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Free Your Voice Awaken to Life Through Singing

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ISBN-10: 1604078006

ISBN-13: 9781604078008

Edition: 2012

Authors: Silvia Nakkach, Valerie Carpenter, Mitchell Gaynor

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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 readers the liberating insights and personal instruction of sound healing legend Silvia Nakkach, whose four-decade immersion in the use of the voice as a creative force makes her a uniquely qualified teacher and guide. 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…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.09" wide x 8.96" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858

Guided Audio Practices
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: A Letter from Silvia
Invocation
Learning from the Birds
My Secret Religion
Who Is Singing?
The Yoga of the Voice
How to Use This Book
Music as Medicine: Why it's Good to Sing Every Day
Born to Sing
A Musical Path to Health
Fountain of Youth
Fast Track to Relax
Say Yes to NO
Multivitamin for the Brain
Take Your Ears to the Gym
Singing to Change the Brain
Transforming Emotions
Comfort in Community
Warming Heart, Melting Mind
Permission to Sing
Cultivating Familiarity
Building a Chanting Refuge
Singing with a Drone
Dharana: The Flashlight of Attention
The Teacher Within
Your First Assignment: Banning Illegal Language
Our Mystical Instrument
Musical Materialism
The Voice as a Musical Instrument
Care and Feeding of the Voice
Tone as a Spiritual Reality
The Body of the Voice
The Four Corners of the Feet
The Singing Spine
Inward Singing
The Wings of the Voice
The Belly
The Chest
The Throat
The Head
The Lips
In the Beginning, There Was Nothing but Nada
Sound: The Creator
Outer, Inner, and Secret Sound
Nada Yoga: Voice as Energy
The Unstruck Sound
Resonance of a Spiritual Kind
Sound: The Transformer
Shabda Yoga: Yoga of the Word
Bija: Planting the Seed
Voice as the Breath of God
The Yoga of the Voice: From Breath to Chant
YOV Operating System
Read Me First!
Breath
Sound
Tone
Seed Syllables
Invocation
Vocal Meditation
Mantra
Prayer
Chant
Music � la Mode
Sargam: A Musical Alphabet
Melody: Horizontal Music
In the Mood
The Search for Meaning
Harmony: Vertical Music
Rhythm: Measurable Music
Duration
Nature's Pulse
Raga
Rasa
Cosmic Music: Medicine Melodies
Spiritual Melodicism
Back to the Forest
Designing Your Practice
Staying on the Path
Points of Entry
Espressivo/Contemplativo
108 Strategies for Vocal Improvisation
Finale
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Resources
About the Authors