Tumi Hrannar Pálmason (Flammeus) präsentiert
Liberate Your Voice – Breath, Sound, Song & Authentic Expression
Auf dem Connectival Retreat
8.-13. Juni 2026
Germany / Saarland
Retreat language: German/English
The Retreat
Liberate Your Voice – Breath, Sound, Song & Authentic Expression
Your voice is more than sound.
It is breath moving through truth.
It is emotion becoming physical vibration.
It is your essence made audible.
And for many people, the voice has learned to hide.
It hides beneath tension, self-consciousness, old stories, and the fear of being too much or not enough. It adapts, contracts, performs, protects. But underneath all of that, your natural voice is still there — alive, intelligent, expressive, and deeply connected to who you are.
This retreat is an invitation to return to that living voice.
Over five days, we enter a shared field of breath, sound, resonance, listening, play, and song. We explore the voice not as something to perfect, but as something to free. Through body awareness, breathwork, vocal activation, chanting, sounding, and collaborative songwriting, we begin to soften the blocks that keep expression small and reconnect with the raw, honest, vibrant instrument that already lives within us.
This is not only about singing.
It is about becoming more available to yourself.
More available to feeling.
More available to truth.
More available to connection.
The voice becomes a pathway back into the body, into authenticity, and into the courage to be heard.
The Journey of the Voice
The voice is intimately connected to the breath, the nervous system, the emotions, and our sense of safety in expression. When breath is restricted, the voice often tightens. When feelings are suppressed, the voice can lose color, depth, and freedom. When we fear judgment, the voice may become careful, guarded, or distant.
In this retreat, we work gently and playfully with these layers.
Through breathwork, we create more space.
Through chanting, we tune in to vibration.
Through listening, we develop presence.
Through shared singing, we experience belonging.
As the days unfold, the voice can begin to feel less like something we push out and more like something we allow to move through us.
From that place, expression becomes more natural. Song becomes more alive. And authenticity becomes audible.
The Practice Field
Each day we gather for immersive sessions that weave together voice, embodiment, and collective music-making.
Within this retreat space, we’ll explore:
- Breathwork for grounding, opening, and energizing the voice
- Vocal activation and resonance practices
- Chanting, toning, and seed syllables
- Somatic awareness and body-based release
- Exercises for freeing inhibition and deepening authentic expression
- Collaborative singing and songwriting
- Improvised sound and playful vocal exploration
- Deep listening practices
- Spaces for reflection, integration, and connection
- Ritual elements that support intention and shared presence
Participants are also welcome to bring their own instruments and supportive sound tools — shakers, drums, other percussive elements, as well as harmonic instruments for accompaniment such as ukuleles, guitars, shruti boxes, and similar instruments.
This creates a living musical space where voice can combine rhythm, drone, harmony, and spontaneous co-creation.
A Shared Ritual Space
A special part of this retreat is the creation of a collective altar in the retreat space.
On the first day, each participant is invited to place an item of personal meaning on the altar together with an intention for the retreat. In this way, the space becomes a shared field of presence, prayer, and remembrance – shaped by everyone who enters it.
At the end of the retreat, after sharing key insights and takeaways, each person retrieves their item from the altar, one by one, carrying their intention back into daily life in a new way.
This simple ritual supports depth, coherence, and a felt sense that the journey is held from beginning to completion.
Where Retreat Meets Festival
This retreat lives within the wider ecosystem of the Connectival field.
That means the inner work of the retreat is held within a larger atmosphere of community, creativity, music, celebration, and encounter. After our focused sessions, participants can continue integrating through connection with others, through rest, through spontaneous music, through movement, and through simply being part of the larger festival space.
In this way, the voice is not only explored in the retreat container – it also gets to fly free at a festival.
It gets to do so in a larger community, developing the courage of real expression.
This allows the work to land more deeply, more joyfully, and more organically.
Integration & Authentic Expression
A core intention of this retreat is not just opening the voice for a few days, but giving participants practices and experiences they can continue to draw from in daily life.
The voice is not separate from how we live.
When we breathe more fully, we speak differently.
When we feel more safe in our body, we sing differently.
When we trust our expression, we relate differently.
This retreat offers direct experiences and simple tools that can keep supporting participants long after the days together have ended — whether in singing, speaking, teaching, creating, leading, relating, or simply living with more honesty and aliveness.
A Space to Remember Your Sound
This retreat is more than a vocal workshop.
It is a space to remember that your voice does not need to become someone else’s version of beautiful. It only needs permission to become more fully yours.
A space where breath becomes movement,
where sound becomes expression,
where song becomes connection,
and where the human voice becomes a bridge between inner truth and shared presence.
Together, we create a field in which voices can soften, open, tremble, grow, resonate, and belong.
Why should participants join the Retreat?
- To free and deepen their connection to their natural voice
- To explore the relationship between breath, body, sound, and authentic expression
- To experience vocal practices in a way that is embodied, playful, and non-performative
- To release inhibition and build more trust in sounding, singing, and being heard
- To enjoy collaborative singing and music-making in a supportive group field
- To reconnect with joy, presence, creativity, and inner aliveness
- To receive simple practices you can continue using in everyday life
- To experience voice as a path of healing, expression, and belonging
Investion
Ticket „Liberate Your Voice – 200 € for 5 days Retreat-Program
You also need the Basis-Ticket for the Connectival Retreat, which includes the surrounding festival program from Monday to Sunday, three meals a day and accomodation in your own tent. Accomodation in common huts or camper van parking can be booked additionally.
About Tumi Hrannar Pálmason (Flammeus)
Tumi Hrannar Pálmason, also known by his artist name Flammeus, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, vocal guide, and space-holder devoted to authentic expression through breath, sound, and song. His work is rooted in the understanding that the voice is not merely a performance tool, but a gateway into presence, truth, embodiment, and connection.
Drawing from his experience in songwriting, vocal exploration, group facilitation, and transformative practice, Tumi creates spaces where people can reconnect with their own sound in a way that feels grounded, honest, and alive. His approach bridges musicality and inner work – combining breath, intuitive expression, and collective singing into experiences that are both deeply personal and powerfully communal.
He holds space with warmth, sensitivity, humor, and encouragement, inviting participants to move beyond self-judgment and into a more direct experience of their own resonance. His retreats and workshops support people in opening the voice, softening fear, awakening creativity, and discovering just how enjoyable life becomes when expression is no longer held back.
My Motivation for the Retreat
My inspiration for creating this retreat comes from my own journey with the voice.
Again and again, I have experienced that the voice opens not only through technique, but through presence, breath, safety, feeling, and the willingness to be real. Voice work has shown me how deeply expression is connected to the body and to the courage to let ourselves be heard – not as polished ideas of who we should be, but as living human beings.
I created this retreat because I want to share that experience with others.
I want to create a space where people can rediscover the joy of sounding, singing, and expressing themselves more freely. A space where the voice is welcomed in all its textures — soft, strong, shaky, clear, raw, playful, tender, wild. A space where music becomes connection and where authenticity becomes something we can hear in each other.
For me, this work is about liberation.
Not becoming a perfect voice, but becoming a more available one.
A more truthful one.
A more alive one.
More Information about Flammeus
A personal invitation to the retreat
I warmly invite you to join me in this space of breath, sound, song, and authentic expression.
Whether you feel confident with your voice or hesitant to let it out, you are welcome. Whether you come with experience or with curiosity, there is a place for you here. You do not need to arrive as a performer. You only need a willingness to listen, to explore, and to meet yourself a little more honestly.
It would be a joy to sing, sound, breathe, and create this field together — and to witness what becomes possible when voices are given space to open.