Weekends and days that aim to develop confidence, range and ease in sounding,  singing and listening. I offer a non-judgmental approach along with a sense of open dialogue that enables us to develop sound awareness together, in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.
An approach that tunes us in body, voice and feeling. Alignment and understanding arise in opening to a felt sense of vibration and resonance, and to our bodies in movement.  Springtime affords us an understanding and enlivened environmental sense of being part of and within this more-than-human world. Our listening widens and we hear afresh.
Singing together is a pleasure as we sound the Seven Shining Tones and melodies from a devotional tradition that honours sound as a path of presence.

Song, as you teach it, is not desire, not
a wooing of something that's finally attained;
song is existence....
learn to forget how you sang....
Real singing is a different kind of breath.
A nothing breath. A ripple in the god. A wind.

- RAINER MARIA RILKE  'Sonnets to Orpheus'

the singing voice

Tuning - raga music

The singing voice becomes the primary instrument for tuning. Humans don't have keys, as a piano does, nor frets, like a guitar. Many people think they can't sing, or are tone deaf. They are wrong. Tuning is a beautiful process, a bodily felt sense and a way of connecting with ourselves.
In a composition called 'The Seven Shining Tones' we are guided to hear the tones' beautiful shapes "shining in the navel, the heart, in the throat, in the tongue.." The singing voice connects and gives the tones expression. Again the process is practical, engaging feeling and atmosphere.

Listening from where you are, in your skin, in the room, in nature. Letting the membrane of your skin, your awareness be where you listen from.

                         photo - Steve Hopkins

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tim@thenatureofsound.com
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