Dear Listener,
Welcome to the deep winter of Iceland.
Land of Fire and Ice. The glaciers, the ancient volcanic rock, the steaming geysers powering up from beneath the earth and the green Northern Lights of the Aurora Borealis.
You are here because something in you, perhaps all of you, is called to bring forth your voice to this landscape with us.
Welcome.
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The authentic voice is the one that quivers from the depths of you. The one who’s sound is not striving for perfection. The authentic voice is born from the unknown. It is born out of darkness. The liberation of its expression is a moment of transcendence. The authentic voice comes through in the trance state.
Over 9 days you will be guided through The Listening Voice process, a step-by-step journey of descent into the body through sound in the breathtaking district of Kjalarnes, Höfuðborgarsvæði in Iceland.
We start by shifting the awareness from the mind to the breath. We move out of survival breathing and into full-bodied sensation. As we drop deeper, resistance will rise to the surface. The voice helps us to move this resistance.
Moving away from the concept of ‘training’ the voice, instead you will come into relationship with your honest expression of the moment. This expression reveals itself through sensation, allowing your body to re-organise itself back to its original harmony. You will reclaim connection to your instincts and come to trust the intuitive expression and inner guidance of your authentic voice, returning to a state of vibrant aliveness.
Together we will release constricted energies and reach into the depths of our collective separation. We will surrender our voices to the song of the moment.
We will sing and sound until everything around us remembers. Until everything returns to its natural order. Until everything becomes what it always was:
Music.
“This was a coming home. My soul is now singing so loudly. And I will never quieten or hold it back again.”
- Helen Squires, Somatic & Psychotherapist
Accommodation
We will be staying in the homeliest up-cycled city buses located at the foot of Mount Esja, offering us the chance to merge with Iceland's stunning wilderness. Each room is heated and cosy and has comfortable beds with extra blankets to keep warm. Every attentional to detail has been lovingly given to the interior with unique and quirky furnishings such as antique lighting, original bus seats, and wood carvings.
A separate bath house is located on the property with toilets and showers.
Nearest airport, Reykjavík
Daily Schedule
8:30 - 9 Morning practice
9 - 10 Breakfast
10 - 1 Morning session. The Listening Voice process
1 - 3 Lunch
3 - 6 Afternoon session/Trips and pilgrimages to sites
6 - 8 Dinner
8 - 10 Evening session, sauna, open space (Optional)
Price includes all accommodation, food, transport to sites and trips, facilitation of sessions for the 9 days *there are 9 spaces available for this initiation
Double Bed in Shared Bus // £2500
Single Bed in Shared Bus // £2200
** Payment plans available upon request, please contact : india.rose@thelisteningvoice.world
Listening is not a passive act. Listening is vibrant. Alive.
// learn how to ‘clean up the noise’ and discharge excess tension in your body
// find your unique voice and connect to the collective voice
// deep tissue and fascia release, structural body work and natural voice realignment
// somatic body mapping and re-patterning of the energy body
// release stagnant emotions to create space for your natural expression
// understand the difference between survival mechanisms and your true expression
// collective clearing, witnessing, movement, sounding
// learn to be in a state of active listening: a state of pure presence and receptivity
// touch-based bodywork and somatic relaxations to assist in-the-moment integration
// learn traditional folk songs, polyphonic singing, listen to the soundscape of the land
// pilgrimage to sacred sites
// experience complete surrender in improvisational choir
The Listening Voice process takes you through each section of the body, clearing tension and creating space around your freedom of expression.
In-between sessions we will introduce hours of silence. Not speaking outside of our workshop time serves to deeply integrate the work while it is happening and invites us to step beyond our usual forms of communication.
At the end of our descent we will hold a ceremony of completion. We will celebrate one another, celebrate our journey and celebrate the communion with the land.
“I feel… A fullness of acceptance. I came here having suffered with depression for a long time. I’m leaving so excited to go back into the world.”
- Amber Rose, Retreat participant
Ask Yourself
Am I ready to listen? To what's inside, below and beyond this body?
Am I ready to reclaim even the most suppressed, exiled, and hidden voices and let them express? Let them be heard?
Am I ready to clear, connect and create from the vessel of this body? To stand in authenticity and full aliveness, in my relationships, community and service to this world?
“Before arriving my mother told me, I think this next week is going to change your life. And she was completely right.”
— Isabella
“The changes since the retreat are bonkers. It is profound.”
— Allie Chadwick Kelley
“I know why its called an initiation, because with this work there is a before, and an after. And you will not be the same after”
— India Rose
“Katya is a magician. She guides the group through the unknown with mastery and that is where real transformation happens.”
— Ronan Harrington