Open Voice Training

Two-years professional training

“The birds have flown to freedom,
the cage lies empty.
Your happy songs bring to me
the scent of heaven.
Please keep singing.” —Rumi

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

OPEN VOICE is a method for rescuing our natural ability to sing spontaneously
by expressing our inner experiences and the uniqueness of our souls.

This is a therapeutic process, a powerful opening for self-expression, and a spiritual experience. You will practice being in the present moment and express what is happening in your inner world through the singing voice.

The training is for therapists, group leaders, teachers, shamanic practitioners, singers, actors, life coaches, musicians, and anyone who has a voice and the longing to explore their inner and outer world through this powerful vehicle.

During the training, you will go through a deeply personal exploration of your voice. The voice will be your vehicle for entering the many dimensions of your being that go from the deep sounds of your ancestral and physical experiences to the highest frequencies of your mind and subtle experiences. You will meet and re-connect the infinite richness of sound vibrations within yourself and express the uniqueness of your soul through spontaneous singing.

You will practice accompanying someone on a journey through their singing voice. You will learn to attune with and read a person’s voice, the correlation of their voice with body posture, body energy, breath and emotional, mental, and spiritual states, and to support the natural unfolding of a person’s unique voice. At the same time, we will practice attunement and sensing the frequency of a group of people through resonance.

* A pre-requisite to participate in the training is to have been in an Open Voice workshop or any other long training with Komala.

The OPEN VOICE Training happens in 6 modules, following the map of the Chakra system. It develops from the deepest sounds associated with the physical body and the material world to the highest frequencies of our mind, higher consciousness and silence.

Module 1 – Nourishing the Vessel (1^st Chakra)

In this first module, we will explore and expand the vessel of our body, which encompasses the physical structure and the energy that moves through the body. We will create a base and a container, as a resource from where we can allow our emotions to flow and our story to unfold, creating space for the richness of vibrations that we explore in the further modules. When we work with the base we connect the base of our spine, legs, feet, our roots, our tissues and bones, and our ancestry, which are doorways to enter our lowest sound vibrations. We enter the depth of the earth as one of our oldest ancestors to re-connect our sense of strength, vitality, and to receive her nourishment and reconnect our basic, instinctual energy.
The qualities of the first Chakra sounds give stability and embodiment to the sound and the singing.

Module 2 – Reconnecting our Feelings & Creating a New language (2nd Chakra)

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, which is a continuum from the base. And, we move on expressing the energy, frequencies, and sounds coming from our deep feelings and strong emotions. We will explore the great variety of sounds and the dimensions of anger, joy, pain, and pleasure, welcoming all the emotions that are ready to be felt and expressed. The great variety of sound vibrations in the 2nd body bring strength, aliveness, playfulness, and depth to the singing voice, which is supported by the containment of the womb’s sound.

Module 3 – The Power of Being / The Power of the Heart (3^rd & 4^th Chakras)

The 3rd Chakra is about individuation, self-worth, charisma, joyfulness, and our right to take space, show ourselves, and shine.
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. Here we start exploring the connection and the movement between our inner and outer world, between sound and silence.

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. At the heart center, we keep practicing attunement to ourselves and move deeper into feeling and tunning in with another, and to the world around us. The sound vibration of the heart brings a velvet and round quality to the singing voice.

Module 4 – Freedom of Expression (5^th Chakra)

Here the sound goes to a higher vibration that can open the voice for expressing transcendental experiences. The throat is the vehicle for expressing creatively the energy and sound dimensions of all the lower and upper chakras, therefore it is a channel through which we can express the unique qualities of our being. In this module we work with the beliefs and hindrances that we meet in the previous chakras and use the energies we find to move our self-expression to a higher level of exploration.

Module 5 – Awareness, Intuition and the Subtle Bodies (6^th Chakra)

Awareness and presence are fundamental practices throughout all the modules, and now we meet its frequency at a deeper level.
We activate the 3^rd eye to meet the even higher frequencies related to different states of our mind. This is a pathway to meet our inner guide and intuition.
In the 6th Chakra, we can reach high frequencies and quality of sounds that can become portals for our connection with our soul, and with divinity.
In this module, we will create space for whatever is open in our inner and outer world and use the many elements, that we have available, for expressing through a spontaneous singing modality. We will move deeper into listening, exchanging sessions, and practicing with each other.

Module 6 – Healing Sounds, Overtones & Completion

In this module, we will explore different modalities of healing sounds, using the singing voice and other instruments to apply different vibrations and frequencies to create space for healing and integration at the physical, energetic, emotional, and mental bodies.
This is the completion-module and the time for supervision of participants’ individual movement throughout the training and to look into the further application of their learning.

Opening your body with your sounds

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.

These vibrations function like a balsam, as an inner massage into our tissues, muscles, joints, and cells.

Testimonials from participants

“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

That´s SO amazing!

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!”

Kamila H. (Artist)

“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.”

Tereza S. (Psychotherapist)

“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.”

Petr H. (Neuroscientist)

Singing is everyone’s birth-right

This is a call to be totally in the present moment and to give expression to what is happening inside, through the singing voice.

Listening to the vibrations of your inner world

In this journey, the ability to listen is as important as the ability to express.

We practice listening to the sound vibration of our 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 and where we contract and hold life energy.

You will discover a deeper connection with your body, your breath and the immensity of your inner world.

This work is for everyone who has a voice and the longing to explore it

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.

You don’t have to have a “special” voice or “talent” for singing.
This method proves that expressing oneself through singing is everyone’s birthright.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

A journey with your voice

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 6^th chakra, up to the highest and silent vibration of the seventh chakra.

1^ST CHAKRA – Singing our way into our roots

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.

2^nd CHAKRA – Reconnecting our Feelings

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 2^nd chakra bring strength, aliveness, playfulness and depth to the singing voice, which is supported by the containment of the womb’s sound.

3^rd CHAKRA – The power of being

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 3^rd Chakra is also about self-worth, charisma, joyfulness, and our right to take space, show ourselves and shine.

4^th Chakra – The wisdom of the Heart

The sound vibration of the heart brings a velvet and round quality to the singing voice.

5^th Chakra – Freedom of Expression

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.

We explore and play with the many possibilities of our human voice in its infinite qualities of sound and energy, with the intention to express our unique self and enter spaces of silence and stillness. Welcome to a deep and playful journey into your Self!