April 29th, 2024

Pleased to vocal tone you.

Having promised myself to keep up with my blogging, I then went through a massive relocation from Surrey, to Selsey in West Sussex which started last August and finally completed on the 1st February! It was a long time to live from boxes and suitcases and we wondered if we would ever arrive, but we did, and we are here, Selsey (West Sussex) by the sea and loving it!
I have moved some of my courses to the beautiful Green Door Centre in Bosham, West Sussex, including the Sound Healing with the Voice Practitioner Training in connection with the College of Sound Healing, and this morning I went there to do a voice meditation taster session to introduce myself and my work and offer it out to those interested.
We had a lovely group, some who had used the voice before as a healing and vibrational tool, and some that had not. A voice meditation session generally consists of 45-60 mins of gentle vocal toning, that is humming, or sounding vowel sounds from a place of non judgement of voice. It is not about singing, but rather seeing the voice as an honoured part of the self, that holds a special power to align the body with a parasympathetic nervous system response and the inner and the outer worlds, bringing about an easeful state of meditation or healing, depending on the context.
Today we worked to connect the sound to the breath by focusing on soft and flexible abdominals, and then allowing the movement of the abdominals (and diaphragm) to instigate the vocal sound, rather than the mind, meaning that, the sound comes from a place of instinct, rather than left brain decision. We sent vocal vibration to our physical bodies and observed how the body consciousness has the ability to choose the pitch and tone, and guide the person to where it is needed. We sent healing tone around the group to each other, and out to the earth and the collectives. 
The reason for the heading of this blog, was because every time I work with a new group of people, it's only when we all begin to vocal tone without ego and mind, that the most pure of pure sounds emerge. Complete strangers begin to sound, listen, and respond to each other through pure tone. The harmonies, dissonances, sound waves, breaths begin to synchronise, and it's like we all get to know each other for who we really are, who we really sound, without the formalities, the conditioning, the "pleased to meet yous" and all the other stuff that comes out when we meet and talk to new people. Instead, with the vocal tone, people learn to express and communicate from a more authentic and vulnerable place, and here we all speak the same language.
I hope to create a new monthly voice meditation session at the Green Door Centre, starting soon, and sound with more beautiful souls that present themselves. Such a pleasure.