VOICE & INTUITIVE
INSTRUMENTS TRAINING
Module 1 - 21 heures
MARSEILLE, BORDEAUX, LYON...
Welcome to our Voice and Intuitive Instruments Training!
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Are you curious to connect to your voice and how you sound on a deeper level?
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Do you want to deepen your connection to your innate sense of rhythm?
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Are you a teacher, therapist or a group facilitator who would like to add live music to your sessions?
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Would you like to play coherent and restorative music to help your clients or students experience profound relaxation and integration?
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Do you simply wish to learn and enjoy to play an instrument?
This training is accessible to anyone who wants to explore the power of their voice and learn to play an instrument, with or without any prior musical experience.
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To support your practice and integration after the training, you’ll receive a learning manual and have access to audio and video resources to play along.
What you will learn through this training:
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Practices to help you connect with your somatic sense of rhythm and improve your coordination
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Simple and coherent musical progressions on tongue drum and sansula that you can play while leading a guided relaxation or meditation
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Vocal warm-ups and voice opening practices to help you use your voice effectively for speaking and singing
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Basic cycles and patterns to enrich your rhythmic vocabulary
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A very simple way to read and write music with these intuitive instruments
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Evolutive ideas to help you modify and enrich the melodies you will learn
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How to deepen your listening skills to improve your capacity for connection and resonance*
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Basic steps to compose your own music and enjoy exploring your creativity!
*This training is featured as one of the 'special skills' training of the Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release curriculum.
If you are a BBTRS facilitator, or working with a wellness or therapeutic modality, learning to deepen your listening skills (how you hear, feel and attune to the rhythms and vibrations in and around you) will be very helpful to develop your capacity for resonance, and thus facilitate from a grounded and connected state.
Furthermore, live music played from a resonant state is a powerful addition to support the integration phase of your clients after a transformative breathwork session.
Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System is a powerful modality that offers a transformative journey towards self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. The BBTR institute offers in-person and online programs for both personal experience and professional trainings. If you haven't yet, we highly recommend you to discover this modality. Learn more at biodynamicbreath.com
The instruments
This training is essentially focused on voice, tongue drums and sansulas / kalimbas, yet the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic principles we will explore are universal. You will therefore be able to apply what you learn to any other instrument, particularly with other intuitive instruments, such as handpans, flutes, singing bowls, ngonis, koras…
Depending on each group's specific questions, we also share some techniques and advice adapted to relaxation in general, or a more global approach to music, as well as some guidance on how to play with singing bowls, percussions, chimes, etc...
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We provide high quality instruments to rent for the duration of the training at the additional cost of 100€. This is to ensure that we can all practice the same exercises and play in tune as a group. A limited number of these instruments will be available for purchase at the end of the training.
if you already own a tongue drum or a sansula/kalimba, please note it is still necessary to rent the instruments we provide, unless your instruments have the exact same scales than the ones we use:
Tongue drums are Zagdrum in D minor with 10 notes (D F A C D E F G A C)
Sansulas/kalimbas are Hokema A minor basic model (A C E F A B C E).
All instruments are based in 440hz tuning.
If you have similar instruments with these exact scales, please mention it when you register.
You have rhythm,
and in many ways,
you are rhythm.
From the perception of your mother's heartbeat inside her womb, to your own heartbeat, breath cycles, walking pace, your ongoing experience of night & day, activity & rest, your weekly schedule, earthly seasons, life chapters… Rhythm is everywhere!
How this training works:
We begin by connecting with the wisdom of the body through dynamic rhythm journeys using our voices and bodies as our primary instruments. This will help you feel and reconnect with essential and powerful elements that have accompanied you since even before you were born :
pulse & cycles.
After diving into these deep rhythmic journeys, you will connect with the tongue drums and sansulas to discover how the cycles and rhythmic patterns we have experienced through the body can be transposed on external instruments to play and express your musical creativity.
We will guide you through very basic rhythmic and melodic patterns to begin with, and teach you how to enrich them, and create your own, offering access to new melodies and grooves only limited by your imagination…
In addition, we will explore the use of the voice—helping you connect with the power of your personal vibration. We’ll cover simple practices to help you warm-up your voice and use your voice effectively for facilitating sessions for both individuals and groups, as well as for personal expression.
We delight into playfully guiding you to reconnect with your somatic innate sense of rhythm.
It’s present all the time, and it’s a very powerful resource to build resilience to navigate the various repeated phases we go through in life:
flow, change, chaos, change, harmony…
The location
The center « Puls und Raum » is located in Giessen, Germany, about 80 km north of Frankfurt International Airport. Access from Frankfurt is direct by train.
This course location is a tastefully furnished seminar house, surrounded by a beautiful garden which gives the impression of being in remote nature while one can benefit from the amenities of the close city center.
The main room is 85 square meter with a slightly sloping tent roof and a clear, light wooden beam construction.
The house has the following accommodation options*:
1 single room, 5 double rooms, 1 four-bed room.
You can also camp in the garden
(bring your own tent and camping gear).
There are 5 bathrooms with toilets for shared use.
A high quality equipped kitchen is available for shared use.
*Please note due to the limited options, accommodations
will be attributed on a first come, first serve basis.
Seminarzentrum - Puls und Raum
Lilienweg 27a, 35396 Gießen
Germany
https://puls-und-raum.de
PRICES FOR ACCOMMODATION & MEALS
(food is vegetarian and organic)
340 € - 4 nights in a single bedroom (incl. bed linen, towels), breakfast, lunch, dinner*
260 € - 4 nights in a double bedroom (incl. bed linen, towels), breakfast, lunch, dinner*
220 € - 4 nights in a four beds bedroom (incl. bed linen, towels), breakfast, lunch, dinner*
200 € - 4 nights camping, incl. breakfast, lunch, dinner* (bring your own tent and camping gear)
*A warm dinner will be served on the first evening, and 3 evening snacks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings (with raw vegetables, cheese, spreads, bread and G.F crackers...).
A high quality equipped kitchen is also available onsite for shared use.
Event details:
Voice and Intuitive Instruments training
4 days to open & deepen your relationship to your voice and your musical skills
Location: 'Puls und Raum' center in Giessen, Germany
Start Date: June 5th 2025
End Date: June 9th 2025
Training Price: 790 EUR
Early bird price until March 21st 2025: 690 EUR
non-refundable deposit: 150 EUR
What we provide:
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A learning manual that contains all the essential information we will cover, as well as the rhythmic and melodic exercises you will learn;
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Video playlists so you can review and practice along the exercises we will play to integrate them at your own pace when you are back home;
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High quality instruments to rent for the duration of the training (additional cost of 100€). This is to ensure that we can all practice and play in tune as a group.
A limited number of these instruments can be available for purchase at the end of the training.
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Who is this traning for?This training is accessible to all, whether you have any prior musical experience or not! It is especially beneficial for breathwork practitioners, yoga teachers (especially Nidra and Yin), sophrologists, somatic therapists (...) as the calming vibrations of the instruments will support grounding and relaxation during the integration phase at the end of a session. It’s also well suited for any teacher or group facilitator who uses relaxation or meditation, or if you simply desire to learn to play an instrument for your own enjoyment!
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I don't have a good sense of rhythm, can i still participate?Yes! It's rather common to hear participants share that they're not good with rhythm, or even that they don't have rhythm at all! While these can be a common beliefs, the good news is: they're not fatal! We are rhythmic beings, and that's a basic fact: our hearts have pulse, our breath cycles, our walks have rhythm, and so on... We (Iris & Maxime) combine over 30 years of experience in teaching music and rhythm, and one thing we can confidently say is: "Rhythm lives in each of us, and with some simple practices we can develop our sense of rhythm and coordination skills. Rhythm can become more and more a clear and direct experience. Come and discover how! "
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What is the refund policy?Your registration will be validated once your 150€ deposit has been received. We do not offer refunds. In case you need to change your attendance to this training, we will do our best to accommodate you through the option of attending our “Voice and Intuitive Instruments Training” on a different date and/or location, based on availability and within maximum 2 years of the original training. There is a 50€ administrative fee for changing training dates/locations, plus any difference in the cost of the two trainings. Please note that this option is not transferable to another person. Attendance Changes For processing change requests, please note that we require a minimum of 30 days notice before the initially booked training starts. In the unlikely event that the organizers must cancel this training, you will be refunded the total amount paid, excluding any currency exchange and bank platform fees incurred.