Dear Listener,
You have heard the call to bring forth your voice to the rich and dramatic landscape of the Scottish Highlands.
To its rugged undulations, deep crystal lochs and the ancient Celtic folklore that whispers, or perhaps screams into your bones.
Welcome.
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The authentic voice is the one that quivers from the depths of you. The one who’s sound is not striving for perfection. The authentic voice is born from the unknown. It is born out of darkness. The liberation of its expression is a moment of transcendence. The authentic voice comes through in the trance state.
Over 9 days you will be guided through The Listening Voice process, a step-by-step journey of descent into the body through sound. We start by shifting the awareness from the mind to the breath. We move out of survival breathing and into full-bodied sensation. As we drop deeper, resistance will rise to the surface. The voice helps us to move this resistance.
Moving away from the concept of ‘training’ the voice, instead you will come into relationship with your honest expression of the moment. This expression reveals itself through sensation, allowing your body to re-organise itself back to its original harmony. You will reclaim connection to your instincts and come to trust the intuitive expression and inner guidance of your authentic voice, returning to a state of vibrant aliveness.
Together we will release constricted energies and reach into the depths of our collective separation. We will surrender our voices to the song of the moment.
We will sing and sound until everything around us remembers. Until everything returns to its natural order. Until everything becomes what it always was:
Music.
‘How to put into words this work? It is unforgettable, yet totally inexplicable. When I try, I usually cite Katya’s most simplified explanation - ‘Clearing to Creating’, to which I would add two more ‘C’s:
Connection and Community.’
- Bel Veli
Listening is not a passive act. Listening is vibrant. Alive.
// somatic body mapping. re-patterning of the energy body
// learn how to ‘clean up the noise’ and discharge excess tension in your body. nervous system regulation
// access altered states through voice and movement practices
// find your unique voice. connect to the collective voice
// female anatomy, deep tissue and fascia release. structural body and voice work
// release stagnant and suppressed emotions. integrate new energies into the body
// understand the difference between survival mechanisms and your true expression
// collective clearing, witnessing, movement, sounding, improvisation
// learn to be in a state of active listening: a state of pure presence and receptivity (non-thinking)
// learn Gaidhlig songs, polyphonic singing, listen to the soundscape of the land
// pilgrimage to sacred sites, wells, waterfalls
// connect to your mythic animal body and the land through song and story
// experience complete surrender in improvisational choir
In-between sessions we will introduce times of silence. Not speaking outside of our workshop time serves to deeply integrate the work while it is happening and invites us to step beyond our usual forms of communication.
At the end of our descent we will journey to an enchanted secret location and together hold a ceremony of completion. We will awaken the flames of Becoming and celebrate. We will celebrate one another, celebrate our journey and celebrate the communion with the land.
“Katya’s teaching is unlike any other I have experienced. I felt safe to open up and explore. She listens deeply and on many levels, knowing instinctively when energies need to move & shift. I couldn’t recommend her more.”
- Jody White, Author
Accommodation
// Our home over the 9 days will be held in the Black Isle peninsula of the mesmerising Scottish Highlands. Poyntzfield House is an exquisite Georgian mansion set in idyllic garden grounds with its own heated swimming pool, amidst the spectacular scenery on the north coast of Scotland.
Daily Schedule
8:30 - 9 // Morning practice
9 - 10 // Breakfast
10 - 1 // Guided morning session. The Listening Voice process
1 - 4 // Lunch
4 - 7 // Afternoon session or excursions to sacred sites
7 - 8 // Dinner
8 - 10 // Evening session (Optional)
// Arrivals begin on the 12th May from 3pm-5pm. Please arrive within this time frame. There will be options for group transport from the nearest train station.
We will close by 12pm on May 20th to give you time to return home.
Nearest Airport: Inverness Airport
Nearest Trains: Inverness Station
There are 9 spaces available for this initiation
Price Includes:: accommodation, food, private chef, transport to sacred sites, facilitation and organisation of the work, post-retreat integration call, The Listening Voice Workbook, first access to events in the community with discounts on courses and trainings. *Payment plans available on request get in touch here for more information.
Single Bed Twin Room Ensuite// £1900
Private Double Room Ensuite// £2300
“I feel… A fullness of acceptance. I came here having suffered with depression for a long time. I’m leaving so excited to go back into the world.”
- Amber Rose, Retreat participant
Our aim is to peel back the layers of control and quieten the noise in our mind in order to step fearlessly into our full expression and power. In this deep act of surrender we awaken our senses to listening to the group song that wants to move through us. One that is not imposed on us from the outside, but one that emerges from within.
Ask yourself
Am I ready to be so fiercely self-loving that I will reclaim even the most suppressed, exiled, and hidden voices and let them express? Let them be heard? Am I ready to touch those voices?
“Before arriving my mother told me, I think this next week is going to change your life. And she was completely right.”
— Isabella
“I not only came back to myself as a human, artist and teacher, I was also reminded that we cannot teach form until there is freedom of individual expression.”
— Annemette Verspeak
“Katya’s voice process unearthed layers of trauma that had been buried for years. It was as if decades of pain simply fell away.”
— Hari Alexandra
“Katya is a magician. She guides the group through the unknown with mastery and that is where real transformation happens.”
— Ronan Harrington