Interview:

YOUR NAKED VOICE – A LANGUAGE OF WISDOM

There lives within the subterranean depths of every human soul, an inviolable longing for peace, or union. This longing can only be satisfied through a direct encounter with one’s true nature, fully and effortlessly expressed, without censorship of any kind. Once heard, this connection with your true Self is stronger than the fear of separateness and death. It is the healing salve that paves the way home to the source of our true Being. Your naked voice activates a wondrous power inside you. I call this power your sound intelligence.

This intelligence is your capacity to sound out your truth, and access the deepest truth in another spontaneously and effortlessly. This authentic encounter with your true nature is joyous, graceful, or freely given. It generates a spacious atmosphere or presence inside you, beyond the confines of your personality and rational mind. Within this presence you remember once again how to unearth, embrace, and transform your negative emotions into deeper positive feeling. Your naked voice can awaken a faculty of attention known as the self-observing mind, or witness consciousness.

This witness enables you to communicate with yourself and with others, in new and wiser ways, openly and honourably, without reactivity and fear. “Who is singing?” is the central question informing your naked voice and sound experience.
In “The Naked Voice” experiential workshops and trainings, we explore the interface between a range of vocal practices and silence. Sonic formulas, such as sacred mantra, devotional chant, the Seven Sounds of Love (musical chakras), together with the healing songs of our indigenous and wisdom traditions, strengthen your singing soul, and awaken your heart. You will find yourself breathing deeper, relaxing, and sounding out in ways that you never imagined possible.

Your Naked Voice is a metaphor of Life, a language of wisdom. This wisdom is older and deeper than the polarity of all conflict. Yet it welcomes conflict as your most essential adventure. Conflict is after all, the essence of all music. Whether you are in an inner dialogue with yourself; engaged in an intimate encounter; or communicating with an audience of thousands, your naked voice is the spontaneous melody rhythm and essence of your being. It sings without singing, and moves without moving. The Naked Voice is your birthright. Its language precedes religion, politics and the law. It brings with it a new sound, and new communication skills, sourced from ancient sound practices, spoken and sung, that unlock the wisdom inside you. This wisdom reveals the spiritual significance of the music that is your Life.

“Your Naked Voice is a metaphor of Life, a language of wisdom… This wisdom reveals the spiritual significance of the music that is your Life.”
– Chloë Goodchild, author of “Your Naked Voice” and “Awakening Through Sound”