Free Your Voice | Free Book
Science is beginning to prove what ancient cultures fully embraced:
your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of
transformation in every facet of your life.
Free Your Voice offers you the liberating insights and
personal instruction of music healing legend Silvia Nakkach, whose
four-decade immersion in the voice as a creative force makes her a
uniquely qualified educator. With co-author Valerie Carpenter,
Silvia shows how to reclaim the healing potential of your voice
(regardless of training or experience) through more than 100
enjoyable exercises that are steeped in spiritual tradition and
classical vocal technique and backed by the latest science.
Free Your Voice
invites us to “savor a banquet of our own divine sounds” as we
practice breathwork, chant, and other yogic techniques for emotional
release, opening to insight, and much more. Supplemented by 32
downloadable digital audio tracks offering Silvia's guidance through
many of the exercises, here is a definitive resource for
implementing the voice as an instrument of healing and fulfillment,
exploring:
How to develop a practice of breath and voice,
performed with consistency and imagination, where sound designs its
own landscapes through the expressive power of the voiceA series of
sonorous yogic practices that involve subtle movements and the
sustained focus of the mind in soundA gentle path for developing a
voice that is fully embodied, uniquely expressive, and played like a
fine musical instrumentInvocatory words and ancient seed sounds that
deliver explicit spiritual information for expansion of
consciousness and well-beingA beginning repertory of mantras and
chants from many cultures that you can build on and share as you
deepen your practiceTechniques for vocal improvisation to engage
your singing imagination and enrich your musical offeringsHow to
foster confidence and kindness toward yourself as a vulnerable
chanteur of the universal songHow to cultivate singing as a
spiritual practice for yourself and to serve a larger community
“With
regular practice,” writes Silvia, “vocalizing, singing, and chanting
become an ordinary miracle that effortlessly leads you to a sense of
self-confidence, compassion, and Love Supreme.”
Free Your Voice is your guide to discovering, opening, and
revealing the full potential of your own voice.
About the Author
Silvia Nakkach
An internationally known pioneer in the
field of sound and transformation of consciousness, Silvia Nakkach,
MA, MMT, has cultivated a voice that transports listeners into the
heart of devotion. Her vocal work ranges from traditional chants to
contemporary vocal improvisations. She is also an award-winning
composer, former music psychotherapist, teacher, and recording
artist.
Nakkach is the founding director of Vox Mundi School of
the Voice, an international project devoted to teaching and preserving
sacred-music traditions. Vox Mundi students study the integrative use
of sound and chant to transform consciousness, to support healing, and
to revitalize singing as spiritual practice. Vox Mundi has schools in
the San Francisco Bay Area, Brazil, and Argentina.
Nakkach is on
the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San
Francisco, where she created the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing
certificate and also designed the academic master’s degree in
integrative health with a focus on sound healing. She travels
worldwide to lead trainings in Yoga of the Voice, her signature
program.
Nakkach’s interest in indigenous music cosmology and
spirituality has led her to collaborate with renowned Indian healers
and South American shamans. In addition, she has studied Hindustani
music with the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and Dhrupad singing with
Dr. Ritwik Sanyal in Benares, India, where she travels annually with
her students.
Nakkach, who holds degrees in music composition,
psychology, music therapy, and music education, has written an opera
(Amazonia Insight), released nine albums, and written many
scholarly articles on the healing power of music. Her album,
Ah: The Healing Voice, is played in hospitals and health-care
centers to create a healing atmosphere before and after surgery. She
has contributed to an extensive body of therapeutic vocal techniques
that have become landmarks in the fields of sound healing and music
therapy training.
Valerie Carpenter
Valerie
Carpenter is the founding director of The Vestibule Center for Sound
Healing and cofounder of the Bay Area Sound Healing Alliance. She is a
Sound Healing practitioner with certifications from the California
Institute of Integral Studies, the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing,
Integrated Listening Systems, and the Vox Mundi School of the Voice.
Valerie has also enjoyed a distinguished career as a professional
writer and actress.
Mitchell Gaynor
Mitchell
Gaynor, MD, is a board-certified medical oncologist, internist, and
hematologist. He is also a best-selling author, and has published
numerous books, including
Nurture Nature Nurture Health: Your Health and The Environment; The
Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using
Sound, Voice, and Music, Dr. Gaynor’s Cancer Prevention Program
(developed with Jerry Hickey, RPh); and
Healing Essence: A Cancer Doctor’s Practical Program for Hope and
Recovery.
Dr. Gaynor pioneered the use of sound, chanting, and music in
conjunction with metal and crystal singing bowls as an adjunct to
conventional medical therapy. Dr. Gaynor has benefited thousands of
patients via his ongoing healing sessions using meditation and
chanting with Tibetan bowls, as well as his sponsorship of spiritual
retreats in southern India. Dr. Gaynor is a frequent speaker and
lecturer at hospitals, conferences, and universities throughout
America and abroad. Dr. Gaynor was previously director of medical
oncology at Weill-Cornell Medical College for Complementary and
Integrative Medicine. He was also the director of medical oncology at
the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, where he is still affiliated as a
consultant.
He served on the executive review panel at the
Department of Defense (Alternative Medicine for Breast Cancer Sector)
and participated in the Smithsonian Institute's Symposium (New
Frontier in Breast Cancer and the Environment). Dr. Gaynor has been
consecutively listed in The Best Doctors in New York since
1997, and has served on the board of advisors for
Healthy Living magazine and the Sass Medical Foundation. He
also has been a member of the editorial board of
Integrative Cancer Therapies.
In addition to his work with
sound and singing bowls, he has published studies on oncology and the
effects of environmental toxins on health in peer-reviewed journals
such as
Seminars in Hematology, The American Journal of Clinical
Oncology,
and
The Proceedings of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and
Environmental Health Perspectives.
For his work, the New York State Assembly awarded him their
Environmental Advocacy Award, and the Mid-Hudson Options Institute
named him Environmental Advocate of the Year in 2002.
Dr. Gaynor
is well-known in the media as an integrative medicine specialist and
is frequently called upon to discuss such topics as nutritional
aspects of cancer prevention; environmental threats to health;
complementary cancer therapies; the dangers of carcinogens and health;
and spirituality and healing. He has been featured in many national
publications including the New York Times, Newsweek, Self, and
GQ, as well as Healthy Living, Body and Soul, and
Spirituality and Health.
His appearances on television and
radio are extensive. In 1999, he was a guest on 29 radio shows. Last
year, he taped shows for National Canada Radio, local stations in
Vancouver, British Columbia, and stations throughout America. He has
appeared widely on television, including CBS Evening News (with
Dan Rather), ABC's Good Morning America, the Discovery Health
Channel, Fox News, WNET-Channel 13 (with Dr. Frank Field),
Healthy Living (with Jane Seymour), CBS' 48 Hours, and
CNN's Your Health.
Dr. Gaynor received his medical degree
from the University of Texas (Southwestern Medical School). He was a
clinical fellow in hematology-oncology at the New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and a postdoctorate fellow in
molecular biology at Rockefeller University. Dr. Gaynor is 47 years
old and was born and raised in Plainview, Texas. He lives in New York
City with his wife and two sons.
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