UK, LONDON - HEALING VOICE WEEK INTENSIVE WITH JILL PURCE, JILL PURCE, , 01 Nov 2014
We will learn and practice the ancient and extraordinary Mongolian shamanic overtone chanting- an ethereal, magical and powerfully meditative vocal yoga; vocal healing practices, vocal purification and transformative breathing practices; sacred chants, mantras, dream- work, and a practice to heal the ancestral lines.
THE MANDALA (The geometry of consciousness) All Jill's mandala ceremonies comprise a series of continuous chants, spiritual practice and joyful deep transformative inner work, where the group becomes a living sonorous mandala and travels through itself as a pilgrimage.
Click here for a delightful account of the process we will be doing. Testimonials
These continuous chants over several days, are made up of a series of practices which include different mantras and chants repeated every half hour. In the mandala process, the group itself becomes a living mandala, as well as mapping and becoming familiar with the geography of the bardo or post mortal journey, making the spiral pilgrimage to the centre, through the different aspects of our own psyche or the journey to enlightenment. Each Spring and Autumn Healing Voice week intensive has a different mandala theme with a different practice or means to enlightenment as well as working with different aspects of the psyche - transforming our afflictive emotions into their corresponding wisdoms, magically working with, and resolving the particular issues which concern each one of us within a sacred sonorous and mantric environment. This leads to extraordinary blissful states shared by both the individual and the whole group, as well as an astonishing transformation of both the speaking and the singing voice, experienced by both non singers and professional singers alike. Many say they have worked on their voices all their lives and nothing has achieved changes like this work.
The Autumn 2014 ceremony, over the Festival of the Dead (All Saints - the Blessed Dead- and All Souls) as we progress through the mandala is the extraordinarily powerful Tibetan Practice of the Chöd. This practice which is known as "the summit of all spiritual paths", harnesses feminine wisdom energy. Chöd means to cut, sever or release, and is designed to cut all our clingings to the ego, cut our fears, all obstructions, karmic obstacles, hindrances, blockages, anxieties, illnesses, phobias negativities, self delusion, reactive patterns and addictions- all that holds us back from fully engaging in life as luminous beings- all that holds us back from full realization, This practice which generates fearlessness, certainly and compassion is also done for healing mental and physical sickness and contains aspects of both the phowa or essential practice for directing the consciousness at the moment of death, and also the rainbow body, the transformation of our physical body into light
As a group, we become the mandala, or structure of consciousness, the alchemical balance of male and female (the union of these two is the ultimate spiritual path, sought within many traditions.) This ceremony is equally good for those continuing the work or starting for the first time, and is for anyone seeking liberation now. We use chant to free us from the afflictive emotions which maintain us ego bound, depressed, unhappy and frustrated, and liberate us into a state of joy and release from the entrapping games of the mind.
