Authentic Voice & traditional Georgian polyphonic songs with Olga Lidia Kozłowska | Hamburg

Name: Authentic Voice & traditional Georgian polyphonic songs with Olga Lidia Kozłowska | Hamburg
Start: 2024-10-12T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-13T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Aikido Zentrum Hamburg

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 09:00 am to Sun Oct 13 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Aikido Zentrum Hamburg | Hamburg, HH

Authentic Voice
& traditional Georgian polyphonic songs
with Olga Lidia Kozłowska
🍁 12.+13. October 2024, weekend workshop in Hamburg

Voice is a mirror of You.
It loves to rest, connect, play, experiment.
Voice loves to be loved. To be explored.
It blooms when feeling safe... and when you just are as you are, authentically.
Voice likes to explore connections!
It’s vibrant, alive, touching.
Voice’s nature is to connect.
Through vibration, rhythm, frequency, feeling, melody, space.
🔴 Would you like to explore through voice?
Are you curious to expand through singing?
Sing from the feeling of safety, connection, curiosity...
🟣 Authentic Voice practice is for connecting through voice.
It is a research space and a playground, dedicated to our aliveness.
As we are resonant creatures and soundgivers.
We are dreamers of songs that pass through our bodies to be sung.
🟣 The goal is not singing, but the state in which singing becomes inevitable.
Experiencing vibrations, forming into feelings and stories.
Forgetting about yourself while finding yourself in the most profound and authentic way.
🔵 Authentic Voice is a practice designed to:
● ground in the body: through breath, movement, contact
● bring safety for opening of the voice
● research healthy ways of singing
● play with rhythms and melodies, repetition and surprise
● find pleasure in vibration, physical embodiment
● rest and expand in singing
● explore being available
● resonate with people in the circle
● be present for others and experience the embrace of others
● sing traditional old songs in polyphony
● learn practical tools for breath release and voice regeneration

🔵 This workshop is NOT designed to: control your voice, control emotions, mechanically exercise vocal scales, read notes, do random breathwork, know better how anybody should sound. No, enough of this. :)
🔵 During the session we explore body-feelings-mind-spirit through voice. Later on, entering traditional Slavic and Georgian polyphonic songs where we grow connection in every possible direction. And evolve our experience into expressive improvisation, celebrating!
🔵 We experience access to various qualities through our body tissues as well as through songs with layers of melodies overlapping. Like in the body, like in nature, we are polyphonic beings in a polyphonic world.
🌿
when singing
we are singing presence
allowing the pulse of Life
available to current tone
with our hearts ears skin feet lips
we are bigger than we think
the deeper we trust the more we are
already tuned
hearing every sound in the world
we root into vibrant reality
every song is an invitation
for you to live
🌿

🟡 Traditional songs are vibrant landscapes of the harmonies born in nature and human hearts. Polyphonic harmonies and disharmonies are an invitation for us to meet in deep listening and to go off the linear thinking into a non-linear experience of vibrant life.
🟢 I invite you to join and co-create this meeting if you:
● feel fear... of what can happen if you enter the space of voice.
● feel anger... that it has already been too long stopping the voiceflow!
● feel sadness... of longing for authenticity, for allowance, for fun in singing.
● feel joy... to meet people who come here too, to explore!
● feel peace...
The Authentic Voice approach has been developed by Olga Lidia Kozłowska since 2011.
Bobby McFerrin says “when you enter the process and voicalize yourself then you end up being more happy, energized and gifted. You always feel better after! Vocalizing is an internal alchemy and once you enter it and remain devoted to it, it will guide you.”
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🐠 Olga Lidia Kozłowska is a psychologist, somatic psychotherapist as well as a voice artist and researcher. Olga specializes in Slavic and Georgian vocal traditions, improvisation and community singing. She applies polyvagal theory and somatic bodywork in the context of intricate relation of nervous system and voice. She works regularly in Sens Psychotherapy office and cooperates with universities in Wroclaw, Poland. She is a part of the Institute of Devotional Arts.
As a founder of Authentic Voice she has been leading workshops since 2011 in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Germany, Scotland & UK. She’s currently working on her solo vocal act and blending traditional Polish and Georgian songs with trio usakhelo. Olga led a Georgian polyphony Nana Choir and has consulted vocal ensembles.
Olga’s masters are: Frank Kane, Natalia Polovynka, Emma Bonnici, Amit Carmeli, Kristin Linklater, Lane Arye, Magda Sekuła-Lemberger, Nino Naneishvili, Chamgeliani sisters. She has also danced many years of Contact Improvisation.
More at linktr.ee/olgalidia.authenticvoice

Workshop
🟠 Date and times
12.+13. October 2024
🟠 Cost: regular 260,-€, student 230,- €
Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5 pm
(including lunchbreak)
🟠 Aikido Zentrum Hamburg
Beerenweg 1d (backyard)
22765 Hamburg
☎️ For registration contact Annika: [email protected]
🐚 More about Olga's singing workshops
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFvVEVs33PF3j0rFVox3Ug/videos
🐚 Testimonials
It was important for me to acknowledge that the opinion of others is not what it is about. Now, I can experience my voice from a completely different perspective. I enjoyed working in the fun and light environment that Olga is able to create.
Lourdes
I recommend Olga as a guide who will take you on a journey deep into your body, and maybe even into your heart.
Bogusława
Your words were important: "Take care of yourself."
Ela
Wonderful work to get to be fully present.
Christine
Now I trust my voice more, which also means trusting myself.
Beata
Being together in a group, supporting each other's explorations.
Listening to the world and emitting yourself into the universe.
When I think "Olga", I think: openness, fun, support, honesty, authenticity, combining opposites, gentleness, courage.
Asia

📸 Photos by Kamila Solarz www.kamilasolarz.com