The Art of Improvisation
Certificate in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Course Descriptions
We are all born with the innate ability to sing, to dance, and to live a celebratory creative lifestyle. Music is one of the most natural ways through which we can heal and celebrate our spirit. Singing, chanting, drumming, and playing the piano or any instrument allows us to nurture a loving relationship with oneself through music. Success in music does not depend on the quantity of notes, rather, the quality of one’s presence or consciousness during the moments we participate with our notes and sounds. This creates personal music-making.
This workshop provides a humorous and energetic environment for practicing exercises that will deepen our relationship with our own natural musical self. Through improvisational techniques and musical gestures from the music of India, Brazil, Africa, and the West, students discover how distant worlds of music complement and complete each other, engaging in optimally balanced left and right brain activity. This all-levels workshop is designed to help you develop confidence through creating a positive musical experience and cultivating a balanced approach to a long-term musical journey.
David Darling is a world-renowned, classically trained cellist and composer who has dedicated himself to teaching music and improvisation. In 1986 he cofounded Music for the People, a nonprofit educational network that teaches and fosters improvisation as a means of creative self-expression. David’s recent recording, “Cello Blue,” was a 2002 Grammy nominee.
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is the coordinator of CIIS Public Programs’ Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Certificate program. A pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness, she is an award-winning composer and a psychologist. Silvia is the founder and artistic director of the international Vox Mundi School of the Voice.
