21 days of Voice Coaching to unleash your authentic expression
Voice coach Igor Ezendam will accompany you to bring the magic of sound into your life, as a tool for deep relaxation, self-care and creation.
This video course is for you if you want to learn how to use your voice as a tool for self-healing and expression of your authentic self. Even if you think you "can't sing".
Learning to accept your personal sound releases blocked emotions and relaxes body and mind. Developing vocal expression allows you to expand your ability to contact yourself, communicate with others and express your vital and creative potential.
The video course is structured in 21 theoretical and practical lessons. Ideally you would do one lesson a day for 21 days: the ideal time to metabolise the proposed teachings and radically transform the way you experience your voice.
When everyday life is stressful and accelerated, it is as if you live separate from your body. You accumulate anxiety, mental worries and tensions in your physical body, which can become real illnesses.
All this makes it difficult to contact your inner voice, express what you feel and realise what you really want.
Our voice has a profound effect on our body and the outside world. Listening, recognising and accepting our personal sound as it comes out, without judgement, is a life-changing journey of discovery.
Singing can free the mind, reconnecting deeply with the body. This is where feelings and emotions that we have carried inside since childhood are stored, which can then be expressed and let go.
Knowing our voice and experiencing its expressive possibilities through appropriate stimuli and exercises enables us to express what we have inside and to be truly heard. It leads us to gain a more natural presence and a new sense of freedom.
In this course you will learn to relax and suspend judgement towards yourself and your voice.
Forget the fear of not being in tune! You will discover how to let your inner voice decide how and how much to come out on each occasion. This will give you more confidence in yourself and in your expressive and creative possibilities.
You will develop an ample and potent breath, which will improve your physical, mental and emotional health and give you focus and energy to achieve your goals.
You will also have the opportunity to discover the fascination and potential of vocal harmonics (also known as overtone or polyphonic singing): a vocal technique found in various cultures around the world, which allows you to bring out the natural harmonics of the voice by learning to emit several notes simultaneously.
Through theoretical and practical lessons you will be able to:
You can review the lessons as many times as you wish, from any kind of device
Dutch-born singer, voice coach and multi-instrumentalist, Igor Olivier Ezendam is a recognised performer and teacher of overtone singing, also known as polyphony.
Igor shares his experience with this instrument of profound transformation in concerts, seminars and individual sessions. His repertoire ranges from the vocal harmonics of the Tuva people of Mongolia to the shamanic chanting of North and South American Indians, from Soul to Blues, from Aborigines to Tibetan monks.
During his concerts, which are intuitive and interactive mixes of overtone singing, improvisations and original compositions, Igor accompanies his singing with various musical instruments: the Australian didgeridoo, African, Korean and Irish percussion, string instruments (guitar, mandola, guitalele, cumbus), shrutibox, harmonium and Indian e-tampura.
Igor’s intuitive understanding of the voice and its use as a diagnostic tool for self-knowledge and healing are transferable and easy to learn. These ‘Voice Labs’ take participants on a quest for freedom: the freedom to express our innermost sounds and feelings, to use our voice without embarrassment and to find our true self-expression.
In sessions, workshops and retreats on vocal freedom and harmonics, Igor guides participants in their search for a natural and authentic sound.
Some profound life goals that Igor loves to share:
Igor was born in Hoorn, the Netherlands. He studied English and literature at the University of Amsterdam, graphic design at the Utrecht Academy of Art, painting and audiovisual media at the academies in The Hague and Amsterdam.
He played guitar and piano before discovering the Australian didgeridoo at the age of 20, from which he developed a new musical instrument: the ‘Round Horn’. In 1987, he heard harmony singing for the first time and realised that he had to follow this particular two-tone chant. Today he reaches ten harmonics above the fundamental note, and is looking for more…
He participated for 18 years in a meditation camp in the Swiss mountains (8 of which as co-director), organised by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, son of Hazrat Inayat Khan: musician and visionary who in the 1930s brought a message of cooperation between the world’s religions and traditions: ‘Humanity is one body’. The camp drew on the Sufi tradition, in which music and song are considered sacred. Zikr (remembering) and Sama (listening) are musical and spiritual practices that have been used for centuries by mystics to open and liberate the heart.
His CV includes concerts, seminars, recordings and artistic projects in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, UK and the USA. In 2023, he was involved in the ‘Mozart Sound Healing’ project with the Vienna University of Music. 2024 sees the publishing of a collaborative album, „All Hearts“ together with Jamie Catto and Matt Coldrick.
He has recorded five albums and written a book, ‘Il tuo suono è sacro’ (published in Italy). Since 2017, he lives in France and Corfu, Greece.
Besides concerts as a soloist, Igor plays with many wonderful artists: Walter Lupi (Italy), Anna Oxa (Italy), Cristina Ruffino (Italy), Tuula Hunkannen (Finland), Cheb Hedi (Tunisia), Notorious (CH), Alev Naqiba Kowalzik (Turkey), Hu Dost (USA), Badi Assad (Brazil), Victoria Angela (USA), OOTop (NL), Jagaspace (EST), Triinu Taul (Latvia), Pepe Danza (Uruguay), Netanel Goldberg (Israel), Fantuzzi (USA), Mirabai Seiba (USA), Luis Paniagua (Spain). Jamie Catto (UK), Matt Coldrick (UK).
Alcuni obiettivi di vita profondi che Igor ama condividere:
Igor è nato a Hoorn, nei Paesi Bassi. Ha studiato inglese e letteratura all’Università di Amsterdam, graphic design all’Accademia d’Arte di Utrecht, pittura e media audiovisivi alle accademie dell’Aia e di Amsterdam.
Ha suonato la chitarra e il pianoforte prima di scoprire il didgeridoo australiano all’età di 20 anni, da cui ha sviluppato un nuovo strumento musicale: il “Corno circolare”. Nel 1987 ha ascoltato per la prima volta il canto armonico e ha capito che doveva seguire questo particolare canto bicolore. Oggi arriva a dieci armonici sopra la nota fondamentale, e ne cerca altri…
Ha partecipato per 18 anni (di cui 8 come co-direttore) al campo di meditazione sulle montagne svizzere organizzato da Pir Vilayat Inayat Kahn, figlio di Hazrat Inayat Khan: musicista e visionario che negli anni ’30 portò un messaggio di cooperazione tra le religioni e le tradizioni del mondo: “L’umanità è un solo corpo”. Il campo si rifaceva alla tradizione sufi, in cui la musica e il canto sono considerati sacri. Zikr (ricordare) e Sama (ascoltare) sono pratiche musicali e spirituali utilizzate da secoli dai mistici per aprire e liberare il cuore.
Il suo curriculum comprende concerti, seminari, registrazioni e progetti artistici in Svizzera, Italia, Germania, Francia, Paesi Bassi, Grecia, Austria e Stati Uniti. Nel 2023 è coinvolto nel progetto “Mozart Sound Healing” con l’Università di Musica di Vienna.
Ha registrato 5 album e scritto un libro, “Il tuo suono è sacro” (pubblicato in Italia). Dal 2017 vive in Francia e a Corfù, in Grecia.
Oltre ai concerti come solista, Igor suona con molti meravigliosi artisti: Walter Lupi (Italia), Anna Oxa (Italia), Cristina Ruffino (Italia), Tuula Hunkannen (Finlandia), Cheb Hedi (Tunisia), Notorious (CH), Alev Naqiba Kowalzik (Turchia), Hu Dost (USA), Badi Assad (Brasile), Victoria Angela (USA), OOTop (NL), Jagaspace (EST), Triinu Taul (Lettonia), Pepe Danza (Uruguay), Netanel Goldberg (Israele), Fantuzzi (USA), Mirabai Seiba (USA), Luis Paniagua (Spagna).