This Welcoming Face starts at domino effect activating the Vagus nerve, switches on the calming parasympathetic nervous system and starts a gentle trickle of relaxation, present moment awareness and a softening throughout the whole body.

The power of this gentleness is our inner most stacking doll and is the stuffing for all the other dolls.

Creative energy is the essence and backbone of the voice and it needs support for it to align and flow freely within us.

The medicine inside your voice knows the ways of balance. It has the intelligence software of light and dark built into it. This is the path of the heart.

The voice work slowly and gently begins to open you to this creative energy and then it kind of sneaks up on you and begins to paint your life with more vibrant colours in the most surprising ways.

Creative energy by its very nature is destructive as well as it is creative.

Performance anxiety is crippling but there is a way out of this habitual cycle and into experiencing performances that are filled with confidence, relaxation, passion and joy.

I said this is your body and today we’re going to sing, breathe and feel in order to increase a little bit of this flow in your body river.

Everyone that comes into my office is smart and intelligent, and knows how to work hard at their job, and at their life.

So this process of letting go of how to fix and figure out things instead of feeling things out, can be challenging at first.

And so, we get to work, but a different kind of work, the kind of work that brings water and joy back to dry deserts and dusty fields.

When a student gets that all they need do is to connect with themselves and feel what is naturally inside of them and to sing and ring themselves, it is a revelation to them.

To sing and to be not only seen and heard but to know that the person who is watching you has the power to support you and to help you free this magical beast from your body, or, the power to judge and criticize you and to trap it forever.

The thing about music is that is has an intelligence that supersedes our limited capacity of what we know or don’t know if we can allow ourselves to follow the musical scent of beauty and freedom that it offers.

What I have learnt is that in teaching voice it’s not the voice per se that is the problem it’s that the students, singers don’t have enough ‘available energy’ to run their voice in a healthy way and free way.

If somewhere inside of you there’s a teensy bit of terrified excitement in you that wants to sing, now, there, right there that is the stuff that courage can help you to transform into a lions roar.

This is a process of purifying and transforming the charged energy inside the diaphragm and solar plexus from the fires of fury into the fires of desire and passion.

This is when real Choice comes into play.

When we allow the natural vital energy of play to move our body the nervous system switches us from a reactionary world to a world of comfort and trust.

Stability, grounding and home are one half of the equation which help us to feel that we belong and have a right to use our voice.

But if we are going to spread our wings and branch outwards trusting ourselves on our individuated path it is vital that we move beyond the need to belong and move into the awaiting esteem above.

Along the way an important arrival is developing in me, and that is the ability to love and care for all the crazy and beautiful feelings that happen upon me each day as I unfold and peel away that which cannot withstand the light.

Like the wide-angle lens of a camera we can move our awareness outwards to hold a wider energy field or inwards to focus in on a narrower part of the energy field.

This wide-angle lens of awareness gives us a wider view of ourselves and our environment that we are in and the tele-photo lens moves us closer to our physical body or to whatever is right in front of us.

Opening and releasing the voice is a way to heal the split that can occur between the mind and the emotions and is a beautiful way to recover parts of us that might have been asleep or numbed out before.