Vocal Alchemy
Student Area
January 10 - March 27, 2024 (Excluding Feb 14)
UPDATED LAST CLASS: Wed, April 3rd due to cancelled class on Mar 6
Wednesday Nights
Registration will stay open after the start date on January 10th. Replays available for missed classes.
What is included?
⭐️ 11 Vocal Alchemy Master Classes - 2 Hrs Each
⭐️ 22 Hours of In-Person Online Vocal Empowerment
⭐️ Access to Zoom Class Replays
It’s Time to Unlock the True Power of Your Voice!
Day 1: The Journey Begins - recorded Jan 10, 2024
Song Practise: Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo PDF
Video Link: Masaru Emoto Water Experiments
“OM” Work …
Keep practising and exploring your “Tone Home” and working with it as a tool for embodiment upon rising, at mid-day and before retiring for the evening.
Keep practising your deep abdominal breaths, breathing all the way down to the root, pressing the pelvic floor down to the earth.
Play around with singing our shared song from class, Ong Name Guru Dev Namo
Contemplate, “What is my relationship to singing?”
Day 2: A Journey Back in Time - recorded Jan 17, 2024
“OM” Work …
Keep practising and exploring your “Tone Home” and working with it as a tool for embodiment upon rising, at mid-day and before retiring for the evening.
Keep practising your deep abdominal breaths, breathing all the way down to the root, pressing the pelvic floor down to the earth. Add in the expression of the obliques and side body, and upper abdomen as you inhale. Focusing on expanding or expressing these muscles to isolate and strengthen your connection to these foundational support muscles for singing and speaking.
Practise Kirtan Kriya - Note how you feel after completing 12 minutes of this meditation, mantra and mudra practise.
Practise Vocal Toning the Vowel Sounds as mantras. Either using the same tone for each vowel sound, or moving up a musical scale from notes C to B, and back down again.
C Note = Root - UH sound (as in “cup”)
D Note = Sacral - OOO sound (as in “root”)
E Note = Solar - OH / long “O” sound (as in “snow”)
F Note = Heart - AH sound
G Note = Throat - EYE / long “I” sound
A Note = Third Eye - AYE / EH / long “A” sound
B Note = Crown - EEE / long “E” sound
BONUS: Go out into nature and start toning!!!! Contemplate or journal about your experience.
Day 3: Exploring Healing Frequencies - recorded Jan 24, 2024
Song Practise: El Na Rafa Na La PDF
Video Link: Cymatics Experiment Tonoscope 432-440Hz
“OM” Work …
Turn your list of 33 things that you love to do, into a song, or a poem, a spoken word. Any vocal expression. Pick one thing to focus on from the list, or include them all. Let your creativity take the drivers seat.
Keep practising vocal toning techniques…
Tone Home - Tone to call your energy back to your center, to clear your energy field, tone to shift intense emotions… depression, anxiety, sadness, overwhelm. Tone to infuse prayer and frequency into water before consuming or out in nature as an offering of communing with the frequencies of nature.
Toning Vowel Sounds for Chakra Balancing - from Day 2, visualize the colour of the chakra as you tone
Toning Bija Mantras for Chakra Balancing - from Day 3, visualize the colour of the chakra as you tone
C Note = Root - Lam
D Note = Sacral - Vam
E Note = Solar - Ram
F Note = Heart - Yam
G Note = Throat - Ham
A Note = Third Eye - OM
B Note = Crown - OM / Silence
Day 4: Toning into Emotional Alchemy - recorded Jan 31, 2024
Song Practise: Gracias by Surya Light PDF
“OM” Work …
Start toning into challenging emotions as they come up, when you become aware of the need to witness and feel, to shift and release with sounding.
Start singing as you move through your day. Start with toning, then move to adding fun songs about what you are doing throughout the day. Something simple and silly, and easy to sing or remember. The key is to have fun with it, don’t take it seriously and see what comes through in moments of play. Good to keep a phone around so you can take a voice note of anything fun that comes through.
Keep practising “Tone Home”, humming, lip trills, laughter, and sirens/escalators in open vowel sounds, moving up and down in musical scales.
Keep practising tongue and cheek stretching, and abdominal breathing exercises.
Keep singing along to your favorite songs
Bonus: Prepare a song to share in class next Wednesday! This could be any song or mantra you know, are wanting to learn or wrote yourself. This is an opportunity for show and tell. Make sure to set your audio settings to “original sound for musician” before class, and then “turn on” your original sounds for musicians in the video window screen once you are ready to share your song or mantra with the group. You can sing with a drum or shaker or with vocals only.
Day 5: Practise What You Preach! - recorded Feb 7, 2024
“OM” Work …
Experiment with making vibrational sounds that aren’t singing. Buzzing, humming, rolling “R” sounds off the tongue, whistling in and out, clicking your tongue, howling, ect. Look to the animals for some new sounds. Bees teach us to buzz, whales teach us to moan in tones, wolves teach us to howl, cats teach us to purr, snakes teach us to hiss. Then as you make the sounds start to change the shape of your mouth to change the quality of sound coming through your vessel and out your mouth. Have fun!!!!
Keep toning into challenging emotions as they come up. When you become aware of the need to witness and feel the emotions instead of running away or distracting, use sound to shift and release it.
Keep practising “Tone Home”, humming, lip trills, laughter, and sirens/escalators in open vowel sounds, moving up and down in musical scales.
Keep practising tongue and cheek stretching, and abdominal breathing exercises.
Keep singing along to your favorite songs, and making up little songs through your day about what you are doing, or in affirmation form. Eg. “My body is so beautiful, my body is so strong, I’m gonna love my body my whole life long, my body is so beautiful, my body is so strong, I’m gonna love my body, from this day on….. I’m gonna love my body my whole life long”.
Day 6: Exploring the Language of Souls - recorded Feb 21, 2024
Song Practise:
“OM” Work …
Keep toning throughout your day. Into strong emotions, to gather yourself into your center, or to clear your field. Vocal exercises to relax the face, mouth and tongue. Keep practising your deep abdominal breaths to support your sound from the root.
Keep practising syllable soup, allowing sound to move through you beyond words. Bring in animal sounds to explore all the frequencies that can be transmit without knowing a word. You are the alchemist!
Send me a voice note in song or melody form. Make it silly and fun and throw out needing to be perfect. Just let it rip, allowing melody be a presence you invite to play with you throughout your day.
Day 7: The Joy of Play - recorded Feb 28, 2024
Song Practise: Om Namo Kali PDF
“OM” Work …
Spend some time with your inner child, and ask them to remind you of how to play, to just be silly and playful. Then honour that part of you by doing something to celebrate. Like bringing that part of your out for a walk in nature, getting some flowers to enjoy, or something that gives respect to this very wise innocence within.
Keep practising your tone home through the day, in all situation and places. See if you can start to tone out in nature where others might hear you. Stretch and expand how you share frequency in some way. Opening yourself to becoming a channel for creation to move through, to shine magick upon the world, by shifting the frequency of the environment you are in with sound, and sounding. Have fun!!!
Day 8: Exploring Emotional Expression thru Sound - recorded Mar 13, 2024
Song Practise: We Were Created By Sound PDF
“OM” Work …
Create a personal mantra to start your day off with. Make it your own personal jingle, supporting the frequency and intension you wish to vibe with throughout your day. This can also be a personal affirmation…. for example… “I am happy healthy and strong, I love myself, I will live long”.
Resource a mantra in the moment, if you are moving through challenging thoughts to create a new neural pathway. The mantra will be the opposite of whatever the feelings is that you are working through. Perhaps, you keep having thoughts of fear of loosing loved ones or children you take care of. When you notice the thoughts of fear, invite in the mantra to retrain the brain. Such as…. “I am safe, we are safe, I trust the flow of life”. Add a little melody to it, to make a deeper neural imprint in your mind. Keep repeating this mantra each time these recurrent thought patterns come up. Well done Alchemist!!!
Day 9: Exploring Emotional Expression thru Sound - recorded Mar 20, 2024
Song Practise: Earth My Body PDF
“OM” Work …
Inquire and journal about what you appreciate about your voice, and what you want to change or expand, or any goals you have related to your voice.
Example 1:
I appreciate that I can use my voice to share my feelings, and boundaries.
I would like to continue learning how to use my voice to share my feelings, and boundaries more authentically in the moment.
Example 2:
I appreciate that I can sing and love the sound of my voice, and how good it feels to express song.
I would like to work on expanding my vocal range so I can reach a few notes lower and higher than my current range with ease.
Day 10: Song as Prayer - recorded Mar 27, 2024
Song Practise: Ho’opono’pono PDF
“OM” Work …
Our last class is on Wednesday, Jun 3. Find a prayer that you would like to share with the group. A song that is a prayer or mantra, could be yours or another song you already know and want to share with the group, or do some research and see what calls to you.
Day 11: Song as Prayer - recorded Apr 3, 2024
“OM” Work …
Have fun with sound and frequency, and KEEP SHARING YOUR VOICE!!!
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I bring to class?
⭐️ A shaker / rattle or drum for percussion practise. A pill bottle with lentils or pills can work in a pinch.
⭐️ A warm cup of tea, or room temperature water for hydrating your body and your instrument. Licorice, ginger, chamomile, and green teas are great for soothing the throat and vocal chords, or throat coat teas which have a combination of these ingredients, with added slippery elm. Learn more here Best Teas for Singers
⭐️ A journal and pen
How should I set up my space?
⭐️ A candle if you would like to set a ceremonial space for yourself.
⭐️ Create a space where you are able to make noise and sound without feeling like you need to filter yourself. If others are in your space, or home, let them know you will be working with sound and vocal expression on Wednesday nights. Give yourself permission to create sound, and maybe even inspire others through your own journey.
Will I be singing in front of others in class?
Because this journey is offered online you will be able to explore your voice without the pressure of being heard by others. Then when you feel ready to be received by the group, you may unmute yourself during sharing opportunities. I feel this level of being within ones own container and space supports us in releasing fear of judgement, or of being heard; while gaining tools and confidence for sharing within a group, or in front of others.
How do I access the classes each week?
To access your classes, you can click on the zoom link provided above. Please keep this link, it will be the same link each week. Make sure you have a working camera with microphone and speaker or headset.
What if I miss a live session?
We understand that schedules can sometimes be challenging. If you miss a live session, don't worry. We record all the live sessions, and they will be made available for you to watch at your convenience.
Can I register if I missed the start date?
Registration will stay open after the start date on January 10th. You may join this Vocal Alchemy Journey at anytime for the same investment. Replays are available to make up missed classes.
“Surya Light is amazing, she is a great teacher and holds great wisdom. I have attended as many ceremonies as my schedule permits with her and every single one has been profound and has propelled me further and further ahead. I recommend her teachings, circles and ceremonial offerings to anyone wanting to embark deeper within themselves…Surya carries powerful medicine and is caring, loving and one of the most welcoming humans I’ve met. Her circles are not for the those that are weak at heart, she is a warrior and her circles and teachings are eye opening - you cry, you laugh, you love, you learn and you grow. Sister Surya provides a safe haven for opening up wounds for true healing. ”