This course supports you to find your voice, the dark sides of it as well as the light, and to allow yourself to open and value all the corners of your being. Sometimes the work is challenging, but it's always rewarding and often deeply pleasurable. The work is based on the pioneering teaching of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart, who developed ways of working with the voice to access and liberate the self. You do not need to be a singer. In fact, if you feel you can't sing, this is for you!

Bill's voicework focuses on using the voice to be authentic rather than training it to pretend. Using the voice to reach into ourselves and to reach out to touch others. He says:

"I see each one of us as a group all speaking through the same mouth. Many members of the group are silent and often the personality is dominated by one or two spokesmen, which means that most of our energy is hidden and suppressed. The key to my work is helping each member of our internal group to have a voice.

This is not just voicework, it uses movement, bodywork and imagination to encourage silent parts of our body to wake up and to feel confident and safe enough to express the energy that is hidden there.

Roy Hart identified his work with the god Abraxus who joined together the dark and the light to be whole. I feel I am carrying on that tradition."

Aims of the workshops:

The workshops aim to develop your confidence to be yourself, express yourself and to touch others.
As well as ...

• Finding Spirit
• Developing Confidence
• Expressing Feeling
• Releasing Inhibition
• Being Touched
• Having Fun
• Learning to Listen

Bill Palmer is an internationally renowned teacher of bodywork, energy and movement based therapies. This approach to voicework has been his own path of self discovery and he has explored and trained in it since 1984. He has worked with many vocal teachers in the tradition of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart (more info) including (in chronological order) Richard Roberts, Ivan Midderigh, Nadine George, Paul Silber, Clara Silber, Derek Gale, Marita Gunther and Enrique Pardo. As well as these workshops, he also gives individual singing lessons which include bodywork, postural adjustment, exploration of vocal range, tone and emotion.

Cost, Time & Location:

June 2nd - 10 to 5.30pm
Location: Natural Theatre Company. Widecome Hill,Bath BA2. (The NTC is 50 yards up the hill from the bottom on the right).
Email : bill@seed.org Telephone : 01225 580085
Cost: £80

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