The Naked Voice Training
Sound Practices and Communication Skills For Life
 Masashi Minagawa - energy movement |
 Chloë Goodchild - voice and sound |
 Nicholas Twilley - world percussion |
The Naked Voice Training, founded by international singer and music educator Chloe Goodchild, introduces the compassionate power of sound, voice and song for the 21st century. It is practical and accessible to everyone, and it offers you a unique opportunity to realise your true nature through the vehicle of your authentic voice and presence in the world.
The Naked Voice Training is an ongoing series of 5-Day in-depth residential retreats that take place in the Spring each year.
They provide a sanctuary within which beginners, committed practitioners, and accredited NV facilitators and teachers can deepen their practice and mentor each other together in community.
The Naked Voice Training methodology focuses on the integration of three realms of communication - contemplative, creative and compassionate – through a process of deep non-judgemental listening and self-inquiry. Participants learn to express themselves across a wide spectrum of human feeling - spoken, sung and silent – as they evolve conscious and courageous new ways of communicating together and alone, giving voice to positive human values, essential for our time. The process is initiated by sound and vocal practices that access the wisdom of the individual through:
Contemplative listening skills: Learning to calm the mind, to listen to and observe your life without judging
Creative listening skills: Learning to open and express your heart without fear
Compassionate listening skills: Learning to transform negative emotion into positive human feeling
The Naked Voice Training is the fruit of over 30 years research working in the field of voice and sound with thousands of individuals in seminars, workshops and trainings and performance events worldwide. It has been designed by Naked Voice founder, Chloe Goodchild, with her core team, Nicholas Twilley and Masashi Minagawa. They have developed a working structure that catalyses self-awareness through sound awareness, core strength through energy movement, and compassionate communication through an in-depth inquiry of the central questions, “Who sings?” & “Who am I?”. Each day balances structured practice, with silence and free expression; also solo, small group and large group work. The day begins with meditation on the healing breath, and energy movement, and follows with mantra, sacred chant and musical chakra work; then explores freer spontaneous expression, improvisation, and musicianship practices focussing on the musical modes and our emotional moods, the musical octave as a journey from the root to the crown of consciousness, singing triads, healing songs, therapeutic song writing, as well as the musical exploration of specific life themes such as human intimacy and conscious relationships through love song and ecstatic poetry, and much more. All these practices serve to:
- strengthen your ‘ki’ or core self
- shift your awareness from self-conscious to sound-conscious
- build a strong witness consciousness (self-observing mind)
- transform negative emotions into positive human feeling
- dissolve beliefs that no longer serve you
- awaken your compassionate heart
- access your true authority and presence
- bring you home to the present moment
- prepare you to facilitate this understanding in the world (optional)
Silence is the wisdom teacher and source of this work.
The Naked Voice Training attracts practitioners and inquirers from all walks of life and professions, for the human voice is essential now more than ever before, as a force for conscious and compassionate communication from the personal to the international scene. The NV Training is supported by the Naked Voice Facilitator Association an international network of NV practitioners and facilitators available to offer you mentoring support, and follow-up workshops, between the main NV trainings. Click here for more information.
For a Prospectus, Application and Booking Structure...
Please contact Tim Chalice the Naked Voice Co-ordinator: The Naked Voice Office, 24 Park Street, Bristol BS1 5JA, UK. E-mail: now@thenakedvoice.com or Tel: +44 (0) 117 927 7020
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