The Power of the Human Voice for Sound Healing

In this 14 Day course, you’ll be introduced to key ideas and principles that make up a vocal sound healing practice.  Through these simple principles you’ll be empowered to use and cherish your own voice as a powerful healing instrument made for your very own body.

With time and practice, you’ll enjoy a deeper relationship with your body, and have a powerful tool to manage the pain and suffering that comes along inevitably with everyday life. You will feel the clarity of  spaciousness return to yourself leaving more room for joy, creativity, and your true path in life.

Honouring our pain is the first step to opening to what the pain in our lives truly has to teach us. Transformation of any kind is made possible first by continuosly arriving with radical acceptance of what truly is.

It is the simple but profound notion of acceptance that opens the door to new possibilities. Sometimes we begin to feel better, by getting better at feeling. You  will nurture your ability to attune to the living intelligence of your body, the language of sensations, feeling and emotion.

You’ll explore your natural capacity, to feel, sense and express the deeper layers of your suffering that in turn promote and facilitate healing at the deepest level available.

We will use the power of sound to move before and beyond the explanations, narratives and stories that we can tell connected to our pain. We look forward to having you join us for this course.

Lección 1: The Power of our Intention

Today is back to basics. How can we rise beyond our life circumstances by utilizing the power of intention? Setting an intention is an act of creativity that sets the organizing principles of the universe into motion.

Lección 2: When Pain Becomes Our Teacher

When we truly honour something, it transforms the way we relate to it. What are the different ways we experience pain in our life and what does our suffering have to teach us? What are the healthier and less healthy ways we find relief from our pain?

Lección 3: The Roots and Branches of Suffering

How is it that you suffer in this lifetime, do you suffer alot or suffer a little? Do you minimize your experience, because other people suffer more or less than you? Today is about honouring our own suffering however significant or insignificant it might seem.

Lección 4: Feeling Better by Getting Better at Feeling

What are we to do with our unwanted feelings? If we could re-learn how to feel fully and without judgement, how would our life change? Today is about exploring how to work with our emotional debt and backlog.

Lección 5: The Practice of GHALW

What can help us receive the gift of our unwanted feelings? Today we learn the practice of feeling, sensing and noticing in an embodied state of Gratitude, Honouring, Appreciation, Love and Wonder. We open to the living tapestry of sensations that is our bodies deep intelligence.

Lección 6: The Power of Sound

As we prepare to use our voice to help us heal, today we'll explore references to the power of sound from the practical to the mystical. From the science of cymatics, to references from ancient cultures and Creation tales.

Lección 7: The Power of Our Voice

It may be easier for us to not listen at all, than to listen to how critical we are of our own voice. It's easy to love someone else's voice, so why is it so difficult to love our own? Today is about learning the value of your naked voice in the work of sound healing.

Lección 8: Sounding vs. Singing

Has the pressure to be good singers closed us off from a whole world of natural sounds that also promote healing? Today is about re-claiming our natural sensitivity, range and power that the human voice can express.

Lección 9: Tuning Our Instrument

Like a drum, our human instrument can also become muffled, dampened, muted, out of tune and other ways of not being full expressed. Today we will explore the practice of sound body resonance to resound our voices easily and fully.

Lección 10: Stage 1 - Root, Research and Relax

Today we learn the first stage the sound healing cycle. Using our growing attunement to our instrument and deepened capacity to feel, notice and sense, we will begin sounding with intention to heal.

Lección 11: Stage 2 - Resonate and Release

Today we explore sounding with intention to touch what lays beneath the surface, what we haven't been able to pay attention to. We give healing sound to our unhonoured, unfelt, and unappreciated feelings.

Lección 12: Stage 3 - Repair and Re-generate

Today we look at the phenomenom of harmonics and overtones and other ways that sounding can facilitate repair, re-generation, and restore integrity in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions.

Lección 13: Step 4 - Renewal and Rejoice

As a result of tending our emotional backlog, debt and clutter, we observe more space. In that space lays the possibility for more joy, celebration and living in states of embodied gratitude, wisdom and wonder.

Lección 14: Reflections and Integration

A day of reflections, moving forward, and counsel on how to overcome the obstacles to practicing. There will be a full demonstration of the sound healing cycle from beginning to end and another opportunity to practice.

Reviews

Thankyou for this wonderful course Marcus, it has been a joy and lots of fun to sound with you and also on my own regardless of the weird looks I get from my dog and my family😄. I also find it very healing, so lovely and freeing to express my states of being with whatever sounds wish to arise. I am very grateful to you and wish you well. 👍🙏😋💕

I just love this course! There are many amazing courses here at Insight Timer, and this is an absolute Pearl among them. Marcus' beautiful voice, great commitment, knowledge, wisdom, humor, vulnerability and passion for sound healing have guided me in a safe way.

I have made the strangest sounds, cried, laughed, made my own Lullaby and used my voice in so many different ways. So I have enjoyed, transformed and found a great joy and love in using my own voice n new ways to create a deep healing within me.

So a Big Thank to you Marcus for creating this course and giving it to the world.

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I'm an older adult starting to learn music and this course has been invaluable for transforming parts that prod me to feel unworthy of the practice. THANK YOU!

My ego wanted to sabotage the learning but I am interested to learn if this practice works for me. I am a doer by nature and meditation alone does not seem to be working for me. I will come back and comment again once I have incorporated the teachings into my daily practice and can give an honest review of the benefits. Thank you for your guidance, I can see you genuinely want to help us and I appreciate your sharing of personal challenges 🙏

For me, this course was really powerful and opened up a new world for me in my study of sound healing. Using my own voice/inherent sound making ability to address my own suffering. I didn't expect, and got, a lot of discussion and sharing form Marcus about related and relevant philosophy, personal experience, and spirituality. Know from the beginning that you won't be jumping into *doing*--a lot of groundwork is laid so that you will have a deeper understanding of the doing that comes later. I really appreciated--fekt thorough and patient and enhanced the later practicing. Also sparked my curiosity and self-inquiry in some different ways. Also relaxing to listen to overall, which I like--voice, cadence, and the accompanying sounds/music that are also created by Marcus. Very grateful for this course--I've grown with it and I am excited to continue with the sounding practice that I've only just begun to experience. Toolboxed!

I used the free 7-day trial of insight timer plus for this course! It was time well-spent. I have been practicing feeling and expressing my emotions though journalling, meditating, self-compassion practice and singing mantra for a little while now, and this felt like a natural progression for me, bringing many of those elements together and adding more on top as well. I feel empowered to practice this cycle in my own time.
Thank you, Marcus.

Loved practicing along, it felt so good to moan and groan!

There are several courses on Insight Timer dealing with this subject. I found this course to be quite different from some of the others, which allowed me to expand my understanding of sound healing. The course is well organized, with practices built in as you go. I am a firm believer in the value of sound healing, and this course added to my understanding of how and why it works. Thank you Marcus!

Thank you, Marcus, for sharing this healing work; for shining your light, through sound, in this world.

This course is profound and healing. I took my time and enjoyed every lesson. I appreciated how thorough Marcus was in explaining the methods in which to release one’s voice and feelings and also in sharing some of his own personal relatable struggles. Each lesson is well thought out and soothing. The course flows naturally from one lesson to the next with a great summary at the end to bring it all together for one’s own practice. Much gratitude for this course and the time and energy spent making the student feel valued and well, “heard” in their own dance with life. 🙏🏼✨💖