UK, SOMERSET - HEALING VOICE WEEK INTENSIVE with Jill Purce, JILL PURCE, , 25 Apr 2014
We will learn and practice the ancient and extraordinary Mongolian shamanic overtone chanting- an ethereal, magical and powerfully meditative vocal yoga; vocal purification and transformative breathing practices; sacred chants, mantras, dream- work, and a practice to heal the ancestral lines
Wonderful magical, healing and utterly life changing week. Each week has a different theme. Learning and developing the ancient shamanic practice of overtone chanting, vocal purification practices, transformative breathing, vocal yogas, sonorous meditations, sacred chants, mantras and sonic practices to transform family curses into their corresponding blessings and heal the ancestral lines. Also, journeying through the MANDALA OF YELLOW TARA, we experience the union of the sacred masculine and feminine, bliss and emptiness. Beautiful continuous chant and practice.
Jill's unique ceremony of the mandala will for the first time focus on the practice of Yellow Tara. Yellow Tara acts with lightening speed to activate our intentions. She enriches us with joy, abundance and luminous wisdom, with radiance, the light and warmth of the sun, bringing increase, boundless generosity, richness of life and life's attributes, nourishment, happiness, inspiration, eloquence and flow, fecundity, plenty and equality. She helps us to thrive and prosper, allows for our projects and relationships to flourish and our resources to flow. She increases our own and the Earth's fertility, the waters and the rivers of life, our health, wealth, longevity and good fortune. She is a protector and powerful remover of obstacles and negative emotions such as fear, anxiety and depression. Yellow Tara is a powerful and benign and generous intermediary, both individually and in the world. Her symbol is the wish-fulfilling jewel and she shines her glorious radiant beneficence on us from the warmth of the sun. The work we will do within this magical environment of continuous chants and practice will involve transforming those areas of our life where we feel impoverished into the true radiance and abundance of our innate wisdom and invoke the radiant generosity of Yellow Tara to act in our lives for renewed joy and abundance.
Many people including almost all Tibetan Buddhists from the most sophisticated to the simplest, including the Dalai Lama, maintain their deep connection with the Great Goddess Tara, the feminine manifestation of the divine, known as the Mother of the Buddhas, and who acts swiftly and confers compassion, enlightened action, liberation, emotional and physical healing and long life, and is able to bring enlightenment in this lifetime. Through working with the extraordinary energies of Yellow Tara we are able to ease the blockages to achievements in work, in life and in emotional and physical health, bring about abundance, order and flow in our lives and work towards achieving the essential state of reality and become enlightened. In Tibetan Buddhism, the ultimate liberation is to transform the elements of the body into the essence of their substance - the rainbow colours and ultimately achieve the rainbow body.
This week is held over the festival of Beltane or May Day (which we celebrate joyfully) , a festival of fecundity when the forces of heaven penetrate the earth (represented in traditional England by the Maypole). We will harness these forces using sound as the bridge between the worlds to connect to the source of power through the instrument of our own voice and purify the body, the elements and past karma.
