Heart to Crown Retreat: From Vision to Creation

Hosted by Maryn Azoff & Patrick Surdam - AKERA Retreat Center, Woodbourne, NY

Vocal Transformation’s “Heart to Crown Retreat” is for anyone with a strong editor, a large inner critic or a blocked throat chakra that yearns for their freest expression. This retreat covers the upper chakras and how they pertain to our voice and ability to express our full range and potential. The throat, third eye, and crown—are the centers responsible for allowing our creative flow to be fully expressed, manifesting our highest selves and grandest visions.

• Do you feel afraid when asked to express yourself authentically?

• Do you even know what you truly want to say?

• Do you feel confident in the quality of your voice?

• Does your head feel separate from your body?

• What parts of yourself still hold back? 

They say the longest 18 inches a human will ever travel are from your head to your heart. This retreat will integrate our parts in order to be an embodied and grounded human being that knows how to express from an intuitive, heart-centered place with a renewed sense of joy and purpose. 

We will journey through powerful introspection to joyful celebration. The experience will align your  inner landscape with your desired outer reality while drawing on esoteric teachings and native wisdom in order to harness the creative power. Like all Vocal Transformation retreats we will incorporate movement, chanting and song, inviting joyful expression. Through this process you will learn how to bring your aspirations and dreams from the ethereal into tangible existence and reclaim the light you wish to share with the world. 

Join Vocal Transformation coaches, Maryn Azoff, her partner, Patrick Surdam at AKERA Retreat Center in New York. It's situated on 123-acres of pristine Catskills nature, including serene forests, rolling meadows, babbling waters, horizon views with both sunrises and sunsets, and diverse wildlife.  We are so excited to hold our classes in AKERA's just built 3k FT CUSTOM WOODEN DOME, which is perched on a hilltop and whose terrace opens to the eastern horizon of the Catskills. Natural interior acoustics from the wood paneling and curvature offer an incredible resonance that will take our voices to a whole new level. 

What You’ll Experience

• Strengthen your foundational understanding of the ‘anatomy of the voice’ 

• Vocal techniques to access the innate power and wisdom of the upper chakras

• Gain first hand experience of the profound relationship between sound and stillness 

• A deeper relationship to meditation and why it is essential to one’s personal evolution

• Awaken the compassion and loving kindness of the heart through the power of the voice

• An intimate connection with joy and expression that will leave you feeling ALIVE

You’ll Leave With

• Greater vocal range, power, and control

• A deeper confidence in your ability to open to and feel your life more deeply

• A renewed sense of authentic presence 

• An intimate relationship with who you really are and your unique purpose 

• A community of like-hearted people who will feel like family

• The ability to use your voice as a tool for healing, manifestation, and joy

  
  

Maryn Azoff is an internationally recognized Vocal Transformation facilitator empowering people to reactivate the entirety of their voice—a faculty they likely haven’t experienced since birth. A classically-trained singer and lifetime student of various lineages, ancient wisdoms and practices worldwide, Maryn merges modalities and vocal techniques that have been used for 8,000+ years that modern science is only just beginning to understand. In the process of healing a severely broken neck and re-training herself to open a locked jaw to use her own voice again, Maryn’s Vocal Transformation Method emerged alongside her life’s mission to awaken the full vocal capacity of the human race. Over the past decade of teaching, she has witnessed miracles through this work, and transformation in all areas of her students’ lives: from their relationships, to healing physical/mental/emotional ailments and ultimately, shifts in consciousness that help them come into who they really are.  

Patrick Surdam is a musician, author, songwriter, and ceremonialist. He has been writing and performing music for over 20 years.
 

In addition to his musical background, Patrick is deeply devoted to a spiritual path, rooted in Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice and Peruvian Mestizo Curanderismo tradition. Inspired by these rich traditions, he has dedicated himself to a life of service, primarily working with the human voice as a powerful tool for healing. With his partner and musical collaborator, Maryn Azoff, he teaches the Vocal Transformation Method™, a program that utilizes Sanskrit chanting and the chakra system to explore psychological development to empower individuals to heal themselves. For the last 7 years, they have been leading Vocal Transformation retreats all over the United States and throughout Central and South America.  

Patrick’s work as a Vocal Transformation coach offers him a unique opportunity to share the richness and beauty of his life experience and diverse spiritual influences to inspire health, vitality, and creativity in others.