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FEEL HEARD ~ SPEAK YOUR TRUTH ~ FIND THE SOUND OF YOUR SOUL

*Open to ALL, not just Cobra Breath Graduates!

ABOUT THE POWER OF VOICE

The Power of Voice intensive workshop was created by Bodhi Avinasha, the founder of Ipsalu and author of two books on the subject of tantra practice: Jewel in the Lotus and The Ipsalu Formula – A Method for Tantra Bliss. Bodhi was a master musician in her own right, and through this workshop she was able to create a fusion of her two passions: music and tantra!

Your voice quality is unique, an energy that distinguishes you. It’s the result of how you use resonance chambers in your body to create overtones. You can use vibration to create a standing wave in your body, a sound column that connects and supports all the energy centers and opens the flow of highest vibration – Kundalini.

Sharing your song with others in a common vibration melts the boundaries that hold you separate from others. In this intimate union of sound, you can embody celebration, the feeling of divine presence, and profound gratitude. As vibrations merge, hearts join in deep communion. Consciousness shifts into remembering your magnificence in union with everyone and everything.

BODHI AVINASHA ON THE POWER OF VOICE

"The first thirty years of my life I was totally involved with music – studying, performing, and teaching. The next thirty years I spent with psychology and yogic practice, but it began to dawn on me that what I was doing to accomplish the yogic goals were the same things that my singing teachers told me to do to get a good tone. It’s another pathway to access the same state of consciousness. Singing with a group, you lose your boundaries, where your voice disappears into the sound of the choir. It’s a very sweet moment, a totally yogic experience."

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ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS

Ian and Margo began their Ipsalu journey in 2016 and were at once drawn to the deeply transformative and heart-centered practices, using them to help guide their relationship. They went on to complete all four of the Cobra Breath intensives together under the guidance of Nayano Burdine. In 2019 they began their teacher training and became regular facilitators for the online practice group during the pandemic. In 2020, they were honored to study directly under Bodhi Avinasha and were given the tools to carry on Bodhi's vision through the Power of Voice course. Ian and Margo were also invited to join Ipsalu’s Executive Committee, and they help to organize various projects that expand and enrich the community. They believe that Ipsalu’s open-hearted practices can be a vital tool for healing individuals, helping them to have healthier relationships and in turn bringing greater peace and harmony to the world.

Ian Boccio has been offering mantra music and meditation programs to the public since 2008. He is currently a singer, bassist, and keyboardist for The Spirit Messengers, a progressive rock band that incorporates Sanskrit mantras and Bhakti Yoga practices. Ian actively promotes the benefits of mantra repetition, both on a personal level and for the world as a whole. He has facilitated weekly chanting circles in Atlanta and traveled throughout the U.S. teaching weekend Mantra Chant Intensives. He has also been called upon to lecture and teach on Sanskrit, mantra, and chanting for many Yoga Teacher Trainings. In 2010, Ian helped to create the ChantLanta Sacred Music Festival, a charity organization that raises awareness of chanting and yoga practices through its annual event, which has supported both local and international nonprofit organizations and encouraged people to give their time and/or money to help others in a spirit of selfless service. Most importantly, Ian strives to work on himself, further refining his own energy through his personal mantra practice, to become an ever more transparent vehicle for the Divine Grace that brought him here.

Margo Gomes is a Certified Yoga Instructor and has been teaching since 2014. She also completed certification as a Vibrational Sound Therapist in 2017 and is passionate about sharing the extraordinary ability of sound vibrations to repair aspects of ourselves that are out of alignment and to restore harmony and wholeness to body, mind, and spirit. Sound vibrations, including the resonant vibrations of your own voice, produce a state of profound relaxation in the body and mind that allows stagnant energy to begin to flow and enables the body to begin to heal itself, thus enhancing our health and wellbeing, heightening our consciousness, and bringing balance and harmony into our daily lives.