WHAT IS VOICING?

Voicing combines the act of singing and permanent resolution of a problem, with the experience of celebration and creativity!

Why?

“An unexpected relaxation method to discover that fears, emotional and physical barriers, negative judgments, pain and wounds can be resolved and healed through creative action!”

Voicing is a method of developing communication skills, which is based on the act of voice and singing in a specific way and provides a holistic and powerful transformation by including our body, emotions and beliefs in the process.

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Voicing is a holistic approach that increases your individual and environmental awareness and ensures that personal transformation/communication skills are permanent. By perceiving the messages in one’s own voice in spiritual, mental and bodily cognition processes, VOICING© appeals to anyone who knows himself or is on a journey of self-discovery, is sensitive to the phenomenon of sound, or has problems with sound.

VOICING© reopens the path leading to the individual’s own most precious truth, his own soul. It is based on the understanding and the experience of how the song has a power for transmission and for transformation, if practiced in a certain way.

 

VOICING© teaches us how to vibrantly identify and rehabilitate our inner experiences and express them through sound. It removes psychological barriers and physical blockages. This is a great source of healing and enriches communication by improving the field and method of self-expression of the individual.

In this work nobody is out of tune, nobody is inadequate, and nothing is discarded but everything is inquired and processed through the voice.

Meet the Founder of the Voicing Method!

Pratibha de Stoppani

Pratibha’s interest in sound and sound began in 1974 while dealing with pre-Colombian anthropology in the rainforests of Latin America, and she conducted experimental research on shamanism.

During these transformative experiences, the power and secrets of the human voice and voices began to be revealed to him.

Returning to Europe, he continued to explore sound, voice, and language and attended several audio-sound workshops before he really found the answers and confrontations he was looking for. It was around this time that he became interested in humanistic psychology and its relationship to the Sufi tradition and teachings of Taoism.

Eventually, the urgency to find a living spiritual Master whose vision and techniques were tuned to the complexity of modern man led him to Osho in India in 1976.

Later that year, she combined Osho’s direct guidance with Frederick Leboyer’s natural birth instruction in India, giving birth to her daughter. She later learned about her approach to using sound in birth preparation from Leboyer herself: this led to her own work in natural birth preparation.

Since then, she has trained in many psychological and spiritual therapies, including emotional, breath and bodywork, bio-energetics, Psychic Massage, healing techniques, t’ai chi, hypnosis, Esoteric Science, and Self Study (Diamond Logos). He combined his discoveries and experiences with Osho’s vision of spiritual awakening to create his own unique transformational approach, which he calls VOICING©.

Today Pratibha does group work and teaches the VOICING© method all over the world.

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The Song in Ancient Times

Since ancient times, humans have expressed their deepest emotions through sound, music and songs.

Words often fell short of expressing the intensity of heartfelt joy, sadness, sorrow, fear, pain, victory, triumph or religiousness. It is an authentic natural response buried deep in human consciousness, to respond to experiences that evoke strong emotions in their deepest nature with sound and song. Our ancestors knew well the effects of sound, song and rhythm on matter.

In ancient times, they created special energy fields to support work performance where physical strength and motivation were important and to facilitate the coordination of their movements in groups. Thus, extraordinary achievements were achieved.

Similarly, they had learned how sound affects various levels of consciousness. During religious rites, they were able to create special sound patterns in the form of chorus and open the doors to experience the divine. In the healing arts since the first humans, sounds and songs have been used with scientific knowledge of their implications.

Only in recent years, humans began to investigate again the vibrational effects of sounds on the cells and applying them as healing agents.

The Song Today

Our so called modern Western culture has gradually lost understanding of all the possibilities that sound offers for communication, healing, psychological and spiritual transformation. The mental activities and mechanical perception of reality that are honored today have reduced singing to an element of entertainment for others, thus forming definite ideas of how the song should be sung.

When we can’t sing as expected, we think we won’t sing, and that it’s an act only a few ‘gifted’ can do. Likewise, we are coded to judge others in the same way.

The VOICING© technique helps us understand that singing, like painting and dancing, is our birthright. Anyone can sing! People can do this “freely” when they rediscover that the song is a direct expression of their emotions and longings, a naive expression of their deepest feelings and aspirations.

  • VOICING© Approach

    VOICING© is an approach that uses different ways to reactivate the knowing of and the sensitivity towards sounds, one’s own singing capacities and how they affect our nature. The participant rediscovers the connection between their inner world and the singing voice.

    Thanks to certain techniques and group situations, the participant is helped to move easily within his inner world and to use the voice as the horse on which to ride to discover the inner territory – regardless of his physical appearance or how he sounds.

    Most of our problems are caused by our depressive states, dissatisfaction, pain, etc. It results from negative energy forms supported by our belief systems that we have consciously or unconsciously adopted. These negative accumulations, which we describe as blockages, limit our spontaneity and our natural responses to stimuli of life. Through VOICING©, the participant is supported to meet and challenge their belief system and to confront his fears by the means of singing.

    In fact, singing is the best way to remove these blockages. The greatest treasure of singing is acceptance: we cannot express through song what we do not accept. The act of singing allows to acknowledge and honor feelings such as pain, anger, grief, etc. Thanks to this acceptance and celebration, they dissolve into a deep sense of well-being — a sense of being in touch with one’s own self.

  • Exploration Tools

    VOICING © teaches a particular use of the singing voice, enhancing, but without interfering with, the uniqueness of the voice of the single individual. In this work, we explore different timbres and tones of voice from the lowest to the highest. Each tone-band will trigger different issues connected to the chakra map and to the corresponding level of consciousness. Each emotion, each state of personality and essence will have its particular sound quality of timbre, tone and place in the body, although the texture will be different in each individual.

    Bio-Energy, Centering, Breathing, Shamanism, Healing, NLP and various meditation techniques will be also used to provoke and support the exploration of the voice. We use different types of Gibberish, also applied in the songs. Language is actually much more related to cultural conditioning than singing and for this reason is mostly avoided. Nevertheless, a certain articulation is needed to be able to express all the range of inner experiences — vowels only cannot fulfill this possibility.

    Another part of the work is devoted to the art of listening. Listening to other people’s voices as well as one’s own. Listening through different centers in the body to music and songs from various cultures. Listening to sounds in nature and from instruments in a state of hypnotic trance to discover how they are affecting the physical, emotional and subtle bodies and the various levels of consciousness.

  • Who Can Benefit?

    With VOICING©, therapists, doctors, healthcare professionals, social workers and teachers can learn to recognize and use valuable information from the voices of those they work with. With VOICING©, experts can improve their profession by achieving more accurate healing and therapeutic results, witnessing more effective and lively teaching performances and more realistic changes.

    – Media and marketing operators to broaden their communication skills

    – To improve the communication and persuasion skills of sales professionals, managers, employees in communication with customers, in presentations, etc. – all those people who feel, anxious and inhibited when trying to communicate will discover through VOICING© an ease and a pleasure in expressing themselves.

    – Singers, actors, musicians can choose Voicing to cross their boundaries and find the inexhaustible inner source of creative expression

    – All people who feel anxious and blocked while trying to communicate can choose VOICING© to find comfort and enjoyment to discover themselves through VOICING©

    – Those with stuttering problems

    – Those who want to improve their voice

    – Those who experience shame, shyness, insecurity, difficulty in expressing themselves, lack of self-confidence, difficulties in revealing their inner potential and who want to reach their capacity to express themselves,

    – Those who want to gain freedom of expression within the framework of their potential

    – Those who want to provide emotional integrity, awareness in emotion, free expression space

    – Those who need emotional awareness and emotional regulation

    – Anyone who wants to improve their communication skills, reveal their inner potential and gain freedom of expression can start their own transformation with VOICING© .

    – Anyone who has so far limited himself to singing under the shower or while driving a car will learn how to prolong and enhance those moments and integrate the moment of happiness into every aspect of his life.

    Voicing is recommended as a supportive technique in psychological treatments for anxiety, depression, trauma, PSTD and similar.

Basic Concepts

Above all, VOICING© is suitable and recommended for anyone who has a passion for finding out who they are

Resonance

Resonance, or vibration, is a sign that a moment of truth has occurred and is therefore used as a guide. It doesn’t matter if the song is hoarse, jarring, unusual, impressive, and awesome; if the participant has the courage to stay with the emotion and to go into it totally, the sound will acquire the quality of resonance. With practice he will learn to recognize resonance as the signal that something truthful has been activated and wants to be expressed. When sound is resonant it means that it produces a sequence of overtones. This particular sequence happens in various manifestations of life. It is apparently even present between the planets. This phenomenon shows that when the song is resonant (no matter how it sounds) the experience is in perfect attunement with the universe and has therefore the right to be expressed.

Listening

We need to practice the art of listening in order to develop and improve the connection with one’s own voice and the inner world. Generally, we cannot express sounds we do not hear.

When we say “Listening” in VOICING©, we mean real listening. So, this is not just a mechanical state of hearing; it is a state of holistic awareness of the auditory scenario we are in. In the modern world, with the increase of visual impulses, increasing sound pollution, our auditory capacity is gradually atrophying. Reawakening to the art of listening enhances receptivity and centeredness and opens the door to the silences of the heart which, paradoxically, can sometimes be “heard”. Several mystical traditions have spoken of the “soundless sound”.

Hear from those who have experienced the VOICING© Method

I had a unique session experience. I sang freely accompanied by bodily activity and explored my voice, different tones of my voice from low to high. In the individual session, I felt my feelings and fears and became aware of the limits I set for myself. Voicing was the most comfortable way to improve me. In group work, I experienced the power of communication, powerful energy frequencies, and the healing power of sound. Thank you, Chandra!

Işık Bayer

I had no prior experience or knowledge of this subject. When we started working, I was a little nervous before because we had learned so far that we had to raise our voices a lot. As the exercises progressed and I observed the other participants, this anxiety began to pass. As I began to express my feelings differently, I began to feel relief. Freeing myself with the guidance of the instructor brought a feeling of happiness. In this work, you confront yourself and raise awareness about many issues that we keep to ourselves and cannot confess. I highly recommend that you experience such an experience.

Özlem Erol