I think we can all agree that shame and a lack of confidence stop many people from singing and pursuing their creative delights.

I think it’s also important to note that whenever we work with the voice we are working directly and not so directly with the deeply rooted issues of shame and lack of confidence.

I sometimes say to my students that you have to give your tongue a brain! Getting inside of it and waking it up with voice exercises is a great way to activate the strength and power of articulation that lives inside of your tongue.

There’s nothing like the feeling of driving in the car on your own and singing along to your favorite song.

The sun is behind you, the road is ahead of you and you have time just for you to be.

You are in the in-between space of having no other responsibilities other than the road ahead of you.

Your voice feels so good as you sing and the tunes just keep flowing. You’ve found that sweet spot that seems to only happen when you’re in the car on your own and you find this beautiful space. There’s nothing like the feeling of you loving the sound of your own voice and enjoying the music, it’s heaven.

The moment itself is really a combination of the focus of our minds and the energy of our body coming together in a constant recalibration of energy and light.

The singing into these kind of calm waters frees up so much space in us so that the voice finds all kinds of space to resonate inside of. No stress, no work, no thought, only waves of beautiful sound. And, healing sound I might add.

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.