Voice of the Heart Day Retreat – A Day of Kirtan, Mantra, Voicework and Meditation

With Frances Narayani Baker

So many of us believe we cannot sing, or feel we have been silenced, and so have lost the connection to our most powerful tool of expression and healing we have… Our Voice

Explore the power of your voice as a tool for authentic expression, inner peace and connection. Experience how the power of mantra and sound can help us connect to our hearts. Singing in this way, supports us to find clarity and stillness inside. When we take away the idea that singing needs to be perfect, when we reclaim our right to sing whatever we sound like, we can find a voice inside that is free, alive and true. No experience or skill is needed!

Day Outline

09:30  Registration

10:00 Opening and Session 1

11:15  Tea break

11:45  Session 2

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 3

15:15 Tea Break

15:45 Session 4

16:45 Closing

Frances Narayani Baker is a singer, facilitator, teacher and mother of two small children. She is known for her powerful devotional singing and for facilitating voicework that encourages our highest expression. Her work focuses on supporting people to bring freedom to their singing voices, irrespective of talent or skill, allowing it to become a tool of authentic expression. The voice, for everyone, can be used as a powerful tool for self discovery and transformation, enabling us to bring awareness to our true emotions and connect to the wholeness of our being.

Frances’s journey began as a yoga teacher, teaching in London for many years. During this same time she discovered the practice of Kirtan and subsequently her voice. Until then she had always believed she could not sing. This discovery had such a profound and transformative affect on her that she began to lead Kirtan and voice workshops which took her to many countries around the world. After the birth of her first child 2018, Frances’ focus turned more towards home. She currently offers one to one sessions online and in person in Alfriston, East Sussex and monthly Kirtans and Voice Circles in Lewes, East Sussex.

Frances studied voice work with Chloe Goodchild and the Naked Voice and has learnt yoga and trained as a teacher in the lineage of Krishnamacharya  and the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres. She is greatly influenced by the work of Kim Rosen (Saved by a Poem) as well as the teachings of Adyashanti and Eckhart Tolle. Over the years she has also explored Hakomi, counselling skills, embodiment, meditation and is trauma informed.

Add nutritious lunch for £15:00, with notice, or bring your own (mindful that we are a vegetarian house for over 70 years)

​www.francesnarayanibaker.com