Spontaneous Singing
“The birds have flown to freedom,
the cage lies empty.
Your happy songs bring to me
the scent of heaven.
Please keep singing.”
—Rumi
OPEN VOICE is a method for rescuing our natural ability to sing spontaneously by expressing our inner experiences and the uniqueness of our soul.
This is a therapeutic process, a powerful opening for self-expression, and a spiritual experience. It is a call to be totally in the present moment and to give expression to what is happening inside, through the singing voice.
And we came into life to contribute with something unique that comes from our inner world and our essence.
Many of us have been painfully repressed in our natural gift of expressing ourselves through our voice. We had to keep everything inside or learned to bring it out in distorted and confused ways. The body had to create patterns – tensions and holdings – to keep things that couldn’t be expressed in some kind of order.
In OPEN VOICE we create spaces in the body through breathing, movements, and special techniques that open the great variety of sounds that are calling from inside to be expressed – at the same time we use the sound vibration of our voice to open our body and our energy.
“The Open Voice weekend was really strong. I could see almost miracles happening when somebody started giving out a soft, trembling sound, and gradually it turned into a powerful expression of one´s soul. Read More What is so special about this work is that we don´t let our thoughts and words explain everything such as we are normally used to do. It´s a huge relief. The voice is able to express the unspeakable. Any time you, Komala, start singing, it resonates through all my body and it´s so powerful!” That´s SO amazing!
“I want to thank you so much for the Open Voice seminar. It still resonates within me – all the voices of myself and others and the many emotions that have opened in me and keep opening. Read More As if I touched my own self in this… Even in one moment I experienced what I wrote you before which I had been missing… Simply just be and breathe… and I felt really great.”
“So, has anything changed in my life after the “Opening Your Voice” seminar? Over the first week, twice I told my boss some things that I may have been too cowardly to say before. Read More And your seminar reminded me how much I love Latin dances, including the tango! And I made a resolution to get back to dancing more.”
In this journey, the ability to listen is as important as the ability to express.
We practice listening to the sound vibration of our own voice, and the way it travels inside our body.
We start sensing and perceiving with more clarity the areas in our body and mind that are open, as well as the areas that are contracted and holding life energy.
In OPEN VOICE we create our own songs spontaneously, moment to moment, and part of the work is to develop a new, spontaneous language that can translate immediately and directly our inner experiences into sound vibrations.
When you go through this experience you will connect with the great variety of sounds, inspiration and creative possibilities that you have inside.
If you are a professional singer, or you like to sing in a choir, to sing songs together with friends, or simply enjoy singing for yourself, this method will open a completely new world for you.
We work with the chakra system, a map through which we enter specific qualities and ranges of sound vibration related to each chakra (energy center), from the lowest to the highest frequencies.
This exploration goes from the lowest sounds related to physical strength and vitality in the first chakra, to the emotional expressions and sensuality in the belly, to power and joy in the solar plexus, to the gentle sounds of love and openness in the heart, to the creative space of the throat, to the high frequency of awareness in the 6th chakra, up to the highest and silent vibration of the seventh chakra.
We connect our roots and explore the lowest sound vibrations, bringing the strength, vitality and nourishment from the earth into our physical body, reconnecting our basic, instinctual energy.
The qualities of the first Chakra sounds give stability and embodiment to the sound and the singing.
Here we find a very rich range of sounds that express our innermost feelings. The exploration starts with the support and containment from the womb’s sound, and moves on, from anger to joy, from pain to pleasure, welcoming any emotion that wants to be expressed.
The great variety of sound vibrations in the 2nd chakra bring strength, aliveness, playfulness and depth to the singing voice, which is supported by the containment of the womb’s sound.
In the solar plexus, we explore sounds that bring power and expansion to the singing voice. We work in depth with the diaphragm and its role in expanding our breathing capacity and on modulating the volume of our voice.
The 3rd Chakra is also about self-worth, charisma, joyfulness, and our right to take space, show ourselves and shine.
At the Heart Center we enter a delicate and powerful space where the sound becomes a balsam, caressing and opening to all there is without judgments. This is a space of wonder, love, compassion, and gentleness.
The sound vibration of the heart brings a velvet and round quality to the singing voice.
Here the sound goes to an even higher vibration that can open the voice for expressing transcendental experiences.
The throat is as well the vehicle for expressing creatively the energy and sound dimensions of all the lower and upper chakras, therefore is a channel through which we can express the unique qualities of our being.
