Week 1 | Finding my voice and its relation with my inner life
17th – 22nd March 2019
We’ll work with tone and self expression. In particular:
The resonant body; Vocal tone; vocal meditation; increasingly subtle somatic awareness of voice, and increasingly awesome vocal quality
; coming deeply into the resonant body
; Integrating movement for deeper embodiment, self-enquiry and expression.
Collaborative improvisation: improvising with others
Musical skills – these continue through the year.
– Singing with a drum or rattle
– A little bit of work with rhythm, harmony and scales / agility
Voice and the inner life
– Language and creature language
– Establishing a self-exploratory vocal improvisation practice; allowing the inner to express through voice
– Welcoming all of the inner life through the clowning practice of accept, express, exaggerate
Living Ritual: opening, closing, Spring Equinox ritual.
Week 2 – Living my voice and connecting with the natural world
23rd – 28th June 2019
The voice, solo and collaborative improvisation
– Deepening our work
Nature connection
– Daily sit spot
– Solo and group practice outside
– Medicine walks, group and private; tree, stone, water, animal conversations and song; plant work
Musical skills - Singing with a drum or rattle - A little bit of work with rhythm, harmony and scales / agility
Living Ritual – Summer Solstice ritual.
Week 3 – Living my voice, and connection with the unseen
18th – 23rd September
Voice, language and creature language in relationship
– Singing a room, what is alive in a group
– Reflecting another in voice
– Voice and ancestral connection
– Voice and relationship with Mystery
– Deepening our relationship with listening, emptiness, trust, and being a vessel
– Sound healing
Musical skills
– Singing with a drum or rattle
– A little bit of work with rhythm, harmony and scales / agility
Living Ritual: Autumn Equinox ritual
Week 4 – Giving my voice, and Stepping into Leadership
27th October – 1st November
Students create, collaborate on, lead (if they are called to) and sing in ceremonies together. Stepping up as a ritual singer; using voice in healing, prayer, ceremony and ritual and any other kind of relationship with the unseen.
Living ritual every day – and over Samhain.
Closing our year together, and looking forwards.