Singing the Unseen
With Vocal Improvisation, we can sing our inner lives, heal and grow. We can sing what is alive in a group, a room, an event/ceremony, or even a society - that needs to be expressed. We can to some extent sing the inner lives of others, for their self-awareness and wellbeing. We can relate with nature, ancestors, Mystery. Vocal Improvisation has a potent place in ritual, ceremony, community and healing.
Singing the Unseen is a vocal improvisation training that weaves CVI into the themes of the inner life, healing, groups, nature connection, ritual, and the sacred - in the context of Earth-Based Spirituality.
Entering this state - where were are receptive to the more-than-human intelligence and let it have our voice - we enter, and become more and more able to know and access, a state of deep quiet, listening, and attunement.
In that state, we can hear more.
And this is where people who, honestly, are blocked from the state of deep listening, can reject this as “woo woo”.
I shall continue.
In this state of deep quiet, listening and attunement;
We can connect with the consciousness, perhaps the wisdom, of trees and rocks.
We can relate with ancestors and perhaps, for some, future generations.
We can feel and sing the inner lives of others
We can feel and sing our own deep inner truths, and through that, come to know them better.
Then we can use this work for healing, ritual, prayer, and ‘therapeutic purposes’
I put that in ‘’ because, really, why did we ever separate singing and dancing from therapy? They’re inherently woven.
In between us as we (probably) are today and the state of deep quiet, can be things that we don’t want to feel.
So using the voice and the body, we have beautiful ways to feel and sing and move into those hard places; the voice and movement become like a river, like a water, that dislodges stuck rocks and carries them out to sea.
Rivers are inherently self-healing, self-cleansing.
There is a healing force in the universe and, among all else, we can choose to align ourselves with it.
And in this some choose meditation, some choose shamanism;
I choose voice, and body.
I choose dance, and song.
Some say or feel that it’s dangerous.
Historically, witches and shamans have been persecuted and killed for these capacities.
But, it’s a Thing. It just is, a Thing.
Voice is one of the main ways that led me to this; which is perhaps why some people want to or have been trained to keep their voices quiet; because they fear the depth of the power contained in there.
But it’s safe. Ethics guide us. It’s beautiful. It’s very beautiful indeed.
Here we go.
What do we mean by ‘re-wilding the voice’ or ‘wild singing’, the title of much of my teaching?
Wildness has got some bad connotations. Raaaa! Wildness is brash, ugly, uncontrollable, loud, wild.
Yet look at the first thing you can perceive that is wild. It may be the air upon your skin; the movement of the clouds above, the wind in the trees.
Wildness can be very still; very delicate.
Wildness is ecological genius.
Wildness is life living, evolving and being shaped by something more than human intelligence.
So when I talk about wild singing, I am talking about stepping out of music that is shaped by human intelligence, and into music that is shaped by more-than-human intelligence.
(This is why some of my students say this is inherently a spiritual practice, and some of my collaborators call it a ‘Jedi training’.)
Modules
Healing Forms and Nature Connection · 23-8 September 2025 @ Bala Brook
Ritual Singing and Earth Based Spirituality part 1 - July 2026 @ Bala Brook
Ritual Singing and Earth Based Spirituality part 2 - Autumn 2026 @ Bala Brook
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