Hi, I’m Sylvia Rands
Welcome.
Your story is important to me.
If you are currently feeling that things need to change, but the How, What or When are unclear, I can help you.
If you are feeling inspired and ready to move, to activate your vocal power, sort out family issues, heal a relationship or your body or simply step more fully into Presence, I look forward to being of service.
Together we will clarify and release what is no longer useful and anchor strong foundations for your future direction.
I offer a safe space for you to share all that needs to be named, expressed and released.
I am an intuitive channel and am guided in the nature of the process, tools and timeline that will serve your unique needs.
My own healing journey has taught me the power of release and surrender, to honour the darkness and the light, to learn to listen to my needs and my inner voice.
I look forward to sharing some of the insights gathered along the way.
Breath, Voice and Sound open gateways for release and build emotional stamina. Ancestral and Family System Healing reveal what is now ready to be seen, bringing insight and clarity. Energy Clearing & Balancing offer deep excavation of old brain patterning and realignment that builds new neural pathways.
Many of us have been silenced, misinterpreted and diminished in our past and have become overwhelmed.
Life itself is currently challenging us in ways we have never been challenged before. New energies coming to the planet are demanding that we step up and step into ourselves in entirely new ways. Can we dissolve and release what we cannot carry forward and open ourselves to the mystery?
1:1 sessions and group workshops both offer the opportunity to have your specific concerns addressed.
The magic starts as soon as you commit and continues as long as you wish it.
“The shadow is not the enemy. It is simply the part of the self that has not yet learnt to love consciously.
Unconsciousness, self-deception and denial are the enemy, not the shadow. The greatest damage the spiritual movement of Love and Light has brought about is that it taught people to fear their own Humanity. Their own anger, their own grief, their own boundaries, their own power. To fear the parts of themselves that were never broken to begin with.”
— Alexander Quinn
My Story
Born in New Zealand, my childhood was spent on and in the waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the clay of Whangaparāoa. Both elements of Earth and Water nourished me deeply, as did my musical, creative family. Within that, life challenges came early and have taken me a lifetime to unravel.
I have always loved learning and my early years were filled with swimming, music, theatre, study, plus constantly falling in love and the ensuing joy and heartbreak.
I started my professional acting career straight from university and gladly suffered all the ghastly blows to the ego this profession offers, determined as I was to seek the ‘soul of the artist.’
My decision to train in Voice ten years later in Boston, USA offered an entry point to a new world of deep self-enquiry. My childhood was rooted in a gentle practical Faith, the church being in my family lineage. However, metaphysics, esoteric teachings and alternative healing were increasingly becoming a passion.
As I opened to the embodied wisdom of the Voice, I felt I had come home. My exhaustion disappeared, my emotions came online and I reclaimed sovereignty in my creative work. I returned to New Zealand and began to teach everyone and anyone who was keen to Free their Natural Voice. I created and toured solo shows and felt that at last I could use my own voice.
On my journey I have been guided to new learning when needed for my own healing and professional development. My initial Natural Voice training led to the profound revelations of Healing with Sound Training in 1997/98, which in turn activated my healing skills. Shamanic Training recalibrated my relationship with Mother Earth and many layers of spiritual healing training expanded my Sight.
Currently, Family Constellations Therapy and Compassion Key are revealing a new perspective on what it is to truly find peace with the past by working with the wounds and gifts of our ancestors.
For twenty years, teaching, acting and my healing practice fertilised each other. Life in theatre, television and film offered invaluable lessons in emotional authenticity (what is it and how/why would you want it?), trusting my intuition, and the potency of language, poetry and the word.
As my trust in the power of the raw emotional impulse anchored in me and I fully embraced both dark and light in the roles I played, my understanding of the ‘artist’s soul’ dropped in.
The learning: Get (the ego) out of the way and let the Essence of the character speak. Without Judgement. Become a clear channel.
In 1996 I accepted a job in Australia which led to rich years of collaboration with local and international drama school colleagues and healing practitioners. On my return to NZ in 2005 while working as Head of Voice at Toi Whakaari National Drama School I created my voice training modality Four Elements Voice. This pulled together all strands of my past trainings ; traditional, somatic, holistic, metaphysical and now offers a well-tested container for clients to reconnect to their core and purpose.
“The way forward now is to connect to Inner Truth; Truth when it is beautiful, Truth when it is ugly, Truth when it is inconvenient, when it shatters everything you believe. Truth eventually becomes Love and Light, but never asks you to abandon half of yourself in order to find it. Enlightenment is not achieved by pretending darkness does not exist. It is achieved by bringing awareness to it, understanding it and refusing to be ruled by it.”
— Alexander Quinn, Channel
THE FEMALE VOICE:
One of the great joys and challenges of my life is being a mother and a grandmother. After years of simultaneously living, avoiding and relishing these roles, I have been amazed to open new doors through Family Constellation work.
Unearthing hidden complexities in my family system has allowed me to enter ever more deeply into the mysteries of the Womb and Mothering.
Constellation work reminds us that the gift of Life is the greatest we can receive, and that it is our parents who gave us that gift. Can we find the humility and strength to thank them for our Life despite other wounds we may carry?
Early in life I became acutely aware of how women in particular had been, and still are, socialised into silence and people-pleasing. I saw women and sensitives denied their voice, and I experienced a powerful drive to find my voice as a result.
Supporting women to find their voices has been one of the privileges of my life.
Beyond that, supporting the emergence of the Divine Feminine in all of us has been a deep passion, manifesting in my creative work and in the nature of my teaching.
The Voice is anchored in the Right Brain, the Feminine, so both women and men can attune to the gifts of the Feminine through the portal of voicework.
Her gifts to us are flow and feeling, the five senses, creativity, and The Wild.
To balance the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine within, the Sacred Inner Union of male and female, has been the great Dance of my life and I look forward to sharing its delights with you.
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
BA in Literature & Languages
Natural Voice Training – Shakespeare & Co / Kristin Linklater
Healing with Sound Certification – Lichtenberg Institute, Germany
Certified Reiki Therapist
Certified CELTA Teacher
Registered Celebrant
Family Constellation Facilitator
Thought-Field Therapy – Golden Bliss Training
OTHER RESOURCES
Soul Journey – Denise Linn, USA
Steering committee UNITEC Drama School / Voice / Acting
Voice Workshops : Cecily Berry/ Frankie Armstrong/ Marcel Hof
Thirty years professional acting/directing: theatre/ TV/ film
Head of Voice, Toi Whakaari : NZ Drama School
Shamanic Warrior Training
Metaphysical training: Krystal Academy , Canada
Guides/ Energy Healing/ Inner Child/ Avatar training
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