Asheville Gathering of Voices

Ready to let your voice "sing you"?

Come and deepen your musical imagination,

Bring forth sounds from the inner chamber of your soul,

Joyfully celebrate life, yourself and each other,

Release stress & tension, build trust & intuition,

Simply, playfully, express childlike qualities.

In our next Asheville Gathering of Voices!
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Sounds from the Heart
(Occasional workshops & private bookings)

Similar to Asheville's Gathering of Voices, and further customized to more closely reflect your needs or the needs of your group.

One of the most precious tools for well being is absolutely free and assessible: Your Own Voice!

Share with others the discovery of the natural beauty of your voice as a means to:

• Unleash your creative energy
• Develop trust and intuition
• Release stress, tension, and fear
• Achieve greater harmony
• Improve physical, emotional, and mental state of being
• Express and clear buried emotions

Formulating personal/group intent for adding meaning and healing to this fun filled work we will experience:

• Breathing awareness
• Deep listening
• Toning and chanting
• The sounds and effects of the speaking voice
• Voice improvisation (includes music styles, textures, pitch, rhythm, melody, harmony, moods, and silence)
• Dance improvisation (the body becomes the instrument played by our heart and spirit)

Sounds from the Heart creates the space where words are secondary, where you are invited to genuinely share who you are, letting the infinite music in you soar.

Testimonial:

"This was a great, great gift. I reached a place that I am longing for, and found I could stay there, and was very grateful to be given permission to not respond to everything... Thank you, thank you, thank you. If I could I would cry from love, beauty, sadnesss, fear, relief"... NICK

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MayaJoëlle's personal experience with vocal improvisation:

To let yourself improvise vocally is to dive deeply into the present moment.
To me, Vocal improvisation is a delicious activity that automatically brings me fully in the now. If I am thinking I am not fully improvising. To improvise vocally is to let the first note happen, then the next, and the next... It is a journey into sound where there is no destination, no doing,.. just being.
I find myself musically visiting different countries as the sound may have a Russian, African, Middle East or Native American flavor. I hang out with different mood, from pure silliness to a very sacred space. I discover new sounds, timbers, rhythms.

MayaJoëlle's teaching style:

My teaching style is that even though I may present some common exercises in most of the workshops I facilitate, much of the actual content is influenced by the people who participate, what they are ready for and willing to explore with me.
Exploring our musical imagination with more seasoned singers as well as willing beginners opens other doors for all of us.
The focus of the Workshops is, starting from the breath, to create one quality sound, (authentic sound), to then let another sound, and another, and allow a spontaneous improvisation to take place.
There is so much music within each of us that wants to be expressed. From that place of one quality sound after another, amazing magical Solos, Duos, Trios, etc... start happening.
The warming up exercises, the silly explorations, besides there purpose of feeling good, are very helpful to assist the participants to let go of the mental judgment, therefore allowing more of the that inner music and beauty to come out.
It is important to say that AT ALL TIMES, -while lovingly encouraged to explore in new ways-, anybody is welcome to contribute his or her silence. Nobody has to express in any given technique, what he or she is not ready for or interested in participating in.
With more experienced singer, I focus on exploring musical styles, textures, harmonies through improvisation, It is not unusual for new exercises of new techniques to be born in co-creation.
It is my intention to

• open a door for the participants to bring forth more of who they are, giving themselves permission to let the creative spirit move more freely, trusting their inner beauty to be sounded, individually and as a group.
• develop together a greater sense of community, of belonging.
• create a safe space where the inner Joy flourishes, the sense of the sacred deeply felt while the childlike wonderment unfolds.
  

May the Music in your Heart make your Life Dance!
Que la Musique de votre Coeur fasse Danser votre Vie!

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