Celebrating over 30 yrs.
preserving and refining
Vocal Arts across the world
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Facilitated by Silvia Nakkach and guest teachers and musicians
WHEN: 7 Tuesdays New Course – Starting March 22 – May 3, 4-5:45 PM-PT – Participants can attend any session individually and begin anytime with no assignments involved.
WHERE: LIVE on Global Zoom
Video Recordings are available after each session for enrolled students.
TUITION: $300 (All-Sessions + assignments + mentoring) | $45 drop-in
{This course is included and accrues hours towards the Yoga of the Voice Certificate and Teachers Training (*)
HOW IT WORKS: These are online Zoom sessions. Students are encouraged to register for all sessions and take it as an in-depth mentoring course that includes home assignments, or take each session independently at their own pace.
Every class is conceived as a musical journey. Each week we’ll explore exercises and instruments that will accompany, revitalize, and embody both the somatic and the poetics of freeing the voice unconditionally. It only requires showing up regularly to begin cultivating familiarity and confidence.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: We’ll share an original repertoire of diverse vocal cultures that expand and refine voice/sound modalities ranging from the benefits of neuro-coherence stimulated by mantras to the healing magic of indigenous songs and the icaros, to feeling the ecstasies elicited by ragas and spirituals. We’ll experience together how music and the voice create boundless generative soundscapes that facilitate balance and clear the mind. Participants will have the opportunity to co-create with others, presenting recordings and/or sharing “live” music, and collaborating with a group of fellow travelers. Vocally, the focus will be on tone and range development while immersing in the matrix of melody emerging While the Gods Play.
We’ll explore the expressive and contemplative energy of the Voice; delving into acoustic subtleties and refined melodiousness through extended vocal techniques, songwriting, and beyond genres improvisation. The Voice becomes a Mirror of Moods, Characters, Images, Dreams, and students will have the option to create a Voice/Sound/Music Project that they would like to manifest.
About our innovative approach as an Experimental Voice Lab:
We’ll assist students to design mix-media projects that might include video and audio recordings. During the 7-week immersion, the group process will support creative inquiry, collaborations, practice, and the transpersonal self-healing potential of music-making.
Students are welcome to bring their voice/sound dream project or purpose and they will be assisted with information and the tools to realize it through related bibliography; listening diets; self-reflection journaling; customized practices, and individual sessions when time is available at a separate fee.
WHO WILL BENEFIT: This course is designed for both new and seasoned musicians, students, artists, yogis and yoginis, therapists, sound healers, and teachers, interested in developing a voice that feels like a revealed gift and expresses the deep spiritual longing of the artist within.
Schedule – Subject to slight changes according to the time zone of the majority of the students on board.
SCHEDULE IS ON PACIFIC TIME ZONE —– check your time zone conversion
(*) Certificate students will accrue 20 hours towards the Yoga of the Voice International Certificate.
HOW TO REGISTER
1_ Send an email to voxmundi@yahoo.com including a few words about your interest in taking this program and where are you residing.
2_ Purchase Tuition Fees: $300 at the time of Registration – Sliding scale available upon request for the full-course registrants if financial hardship. Feel free to contact voxmundi@yahoo.com.
Payments through: Paypal (add .5%) or Venmo: @Silvia-NakkachKnapp
3_ NOTE: Include in the payment your email and the name of the program: Voice Livre. Thank you!
ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THESE TEACHINGS
Discovering and Navigating the 4 Corners of Creative Expression:
| SHAKTI |BHAKTI | SAHAJA | RASA |
Fundamentals of the Yoga of the Voice
Your voice becomes the journey and you are the seeker
§ Through a wealth of practices, self-inquiry, and enjoyable assignments, this course will offer a comprehensive and unique exploration of “nādaekāgracittabhūmi”: A state of mind one-pointedly focused on voice as sound and space;
§ The use of sound and vibration in yoga is as old as yoga itself. The Yoga of the Voice is an evolving practice that offers instruction, inspiration, research, mentoring, and supervision on realizing our voice as sound-art, a musical instrument that has the highest potential for self-inquiry and transformation by means of freeing experiences, creative support, and customized practices;
§ Nurture from ancient teachings based on breathing and relaxation for developing a voice range that is fully embodied, uniquely expressive, and played like a fine musical instrument;
§ Enjoy the collective intelligence of improvisation empowered by in-depth lineage-based and inspired sound art and classical vocal cultures.
§ The Essential Mindset & Voicemology; the way of knowing through the voice as energy; Prana (life force) & Shuddhi (purification of mind) & Laya (s-pace) & Voice and Soma (body)
S Awakening Shakti (creative energy), Bhakti (attraction to the source), Masti (in love with the beauty of the world), Sukha (enjoyment). Mukti (Voice as a Practice of Self-Liberation) The Way of the Seeker and the Creator.
S Introduction to Acoustemology; the way of knowing through sound and resonance. Naad ( vibration), Svara (tone), and Shruti ( the space in between). The Way of the Naad Yogi and the Shaman. The Scientist and the Music Therapist.
S The Way of the Artist ~ Capstone student’s projects presentation. Rachnatmak (Creative Expression), liberating confidence ). Sound Ceremony & Certification Completion. Individually or in creative collaborations, students will present their projects based on their insights, learning, personal aspiration, and purpose.
§ skillful methods to develop breath power, intonation, range, and flexibility, providing a theoretical and practical context to free the voice to sing, to teach, to offer motivational speeches, and to perform with empowered consistency and imagination. Through deep listening and the expressive potential of sound, the voice opens to an expanded range;
§ an immersion into the infinite space between each tone, intonation, and discovering the emotional magic of the medicine melodies ragas of India, and series of sonorous yogic practices that involve subtle movements of hands and arms (asanas) and heighten the focus of the mind in sound;
§ a repertory of invocatory words, incantations, icaros, and ancient seed sounds that deliver explicit spiritual information for the transformation of consciousness, trance, and well-being;
§ a repertory of ragas and nada yoga contemplative practices to quiet the mind to make it sensitive to divine intervention;
§ Medicine Melodies; mantras and chants from many cultures that you can build on and share as you deepen your practice and free your voice;
§ a repertory of techniques for improvisation, extended vocal techniques, and contemporary new music to engage our imagination and enrich our musical offerings;
§ fostering conviction, confidence, and kindness for each practitioner and all beings;
§ cultivate singing as a daily spiritual practice for ourselves and to serve a larger community;
§ activate communities through song circles, movement, and transformative performance art;
§ approaching of our voice as part of our inner work (Self-Health)
§ becoming more aware of vibration, energy fields, and frequency shifting to activate new brain pathways and promote wellbeing
About the creator of the original Yoga of the Voice:
Silvia Nakkach, M.A.,MMT
“Silvia’s work is an unconditional invitation to experience and embrace life through your voice. In the most poetic, masterful, and freeing way, you discover simple, profound sonic tools that encourage self-inquiry, personal healing, and spiritual empowerment.” Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, author of Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures
“ Silvia Nakkach is a blazing light of creativity in the world, and this brightens radiates throughout the pages of this book and leaves the reader wanting to start singing! Influenced by some of the greatest musical geniuses and spiritual masters throughout the world, Free your Voice brilliantly integrates world wisdom so that students can quickly experience mysticism through chant and sound.” Mariana Caplan, PhD, author of The Guru Question and Eyes Wide Open.
