The Vocal Impulse Advanced Practicum by Chloë Goodchild

In this first session, you’ll discover what a musical mode actually is, and how the energy field of your body is like a musical instrument made up of trillions of vibrating cells that bounce about to the ever-changing rhythms of your heartbeat and in concert with your emotional moods.

You’ll learn how your body-field is actually a musician-ship, and a “house of song” with the support of the Seven Sounds of Love, specific tonal energies or “musical chakras” that interconnect, align, and “tune-in” your instinctual body with your intuitive heart, mind, and soul. These tonal energies form a rising and falling sonic line of energy between the root and the crown of your body.

As you learn to navigate your mood swings into deeper feeling states through the sounding of the Seven Musical Modes, and the Seven Sounds of Love within them, you’ll start to experience your unique sound and singing voice as the true messenger and mouthpiece of the inner music inside you.

In this module, you’ll:

• Experience the connection between an emotional mood and a musical mode
• Start to use your voice to gain self-awareness through “sound awareness,” uncovering hidden or suppressed emotions and expressing them through sound
• Discover your body as a “musical instrument,” as you learn to voice the 7 Sounds of Love
• Take a tour of the 7 musical modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian)
• Learn songs and a poem that can evoke happy or sad emotions inside you

The Ionian mode is the “happy” mode. As you work with it, you’ll discover a very open, magical scale, capable of igniting a deep sense of wonder, delight, and liberation from heavy feelings and emotions.

The “medicine” of this mode is naturally present in the visionary, the wise elder, and the child. It is free of tension. It invites us to be carefree and accepting of all, opens us to positive intentions, and inspires faith.

In this module, you’ll:

• Experience an exercise in conscious breathing inspired by the Ionian mode
• Access open-heartedness as you navigate and express melodies of the Ionian mode
• Learn Chloë’s “Sound of Music” in the Ionian mode
• Hear a poem to inspire a happy mood
• Reflect on a memory where your Ionian spirit was strong
• Practice the Ionian music scale with energy movements
• Sing along with the Ionian Vibrational Map recording
• Meditate on the positive acceptance of who you are

Use your voice for healing and exploration as you sound, embody, and express the homeopathic notes of the musical modes.

You’ll also listen to and then sound the Ionian Vibrational Map practice together (with or without the accompanying recording).

These special practice sessions allow you to deepen your “sound healing” experience of the material through your voice, while also gaining valuable insights as you compassionately witness others’ progress, and in turn are compassionately witnessed yourself.

Nonjudgmental listening and respect for silence are both essential requirements in strengthening your emotional and sound intelligence with the musical modes, as potent “sound keys” of your soul. At the root of this deep listening is an awareness, beneath duality, of your fundamental nature or consciousness.

This awareness can be strengthened by sounding the “unchanging note,” such as the sacred Aum sound. Sounding in this way enables you to become aware of the significant role that silence plays — notably when your sounding stops — creating a grounded presence within from where a musical relationship with your true voice can flourish.

You’ll discover the alchemy that takes place when your mind, soul, and spirit collaborate to awaken the music of your deep Self. When your interior witnessing mind is fully attentive, and in alignment with your intuitive heart, the infinite song of your spirit can arise from silence and return to silence once more.

In this module, you’ll:

• Focus and strengthen your witnessing mind
• Meditate on an emotion arising and expressing how it sounds, while simultaneously listening to yourself without judgement
• Embody the energy movements of the 7 Sounds of Love without sounding them
• Chant the sacred Aum to access your inner sound more deeply
• Strengthen self-inquiry with questions such as, “Who is singing or sounding?”
• Reflect on the stillness within you, and its presence in your life
• Listen to the quality of silence that your voice leaves behind

The Aeolian mode, known as the “minor” key, is the antidote of the Ionian “major” key. This musical mode makes us feel a longing for that which we cannot name. It is a homeopathic healing remedy for depression, covering a range of melancholic emotional moods. Once heard, it can be a healing sound medicine for depression, unrequited love, alienation, lamenting, and longing. It is often used in Irish and Jewish music. The third and sixth flat notes color the emotional music of the Aeolian.

In this module, you’ll:

• Sound the Aeolian mode, focusing especially on the third and sixth notes ascending and descending
• Learn an Aeolian song, chant, and poem
• Explore how the Aeolian mode visits, influences, and affects your everyday life
• Honor the lamenting emotional mood of your soul by spontaneously improvising in the Aeolian
• Practice the Aeolian Vibrational Map recording
• Improvise spontaneously and express your Aeolian moods focusing on the notes that touch you most
• Write a homage or love song to your experience of depression, yearning, lamenting, or that which you most long for

Use your voice for healing and exploration as you sound, embody, and express the homeopathic notes of the musical modes.

You’re invited to share and strengthen your vocal medicine experiences, as you explore and sound the healing power of the Aeolian mode.

These special practice sessions allow you to deepen your experience of the material while also gaining valuable insights as you compassionately witness yourself.

The music of the Dorian mode dances between sad and happy musical notes, playing with these apparently opposing emotions of our nature. The sad nature of Dorian is emphasized by the third minor note, while the upper half of the Dorian scale has a happy nature and points us towards new horizons of possibility and a wider field of perception.

Sounding the Dorian mode allows you to explore ways, within one ascending and descending scale, to discover just how uncertain you are about a situation. It enables you to witness, balance, and embrace the lower mood with the higher happier musical mood. You can even begin to feel how “happy” and “sad” can actually complement, rather than oppose, each other.

In this module, you’ll:

• Notice how your experience and expression of the Dorian mode changes on the ascending scale to the descending scale
• Find out what it is about these musical intervals that enable you to lighten up, embrace, and integrate the lows and highs of your nature
• Meditate on how the shadow and light emotions within you actually balance — or generate friction — in your life, and what new action is calling to be taken
• Learn the positive music medicine of a Dorian dance song
• Learn a Dorian folk song or chant
• Notice which notes really move you within the scale and improvise a simple tune using just those musical notes
• Meditate on how uncertainty visits you in your life

The Phrygian mode has an Arabic or Spanish feel in color. When you invoke the notes, you can visualize a flamenco tango or some other impassioned situation of unstoppable fury and wanting. It is a great healer for the transformation of anger, lustful passion, the “dark night of the soul,” the depths of despair, and feelings of separation, and absence.

The notes of the Phrygian musical scale are all “flattened,” and when they resound together they generate a musical experience of fiery intensity and sensual pleasure fueled by the pressure towards a potentially devastating or self-annihilating outcome.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how the Phrygian musical intervals can help you to transmute unresolved emotions into intense, unstoppable creative energy
• Familiarize yourself with this mode’s ascending and descending notes
• Illuminate the fire of your creative passion by improvising within the scale
• Ignite your fiery intention with a Phrygian song, chant, and prayer
• Participate in sounding of the Phrygian Vibration Map recording

Use your voice for healing and exploration as you sound, embody, and express the homeopathic notes of Phrygian mode and more.

You’re invited to weave your nonjudging presence with your self-observing mind as you vocalize, experience, and strengthen the musical medicine of your soul as it arises through your sounding of the Phrygian mode.

These special practice sessions allow you to deepen your experience of the material while also gaining valuable insights as you compassionately witness yourself.

The Lydian mode enables us to enter into the effortless grace of a new and heartfelt openness available in the musical landscape of the Lydian Soul. In contrast to the Phrygian mode, it is open and free of any tension — even more so than the Ionian mode.

The Lydian mode is identical to the Ionian mode in every respect except for its sharp fourth musical note, which opens out ever further, and is, thus, a real antidote to the dark realms of Phrygian. This emphasis on the sharpened fourth note was called the “devil in music” by the Christian church for a period of time — felt to be so joyous and happy that it was abolished by the church as being too “dangerous” to sing. Such is the potency of this vocal sound!

In this module, you’ll learn practices to:

• Discover what it feels like to shift from the dark absence of the Phrygian mode into the light-hearted presence and all-inclusiveness of Lydian mode
• Discover the “heretical” musical note that was known as the “devil in music” because of how it pries your heart open irrevocably
• Learn an uplifting anthem in Lydian
• Explore ways to improvise and hear yourself in this new dimension of vocal experience, as you let go of attachment to old stories
• Create a poem or song that emphasizes the transformative fourth musical interval in Lydian
• Participate in the Lydian Vibrational Map recording

Discover the simple and luminous beauty of this musical mode and how it can simultaneously raise your spirits to new heights and ignite a very warm “bluesy” feeling inside you. This music brings you home to the source of your true self with a love that melts the heart and helps unify your higher aspirations with your grounded purpose on earth.

The Mixolydian mode will awaken your soul in refreshing ways. Its unique impact is created by the diminished seventh note, while all its other ascending-descending notes duplicate the Ionian mode.

This musical mode was used a lot by the acclaimed German visionary, abbess, and spiritual healer Hildegard von Bingen of medieval times, whose inspired singing voice and compositions are still enjoyed and sung today. She was sublimely inspired to dedicate her anthems to the Divine Mother as the spiritual embodiment of Mother Earth. You’ll experience, as Hildegard did, how sounding the Mixolydian mode instils a deep sense of inner peace, self-containment, and unconditional presence.

In this module, you’ll:

• Embody sublime joy through your vocal sounding of the Mixolydian mode
• Learn melodic phrases that emphasize the erotic, bluesy seventh note in the mode
• Listen and learn one of Hildegard von Bingen’s anthems, “Mother of All Joy”
• Explore jazz and blues songs to hear how this mode can melt your heart into an irresistible, sensual love song

Use your voice for healing and exploration as you sound, embody, and express the homeopathic notes of the Lydian and Mixolydian modes.

You’re invited to become aware of the essential presence of Discernment-Devotion-Determination, as you weave your nonjudging presence with your self-observing and intuitive mind — and vocalize, experience, and strengthen the healing medicine of these modes as they transform fear and encourage joy.

These special practice sessions allow you to deepen your experience of the material while also gaining valuable insights as you compassionately witness yourself.

The healing music of the Locrian mode opens you to an entirely “unknown way,” beyond any understanding of it. The medicine of Locrian mode is activated by the minor fifth note, which has been fixed and unchanging in all the other musical modes. The musical intervals of the Locrian activate a whole new spectrum of sound, opening up a landscape of listening, being, and becoming that awakens the formlessness of Being and the unknown way. As the mystic says, “There is no path; you make it by walking.” Chloe would say, “You make the path by sounding your spirit, or rather, letting your Spirit sound within you, and beyond you.”

Locrian calls us to become true expressions of our evolution, crafting a new story and a true way of Being that is emotionally fulfilling, unconditionally accepting and generous, and in relationship with our deepest truth.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the Locrian mode as a musical medicine for disorientation, as a gateway into union with your Deep Self
• Sound the notes of the Locrian to experience a landscape of listening, being, and becoming as you open to the formlessness of Being
• Experience this mode as vocal medicine for surrendering to the unknown and opening to your deepest truth
• Learn new melodies, songs, prayers, and poems that evoke the emotionally fulfilling nature of this healing musical mode

In this final module, we celebrate the transformative impact of your Vocal Impulse.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The transformative impact of contacting our individual Vocal Impulse
• Our courageous journeys on Earth inspired by our authentic voices
• The return of our original sound, speech, and songs of unification & co-creation
• The collective evolution that is possible as we sound a new world into Being

This intensive builds upon the core teachings from Your Vocal Impulse 7-module course. When you purchase the full intensive, you get access to this powerful resource as well! You can complete this material at your leisure, but it’s better to begin before the new sessions start.

In this 7-module transformational course, Chloë skillfully guides you through a rigorous range of core vocal practices and sound initiation. She will challenge you to find out, express, and give voice — as an individual and as part of a collective field — to the vocal impulse that is your birthright