"To meditate is to breath and sing" Father Seraphim - Mount Athos

"Listen with the ears of the soul to the innumerable sounds" Rumi

• "…Therefore the Yogis regulated the rhythm of the circulation of the heart and of every action of the breath by the help of the vibration of music, of both tone and rhythm." Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
  
  Different types of workshops are offered:
     
  1)   "Singing as a Way" is an initiation in the various aspects of the Dhrupad vocal music (the aspects of Yoga, of therapy, of pure music).
  
  2)   "Nada Yoga - Singing as a way of selfknowledge" in which the emphasis is on the aspects of Yoga and therapy in vocal music.
  
  3)   "Dhrupad. Going deeper - Sculpting silence" in which the emphasis is on Dhrupad vocal music. This workshop is meant for those who have already attended at least one workshop on Dhrupad with me or with someone else, also for musicians.
  
  4) "The Song of Silence" Listening to silence, to its music and its voice. Experiencing inner silence and the purity of sound which is born out of it.
  
  5) "The five Elements in Music" How to balance the elements in us through singing the Râga of Indian classical music which belong to those elements and doing so restore or improve our health.
  
  6) “Taking Care of one’s Being” To find the deep and original meaning of the word therapy through singing. Not only learning to heal oneself through singing, but also to heal others with sounds.
  
  
  According to the kind of workshop you will choose, you will learn to:
• Develop the qualities of your voice
• Control the breath gently (Prânâyâma)
• Take care of your (whole) self; which is the meaning of the word "therapy" in Greek, it further means: to serve, to heal, to worship
• Re-centre yourself in the Hara or Dantian (the ocean of vital energy)
• Relax tensions, untie the knots of your being
• Experience the inner massage of your voice
• Heal others and yourself through sound massages
• Sound in physical movements and postures
• Develop your faculty of hearing in order to listen to the sound of nature, to other people's sound, to the sound of your soul
• Listen to the inner silence in which God speaks and from which your voice rises pure and luminous