply back
to this email and you will
receive more information
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ALL PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID
REGISTRATIONS
To
Register:
Download & Print and Mail
a Registration Form with your
payment
Make your check payable to
Vox Mundi
If Payment
through PAY PAL must add a
4%.
Address: Vox
Mundi Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the
School via email at all times:
voxmundi@yahoo.com
This operation
is safe and is through PAY
PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an
extra 4%
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The
VOX MUNDI SCHOOL of THE VOICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Since our first year, we have
been received an unprecedented
overwhelming response from student.The
Registration to program get's
filled up and people have to be
in waiting lists to see if they
can get inn. The Program has an
stellar line-up of cutting-edge
master teachers and workshops,
and is the first curriculum of
its kind probably in the world.
You can read all you might want
to know about the program and
students testimonies on this CIIS
site:
http://www.ciis.edu/About_CIIS/Public_Programs/Sound_Certificate.html
Be sure to Register
Soon if you wish to attend this
unique course. Feel free to contact
Silvia Nakkach directly at voxmundi@yahoo.com
if you have curriculum related
questions, and for administration
and registration contact CIIS
directly.
Don’t miss the
INFORMATION SESSION:
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Thursday, July 22, 7-9PM
Saturday, August 28, 10AM-12PM
CIIS, 1453 Mission Street
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ABOUT
THE CERTIFICATE
Led by Silvia Nakkach and leading
experts in the field of sound
healing, this 200-hour certificate
program offers an extensive study
of sound, music, and chanting
to support therapeutic and growth
processes. The program integrates
theory and practice in a comprehensive
curriculum built upon both scientific
research and spiritual wisdom
traditions. Students gain a solid
foundation in sound healing and
experience firsthand sound’s
tremendous potential for personal
transformation and spiritual awakening.
The first certificate program
of its kind in the nation, our
year-long, 200-hour program offers
students an in-depth study of
sound’s power to transform
consciousness and facilitate healing
and well-being. The Certificate
program is appropriate for anyone
in the healing and clinical professions,
as well as educators, musicians,
yoga practitioners, and spiritual
seekers.
The 2010-2011
program's distinguished lineup
of instructors include Silvia
Nakkach, Clive Robbins, Evelyn
Glennie, Glen Velez, Mingtong
Gu, John Beaulieu, David Darling,
Christine Stevens, Pat M. Cook,
and many more of the most precise
teachers of each modality of using
sound, voice and music in healing.
No other institution or academic
school offers such a multi-cultural,
integrative, and scientific approach
and experience of this ancient
and vibrant new field of music
and transformation of consciousness.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Visit http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms/sound/
Phone: 415.575.6175
WHO SHOULD
APPLY
No previous experience in sound
healing is necessary. The Certificate
is designed for anyone who has a
strong interest in learning about
the transformative powers of sound,
including health care professionals,
psychologists, clinicians, educators,
musicians, singers, sound healers,
music therapists, yoga practitioners,
body workers, and spiritual seekers.
HERE’S WHAT
A 2006 CIIS GRADUATE AND A STAFF
MEMBER HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE VALUE
OF LEARNING SOUND HEALING AND ABOUT
SILVIA NAKKACH, THE SOUND CERTIFICATE
CREATOR & COORDINATOR:
“My own
experience over many years as a
yoga practitioner and teacher, as
well as a Vedic chanting and Carnatic
music student, has led me to seek
out teachers and guides who really
understand the field of sound therapy
as practitioners as well as scholars.
Silvia (Nakkach) is a leader in
the world of healing with the voice,
and is able to transmit her knowledge
on multiple levels. Every class
I was fortunate enough to participate
in with her was filled with laughter,
sweetness, and a deep sense of connection
to the source of sound. She is a
pioneer in her ability to incorporate
various traditions, and really express
the heart and core of each one with
great integrity, wisdom, and a sense
of playfulness. Most importantly,
she has an incredible ability to
connect with each student and to
bring out his or her highest potential
as a healer.”
Jake Pollack, 2006
Graduate, MA, Integrative Health
Studies
"I am thrilled about the
new sound healing certificate program.
As a hypnotherapist and past student
of Silvia Nakkach, I’ve learned
how to use sound as a container
for clients’ healing and how
sound carries the client deeper
and more inward or from one state
of awareness to another. Personally,
sound healing has been libratory
as it has helped me to move out
of the mind’s habits and perceptions
during the highs and lows of my
life. The primary realizations I
have had about how sound can function
in community, in the client-therapist
relationship, and individually have
been priceless. I'm excited about
what else I will learn".
Angie Choi, Student and Faculty
Services Manager
School of Consciousness and Transformation
FOR MORE
INFORMATION GO TO:
http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms/sound/
and READ THE NEWSLETTER
at:
http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms/newsletter/may06web.htm
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Mysticism
of Sound and Music in Shamanic
Practices
with Silvia Nakkach
at CIIS
Oct 3 & Oct 4
10:00- 5:30PM
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Oct 3 &
4, 10:00AM to 5:30PM - each
day
At CIIS
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Workshop
Details
Saturday and Sunday, October 3-4
10 am-5:30 pm each day
About
the Workshop
Join composer and vocalist Silvia
Nakkach on a journey through the
transformative power of music, and
experience firsthand ancient and
contemporary sound practices as
a healing modality.
This course offers
a comprehensive and systematic understanding
of how sound as vibration underlies
our most fundamental existence,
and how music and intention can
be used to assist psycho-spiritual
insight and transformation. The
coursework explores the interaction
between consciousness and music,
and integrates the power of mantra
and shamanic rhythms to transcend
the mind's limitations.
Participants also
explore spiritual healing with sound,
involving instruction in the music
of the Sama Veda, the Sufi teachings
of Inayat Khan, Indian ragas, and
a special focus on the emotional
magic that comes from singing the
Icaros of the Peruvian Amazon Basin
and other shamanic traditions. Through
chanting and awareness practices,
participants gain knowledge of how
sound can induce ecstatic states
of consciousness as it facilitates
ritual, shamanic journeys, and meditation.
About
the Instructor
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is an award-winning
composer, music healer, and pioneer
in the field of sound and transformation
of consciousness. She is the founding
director of Vox Mundi School of
the Voice, which is dedicated to
teaching and preserving sacred musical
traditions. She is also a teacher
and the academic advisor for the
Sound, Voice and Music Healing Certificate
at CIIS.
Credit
13 CEUs
This course is also available for
one unit of academic credit to CIIS
students.
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The Yoga of the Voice
TRAINING SEMINARS
at The Voice Loft, Emeryville
OCTOBER
15 - 17
Focus on: Song Writing, Vocal
Impediments, Spontaneity in Performance
Repertoire Development and Self-Confidence&
Recording
Focus on: Embracing the
Shamanic Power of the Voice
Where is your longing....
How can be explored and vocalized....
How you can selflessly craft your
capacity to service others through
sound and song....
Silvia
in Bahia by Meridian
master photographer Meridian can be
reached at travellygirl@yahoo.com
 
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OCTOBER 15 - 17
The Voice Loft, Emeryville
$340 till February 1st - $365
after
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Weekend also
includes:
Freeing your Voice:
techniques to overcome impediments
Learn Shamanic Chanting & Medicine
Melodies accompany yourself by drums
and percussion
Open your Heart through Devotional Singing
The Art of Vocal Meditation and Divination
Reviewing of the 108 Vocal Strategies
for Improvisation -
Building a repertoire of Shamanic Chants,
Incantations & Icaros
Yoga of
the Voice™ Certificate
This weekend is a module
that applies for 20 hours towards the
Yoga of the Voice Certificate
• Certificate
Students are highly recommended to attend
to this class
• Students can
chose to take each module independently
or towards the Certificate.
* Everyone is welcome
to attend any of the modules. No experience
is required.
* Advanced Registration
is recommended and required
Upcoming YOGA of the VOICE ™ Seminars
that applied towards Certificate hours:
About the 100-
Hour Yoga of the Voice™ Certificate
from The Vox Mundi School
ADMISSION & REGISTRATION
FEE for the CERTIFICATE (one time only):
$200
Admission interview is required, the
interview can be processed by phone.
To complete the Certificate
students must complete 3 weekend seminars
and a week-long retreat.
Each weekend offers 20 hours towards
the Certificate
Student accrue 30 hours during the week
long retreat in Santa Cruz
and students can also accrue or accumulate
HOURS by taking:
~ Study Abroad travels - accrue 30 hours
- to Japon, India, Brazil, Morocco,
or any group study offered by Vox Mundi
Project
~ Taking four weekends and a special
individual project - this is a special
option for international students, or
students from out of town.
~ Students from out of town may apply
for a customized schedule of classes
that includes special individual projects.
To obtain the
Certificate all students must complete
an midterm integration paper and CD,
and a final individual project.
The 100 hours Certificate must be completed
in no more than 18 months for local
students and up to 24 months for international
students
For Inquires about
the Certificate please contact our office
at 510- 595 0819
(*) Tuition for Santa
Cruz Week-Long Retreat please check
further details on the Program Page
“I invite
you to the great adventure..”
The Mother
THE YOGA of the VOICE
The most accomplished Program of its
kind
Integral approach engaging
Body-Mind-Spirit
East/West/ North & South Wisdom
Sound Science
Spirituality
Sacred & Unusual Vocal Arts
Devotional Chanting
Healing Power of Music
Cross-cultural Music Therapy
Shamanic Wisdom
Transformation of Consciousness
Repertoire Development
Improvisation
Cutting-edge Faculty
What is the Yoga of the
Voice?
Unlike any other program,
the yoga of the voice™ integrates
the transformative discipline of yoga
with contemporary techniques of chanting,
sound healing, music therapy, improvisation,
and voice development as a gateway to
connect with our true energetic nature.
Students discover scientific, intuitive,
and creative ways to address any voice
impediment while learning new skills
to build a solid sound healing practice.
The 100-hour Yoga
of the Voice Certificate
program is nurtured by a powerful musical
lineages providing cross-cultural and
stimulating education on the therapeutic,
artistic, and transcendental uses of
sound, with a renewed spiritual emphasis.
The seminars offer
an in-depth study of the different dimensions
of the healing voice: the contemplative,
the expressive, the shamanic, and the
ecstatic. Students learn to embody the
quality of singing that transforms energy
patterns and emotions, affecting consciousness
more efficiently than any other form
of sound. Participants become familiar
with uses of sound and the voice in
yoga, complementary medicine, energy
healing, education, performance, and
as spiritual practice. The experience
supports the aspirant creative and professional
path, inspiring deep healing and compassionate
insight.
What I
will be studying?
Areas of Study
• Sacred Music
of The World
• Devotional Chanting & Mantra
Medicine
• Shamanic Voices
• The Art of Melodic movement,
modes, raga & rasa
• Voice development & The
Art of Improvisation
• Sound, Chant, & Music in
Healing/ Therapeutic modalities
• Professional Applications
• Repertoire Development
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• Nada Yoga,
Kirtan, Bhakti Yoga and Tibetan spiritual
music
• Afro-Brazilian healing songs
• Deity invocations • Chants
from the Amazon • Sufi Chants
• Sonorous & melodious Yogic
Practices • Magic seed-syllables
• Tuning • Vocal Embellishments
• Toning • Resonance •
Ancient breathing techniques•
Chakras and Subtle Energy Systems •
Body postures and Sonorous Mudras •
Vocal Meditation • Overtone singing
• Contemporary extended vocal
techniques • Mystical uses of
sound • The effect of sound on
the body, the brain, and the mind •
Sound Tools as Drones, Tuning forks,
bells, and drumming, and digirideu •
Intuitive playing skills with simple
instruments • Sound and Movement
• Conducting sound rituals •
Ongoing chanting groups & Music
and Sound Healing circles
What can you expect to obtain
from this program?
• Personal transformation
through a sound
• Practice chanting & music
as a sacred art
• Conduct rituals & chanting
and study groups
• Access higher states of creativity
and liberation through sound
• Learn innovative healing modalities
to ‘open’ your voice through
ancient breathing and sonorous yogic
practices.
• Discover how certain sounds,
musical intervals, scales, rhythms,
and chants impact specific areas of
the brain and the body
• Free oneself from any personal
memory of vocal constraint empowering
one’s confidence and the readiness
to sing.
• Build a practice of chants and
sounds that clear, tune, and stimulate
the brain and the energy of the charkas.
• Identify ways to transform energy
patters and emotional states.
• Learn how to employ musical
instruments as healing tools,
• Realize which musical culture
awakens your ancestral musical lineage
• Build professional collaborations/networking/
guidance/ tutoring
• Embody divinity through sound,
enhancing vitality, and fostering a
sense of well-being, openness, and love.
• Become a Certified Sound &
Voice Practitioner
Who Should
apply?
Musicians & singers, yoga practitioners,
health care professionals, clinicians,
singers, sound healers, somatic and
music therapists, body workers and spiritual
seekers
How can
you apply this Program?
E-mail or Call to request a phone or
personal interview
voxmundi@yahoo.com
& (510) 595 0819
About the
Program:
Like shamans, yogis,
and mystics, today’s sound healing
practitioners use sound, music, and
the voice as gateways to transcendence
and the exploration of consciousness.
Integrating science with the wisdom
of sacred and aboriginal sound practices,
Silvia Nakkach and the Vox Mundi faculty
lead participants in an exploration
of the role of sound, voice, music,
and intention in assisting psycho-spiritual
insight and healing.
Merging sound and music
therapy practices with the traditions
of Indian, Tibetan, and Afro-Brazilian
devotional chanting, students learn
innovative forms of vocal improvisation,
shamanic songs, and divine utterances.
Participants will experience an innovative
and unique cross-cultural model for
using sound, voice, and music in contemporary
therapies, with an emphasis on integration
and spiritual renewal. In this fascinating
seminars information meets inspiration
towards a precise and powerful integration
in the practitioner personal and professional
practice.
With the fast emerging
field of Sound and Music in Healing
it becomes increasingly important to
understand more about how sound and
chanting can support therapeutic and
growth processes. This program offers
an in-depth study of the use of the
voice, chanting, and the music of cultures
that use sound to transform consciousness
and realize healing. The Intensive Certificate
is the only of this kind, providing
the students with mindful, integral,
and stimulating education in an optimum
intimate environment for personal and
professional development, learning about
both practical and transcendental uses
of sound, students will be able to go
deeper into the experience of the transformative
power of sound and the voice.
Using the voice to
transform consciousness and promote
healing, students will learn a selected
repertoire of chants focus on distinct
uses of sacred sound from Afro-Brazilian
chant, Amazon healing songs, Indian
ragas and mantras, and sonorous yogas
(ancient yogic practices involving sound).
Vocal improvisation, voice range and
tone quality are also part of the curriculum
of the intensive.
Discovering how through
the practice and application of certain
sounds, musical intervals and scales,
rhythms and chants is possible to impact
specific areas of the mind and the body,
recognizing immediate ways to transform
energy patters and emotional states.
Learning to cultivate
familiarity with shamanic forms of vocal
expressions and sonorous yogas, such
as toning, tuning to the divine energy
of seed syllables, invocation, mantras,
medicine melodies and vocal meditation
and to be able to incorporate these
therapeutic practices in daily life
and professional practice. Being the
finest objective to experience divinity
through sound and the devotional nature
of sacred chant.
Providing an in-depth
understanding of how the integration
of chanting, movement and shamanic cosmology
becomes a practice of personal empowering
and inspiration, realizing improved
vitality and spiritual liberation through
sound.
Students will discover
which musical culture opens personal
doorways to open the voice and sing
more, experiencing how group chanting
encourages kindness and respect for
other cultures, traditions and life.
Course Format
and Activities
Lecture, discussion,
experiential chanting, audition of selected
discography, video and digital recording
projects, written questionnaire reviews,
home assignments and supervision, individual
projects, including optional tutoring
and internships.
Limited
Space Available
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PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox
Mundi School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox Mundi
Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the School
via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
REGISTRATION
FORM
This operation is safe and is
through PAY PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an extra
4%
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Admission Interview is Required -
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Finally this great
program will be offered in the Bay
Area
co-sponsored by the Vox Mundi School
of Sound:
Music
for Healing & Transition Program,
Inc.
An International Educational Certification
Program
For Musicians and Music Students
Who Wish to Become
Certified Music Practitioners (CMP)®
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Starts: October 22 ~ Presentation
open to All
First Module: 23 & 24
@ The Voice Loft, Emeryville
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A precise and comprehensive
curriculum that trains and certifies
musicians to provide live therapeutic
music at the bedside to create a healing
environment, in collaboration with
healthcare facilities and community
organizations to educate about, and
promoting research in the effectiveness
of therapeutic music in the healing
process and the life/death transition.
Limited number of participants -
group will meet as a cohort
Schedule in the Bay Area:
Module 1 October 23-24, Module 2 January
15-16,
Module 3 March 26-27, Module 4, May
13-14, and Module 5 (TBA)
For Detailed Information on Admission
requirements, Fees, and Curriculum
Click on each of this links and READ
MORE:
www.mhtp.org
for website --
How to Become a Student
http://www.mhtp.org/Instruction.aspx
Student Application
http://www.mhtp.org/Data/Web/application.pdf
Student Handbook (which explains the
program in detail) http://www.mhtp.org/Data/Web/handbook10-06.pdf
Video (which really shows people what
they will be doing0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viq8mnvrthY
Limited
Space Available
| ALL
PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox
Mundi School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox
Mundi Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the
School via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
REGISTRATION
FORM
This operation is safe and
is through PAY PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an extra
4%
Thank you! |
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Admission Interview is Required -
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full,
a refund of 70%, less a $50
handling fee, will be issued
if cancellation is received
in writing 45 days prior to
the program starting date. There
is no refunds if only a deposit
was received for any Study Abroad
Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days
prior to the program stating
date, unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition
can be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Integrating Sound and Touch
Level I: Harmonic Touch
Tuning
John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D.
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order to give room in small groups
to all practitioners
TWO WORKSHOP- CLINICS
5-hour Workshop -Clinic ~ Thursday
March 11, 5:00-10PM
$108 – in advanced registration
and students and seniors discounted
rate (*) $125 - on site fees &
registration
3:30 hour Workshop -Clinic ~
Thursday March 11, 12
to 3:30PM
$75 -Advanced Registration only
The Voice Loft, Emeryville, CA
(*) PRE-REGISTRATION is ESSENTIAL
to get space in these TWO WORKSHOPS-
we understand if you have to attend
the longer clinic after 6PM -
and this is possible - if previous
notice.
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“
I have been experiencing the ground
breaking sound healing work of Dr. John
Beaulieu since 1997, and I have been
blessed to experience probably all other
modalities of sound healing from ancient
to contemporary. I can easily confirm
that John’s evolving practice
represents the most precise integration
of sound science, musicianship, and
clinical expertise, with glimpses of
magic angelical touch. I am tempted
to even say that his work is the only
evidence-based integral and acoustic
sound and therapeutic work available
at this time transmitted directly from
a living master. If you are tired of
the vague promises of the New Agee blah
blah in this field, and wish to experience
the “real thing” in the
power of sound to heal at a molecular
and etheric level, meet and learn from
John now.”
Silvia Nakkach,M.A.,MMT
An essential
integration of the clinical precision
and the rationale of sound healing
The seminar begins with a sonic understanding
of our physical bodies based on a fundamental
harmonic wave which is essential to
health and well-being. This understanding
is used to create a special harmonic
balancing protocol and learning sonic
palpation skills that can be used for
targeted vocal toning, precise placement
of tuning forks on the body, and specific
areas to sound tuning forks over the
body. All touch methods used during
class are energy based and non-force
and no previous training in touch is
required. Students will learn practical
skills they can use in their life and
professional healing practices.
The understanding and skills taught
in class are applicable to sound healers,
chiropractors, osteopaths, counselors,
massage therapists, and anyone interested
in a new understanding of the body as
Sound and its diverse therapeutic applications
and possibilities. During class Dr.
Beaulieu will integrate sound, touch,
and verbal counseling skills using a
Five Element evaluation model based
on a modern stress science paradigm
with a special emphasis on touch.
For More on Dr John
Beaulieu visit: www.biosonics.com
Tuning Forks, DVDs,
and Written Materials will be available
for purchase
• Please let
us know if you can bring a massage table.
John Beaulieu
ND, PhD is a world leader in the use
of sound for healing and well-being.
He has practiced meditation and yoga
for more than 40 years and is the author
of Human Tuning and Music and Sound
in the Healing Arts. www.biosonics.com
During clinic sessions
the evaluation process and therapeutic
interventions are explained to the whole
group creating a feedback loop connecting
and deepening a students knowledge of
theory, evaluation processes, and clinical
applications.Clinic sessions are used
to demonstrate different ways of working.
For example some sessions are done “in
content” during which the story
of a students life challenge is analyzed
into the five elements. Once the five
element dynamic is understood then students
are encourage to create sessions which
can help to bring the five elements
into balance. Other sessions are conducted
“out of content” during
which the energy dynamics of the elements
are evaluated through “felt feeling”,
body structure, and voice and movement
patterns. Special emphasis is given
to working with sound in a traditional
healing arts session room as well as
how musicians can work with music in
performance to balance the five elements.
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Drumming
Workshop Series
Enjoy DRUMOLOGY
The Art of stress-free
Traditional-Drumming
with Val Serrant
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MAY 12, 19, 26
7-9 PM
At The Voice Loft
three sessions for $75, or
$30 per individual session
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You learn how to
play diverse rhythms from Africa to
the Caribbean and beyond, gently guided
by a true lineage drummer that plays
and teaches like a yogi.You also learn
a repertoire of sacred Yoruba chants
and Oriki (praise songs).
Val Serrant is from the Rep. of Trinidad
and Tobago. He plays the steel pan
and many other kinds of drums. He
has played with many celebrities like
Grammy award winners Giovanni Hidalgo
and Sikiru Adepoju. Val leads rhythm
circles everywhere. He loves to teach
and work with children, and he plays
with a 100 children orchestra in his
homeland. His teachings are highly
inspired by his grounded and embodied
spiritual practice.
photos by Joanne Warfield
photo by Bia
ALL are welcome!
Bring your Drum or Assorted Percussion.
Let's "Go with the Positive
Muse-ical Flow!" Smile!
Keep Up!
Print
a beautiful flyer for this workshop
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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THURSDAYS
RAGA SINGING
and DEVOTIONAL CHANTING
with Silvia Nakkach
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September 2,9,16
Practice Raga Sessions
Facilitated by: Kevin, Barbara
& Laura
September 23 & 30
Yoga of the Voice & Songwriting
Facilitated by Hilary Reed
Group meets 7:30-9:15 pm
Don't miss
Everybody is Welcome
At The Voice Loft, in Emeryville
A cohort format -a group of
regular students interested
to engage in in-depth learning
& practice of raga singing
and voice fine tuning.
$20 per session drop in okay
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PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:
Into The
Core of The Raga & Rasa System,
We explore the architecture of music
and emotions, unfolding the Art of
Melodic Movement,
and deepening the experience of MANTRA
HEALING
The ragas are the most important link
to the essence of Indian classical
music. The appreciation and experience
of the raga becomes profoundly meaningful
to spiritual seekers as well as to
the trained musician. The word “rag”
is derived from the Sanskrit “raga”
which means “color,” or
“passion.” Ragas, therefore,
may be thought of as an acoustic method
of coloring the mind of the listener
with an emotion. Ragas are not just
musical scales or modes, they are
described by master musicians as divinely
inspired melodic entities.
This class focuses
on the main characteristics of several
ragas by cultivating familiarity with
the pitches and tonal movement of
the alap or their introductory melodic
phrases. We will discover the beauty
of the shrutis (micro-tones that are
revealed in the space between the
notes), and the transformational power
of the rasas (a rasa is that which
gives “taste” to the mind),
which relates to aesthetic sentiments
such as love, joy, devotion, wonder,
heroism, peace, and detachment evoked
by the rendering of the ragas.
We will experience
raga-based styles of devotional chanting:
Dhrupad singing, Saregam, Khyal and
Kirtan. Students will be able to appreciate
different ragas, create a vocal practice,
learn about vocal technique, and get
acquainted with various modalities
of music healing applications informed
by devotional chanting. Ragas are
the greatest music teachers, because
through the traditional practice of
call and response, these awakening
melodies stimulate our memory, while
refining our senses deeply and delightfully.
Ragas
are not just scales, ragas are inspiring
melodies that have the power to refine
your voice quality, balancing our
nervous system, shifting our emotions,
and transform consciousness
immediately, deeply and delightfully.
Ragas are "alive", have
no history since they are renewed
each time they are performed, becoming
the best music teachers.
Musically, Ragas
may be thought and referred of as
an acoustic method of colouring the
mind of the listener with an emotion.
The ragas are melodic arrangements.
Their origins is ancient and sacred,
they were composed by celestial beings
(the Gandharvas) and channeled by
Shiva to Indian Masters and lineages
of musicianship through oral transmission.
There are 75.000 ragas and they developed
through a modal structure. The slow
development of the melody is the heart
of this music. The haunting melodies
an the microtonal intervalic logic
are regarded as the “color of
the mind” , being the result
of tonal arrangements ruled by cosmological
and aesthetic laws related with dimensions
of light ( i.e.: night and day ).
A raga is complete when it achieves
its tonal taste or “rasa”
(savour, feeling, essence or juice)
which is another element in classical
Indian music.
Rasa
is perceived as a sentiment, which
could be described as an aesthetic
emotional experience. Although rasa
is unique, in practice we distinguish
several “savors” according
to the emotion which colors it : erotic
love, pathetic, devotional, comic,
fearful, repugnant, horrific, heroic,
fantastic, furious, peaceful. The
individual feels immersed in that
mood to the exclusion of all else
including himself. Thus, aesthetic
experience is a transformation of
not merely feeling, but equally of
cognition, “ a condensed understanding
in the mode of ecstasy “; the
ecstasy of the intellect, an ecstasy
itself inscrutable and illuminating.
In the Vedas the experience of rasa
is described as a flash of super-worldly
blinding light, which appears to whom
the knowledge of ideal beauty is innate
and intuitive. It is an experience
impossible to analyze.
We will explore the
meaning of rasa through images of
taste, relish, essence, something
like the nectar of the fruit, the
best or finest part of it. It is like
perfume, which comes from matter but
it is not easy to describe or comprehend,
since has non-physical properties,
often yielding pleasure. In its subtlest
sense, rasa comes to signify a state
of heightened delight, the kind of
bliss that can be experienced only
by the spirit ( “ananda”).
It is a pure delight that only the
presence of a work of art can make
as feel. It is perceived as an emotional
pleasure, which Hindus refer to as
the “taste of the mind”,
or the delight of reason, an inspiring
energy which is experienced by sharing
a feeling and suddenly understanding
the essence of a work of art. Therefore,
rasa describes a state of enhanced
emotional perception produced by the
presence of musical energy and is
applicable to all creative expression,
being particularly powerful in the
art of healing with sound and music.
Through the system
of raga/rasa practice as one experience,
musicians and students at diverse
stages of musicianship are able to
connect with their creative expression
in a deeper and most comprehensive
level, because the music is felt deeply
in the body and mind as it is played.
If the teacher is well trained by
direct lineage of raga masters, the
ancient and healing energy within
each raga is transmitted and permeates
the room as a musical entity. Students
develop enhanced intellectual focus
when approaching each note, and each
sustained note is felt as a universe
of meaning, tone, and feeling. There
is an inner relation that becomes
always anew and revealed between two
notes (swaras), and the way we connect
and ornament them through the performance
of shrutis or micro-tones. Raga singing
brings vocal music and the voice to
a higher level of refinement, tuning
and appreciation.
Ragas are -without
doubt - the Guests of Honor in the
Feast of Inspired musical expression.
Don't miss this opportunity to be
nurtured by the most precise cosmic
music available to humans.
(We will offer four
-classes series resuming in June and
July - and ongoing practice series
for returning students.)
Silvia Nakkach, have
studied Hindustani music and raga
singing under the direction of maestro
Ali Akbar Khan since 1982. Among other
masters, she has also studied Dhrupad
singing for many years with Dr. Ritwick
Sanyal in Benares, India, and with
Yvan Trunzler. She have developed
special qualities for the teaching
and the interpretation of the alap
(invocation or introduction to the
picture of the raga with still no
rhythm), as well as in the distinctive
tonal characteristic of each raga,
and its relation with rasa and consciousness
transformation. She helps students
to cultivate and sustain a devotional
music practice.
To read more about
this topic go to RECOMMENDED READINGS
in this site to:
• RAGA
YOGA
• RASA, INTO THE CORE OF MUSIC
HEALING, by Silvia Nakkach, M.A.,
M.M.T.
Bibliography:
• The Classical Music of North
India, by Ali Akbar Khan, edited by
George Ruckert
• My Music, by Ravi Shankar
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The
Sruti Box Essential Workshop
Introduction & Instruction
on:
How to Set the Drones and Use it (Tonic,
Tone & Tuning)
How to Sing with it (Techniques)
What to Sing with it (Repertoire)
How to become familiar with at least
Three Ragas (Raga Singing)
How to Listen and Sing the “srutis”
(microtones) with it (Ornamentation)
How to accompany other Instruments
with it (Orchestration)
How to Create Music with it (Composition)
How to Improvise with it (Improvisation)
How to Listen and nurture Silence
with it (Meditation)
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June 8 - 7:30 to 9:30 pm
The Voice Loft, Emeryville
$40 dollars – Pre-Registration
is highly recommended
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Please Bring YOUR
sruti box – if you have it
It will make a huge difference to
your learning process
This Sruti Box 3-hour workshop has
been set as a request of many students
and musicians that had the privilege
to purchase a sruti box. It is also
especially addressed and beneficial
for our Yoga of the Voice Certificate
students and teachers in training.
The design of the workshop is focused
on getting the most of your simple
and divine instrument, and being able
to go beyond just ‘toning”
with the sruti. You’ll learn
the basic of Indian Music which is
the lineage of the instrument, and
when the instrument is approached
within and from its lineage and tradition,
then…Magic happens! and you
will create many other musics with
it.
This Workshop is Open to All.
Please e-mail voxmundi@yahoo.com
to Pre-Register
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MEDICINE MELODIES:
The Music that Healers Hear
with Silvia Nakkach
(at CIIS)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Everything sings: plants, animals, waterfalls,
bones, people, stars, rain-even silence.
The shaman hears hidden music and sings
it back through "medicine melodies,"
simple tonal configurations that reflect
a sacred unity with nature and have
the power to heal body, mind, and spirit.
Many people are visited by such melodies-as
if spontaneous transmissions from the
spirit world are "singing in"
to the person rather than the person
"singing out." Medicine melodies
can be found in all traditions and on
all continents. In this workshop, we
take a musical journey through many
cultures, from Tibetan prayers to the
icaros of the Amazon basin, exploring
how spiritual melodies and rhythms make
potent medicine. This workshop is for
anyone who longs to work more knowingly
with music and the voice. You bring
home a repertoire of medicine melodies,
as well as guidance for developing your
practice of "singing in."
Bring an instrument if you have one,
and a journal.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Silvia Nakkach,
MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer,
music healer, and pioneer in the field
of sound and transformation of consciousness.
She is the founding director of Vox
Mundi School of the Voice, dedicated
to teaching and preserving sacred musical
traditions. She is a teacher and the
academic advisor for the Sound, Voice,
and Music Healing Certificate at CIIS,
and studied Hindustani music for more
than twenty-seven years with the late
maestro Ali Akbar Khan.
READ MORE:
http://www.voxmundiproject.com/medicine_melodies.htm
This course is available for one unit
of academic credit to CIIS students.
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CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Silvia Nakkach at OPEN CENTER
in NYC
Medicine
Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
Filed under Events, Holistic Health,
Music, Professional Trainings, Voice
& Sound.
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February 6 & 7
10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
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In the Universe, everything
sings: plants, animals, waterfalls, people,
the stars, and many things we don’t
see; even silence makes a sound. The shaman
hears the hidden music of the universe
and sings it back through “medicine
melodies,” simple tonal configurations
that reflect a sacred unity with nature
and have the power to heal body, mind
and spirit. Many people in our own culture
today are visited by such melodies—as
if spontaneous transmissions from nature
or the spirit world are “singing
in” to the person rather than the
person “singing out.”
Medicine melodies can
be found in all traditions: from lullabies
to Hebrew davennen, the kirtans, mantras
and ragas from India, Tibetan ritual prayers,
the zhikrs of the Sufis, Buddhist sutras
and tantric chants, and indigenous songs
from Africa and the Americas. We will
take a musical journey through songs from
many of these cultures, exploring how
spiritual melodicism and timeless rhythms
make for potent medicine. We will listen
to healing melodies within the music of
the classical Western repertoire, as we
will also experience the emotional magic
that comes from singing the Icaros of
the Peruvian Amazon basin and other shamanic
traditions, feeling how this music clears
and opens energetic channels, gives birth
to kindness, and connects us with love.
This workshop is for
anyone who longs to work more knowingly
with music and the voice. You will bring
home a repertoire of medicine melodies,
as well as practical guidance for developing
your practice of “singing in.”
Bring an instrument if you have one, and
a journal.
A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP
Saturday & Sunday, February 6 &
7
Saturday, 9:30am–5:30pm
Sunday, 9:30am–5pm
09SHH55SA16 Approved for CEUs
$365 (No Member Discount)
Please call for location.
Silvia Nakkach,
MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer,
psychologist, voice culturist, author,
and pioneer in the field of sound and
transformation of consciousness. She is
the founding director of Vox Mundi School
of the Voice, an international project
devoted to teaching and preserving sacred
music traditions. She has created and
is the academic advisor for the Sound,
Voice, Music Healing Certificateat the
California Institute for Integral Studies,
and she leads training retreats in sacred
music and the Yoga of the Voice in the
United States, Brazil, India, and Europe.
Nakkach interest in indigenous music cosmology
and spirituality has led her to collaborate
with renowned shamans from Indian and
South American shamanic traditions, and
for more than 26 years Silvia has studied
Hindustani music with the late maestro
Ali Akbar Khan, and masters of the Dhrupad
tradition.
Related Links:
Silvia Nakkach
Discography
Recommended
Reading
Recommended
Listening
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STUDY
ABROAD PROGRAMS
Sponsored by Vox Mundi
Project ~ Study Abroad
Pure Rasa (*)
Sacred Art meets Wild Nature in Kona,
Hawaii,
at Mayumi Oda’s divine farm on
the Ocean of Kealakekua Bay
A
Weeklong Creative Expression Retreat
And Chanting Journey
An inspiring way to revitalize your
Spring break With extraordinary artist
and meditation teacher Mayumi
Oda, & Silvia
Nakkach, musician
"Being with
Mayumi and Silvia together is an an
experience
in ecstasy of the right brain!".
- Claire Greensfelder, retreat participant,
international environmental, peace and
justice activist....
Mayumi, Arisika and
Silvia, Kona 2004
The Retreat
Journey:
~ Embodying the Wrathful
and Peaceful Goddess through Movement,
Color, Practice, and Liberation through
Chanting
~ Creative Expression
as medicine for body, heart, mind and
spirit.
~ Integrate shamanic
and mindfulness practices that unleash
the flow of imagination and open the
compassionate heart.
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May 26-June 1st.
The Ginger Hill Farm in Kealakekua,
Kona. Off Hwy 19 South to Volcano,
overlooking the ocean. 25 miles
or 30 min from the KONA airport,
and 5 min from the MANAGO Hotel
For the whole week: $1,350 before
April 26,
$1,500 after. Includes teachings,
lodging, and all nutritious meals
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Get your plane ticket
in advance for best rates - is a holiday
weekend!
(*) to learn more abour
'rasa' please click on:
http://www.voxmundiproject.com/recommended_readings_1.htm
WEEK-LONG PROGRAM
INCLUDES:
Chanting – the
universal wisdom and healing power of
sacred chants from Afro-Brazil, India,
Tibet, Japan, Hawaii, Amazon and beyond
Voice Training –
A systematic approach to refine and
strengthen tone quality, release energy
blocks that affect breathing and the
sound of the voice, vocal meditation,
scales and raga singing, a home curriculum
of daily practices, and a new repertoire
of songs and Shamanic chants.
Ritual Movement and
Dances - combining spiritual movement
with visualization, sound and mudras
(sacred gestures)
Painting, Calligraphy
and Mandala Making - orderly approach
to embodying and translate into image
the transformative and emotional energy
of goddesses of wisdom, through color
and form.
Creativity Mindfulness
Practices - contemplative exercises
to concentrate the mind and unleash
the creative imagination.
Practice to Reconnect
with Nature - re-engaging our connection
with the wild nature, meditations integrating
the elements, the garden, the ocean,
the sky, the earth, and spontaneous
music making in heavenly places.
Daily relaxation exercises,
journal writing, and personal integration.
Communal meal preparation;
natural ingredients, organic farming,
great cooking tips from Mayumi’s
and Silvia’s artistic recipes.
Field Trips and hopefully
indigenous wisdom sessions with Aka
- involving Hawaiian shamanic practices,
instruments and chants.
Swimming, Meditation
and Silence
Tentative DAILY SCHEDULE
We structure the daily routine according
to the particular interest, energy flow,
and the group dynamic created by the
particular circle of participants.
~ Early Meditation
at 7AM (optional)
~ Regular sessions 10-6
~ Lunch and Rest: 1-4:30PM
~ Field Trips
~ Special sessions: start early in the
morning and end later in the evening
~ Evening Performances
Other ACCOMMODATIONS
available at:
Manago Hotel has very affordable weekly
rates, you must reserve ASAP since there
are many Conferences and big events
happening all the time.
Price: double occupancy room last year
was around $60 per day. Phone: 808-323
2642
Transportation: no
public transportation available Airfare
is not included in tuition fees You
might need to share a rental car if
you don’t stay in the property.
THE FACULTY:
" I met Mayumi
in 1986 in an memorable artist retreat
with Thich Nhat Hanh in Southern California.
Lately, we have been collaborating as
teachers of the annual Wild and Wise
Women Retreat at Spirit Rock. We both
share the belief that artistic expression
is not only the property of artists,
but is owned by everyone. When we still
the inner voices that inhibit creativity,
artist expression is spontaneously liberated,
and the imagination is inspired, In
the experience of openness, clarity
and emptiness, drawing and chanting,
become un-interrupted expression, inner
awareness, happiness and compassion
are heightened, becoming the basic software
for daily enlightenment. This retreat
offers the opportunity to empower your
confidence and devotional self, by deepening
the connection between creative expression,
grace and spiritual practice.”
Silvia Nakkach
Mayumi anda Silvia
Mayumi Oda
(www.mayumioda.com)
An internationally recognized artist
who creates powerful images of metamorphosis
and liberation. Her paintings are exhibited
worldwide and as part of the permanent
collection in Galleries such as NY MOMMA,
and the Library of Congress. As an activist,
she is the founder of Plutonium Free
Future, her recent work includes coordination
of Would Court Project, an effort to
make nuclear weapons illegal, and helping
to establish a women’s refuge
center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She
is a Zen Buddhist practitioner and teacher,
and currently lives, farms, and swims
in Kealakekua, Hawaii.
Recommended reading
by Mayumi Oda
- Goddesses
- I Open the Gate, Laughing. An Inner
Journey
- Essence of the Heart Sutra,the Dalai
Lama’s Heart of Wisdom Teachings
from Wisdom Publications
Recommended listening,
CDs by Silvia Nakkach
- Invocation
- Musical Massage- Inside
- Ah, The Healing Voice
- Musical Meditations – Unwind
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a
refund of 70%, less a $50 handling
fee, will be issued if cancellation
is received in writing 45 days
prior to the program starting
date. There is no refunds if only
a deposit was received for any
Study Abroad Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date,
unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition can
be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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Returning to Vox Mundi Project birthplace!
A
Musical Journey to ITALY
Facilitated by Silvia Nakkach
and The Vox Mundi international faculty.
Give a Feast to Your
Eyes and Ears!
Experience Italy’s magnetism and
stunning nature with
your Voice and your Heart Open
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July 1 to 7th
at Villa Lina, Ronciglione
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Experience ~ Engage ~
Learn:
Yoga of the Voice
Devotional Chanting
Raga Singing
Nada Yoga & Dhrupad
Sound & Shamanic Healing
Music Improvisation
Meditation & Excursions
Afro-Brazilian Dance & Chants
An affordable life-transforming
learning retreat on the healing power
of sacred sound and the voice, integrating
music improvisation with the understanding
of sound as spiritual science. Among an
international community of healers and
musicians, this new exciting destination
is especially designed for Vox Mundi’s
recurrent world travelers, and is - as
well - an effortless way to experience
for the first time the Yoga of the
Voice for those new to our learning
community.
In addition to a comfortable
stay and delicious meals, you’ll
experience all the charm and opulence
that the authentic Italian countryside
has to offer, as you’ll take home
a repertory of devotional chants and
music practices.
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our BROCHURE
About the divine LOCATION:
We will be in residence at the breathtaking
Villa
Lina
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For more than 20 years, the Vox Mundi
Project has gained international reputation
for offering the highest quality musical
journeys around the world, combining natural
beauty, inspiring teachings, and spiritual
awakening. Under the direction of masters
of the field of sacred sound, these study
tours in retreat settings are an ideal
learning vacation, and they prove to be
the most profound and precise way to refine
the quality of one’s singing voice,
while surrenderring to the devotional
and healing nature of music.
All levels of musical
experience are welcome.
FEES:
$ 1,650 US before June 1st and 1,900 after
(*)
Includes:
enrolment cost
lodging in double room occupancy –
meal and facilities,
all teachings
few local excursions.
Not included:
airfare
additional tours
taxis
hotel/lodging in Rome –if applicable
Information meetings
& Online Orientation: Dates TBA
(*) A Weekend Retreat
option will be available July 2-4
Contact our office for fees and accommodations
availability
Terms and Conditions:
Space will be reserved for participants
when a $650 deposit is received. This
deposit will be credited towards final
payment. Credit Card Pay Pal payment available
and includes a 4% extra fees.
Registration & Cancellation Policy
follows.
Follow your Bliss and Register a.s.a.p.
for affordable early registration fees
and best international airfares.
Contact: voxmundi@yahoo.com
for more indormation.
Optional Excursions
- to Rome and
June 30th: to the Niki de Saint Phalle’s
Tarot Garden, can be arranged only with
advanced registration.
Not included in trip cost.
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full, a refund
of 70%, less a $50 handling fee,
will be issued if cancellation is
received in writing 45 days prior
to the program starting date. There
is no refunds if only a deposit
was received for any Study Abroad
Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days prior
to the program stating date, unless
there is an emergency situation
involved. In special cases, part
of the tuition can be transferred
to a similar program in future
dates.
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INTERACTIVE LECTURE and MUSICAL OFFERING
The Art of improvisation
WORKSHOP
Finding Your Inner Musician
with
David Darling and Silvia Nakkach
TO
REGISTER
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September 24 - Interactive
Lecture & Musical Offering
September 25 & 26 ~ Workshop
CIIs
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DETAILS
Saturday and Sunday
September 25 and 26
10:00AM-5:30PM
CIIS Main Building
$235
Click here for Friday night
INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATION
13 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN)
This course is also available for
one unit of academic credit to CIIS
students.
We are all born with
the innate ability to sing, to dance,
and to live a celebratory creative
lifestyle. Music is one of the most
natural ways through which we can
heal and celebrate our spirit. Singing,
chanting, drumming, and playing the
piano or any instrument allows us
to nurture a loving relationship with
ourselves through music.
This workshop provides
a humorous and energetic environment
for practicing exercises that will
deepen our relationship with our own
natural musical self. Through improvisational
techniques and musical gestures from
the music of India, Brazil, Africa,
and the West, students discover how
distant worlds of music complement
and complete each other, engaging
in optimally balanced left and right
brain activity.
This all-levels workshop
is designed to help you develop confidence
through creating a positive musical
experience and cultivating a balanced
approach to a long-term musical journey.
David Darling,
cellist, composer, and educator, has
been opening hearts to the mystery
of sound for four decades. He is celebrated
for his energetic, loving, and accepting
style in emancipating the musical
soul in those he teaches. He has produced
numerous recordings, as well as released
eight solo albums and more than three
dozen collaborative efforts with such
diverse artists as Paul Winter and
Jan Garbarek.
Silvia Nakkach,
MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer
and pioneer in the field of sound
and transformation of consciousness.
She is the founding director of Vox
Mundi School of the Voice and a teacher
and the academic advisor for the Sound,
Voice and Music Healing Certificate
at CIIS.
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TEACHER
TRAINING
Photo by Arlene Moscovitch.
Teacher Training is
open to all new, regular students, and
Teachers of the Yoga of the Voice in
training.
The class focuses on
empowering those who would like to teach
and lead chanting groups, and supervises
those who are already teaching Vox Mundi
vocabulary of practices and techniques.
Sessions offer technique
of group dynamics, keyboard, harmonium
and simple instruments playing skills,
voice development, and how to prepare
and design group and individual session.
This class can be taken
independently, and it is also offered
as part of the Yoga of the Voice Certificate.
Students accrue 15 hours.
To be continued in
the Santa Cruz Retreat - as supervisions
and classes
TUITION FEES: $250
before June 15 - $300 after
Certificate Students
and Teachers-in-Training have the
option to attend to this fantastic
Training to improve chanting leading,
and practice in small groups and all
teaching tools, practices and instrument's
skills. We will help you with accommodations
in the Bay Area - but we need confirmation
that you are attending to this Training
in advanced. Please do it soon.
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July 13, 11am to 7:30pm
Sessions in small group will
continue during the Santa Cruz
retreat - as part of supervision
of the Teachers who will given
the opportunity to lead groups
and tutor students.
at The Voice Loft
TUITION FEES: $250 before June
15 - $300 after
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Limited
Space Available
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PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox
Mundi School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox Mundi
Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the School
via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
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FORM
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ANNUAL MUSIC
RETREAT
THE X SUMMER
INTENSIVE
In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ca
Sacred Chant
meets Sacred Nature
Vocal Improvisation & Chanting as
a Spiritual Path
Our Guide Saraswati at Pema
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JULY 15 - 21, 2010
Retreat takes place
at the Pema Osel Lin Retreat
Center, a pristine sanctuary
in the Santa Cruz Mountains,
CA
We hope you
are planning to come as
planned and will not need
to make any changes in your
Registration.
From July 9, Vox Mundi will
not be able to offer any
refund. New registrations
are welcome. Only Camping
or Yurt are available at
this time. |
WEEK-LONG Retreat ~Tuition
Only: $575 till June 10th and
$650 after. Register Soon for
Early Bird Discounted Rate
Fees include all teachings and
facilities for the week - In
addition, participants pay another
fee for type of Lodging/Accommodations
& Meals - Please scroll
down to see the prices for each
type of accommodations - early
registration secures better
accommodations.
Attending
only part of the Retreat is
possible - contact our office
for details according to each
inquiry.
WEEKEND
only Retreat: $600 -
from Friday to Sunday evening
/ or any three days retreat
Only with Pre-Registration
All included: Tuition, Meals
& Lodging (except double
rooms)
Children
under 5 years old pay half price
of just lodging and meals
COMMUTERS
FEES / Those who attend just
ONE DAY $175 - All meals included
- sleeping off-campus
Availability
per day must be pre-arranged
through the Vox Mundi Office
and in advance - and before
the retreat starts.
We are no able to accommodate
drop-in participants, without
previous notice.
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Music,
Dance & Yoga of the Voice Faculty:
Silvia
Nakkach, Vox Mundi
School International & Artistic
Director, voice and song writing,
devotional chant and raga singing,
kirtan, and loving mentoring
Val
Serrant & African Drummers,
percussion, spiritual music, and guardian
of peace and harmony
Alba
Lirio, Afro-Brazilian
dance, chanting, and open heart (will
be available for few private sessions
by appointment only)
Michael
Knapp, cello, bass,
and one-on-one music support, music
theory
Heather
Houston, voice support,
two-three harmony chants
Madi
Sato, voice tutoring,
Japanese traditional chant
Rosa
Figuereido, Music
theory and accompaniment
Robbie
Belgrade, tabla, teka,
rhythm classes, music theory and song
writing (will be available for private
sessions by appointment only)
Tania
Bedford - tarot, magic
and Chi Qon
Hilary
Reed - Deep listening
and Songwriting
Valerie
Jose Carpenter - Sound
Healing with Tuning Forks
and surprise amazing
guests TBA!
Special 2010
GUEST TEACHER-ARTISTS:
Healing QiGong,
with Master Mingtong Gu
Master Mingtong
Gu, an internationally recognized
teacher and healer, received his training
from a variety of Grandmasters in
China, Tibet and at the world's largest
Qigong hospital. He is the founder
of the Chi Healing Center and Wisdom
Healing Foundation and has taught
Qigong to thousands of people in the
USA, China and Europe.
Wisdom Healing
Spiral Dance &
Ancient Sound Healing
Learn and practice the ancient art
of healing to awaken your aliveness,
joy and fulfillment. In this afternoon
offering Master Mingtong Gu will teach
and lead you in meditation, movement,
and sound healing for emotional transformation.
You will learn and practice the spinal
bone marrow method, which allows you
to awaken your physical body to its
energetic dimension. You will learn
to activate the spiral blue print
in your spine, and deeply improve
your body structure, release pain
and stress and enhance immune function.
As a highlight, Mingtong will offer
the teaching and practice of sound
healing—effective technology
to transform fearful or negative emotions
into a healing gift, at this time
of personal and social challenges.
We will move our spines and tone healing
sounds in a unified rhythm with hundreds
of practitioners. This is a powerful
opportunity to share this amplified
resonance with a large group. By tapping
into this ancient healing technology,
you will obtain powerful tools for
self-healing, strengthen your endocrine
and immune systems, reduce stress,
anxiety and depression. By achieving
a deeper sense of wellbeing, emotional
stability and balance, you are empowered
to attract positive changes into your
life.
and surprise amazing
guests TBA!
Special
2010 GUEST TEACHER-ARTIST:
Dear Community, I melted when
I listen to her harp drifting divine
frequencies into my heart, so...as
they called me 'treasure founder',
Diana was inspired to join us and
introduce us to the gentle healing
magic of playing the harp. Diana will
bring many harps for us to learn how
to play.
Another unbelievable treat of the
Santa Cruz retreat is our Mayumi Oda,
the legendary expressive arts healer
who is going to join us for Yoga and
Meditation in the morning.
It isn't great to be able to have
so many timeless possibilities to
tune into the sacred?. You will find
the royal gateway to liberate the
music inside you that wants to be
heard.
As you appreciate, this incredible
affordable weeklong residential seminar
is about community learning together,
It's not just centered on one teacher
singing and you responding.
This is about triggering your spiritual
autonomy, as you open all your musical
voices. That requires many cultures
of teachers singing with and through
you. " Silvia Nakkach
Baixinha meets the
Lamas and Rinpoches, photo by Alba
Lirio
Participant testimony:
Santa Cruz Retreat turned out
to be a life-changing experience that
was so beautiful, as you can imagine,
that is hard to put in words...If
you can imagine five full days of
waking up every morning to the sound
of Tibetan chanting in the distance
(as the retreat is held at the incredibly
serene setting of Pema Osel Ling),
eating breakfast with one big giant
sound healing family, spending the
day in multiple forms of chant/singing/drumming/healing/creative/and
sometimes completely silent bliss
- oh yeah, can't forget eating an
even more delicious lunch and dinner
(can't say enough about the superb
chefs in the kitchen - no kidding!!
- evening concerts (part by the group,
sometimes complete with lots of humor
and even a treat from outside performers
- best energy ever!). At night, the
stars seem so close you feel you can
touch the universe and the mountain
air has it's own way of cleansing
the soul - and chakra energies :-)I
hope anyone I know could participate
in this year's retreat …Plus,
you'll get to meet the amazing souls
that come from Vox Mundi in Brazil
that share their love of sound, music,
and healing, offering their knowledge
of ragas and chants from many different
cultures. Adele Galvan, soung
healer and CEO
Fitzcarraldo listening the mystery
of Nature
SCHEDULE,
ACCOMMODATIONS & ARRIVAL INFORMATION
ACCOMMODATIONS
FEES and PAYMENT
REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
Vox Mundi will handle the registration
for tuition fees, special diet requests,
& accommodations
1. visit www.polmountainretreat.com
for directions, and http://www.polmountainretreat.com/accommodations.aspx
for accommodations and pictures of
the land.
2. contact: voxmundi@yahoo.com
and/or call 510- 595 0819
for all information
Register early to get best choice of
lodging and lower airline rates. It
is very high season!
How to register:
BY MAIL: Down load,
print, fill up, and mail a REGISTRATION
FORM from this site -
and include your tuition payment,
special diet, and choice of accommodations
ONLINE: Down load,
fill up, and e-mail a REGISTRATION
FORM from this site -
and include your tuition payment,
special diet, and choice of accommodations
Go to by BUY NOW
and PAY PAL Instructions
at the end of this program information
- follow the directions carefully
and it will work - don't forget to
include the extra 4% to the total
Everybody
is welcome!
Healing Practitioners will learn new ways
of integrating sound into their current
practice Musicians will re-awaken the
spiritual nature of chanting and creating
music Yoga practitioners will learn how
to empower their vocal expression as part
of the devotional practice they share
with others All who participate will benefit
from the transformative power of sound
and sacred nature.
Students and musicians
from around the world will gather and
be nourished by the auspicious energy
of Tibetan sacred architecture, the serene
beauty of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and
the blissful breezes of the ocean, creating
a perfect space for prayer, invocation
and harmony, while learning a wealth of
vocal practices from many traditions of
enlightenment through sound.
The music retreat focuses
on the profound experience of continuous
chanting, drumming, and dancing as a path
to living life as divine art. Making music
together all day reveals innate joy, openness
and radiance. The weeklong residential
experience is gently restorative and deeply
illuminating, filled with genuine creativity
and mind-body-spirit sense of unity.
Into the core of MUSIC
SHAMANISM this retreat focuses on the
embodiment (by means of chanting) of
the qualities of Sarasvati, the Indian
Goddesses of learning and enlightenment
through sound, we will smoothly letting
the voice flow as a river, through and
beyond the body and the mind, and we
will learn how to obtain wisdom and
healing from Singing the Names and sacred
chants. We will use the the intelligence
of the voice as the main instrument
for attaining musical confidence, and
spiritual insight.
Silvia &
Alba ecstatic chant and dance
Photography art by Joanne
Warfield
Val - our divine yogi in
residence meeting a butterfly at
Pema ...
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Photo
Gallery
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PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox Mundi
School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox Mundi
Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the School
via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
REGISTRATION
FORM
This operation is safe and is through
PAY PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an extra
4%
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CANCELATION
POLICY
Your fees would be refunded in-full
minus a $50 dollars administration
fee before 3 weeks prior
to the day that the event starts.
There will not be any refund if
cancellation is received within
three-weeks prior to the program,
unless there is a serious emergency
situation involved.
Therefore, you are informed that
from July 1st there are
NO refunds - Already Rooms
and Board have been assigned - Retreat
has been already organized in-full,
and meals have been purchased and
pre-paid. Thank you for your understanding.
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Study
Abroad with
The Vox Mundi School International
Faculty
WE
HAVE ADDED a NEW TRIP TO BAHIA, BRAZIL
July
28-August 12
In Bahia,
Brazil
Chanting, Ritual Dances,
Creativity, Magic and Healing
in Salvador, Bahia, Buzios
and Rio
In 2005 and 2009 I traveled
with Silvia on a mystical, magical
journey to Brazil. These adventures
opened my voice and breath, my heart
and mind. The combination of singing,
rituals, laughing, drumming, and friend-making
were life changing. I shifted from
where I was to where I needed to go.
Silvia and Alba are divine. Bahia
is incredible. You can't know before
you go what blessings will come your
way; imagine a double rainbow over
the ocean or monkeys eating cheese
out of our hands. The bliss awaits
you, no matter what is on your mind
or in your heart when you arrive.
Anne Power, Leadership Trainer and
Consultant
Reserve your plain ticket very soon
-
Airlines have never been so affortable!
This is YOUR year to visit Brazil
“These musical journeys
are unique because the group is immersed
in the culture through a daily contact
with legendary master teachers and
divine healers from the land. As part
of a learning community of artists
from all over the world, participants
make lifelong connections with our
local friends, the culture, and the
music. This becomes an unforgettable
heart warming experience that invites
us to return every year just to go
deeper, and get more of the same sweet
and creative humanness.”
Silvia Nakkach, Group Facilitator
and Core Faculty
THE MESSAGE remind us:
“The capacity to connect
with energy that can liberate
us is inherent in each of us”
Steven Goodman
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July 29 - August 12 - Bahia,
Buzios and Rio de Janeiro
$2,100 by May 1st and 2,400
after
Registration deposit: $700 will
reserve your space
airfare and food not included
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Light House in Itapoâ,
Salvador, Bahia
Call as for
an admission interview at 510- 595
0819
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full,
a refund of 70%, less a $50
handling fee, will be issued
if cancellation is received
in writing 45 days prior to
the program starting date. There
is no refunds if only a deposit
was received for any Study Abroad
Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days
prior to the program stating
date, unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition
can be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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STUDY
ABROAD: in India
Special VOX MUNDI 20-year Celebration
of "Masti" -
All the beauty we are through Devotional
Chant in Mother Land
TRAVEL
to MOTHER INDIA
RAJASTHAN
Raga & Dhrupad Singing with
great masters
Music Festivals
Excursion to Palaces and
Indigenous Tribes Fairs
Inspiring Music & Dances
Rajasthan is the most is home for
the most ancient and
passionate music in India. Lively
and joyous rhythms are a delight to
hear.
This is India at its best!
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January 3-5;
leave your country and arrive in Delhi
airport and take another flight around
noon to Varanasi, our divine destination,
stay at legendary Hotel, and daily
study with Silvia and Dhrupad Master
and Nada Yoga professor.
January 13-14; flight
from Varanasi-Jaipur, Rajasthan. Nice
***** Hotel, excursion to the near
by Emerald Forest, Elephants and wild
animals, great shopping, Museums,
Textiles and Art walks.
January 15-19; 3hs
Bus to Pushkar, Rajasthan; one of
the most ancient and sacred treasures
of India, hidden, beautiful, quiet,
across a lake. Say at state of the
art and comfort Resort in the country
side.
We'll take our teacher with us and
focus on Sound and Voice refinement,
and study 6 hours per day Yoga of
the Voice, with Silvia and Dhrupad
Master, including Nada Yoga, Kundalini
Yoga, and Hatha Yoga. Excursion to
beautiful historical places like the
city of Ajmer, and wild forest around.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkar_lake#Pushkar_city
January 19-20; Bus
to Jaipur and flight to New Delhi
from Jaipur (just 40 min flight).
Rest or visit Delhi's treasure sites
on your own, and hopefully, visit
with legendary Master Vocalist of
the Dhrupad Tradition ,teacher of
teachers: Zia Fariduddin Dagar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Fariduddin_Dagar
(to be confirmed on the spot).
January 20; the Vox
Mundi musical study journey is completed.
Various participants decided to stay
and visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, and
other cities on their own.
Varanasi, Rajasthan, Delhi
Contact us with tuition and details
at voxmundi@yahoo.com
Plane tickets internal and internal
flights are not included and must
be purchased in advanced. Visa cost
is also not included ( around $130)
Fees includes lodging, ground transportation,
some excursions, all the master teachers
and teachings tuition throughout the
journey.
Meals are not included
in Rajasthan the breakfast is included,
( food in India is not expensive ).
Rates are provisional and they will
be confirmed upon final number of
participants and notable currency
exchange rate fluctuations.
Vox Mundi School reserves the right
to adjusts these values according
to currency rates fluctuations (As
today Dollar exchange rate is low
in relation to Rupees).
REGISTRATION FEE: $700 ~ USA dollars/not
refundable after October 1st.
Contact us immediately if you are
interested in coming,
Only one space is available ~ We are
taking a small group this year
More details upon Registration
For Ticket's information contact
Fabio at Holdy Tours at: 1-800-446-
1111
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Enjoy
and Engage in:
Daily Chanting Yoga of the Voice with
Silvia & Learn Dhrupad divine
raga singing with greatest Masters
Nada Yoga, Hata Yoga & Kundalini
Yoga
Music and Dance Festivals
Excursions to sacred sites and Performances
Relaxation and spiritual nurturing
Make a new Community of International
friends
Photo
courtesy de Jorge Vismara:
http://jorgevismara.net-
visit Jorge's site to have a visual
feast at all times!!!
“Something
opens our wings.
Something makes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of
us.
We taste only sacredness.”
Rumi
In this musical journeys return to
the Source of Nada Yoga & Devotional
Chant.
Become an intensive training on healing
chant with master teachers, divine
voices, in the inspiring ancient and
gentle humanity!
Enrich ~ Explore ~ Energize
~ Enchant ~ Celebrate
the Transformative Power of Sacred
Chant in Mother India
“The
Vox Mundi School of Sound and the
Voice has gained an international
reputation for offering the highest
quality musical journeys around the
world for more than a decade, combining
natural beauty, music making, ritual
dances, cultural insight, spiritual
tours, yoga and meditation, and inspiring
teachings under the direction of legendary
masters of sacred chant. This study
tour through the North and the South
of India will ignite lifelong connections
with the land, the music, and new
local friends, becoming an unforgettable
‘ change of heart’ for
both the first-time and seasoned traveler
who chooses to return every year to
tap deeper into the creative power
of this learning vacations. “
Silvia Nakkach
Artistic Director, Vox Mundi Project
& Study Tour Facilitator
"Silvia is an experienced
world traveler who brings genuine
warmth, knowledge, and abundance of
enjoyment to her precise guidance,
students like to call her the Minister
of Transportation".
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PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox
Mundi School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox
Mundi Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the
School via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
REGISTRATION
FORM
This operation is safe and
is through PAY PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an extra
4%
Thank you! |
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full,
a refund of 70%, less a $50
handling fee, will be issued
if cancellation is received
in writing 45 days prior to
the program starting date. There
is no refunds if only a deposit
was received for any Study Abroad
Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days
prior to the program stating
date, unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition
can be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
To Register:
Download, Print and Mail a Registration
Form with your payments to Vox
Mundi School
Mail your check payable to Silvia
Nakkach/ Vox Mundi
Payment through
PAY PAL adding a 4%.
Address: Vox
Mundi Project
4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
contact the
School via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
REGISTRATION
FORM
This operation is safe and
is through PAY PAL
1. Click on BUY NOW
2. Log In or Open a New Account
3. Send Money to voxmundi@yahoo.com
4. Remember to include an extra
4%
Thank you! |
CANCELATION
POLICY
If tuition is paid in full,
a refund of 70%, less a $50
handling fee, will be issued
if cancellation is received
in writing 45 days prior to
the program starting date. There
is no refunds if only a deposit
was received for any Study Abroad
Program.
There is no refund if cancellation
is received after 45 days
prior to the program stating
date, unless there is an emergency
situation involved. In special
cases, part of the tuition
can be transferred to a similar
program in future dates.
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OTHER
OFFERINGS
By Silvia Nakkach
and the Vox Mundi Staff
INDIVIDUAL VOICE
HEALING, SINGING and CELLO Lessons
Academic Curriculums, Lectures and Presentations
On going Groups on Voice Improvisation
Private Individual Sessions and Training
Music Healing session and supervision
Recording, consulting and producing
Music for films
Performance and Concerts
ALL PROGRAMS REQUIRE PRE-PAID REGISTRATIONS
Mail your check payable to Silvia Nakkach / Vox
Mundi at.:
Adress: 4053 Harlan St, #202
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
Or contact the School via email at all times:
snakkach@cs.com
and voxmundi@yahoo.com
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