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Sound Journeys INTENSIVE:
Discovery of the Authentic Voice

Sing, Sing, Sing. Awaken the wide range of your true voice with music from around the globe, including mantra, seed syllables, American roots music, micro-tonal singing and spontaneous improvisation in an empowering community setting. We will focus on the voice as a healing instrument. Learn various techniques of using your voice for healing, balance and transformation.

Please contact Madi for the next Sound Journey's Intensive.

SANTA FE WOMEN'S SACRED WORLD MUSIC CHOIR - Directed by Madi Sato

Winter/Spring 2012 session

Thursdays: February 9 - May 27
5:00-6:30 PM
$350 early (by February 6), $400 regular
Center for Spiritual Living
505 Camino De Los Marquez, Santa Fe

TO REGISTER ONLINE:
1. Email your name, phone number and class you wish to register for at  madisato@gmail.com

2. After sending an email to Madi,
please mail your payment to:
MADI SATO at 4772 Vista del Sol,
Santa Fe, NM 87507

For more information call: :
email, madisato@gmail.com or
call  (505) 660-2526 

(I will be out of the country from Sept. 21-Oct. 10.
I can be reached by email during this time.)

In an ongoing series, learn sacred and traditional repertoire from around the world including ancient Baltic polyphonic chants, Afro-Brazilian invocations, Japanese Nihon Minyo, Celtic sean-nos, American gospel hymns, and medieval and modern liturgical music. Experience the powerful art of group devotional singing with world harmonies and beats.

The intention is to direct this choir in a different way from the standard and usual western choir method. We work with a contemplative basis and invite all voices to participate in the devotional art of the voice, creating spontaneous group compositions.

We have road maps for each chant and learn and practice the harmonics of nature, which are found in the music of rain to the symphony of the wind. We also employ simple laws of harmony utilized by contemplative chanting traditions from the Gregorian chant tradition, as well as mantra tradition from Tibet and improvisational vocal techniques that induce a state of meditation and liberation.

Through listening, intention, tone, breath and community as a basis for creating music, voices will be free to sing in many registers rather than limiting the voice to one range for an entire composition. Instead of working with set and complex choral arrangements we will utilize sacred text, mantra and seed syllables as the foundation or point of entry into a choral piece.

Read the Local Flavor Article about The Santa Fe Women's Sacred World Music Choir here.