Workshop with a Concert
Your voice can bring your body and mind into balance: It can help relax your nervous system, energize the body, and deepen your breathing. It can improve your mood, help you process emotions (such as sadness, loneliness, loss, or depression), and even support your overall health!
The beautiful thing about the voice is that almost anyone can use it — you don’t have to be a singer or know how to read music to work with your voice. In the Yoga, Voice, and Sound Experience workshop, you’ll learn how to relax body and mind through restorative yoga postures combined with voice liberation, sound, and breathwork. These are gentle and accessible practices that anyone can do.
Unlike singing songs, where you learn a melody and lyrics and focus on the presentation, in Yoga and Voice you produce sustained sounds using vowels or simple tones. This approach to sound is called toning. Rather than focusing on the musical performance, toning emphasizes the resonance and vibration of sound and the inner experience of your voice and its effects on your well-being.
The “Sounds for Well-being” workshop consists of three parts:
Energize your body with yoga and voice
This is a gentle and soothing form of yoga in which we explore the voice and gradually begin to integrate it into our breathing, movement, and meditation practices. Your body, voice, and breath are interconnected. Posture and movement are part of the voice, and the vocal cords and breath are inseparably linked. In other words, your body is a living, breathing instrument. In this first session, we explore and strengthen the relationship between voice, body, and breath — activating, opening, and relaxing your inner instrument.
Opening the heart through voice and rhythm
Letting our voices sound together in a group is a special experience, and it has a surprisingly positive effect on body and mind. By listening to each other and accompanying the voice with simple percussion instruments that anyone can play — like tambourines, maracas, or egg shakers — we create harmonious, meditative, rhythmic, and vocal experiences. In this session, we explore different rhythms and their effects on our minds, bodies, and voices. Combined with breathing, voice, and deep listening, a creative interplay of sounds, harmonies, and rhythms unfolds.
Deep relaxation through receiving sound
In the third part of the workshop, it’s time to receive and deeply enjoy the sound. I’ll guide you on a sound journey using crystal singing bowls, chimes, a shamanic drum, and a soft, soothing voice. This sound experience — also known as a sound bath — is a meditative journey in which participants "bathe" in waves of sound. It is combined with guided meditation, voice, and breathwork. The vibration of singing bowls can have deep effects on body and mind. The frequencies of the different bowls help ‘harmonize’ the cells, bringing body and mind into balance.
Positive effects of working with the voice:
Using your own unique voice can support physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
While the impact varies from person to person, many potential benefits include:
Emotional release
Using your voice organically to produce different tones and frequencies can help access and release stored emotional tension, supporting greater emotional balance and well-being.
Words activate the left/logical brain; making organic sounds activates the right/intuitive brain, giving access to the subconscious, where memories are stored.
Stress reduction
Using your voice can help reduce stress by activating the body's relaxation response. The voice is innervated by the vagus nerve, which stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, bringing us into a “rest-and-digest” state.
Authentic self-expression
Yoga and Voice encourages self-expression through the voice. It can help explore, discover, and develop confidence in your ability to communicate authentically.
Improved breathing and lung capacity
Yoga and Voice helps expand lung capacity and supports respiratory health. You might notice increased oxygen flow and improved energy levels as a result.
Vibrational healing
Producing sound creates vibrations in the body, essentially giving yourself an internal vibrational massage. These vibrations can restructure and realign the body on a molecular level, releasing energetic and emotional blockages, and supporting overall well-being.
Empowerment
Creating organic or primal sounds can be grounding and affirming. It’s a way to manage emotions and connect to your inner strength. This practice helps develop a deeper connection with the body, emotions, and inner self.
Vocal health
Regular vocal practice can strengthen and improve your voice, enhancing vocal expression and the healthy use of your voice.
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