Description: More than 100 enjoyable singing exercises and vocal practices for personal transformation.
Brief description: Valerie Carpenter is the founding director of The Vestibule Center for Sound Healing and cofounder of the Bay Area Sound Healing Alliance. She is a Sound Healing practitioner with certifications from the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Integrated Listening Systems, and the Vox Mundi School of the Voice. Valerie has also enjoyed a distinguished career as a professional writer and actress.
Review Quotes:
"Silvia Nakkach's new book, Free Your Voice, is a stunning and profound treatise on music and singing. It will become a classic text and inspiration to all who are interested in the meaning of music and specific techniques for becoming the singer and musician we want to be." --David Darling, winner of the 2010 Grammy for Best New Age Album
"Silvia Nakkach is a blazing light of creativity in the world, and this brightness radiates throughout the pages of this book and leaves the reader wanting to start singing! Influenced by some of the greatest musical geniuses and spiritual masters throughout the world, Free Your Voice brilliantly integrates world wisdom so that the ordinary Western student can quickly experience mysticism through singing and begin to practice the yoga of voice. I love this book!" --Mariana Caplan, PhD, author of The Guru Question and Eyes Wide Open "Free Your Voice is a nourishing broth of ancient wisdom and contemporary practicality. Herein Silvia Nakkach teaches a broad range of specific methods to give your voice wings." --W.A. Mathieu, author of Bridge of Waves "This book serves as a unique panorama of inspiration for your voice. Whether you are just beginning to find your voice or a professional ready for dozens of creative ways to interest your students, you will be touched by the breadth of Silvia's practical suggestions for renewing and refreshing your life through singing." --Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect and Healing at the Speed of Sound "Silvia's book is an unconditional invitation to experience and embrace life through your voice. In the most poetic, masterful, and freeing way, you discover, through your voice, simple, profound sonic tools that encourage self-inquiry, personal healing, and spiritual empowerment." --Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, author of Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures