Bio Bettina Maureenji

Bettina is an internationally certified Master Voice Coach, Holistic Mentor, Author and Musician with more than 20 years of experience working with people. She is educated in Indian Classical Music with Pandith Shivnat Mishra, Varanasi, India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivnath_Mishra and accreditation in sound, voice and music healing from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, focused on neurology and mental health based on the studies of Dr. John Beaulieu, Mitchell L. Gayner M.D. and Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. She also deepened her studies on Transpersonal Psychology inspired by Grof, Maslow and Sutich, Family Constellation by Bert Hellinger, Vipassana Meditation by S.N. Goenka, Trauma Work by Peter Levine, The Compassionate Inquiry Approach by Dr. Gabor Mate and Ancestral Medicine with Dr. Daniel Foor.

Bettina created 2 modalities for working with people and a facilitator training:

THE MEDICINE OF YOUR VOICE™ Transformational Voice Work

THE MEDICINE OF YOUR VOICE™ Holistic Mentoring & Personal Developemnt

THE MEDICINE OF YOUR VOICE™ Facilitator Training for Voice Coaches

Bettina is extremely passionate about the human potential in this life and to inspire people to discover body and voice as an instrument. She is working with people wanting to explore possibilities for inner growth and transformative personal development. She additionally is an expert in working with people’s voices, diving into the deeper layers of healing and the therapeutic approach of voice work. She experienced that the uncovering of anything within us that seems to be in the way of living fully is the most important part of this process that is life. Bettina weaves intuitively together different integrative modalities according to the needs of the individual.

She also works with people using their voices professionally as in public speaking, voice over and acting and supports in general people who feel the call to strengthen their voice in personal as in professional areas of life.

 

Transformational Voice Work is for people who:

  • Experience pain or discomfort when using their voice.
  • Feel they are not able to say what they need to say.
  • Have a voice that appears too loud or too soft.
  • Feel timid and shy around their voice.
  • Experience a lack of confidence when using their voice.
  • Want to learn how to physically take care of their voice.
  • Like to experience a deeper connection with their voice.
  • Want to Speak, sing or think with more ease and grace.

 

Holistic Mentoring is for people who:

  • Feel blocked or stuck in certain areas in their lives.
  • Feel anxiety or depression.
  • Feel disconnected from themselves and others.
  • Are ready for personal growth, deep healing and transformation.
  • Are willing to face their fears.
  • Allow themselves to be vulnerable.
  • Want to discover and express what is true for them.

 

Music

The songs and prayers Bettina has  written and learned over the last 20 years are a reflection of her own personal journey of healing. Bettina’s intention in music is to facilitate a space that invites into other states of consciousness where transformation can take place. For her sound has a direct effect on the physical body and the potential to change patterns and behaviors that can lead to health and well being physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Bettina has published one book ‘The Medicine of your Voice – Conscious Living through Singing’ and recorded 7 CDs.

 

 

Charities

Purchasing my music or any of my offerings makes you participate raising funds for the organisation below. A part of all my profits go there each month. Please click link for more information.

 

WarmheartWorldWide

 

My current partners

 

What is devotional music?

If music creates a space where my heart is touched and where my thoughts disappear I get a taste of devotion. I could also say I am entering a non ordinary state or transpersonal state of consciousness. I do not have a religious background yet I feel devotion. Maybe it is my simple love for this life with all its aspects. Being physical and spiritual, body and soul in the same time. I honor the time I have been given, the time I have been gifted to develop my consciousness through the gift of this body.
As music can be explained very differently by people so can devotion. For me devotional music is sound which carries me into the beyond and simultaneously grounds me into the body.
Music for me is an inner phenomena that is constant yet ever changing. A life force energy that resides within the body. When music is awaken within, then the body opens as a sacred vehicle. Within that dance we are traveling to the place I call the divine and we as well travel back safely. I relax, breathe, restore and continue my path.
 
 

 ‘As a human being I have the potential to heal and grow and eventually expand my consciousness. I believe that the expansion of consciousness is a medicine within the realm of self healing. And beyond that a powerful tool to participate in the healing and evolution of humanity.’ Bettina Maureenji

 

 

The Medicine of Your Voice™  – Transformational Voice Work

The Medicine of Your Voice – Transformational Voice Work is a method that has its roots in the Classical Indian Vocal Style called Dhrupad and my education in Indian Classical Music with Pandit Shivnat Mishra in Varanasi, India. I transformed some of the basic vocal exercises and developed new ones based on my personal experiences supporting self healing of autoimmune disorders through sound and music, my studies at CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studiesin San Francisco) and my research on sound, voice and music, neurology and traumatology based on the workt of Dr. John Beaulieu, Mitchel. L. Gaynor M.D. and Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. The Medicine of your Voice is a therapeutic process that uses the voice, sound, song and silence to create connection and integration within ourselves. Whether we are addressing the singing voice or the speaking voice, this process supports our vocal, personal and musical development. Part of this process is the uncovering of anything within us that seems to be in the way of either expressing our truth, sharing our gifts or singing our songs. We learn to notice contracted feelings within our bodies and emotions and to transform them into expansion.

‘Working with Bettina Maureenji has been like joining an age old friend on a beautiful journey into the loving mystery of life through sound. For many years I was a meditation practitioner and through an illness and meeting Bettina Maureenji, being encouraged and helped in embracing music and my voice in a sacred way through her guidance, I seem to have been initiated. This has brought me in touch with another whole joyful, energizing and deeply loving aspect of self and the divine.’ George Barker, Meditation Teacher, Co Founder Medicine Festival, London, UK

‘Bettina’s The Medicine of Your Voice workshop is by far one of the best workshops I’ve ever attended. It felt raw, real, genuine, and truly magical. I learned a lot, felt a lot, and experienced so much. Taking home ancient healing/voice practices that I’ve learned and the greater confidence I now hold within myself and my voice. Thank you so much for your guidance, support and service,  Bettina — I am forever grateful and appreciative of you. Truly looking forward to attending more of your workshops in the future!’ Lauren, Los Angeles, CA.

 

The Medicine of your Voice™ – Holistic Mentoring

Holistic Mentoring is inspired by my studies of Transpersonal Psychology with Grof, Maslow and Sutich, Family Constellation by Bert Hellinger, Vipassana Meditation by S.N. Goenka, Trauma Work by Peter Levine, The Compassionate Inquiry Approach by Dr. Gabor Mate and Sound Voice and Music Healing at CIIS Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA.

For some of us healing is part of this journey that we call life. And in order to transform and expand, we need to be able to feel and be with what needs to be healed. That can be uncomfortable and challenging. Or it can be simply frighten us and we get stuck instead of moving in and forward.

Within these mentoring sessions we enter into a reciprocal learning relationship together. This is not just a safe and supportive space but an exploration and  journey we travel together. I love weaving intuitive and holistic counselling together with integrative exercises supporting us each day. It is such a pleasure to dive with you into the world of inner connections in order to practice being present with our whole being.

 
‘I booked the series of 10 Holistic Mentoring sessions with Bettina and I had a specific request. I wanted to manifest more music in my life and recreate myself so that I could later have a new professional ground in order to let go of my other job. I wanted to only do what matters to me. Music! Creating songs, working with people, giving singing workshops etc. and finding the right contacts are the result of this wonderful journey with Bettina. She reflected and witnessed what is in me, is ripe and wants to come to light. She strengthened the truth, my calling and supported it with her light. I took the direct steps myself and that is precisely the gift she gave me. To bring myself into my own strength.’ Mila, Hamburg, Germany
 

 

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Vision & Mission

When I was a teenager I already asked myself the question: what is the meaning of life and why are we here? My upbringing as a single mum kid did not necessarily support my education in psychology or my quest, but at the same time it did support finding my own way of study and getting to what was available to me within the mainstream way of living at the time. Life always brought me exactly to the places where I needed to be. At the age of 16 I was deeply immersed in the poetry of Rumi and Hafiz and I was fascinated by the writings of Rajneesh, also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho.

I had no idea what I got myself into. By now I can say I jumped utterly unconsciously into the cold water and found myself going through the depth and darkness of self discovery as a young woman. I never felt pity or depressed but rather rebellious with a sense of being initiated into something that eventually became my life’s mission.

I left Germany at the age of 28 to live in Spain and I never returned. That move from a stable, career focused and apparently safe life into the total unknown also opened the door to inner freedom that I was longing for. I knew that denying my longing or going for comfort over intuition would make me a very unhappy person. I know that choosing freedom in that moment brought me all the gifts of the last 30 years walking on this path of personal development, inner growth, healing and transformation. I am incredibly lucky and fortunate to have met the right people and teacher in music and therapy, in the perfect moments in each chapter of my life. Without all these wonderful people, life challenges and changes I would not be so devoted to my mission and vision.

It was in my early 30ies that I decided to go to India to deepen my Yoga studies. It was then that I found the sitar and deeply fell in love with that instrument and possibly I fell deeply in love with myself for the very first time in my life. I do not feel I am a musician in a classical sense of meaning. I consider myself a creator of space that allows us to feel love and unity. It simply happens to be that I got handed the tool of music. Music, the voice, sound and silence is a way for me to bring people together and to have a place for us to be open, vulnerable and ourselves.

After my time in India I was switched on and started my studies and research on sound, voice, music and healing. It was also the time that I got diagnosed with an autoimmune issue which again was a significant moment in my life. I decided to use myself as a case study and luckily I had enough strength to move through this very challenging part in my life and study what was happening in my body at the same time. I do know by now that the focus on researching within my own body has helped heal tremendously.

For me there is nothing more potent than digging deep into ourselves, healing and transformation. For our personal lives but also to be able to support others and participate in a way that makes life sparkle. Being devoted to Beauty is not an easy path. Real beauty is felt and seen together with the beast. In order to be and create beauty I have to be able to be with the beast.

It gives me great joy to witness people change when they start to discover the potency and beauty of their beings and voices. When I hear people say they are able to create a new story about themselves or even better no story at all anymore, that is when my heart starts to shine.

I am here to introduce you to this beautiful soul work that involves 2 ways of working with people. I am combining researched based sound and voice exercises, traditional Indian vocal exercises and therapeutic modalities within the field of personal development & emotional healing. I am also passionate about bringing the therapeutic forces of sound and music into the medical institutions as a remedy for relief whether we are ill or at the end of life. And there is something really special to support people to find their voices again after severe injuries or incidences.

Being an elder by now I am truly grateful to share my voice of wisdom with all of you and to be of service to the generations to come.

With love, Bettina

‘My greatest strength in life and in my voice is my vulnerability’ Bettina Maureenji

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