If you cannot attend this program on-site in The Bahamas, register for the online version of the program here and enjoy the benefits of Silvia Nakkach’s transformative program from the comfort of your home.

“Spiritual evolution aims at giving back to a human being his original, acoustic and original, acoustic and luminous purity, transforming the self into a subtle cosmic resonator.” Inayat Khan

This course is a workshop training with Silvia Nakkach, M.A., MMT (Saraswati Devi) accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Joss Jaffe; it accrues 20 hours towards Vox Mundi School International Yoga of the Voice Certificate.

Restore your creative energy and feel renewed. Universally and from time immemorial, all ancient traditions implement sound and chanting as a gateway to contemplation, divination, and spiritual evolution. Freeing the voice with medicine melodies, reactivates that creative energy into one’s life. The devotional art of communal singing can reach the place of joy and fulfillment in a few minutes. At the end of every phrase or long breath, there is a taste of naad (cosmic pulse), in the form of a peaceful silence. Thus, deep chant has the potential to fuel intuition, a direct apprehension of truth that leads to balance and positive self transformation.

Throughout this devotional chant journey, you’ll have a direct experience of the quality of sound as a seed for transformation, and the ways that voice production and transmission can transform at once emotional, psychological, and physiological states. With the intention to understand the value of the most current yogic practices of sound and the voice, the focus will be on raga singing and shamanic medicine melodies; from Amazonian icaros to mantras.

You’ll experience and feel how these vocal arts transform consciousness states by enhancing the sensibility of the subtle in one’s body and mind. We’ll Integrate insights and possibilities into the intentional use of the voice as a spiritual practice; to assist healing; to enrich inner work; to enhance trust and inner serenity; to build awareness and emotional stability; and to cultivate devotion, discipline, and compassion. Each practitioner will take home a personal medicine melody and sound healing sadhana.

What is the deep chant practice?

The deep chant practice approaches the voice as a fabric of breath, body, and expression. We might begin to perceive the luminous nature of the mind and the radiance of the spirit. Chanting effortlessly reveals the healing energy within the voice, like the original soothing voice of the newborn’s mother. Instantly, a kind of archetypal longing is appeased. This aligns with Rudolf Steiner’s concept of tone as a spiritual reality and his fascination with what he described as inner, outer, and universal tone.

Covering every dimension of healing with deep chant; the scientific, the yogic, the creative, and the shamanic, Silvia’s mindful listening, and creative teaching style is informed by inspired scholarship and an applied practice that proves yoga and musicality to be intimately intertwined with oneself and health. It is on the horizon of the human potential models, that the evolving collaboration– between the yogis of sound and the healers of the psyche – will lead to the refinement of the quality of life and the competence of spiritual service. In time, this collaboration includes the aim that yogis and healers become virtuoso listeners.

What will you learn?

Through mix-media lectures, uninterrupted chanting, and contemplative music making participants will learn about:

• The Spiritual Science of Sound, Voice as Yoga; deep listening exercises to integrate sound, mantra healing, and self-inquiry, using energy principles based on ancient and modern scientific research on the power of unlocking the voice through breath as sound.
• Devotion through Sound: the subtle discernment among the practices of Shabda Yoga, Nada Yoga, Svara Yoga, Raga Yoga, Bhakti Chants and Kirtan, Tantric chants, Sacred Syllables, and Medicine Melodies to unite with the flow of the Divine
• Release Points of tension and enhance the flexibility in the Voice; Morning Sound and Light voice fine-tuning practice (Karaj) based on ancient breathing and vocal range development. Including healing modalities of humming, seed-syllables, and mantras that release creative energy.
• Musical Expression & Technique: become familiar with the 108 Vocal-Art Strategies of the Yoga of the Voice training, to improvise, compose, and share with others a repertory of sound practices and chants.
• Vocal Purification practices that clear energy patterns, stimulate the brain, and enhance memory and the sensibility of the subtle body-mind through Call and Response chanting.
• Raga Singing and the Art of Melody: Moods, Modes, sensitive intervals, pentatonic scales, and music in shamanic journeys (Cosmic sound).
• Sound and Consciousness: Deep Listening & states of awareness in Tone, Trance, and Ceremonial Sound to awakening luminous states of consciousness and a joyous sense of well-being.

Who should take this course?

It is not required to be a musician to take this course. Everyone, regardless of musical training, will learn to apply the voice, music, and sound to enhance wellbeing.

Class learnings can be integrated into all healing practices including medicine, nursing, osteopathy, psychotherapy, bodywork, yoga classes, and all energy-centered therapies. Special emphasis will be given to incorporate the gift of opening the voice in your personal life, deepening the nature of your practice with a renewed confidence and spiritual emphasis.

“Real music is not for wealth, not for honors. It is one kind of yoga, a path for realization and salvation to purify your mind and heart and give you longevity.” – Ali Akbar Khan

Who is Silvia Nakkach?

Discover more about your inspiring and experienced voice teacher.

Silvia Nakkach, M.A., MMT, is a Grammy® nominated musician, vocal arts educator and author. She is the founding director of the International Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice.

To learn more about Silvia Nakkach, you can read her interview on OpenCenter.org, discover her podcast Beyond Music on Apple Podcasts or read more about her philosophy in her book Free Your Voice, sold on Amazon.