The Healing Voice: Ritual and Resonance
Three-day Intensive to be held at
The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts
Saturday, Sunday and Monday October 9-11, 2010
10:00 a.m-6:00 p.m.
In these workshops, we will explore the power of the voice to reconnect us as resonant beings with the resonant world, and to heal and transform ourselves and others. By experimenting with the psycho-physical effects of breathing, the ancient shamanic technique of Mongolian overtone chanting, sacred chants, mantric and sonic meditations, participants attune together moving into deep meditative states. Through sound, different parts of the body-mind cleanse and tune the chakras while releasing untapped sources of energy. With ritual, participants will open their hearts and find joy, liberation and ecstasy in the discovery of an unlimited source of power through the encounter of their own voice in community.
Jill Purce pioneered the international sound healing movement through her discovery of ancient vocal techniques, the power of group chant and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation. She specializes in Mongolian overtone chanting and many forms of sonorous yogas, breathing and chanting techniques. Jill believes that if you liberate the voice you liberate the human being, and that to maintain a person in tune is to maintain them in a state of health.
Her book The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul is about the evolution of consciousness in spiritual traditions, art and psychology. As General Editor of Art and Imagination, she produced over thirty books on Sacred Traditions, Art and Cosmology. Jill learned Tibetan and Mongolian overtone chanting when she studied in the Himalayas with the chant master of the Gyuto Tibetan Monastery and Tantric College. She has taught at the English Shakespeare Company and led seminars and workshops for English National Opera. In addition to giving lectures and workshops all over the world, she teaches in hospitals, schools and monastic communities. Jill lives in London with her husband, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, and their two sons, Merlin and Cosmo