Events
Medicine Melodies: The Music That Healers Hear with Silvia Nakkach
Apr 24 2010
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday & Sunday
April 24 & 25
10:00AM - 5:30PM
CIIS Main Building
$235
13 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Everything sings: plants, animals, waterfalls, bones, people, stars, rain-even silence. The shaman hears hidden music and sings it back through "medicine melodies," simple tonal configurations that reflect a sacred unity with nature and have the power to heal body, mind, and spirit. Many people are visited by such melodies-as if spontaneous transmissions from the spirit world are "singing in" to the person rather than the person "singing out." Medicine melodies can be found in all traditions and on all continents. In this workshop, we take a musical journey through many cultures, from Tibetan prayers to the icaros of the Amazon basin, exploring how spiritual melodies and rhythms make potent medicine. This workshop is for anyone who longs to work more knowingly with music and the voice. You bring home a repertoire of medicine melodies, as well as guidance for developing your practice of "singing in." Bring an instrument if you have one, and a journal.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer, music healer, and pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness. She is the founding director of Vox Mundi School of the Voice, dedicated to teaching and preserving sacred musical traditions. She is a teacher and the academic advisor for the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Certificate at CIIS, and studied Hindustani music for more than twenty-seven years with the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan. www.voxmundiproject.com
This course is available for one unit of academic credit to CIIS students.
