HOLISTIC VOICE PRACTICE
Workshop in Voice, Sound & Inner Exploration
The voice is more than a means of expression.
It is vibration, breath, body and emotion — a pathway back to ourselves.
What happens when, instead of trying to explain what we feel, we allow it to find breath, sound and voice?
Holistic Voice Practice is an experiential series of voice and sound workshops, inspired primarily by the principles of the BAST Method (British Academy of Sound Therapy) and its approach to active and passive voice and sound practices.
In each session, we create a safe and supportive space to turn our attention towards something that is currently present in our lives — an emotion, an inner conflict, a transition, a recurring pattern, or simply something we feel may be standing in the way of our natural flow.
There is no need to analyse it or share the details verbally with the group.
Through body awareness, conscious breathing, therapeutic voice practices, vocal toning, sound and guided reflection, we explore how what we are experiencing manifests within us — as a physical sensation, an emotion, a thought or belief, an image, a sense of weight or tension, or even as silence.
Rather than immediately trying to change what is there, we first learn to listen to it.
What we explore
The practices are designed to support:
relaxation and nervous system regulation
stress and tension management
deeper connection with the body and breath
awareness of emotions and recurring inner patterns
vocal and emotional expression
a shift from intellectual processing into embodied experience
exploration of resistance and inner blocks
space for new perspectives and personal insights
presence, authentic expression and deeper connection with oneself
The intention is not to force something to disappear.
Instead, we create the conditions to meet what is present in a different way — to listen to what may exist beneath the tension, to allow the body to participate where words may not be enough, and to let the voice become a bridge between what we feel and what we are ready to express.
Rather than searching outside ourselves for an answer, we cultivate conditions for greater awareness, self-regulation and connection with our own inner resources.
What if you didn't have to explain what you feel?
What if you could first feel it.
Breathe with it.
Listen to it.
And finally, give it a voice.
You do not need to know how to sing.
You do not need to produce a “beautiful” sound.
Your voice, exactly as it is, is enough.
Facilitated by Leonora Gaitanou
Mezzo-Soprano | Voice Practitioner
Therapeutic Voice & Sound Practices
4 Selected Sessions in Zurich
27 September · 8 November · 29 November · 28 February
Each session can be attended independently. Participating in the full series offers the opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with your voice and to observe your personal process over time.
The sessions form part of case-study practice within the BAST (British Academy of Sound Therapy) Method.
Contribution: 45CH per session
Location: Au, Zurich, 8804
Workshop languages: English & Greek
Bookings & information: soundvoiceheal@gmail.com
Listen · Feel · Voice · Integrate
A space to meet what is present within you — not only through words, but through the body, vibration and voice.
About Leonora
LeonOra integrates the arts with holistic practices, creating a pathway to deeper connection with the human soul through the voice. Drawing from a wide spectrum of studies and disciplines, she continually develops tools and approaches that serve as pathways for inner exploration, reconnection and remembrance of our essential nature.
Her background includes classical singing, opera, theatre, music and dance, while her exploration of the body and consciousness has expanded through Butoh dance theatre, physical and ritual theatre, Aikido, Tai Chi, yoga, psychology and systemic constellations. Alongside her artistic training, she has studied and explored a wide range of holistic modalities, including Reiki, Theta Healing, Pranic Healing, Aura-Soma, the Alexander Technique, the Alfred Tomatis audio-psycho-phonology method, as well as music therapy, sound healing, voice therapy, breathwork, drama therapy, play therapy, crystal healing, hypnotherapy, chakra work and meditation.
Since 2009, LeonOra has been following a path of self-discovery and healing through the arts and holistic practices. In 2021, during the pandemic, she created her first complete solo stage work, Judith, bringing together holistic practices and the transformative potential of the operatic voice. The work opened a new direction in her artistic exploration: opera as a ceremony & healing process and as a process of inner transformation and healing.
Inspired by the ancient Greek healing sanctuaries of the Asclepieia, where wellbeing was approached holistically through the cultivation of harmony within the human being, LeonOra sees healing as a process of deep remembrance — a return to our inner truth and essential nature.
At the heart of her work is a method of reconnecting with the voice of the soul, with the intention of restoring greater inner harmony. Alongside individual voice sessions, she works with musicians and performing artists, offering practices for releasing accumulated tension, supporting nervous-system regulation and navigating performance anxiety. She also works with couples through practices inspired by the balance of Yin and Yang energies, and with children to support healthy foundations for expression, creativity and emotional awareness.
Her group Sound Healing experiences combine therapeutic voice with crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, gongs and other therapeutic instruments, creating an immersive environment for deep relaxation, inward listening and reconnection with the body. These practices are intended to create supportive conditions in which the body's natural restorative and self-regulating processes can unfold.
Alongside her private sessions in Greece and at her personal studio in Zurich, LeonOra collaborates with wellness clubs, holistic and therapeutic centres, detox hotels and yoga studios, bringing the transformative potential of voice and sound to a wider audience.
She also facilitates retreats, seminars and experiential workshops dedicated to the inner journey, supporting people in reconnecting with their authentic voice, cultivating greater inner harmony and rediscovering what she calls the melody of the soul.
