The five basic elements of Autophonetics represent each phase of the Personal Music Compositions - neutralizing, opening, breaking, focusing and integration. These are a combination of vocalic sounds and body movements which can be used individually or combined in a complete sequence of activation that fully integrates any release and leads to greater self-expression.

Learning to vocalize the motifs using the 5 vocalic sounds & movements provides you with a way of connecting more directly with your own inner sound and your emotional self.

Manuals

Students receive a manual covering course material at each level Workshop. The Advanced Level manual contains musical notation for each motif, detailed notes for their use and explanation of the Enhancement Exercises that accompany them.

There is an optional Practice CD which contains all the Autophonetics Motifs and is only available to students who attend our training workshop.

With your Advanced Level instruction manual you receive an Autophonetics Practice CD.Irrespective of whether or not you can read music, this CD is a helpful practice tool for furthering your use of the Motifs.

The Advanced Level manual explains the purpose of each motif & provides enhancement exercises that help integrate the effect of each motif.

Autophonetics is an easy technique to learn and use. You can practice it on a daily basis or use it for concentrated periods when you want to develop a particular aspect of yourself. Choose the motif/s that are most suited to the aspect you wish to work with or change and use them on a regular basis until you start to notice a change. Practising the motifs with exercises for at least 10 minutes per motif per day will create a progressive change.

From repeated use, you will gradually notice a growing awareness of yourself. It will help you bring your focus back to yourself rather than the people or things around you. Then, you will gradually become more aware of what's going on inside of you – mentally, emotionally or physically – which, in turn, allows you to be more receptive to your own thoughts and feelings.

Your experience of using Autophonetics will vary depending on a number of factors:

· How often you practice;

· whether you use the 'parallel' posture when vocalizing the motifs;

· whether you hum or sing just one motif or all 21 motifs in sequence;

· whether you use the movements associated with each vocalic sound;

· your emotional state or level of personal awareness;

· your general state of health and how much you control your expression of emotions;

· and how rapidly your nervous system responds to sound stimuli.

Initially, some people find the motifs a bit strange, not at all what they are accustomed to listen to or sing. This is due to their simple harmonic structure due to the predominance of the open intervals of the octave, perfect fourth and perfect fifth, as well as the lack of intricate harmony. Some people reject them because they don't match their 'musical expectations', but find that if they persevere they then shift into a different state of awareness & acceptance, and afterwards might not want to listen to anything else for a while.

It is important to bear in mind the reason for vocalizing the motifs. As with other music titles in the Inner Sound series, the motifs will promote mechanical vibrations throughout your body through the combined effect of sympathetic resonance & bone conduction. The purpose is to promote vibrations as deeply and consistently as you can rather than singing for entertainment.

Our voice is the most healing instrument we can use to work with our own body.

The Basic and Advanced Level Voice Workshops are experience-based Workshops for personal use.

If you wish to study Autophonetics at Practitioner Level we offer a Practitioner Certificate that is available on a Distance Learning and Presence Course basis. Presence courses run in the USA, UK, Spain and Holland. The next UK training begins in September 2007. Our course schedule is now available .

The complete list of modules are:

AUTOPHONETICS PRACTITIONER TRAINING
1. Introductory Course (pre-requisite for modules 1 - 8)
2. Practitioner Training - MODULE 1 -HOW SOUND HEALS-PHYSICS / PHYSIOLOGY / EMOTIONAL THEORY / FIELD THEORY -PART 1
3. Practitioner Training - MODULE 2 -HOW SOUND HEALS-PHYSICS / PHYSIOLOGY / EMOTIONAL THEORY / FIELD THEORY-PART 2
4. AUTOPHONETICS LEVEL 1
5. AUTOPHONETICS LEVEL 2
6. AUTOPHONETICS & SOUND TOUCH TRAINING to use FIVE TOUCHES & MOTIFS for KEYBOARD & VOICE
7. Practitioner Training - MODULE 5 - ASSESSMENT TOOLS
8. Practitioner Training - MODULE 6 - INTERVIEW and INTERVENTION PROCESS
9. Practitioner Training - MODULE 7 - CLIENT / PRACTITIONER RELATIONSHIP
10. Practitioner Training - MODULE 8 - INDIVIDUAL PROCESS SUMMARY & REVIEW