Worskhop mit Esther und Djalan

Do 03. 9. 17h - So 06. 9. 2026 im Roy Hart Voice Center

 

We will carefully weave together two registers that are often kept apart:

Grounding & Liberation

With Esther, you will explore the bodily roots of your voice.
Breathing exercises, physical preparation, and vocal explorations will free your dynamic and sonic resources. This rigorous yet playful work will open the path

to free and spontaneous singing, as well as to the art of listening – to yourself and to others.

Voice & Mantras

With Djalan, you will enter the practice of “chanting”: a collective and meditative exploration of mantras.
Accompanied by guitar, the repetition of simple, easy-to-remember mantras encourages the emergence of spontaneous polyphonies. The chants alternate with silence to allow integration.
The mantras are drawn from diverse traditions (Buddhist, Hindu, Kundalini yoga, as well as Hebrew, Christian, and African). Beyond their specific meaning, they offer above all the direct experience of the transformative and healing power of sound.

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Pierre Goirand (known as Djalan in the world of mantras) is one of the pioneers of the Leadership Embodiment approach in France. As a consultant, facilitator, and coach, his transdisciplinary interventions are rooted in an integral perspective. The weaving of body, spirit, and artistic expression into everyday life has always been at the heart of his research. Voice and dance hold a privileged place in both his personal and professional practices.

On the spiritual path, he has studied several Buddhist traditions in depth, notably Vipassana, Theravāda, and Zen, to develop a non-religious and non-sectarian approach to spirituality, including what is now called mindfulness.

For Djalan, singing mantras is a way to connect with ourselves, with others, and with something greater than us. Chanting is a way of caring for and supporting human beings and the world. “Sing, for this is a food our starving world needs,” wrote the Sufi poet Hafiz.