Introduction

Dearest friends, the time is now.

For the last seventeen years, I have travelled around the world, asking people to open their eyes and see that the system we live in does not work. The year 2001 was the proof that gave me even more energy and made me stronger and more determined to go on with my work: to share and inspire people in this world that there is a way to create a better life than we have had so far.

Our work is not about me or you, but it is about all of us. It is about our hearts. We, as human beings are powerful beyond measures. The power I am talking about are our feelings. I do not believe that human feelings are weaknesses, but that they are in fact a place where our power lies.

Rather than expressing, transforming and creating something very special and beautiful out of ourselves, we let the power within ourselves to die. We were born to give, but because of our unawareness, we have removed ourselves from our very essence, very far from our power, from our feelings, from our energy. Today we don’t even know who we are. We are simply afraid and stuck in being afraid. We are actually afraid of being afraid. we are afraid of feelings, sadness and pain. We are afraid of anger. We are afraid of happiness and we are afraid of loving and being loved. We have gone that far, that we have become victims of the system. To be a victim means to feel sorry for myself as well as powerless. To sing my song about the truth I need to be in control and aware of my power. The difference in using the substance and strength is well known to most of us. The incessant bombardment of external influences from an early age can cause us to desert our inner selves and follow paths that leads us away from who we really are. We can die never having known our own lives.

We project our beauty onto heroes of the culture and our darkness onto societies misfits. We live in a world which separates body and spirit, elevating spirit to the heaven and body to the base realm of physicality. This duality and fragmentation of body, heart and soul has created a feeling of separation from our own connection to the source of life. This state of affairs is also evident in the arts, where it is rare to witness a performance which is generous enough to give the audience an opportunity to bridge these gaps and experience the unity of soul. Feelings are considered appropriate for private, or the therapy room. Performance for the stage, voice to be listened to and soul for those interested in esoteric. We are left segmented by this separation of what used to be part and parcel of the same thing. The expression of the voice with an individuals source disappeared long ago in our techno-culture. Once we get to know and understand our power, we can start to work with it as a vital and dynamic part of our life and our performance.

We all have all we need. Sometimes it is hard to trust. But there is no more time to wait. We need to become active and start to become out of ourselves and use all we were given. To become humble and grateful for what we were given. Our work is a war, our voice is a weapon. We do not fight with guns, we fight with our music through our songs, that come from our deep suffering, and even deeper that is our history. We come from our darkness into the light. Fight means the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

There is pain in deep songs. The gypsies call it black pain, which is far deeper than any personal pain, which undoubtedly opens psyche to the universality of suffering and the need to find a language which would get beyond the limitation of the personal. It is a song drawn into itself and terrible in the dark. Rather than separating the feeling and acting, we will use the fuel of our emotional histories to give movement and life to our song. We will not support the victim in you. The intention of our work is clear: we are here to help you to find your will and guide you to the journey and the expression of your soul through the disciplines of Voice.

To open means to be vulnerable, to be vulnerable means to get hurt, to stay in that pain and never close again means to become only stronger, to never give up we need power.

There is a great difference in being open and strong, or closed and tuff. What real choices do we have? How can I sing a sad song, if I do not know what sadness is? I let my fear stop me from reaching deeper. In this case I can only sing and pretend how possibly sadness should sound like. The need is to let the song live and in order to do that I need to be true, I need to be real. Our songs come from real life and they deserve to be sang to continue in life. To sing a deep song doesn’t kill anyone, in fact it cures your heart and soul, and enables us to live life fully.