The Naked Voice

Your true voice, the song of your life, is the key to innumerable worlds. Your body is its vessel and messenger.

Chloe and Masashi have worked together for over 15 years exploring the masculine-feminine interface of voice, sound and energy movement as a spiritual practice and a metaphor for living. Their work together is very joyous, simple and accessible to everyone, regardless of age, culture or creed.

You will leave the workshop with a range of spontaneous and structured, playful and in-depth listening, vocal and movement exercises that will energise every realm of your life, from intimate relationship, both with yourself and others; to parenting and family life; open-hearted communication skills for the workplace, and everyday life as a whole.

For more information and to book, contact The Naked Voice office on 0117 9277020, email now@thenakedvoice.com or book online.

This is the sixth weekend with Chloe for the One Year Choral Training. Rehearsal Day with Chloe on the Saturday followed by a unique participatory musical gathering open to all at 7.00-9.00pm. Click here for more details on the training or contact Catherine Walsh (see below)

The training will take us on a musical journey where we will rehearse, harmonise and perform a playlist of songs and chants. Singing together in this way will quieten the mind, open the heart and transmit the highest of human values – harmony, co-operation and compassion, elevating the human spirit and uniting our community beyond race or creed. This ground-breaking experiential voice research, is specifically designed to generate a new language of awareness, inspiring an evolution of consciousness.

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For bookings and queries please contact our Dublin organiser, Catherine Walsh on 087 0516098 or sjcwalsh@yahoo.ie

Within the sound of our One Voice are the keys to innumerable worlds. Chloe Goodchild invites you into a participative field of deep presence, sound and song, inspired by a life-times' love affair with the contemplative, devotional and ecstatic voice. In this singing field "beyond ideas of right and wrong doing" we will re-discover our collective voice, as a vehicle for spirit, and a metaphor for living. Chloe will share her own compositions, improvisations and much-loved sacred chants inspired by the ecstatic love poetry of Rumi, Kabir, and Tagore.

Click here for online booking with Tree of Life

Find Your Voice in Nature
Discover Your Authentic Self
Create a Sanctuary of Sound

The Sanctuary of Sound heralds the 2012 Naked Voice annual 5 Day retreat. It offers a unique opportunity, a place of presence and transparency, with the essential 'time out' for people from all walks of life, and cultural backgrounds, to let their hair down, let go, relax and discover themselves in ways they never imagined possible.

This popular in-depth five day residential retreat brings together Naked Voice inquirers, practitioners, and facilitators from all over the world. Through a playful and profound process of deep non-judgemental listening, spoken and sung voice, we build a safe, supportive and sacred place, a Sanctuary of Sound, otherwise known as a Singing Field.

Sanctuary of Sound offers you new skills and practices to energise, nourish, and express your body-heart-mind, both outside in Nature, as well as in the magic stillness created in the Naked Voice 'Sanctuary of Sound' at Buckland Hall, Abergevenny. This wonderful residential centre will provide us. once again, with the most beautiful context for our unique work together, surrounded by beautiful gardens, some of the oldest trees in Europe, the panoramic Brecon Beacons, and Black mountains of South Wales. This stunning environment will inspire your journey - inwards and outwards - sustained by sound and silence, complete with mouth watering vegetarian food, open fires, teas and coffee on tap, and a selection of large and small rooms eg the library, the yoga room for body-work and silent sitting, and other spaces for dance, socialising and focused dialogue.

The retreat will introduce you to the full spectrum of your spoken, sung voice and 'naked voice' - exploring its personal, interpersonal and global significance,
for the revelation of a new consciousness - facilitated by Chloe's Seven Levels of Sound & Modes of Love and Masashi Minagawa's Energy Movement and Nicholas Twilley's World Rhythm and Poetry. The Retreat Days will be divided between walks in the mountains, alongside dynamic and rigorous inner-outer work, exploring the human voice as a vehicle for spirit. The Naked Voice practices provide self-awareness listening skills and communication tools in which inquirers, committed practitioners and facilitators alike can deepen their understanding of their true nature or Self. Each day begins with a protocol of silent warm up exercises, breathwork and silent meditation.

1st Earlybird price £700 by 21st September / 2nd Earlybird price £775 by 21st December / Full Price £850. We are also offering 5 charitable places at just £500 which we will allocate upon receipt of an application stating your intention and elligibility for this special offer. Deadline for these places is the auspicious date of 11/11/11.

The cost includes accommodation (sharing en-suite twin), vegetarian food and all tuition. A limited amount of private rooms are available at an extra cost of £88 for 5 nights.

For bookings and queries please contact the Naked Voice Office on 0117 9277020. You can pay your non-refundable and non-transferable £100 deposit online here and the balance over the phone or by cheques payable to 'The Naked Voice'.

If you wish to attend the retreat as part of the Naked Voice Facilitator Training process then click here to download the application form. If you wish to attend the retreat as a one-off experience please download this form.

Throughout history and in many different cultures, people have understood and used the power of the human voice to transform collective and individual consciousness: songs and poetry enable people to communicate differently with themselves, others and the world around them. In these uncertain and challenging times, organisations and individuals are increasingly seeking the means to access higher forms of consciousness to enable them to function better, and this pioneering course provides the opportunity to explore ways that direct engagement with the human voice can introduce participants to tools and skills for authentic expression and true sustainability. Enhance your leadership and interpersonal skills through sound and voice

This course brings together two worlds that rarely intersect – sound and voice awareness and organisational development. It integrates the Seven Levels of Conscious Leadership framework (as developed by Richard Barrett) with the Seven Levels of Sound and Energy Movement (developed by Chloe Goodchild and Masashi Minagawa) to introduce easily accessible, cohesive communication skills for both individuals and teams. Using sound and voice, one can move beyond beliefs and pre-existing agendas, and build connections between the conscious and unconscious. Inspired by the experience of inclusiveness and harmony generated by all participants sharing a common voice, a new language of awareness is opened. This creates fertile ground to think afresh about strategic, organisational and personal challenges. Participants will learn ways to express their authentic voice, build trust, explore their values and access innate leadership skills within the context they work in – be it a small organisation, family or corporate setting.

Chloe Goodchild has spent over 25 years researching the transforming power of the human voice as a vehicle for authentic expression and conscious leadership. Malcolm Lewis works with people and organisations to help them identify their purpose and values, and develop ways of working that reflect their values. They are just at the beginning of this shared work in sound leadership and are excited by the opportunities that arise from combining singing with strategy.

For further information on the course and its facilitators, Chloe Goodchild & Malcolm Lewis, please click here.

For more information about different booking options and booking online at Schumacher College click here.

Sound Evolution - Singing Our World Awake, provides a sanctuary of sound, where we will discover how our spoken and singing voice energises us with a renewed stamina and inner resilience to navigate the challenges of these times with awareness, self-confidence, courage and wisdom. You will learn a range of vocal practices that build your self-confidence in all realms of life. This weekend will enable you to access simple playful ways of listening, co-creating and evolving consciousness together through the transforming power of shared sound and song. Supported and sustained by the witness consciousness, you will learn to observe yourself and others without judging. The witness is a unique faculty of attention that enables you to step out of the tight shoe of your reactive mind, and expand your awareness to express the far reaching and joyous dimensions of your soul. The witness is strengthened through the practice of musicianship skills, specific sounds, vowels, devotional words or phrases, sacred chants, healing love songs and more, that inspire open hearted listening, compassionate communication and unconditional Love.

This workshop, facilitated by Chloe, is organised by Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996.

For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, mesp2012@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469.

Your 'naked' voice is the mouthpiece of your soul. It enables you to harness all the energies of love within you, to engage playfully and courageously with your emotional body as you transform your negative energy into positive human feeling. This practice is supported by the witness consciousness, our self-observing mind, which calms your nervous system as you discover, through self-acceptance, gratitude and forgiveness, how your authentic voice is an essential key in unlocking the treasures of your heart's message. This experiential weekend reveals the full potential and spectrum of your unique vocal expression. Everyone is welcome, and previous 'singing experience' is not necessary. Your Naked Voice, provides you with the essential communication skills - inspired by deep non-judgemental listening, healing breath work, devotional chant, sacred mantra, energy movement and the magical ‘seven sounds of love’ - to explore and redeem your true voice in all kinds of ways, spoken, and sung, for everyday life.

This workshop, facilitated by Chloe, is organised by Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996.

For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, mesp2012@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469.