‘The Power of Voice’ is a three week yoga course for women, designed to help you begin to reconnect to, explore, liberate and unblock your voice. The female voice is powerful. When it is clear and connected to heart and third-eye wisdom, it is an oracle of truth, a healing balm, a wise guide; it can reveal the way through confusion back to clarity, with love as the compass. And when women come together in circle and share their voices with each other, witnessing each other in full presence and acceptance, an incredibly potent energy builds, which reveals to us our mysterious interconnectivity, both to each other and to nature, and we can sense and harness our combined power to bring balance, healing and transformation to the world. An embodied understanding of the word, synergy, lands within each woman in the circle as we find the courage to open up to each other and the capacity to hold each other in this process.
But for so many women, the voice power centre, called vishuddha or the throat chakra in yoga, is closed down or distorted due to past betrayals, both in this life and ancestrally. Women have historically often been censored and persecuted for sharing their wisdom and speaking out and the current disconnection to the feminine energy in the modern world means this innate capacity within women to speak truth, for healing and healthy evolution, has been misunderstood, devalued and forgotten.
At this time in the world, reclaiming the power of our female voices is important work. We must be heard again. But, first, we need to heal the wounds of our throat chakra and allow our authentic voice to express freely again. Through this work we begin to reconnect the voice to the purity of our heart wisdom and become a clear vessel for the life-force, Shakti, energy, from beyond-the-beyond, to move through us. In truth, it is this energy that speaks through us when we are in our full power.
In this course, each session will begin with a safely held ‘sharing spiral’, where we each speak in turn, witnessed, heard and received fully by all others in the circle, and we go around the circle as many times as we need until each woman feels complete. There is no censoring, interrupting or judging in the sharing spiral and, through regular practice, we can build the courage to find our voice and be heard, and we can develop and learn the skills of active listening, embodied presence and open-hearted acceptance of others.
After the sharing spiral we move into a women-centric yoga practice, focusing on a different female power centre each week, designed to help us unblock our throat chakra and reclaim our authentic voice. As well as supportive yoga postures, we will continue to explore and open our voice channel through mantra and mudra sequences, om chanting, toning and kirtan.
The course is open to women of all ages and stages, and regardless of previous yoga experience. All practices will be fully guided and accessible, and postures/other practices will be tailored for different bodies and capacities whenever needed. I keep group sizes small (maximum 8 participants) so I can give close personal attention to each of you and your individual needs.
As with all my Involute offerings, there will be a strong, underlying emphasis on connecting to our deep core muscles including the pelvic floor, and our pelvic bowl area including our reproductive organs and cervix, to support overall health and vitality from a female body perspective and to ensure our voice exploration is supported by essential grounding and centering practices.
This will be a closed group course, to create a safe container that we can relax and expand into, allowing us to explore and gently lean into our edges of trust and intimacy. Finding safe places in which to express our authentic voice and share our truths and vulnerabilities can be an essential resource as we journey back to ourselves. We cannot begin to heal until we feel safe in ourselves and in our environment.
Course Structure:
Week 1 – Connect – visshudha chakra, throat connection
Week 2 – Unblock – anahata chakra, heart-throat connection
Week 3 – Liberate – ajna chakra, third eye-throat connection
Course Price:
€90* per person, which includes 3 immersive three hour in-person sessions, written notes to accompany each week’s theme, life-time access to bonus explanatory videos for each week and three 30 minute guided home practice videos (one for each week’s theme) and follow-up home-practice integration exercises sent by email each week.
(*If this price is difficult please don’t hesitate to get in touch to discuss alternative options such as paying in instalments or other types of exchange. I will never let financial issues prevent anyone attending who feels drawn to be there – I believe in the importance of this work at this time and am very flexible about making it accessible for all, whilst honouring the time, love and embodied experience that I have put into creating this offering.)
The course is designed to be a progressive journey of exploration in a closed group, therefore advance booking of the whole course is required to secure your place. However, paying in instalments is possible by prior arrangement if this enables you to attend the course.
Venue: The Roundhouse, Algodres – a beautiful round straw-bale building with reciprocal roof, hand-crafted from natural materials, private, warmed by a woodburner and perfect for women’s work.
Dates: May 20, 27, June 3 2025 (designed to coincide with Portuguese school term time to enable mothers to join).
I bring to this course over 20 years of experience as a yoga teacher, with specialist training in women’s yoga over the last four years, including pelvic floor health, and a passion for enabling women to step into their full, embodied power at this time on our precious planet when the feminine energy is so needed to be seen, understood and appreciated, for balance. I have also been a singer and musician in various different groups and bands over the last three decades or so and have a deep, deep love of singing, mantra and voice work. I do hope to sit in circle with you and support you with connecting to your incredible body and powerful voice this spring.
If you are unsure whether this course is for you or not, please get in touch to arrange a free Zoom chat with me so you can find out more and ask any questions you have.
Please get in touch to book on – advance booking is essential.
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