I often wonder of late what I must have been in a prior life. A healer? A shaman? A researcher?
I see things in terms of potentiality - what's next. As I listen to my students I hear a step beyond their present expression. I hear their pending technical breakthroughs and marvel with gratefulness for this gift of hearing into their futures. After having put in my 10,000 hours a la Malcom Gladwell, I am confident in my abilities to bring out the best in my students.
My personal journey to learn how to sing naturally led me to seek out the best modalities to help others achieve their most authentic and free voice. This path awakened a desire to understand more substantively the mind body connection in all aspects of human existence. During my two decades of study and conversation with the brilliant and contrary Fritz Moses, I discovered other contrarian thinkers and students of postural mechanics like Judith Aston, Mary Bond, Pete Egoscue, Esther Gokhale, and Theodore Dimon, each of whom has inspired me to learn as much as possible about the unique vessel that is our human form and the soul within it. In the last year or so I have experienced a cosmic shift. I love teaching voice and hope never to retire. The human voice in song touches the soul in a profound way. However, I'm now compelled to understand everything about Being (with a capital B) in hope of understanding my place in this universe and what's next for me. To be my best me, within and without.
Recently a friend of mine who came about his interest in postural mechanics through a completely different path asked me if I had heard about the Human Garage in California. I hadn't. As soon as I looked into their underlying philosophy which is "mind/body repair and alignment" I knew I simply had to become a client. In my voice studio, I work 90% in the body, helping students to organize themselves physically to allow for optimal function of muscle which releases a much freer organic sound. Co-owner Garry Lineham is quoted saying “Alignment is when all of the processes that define our human existence are working together.” Bingo! Excitement!
So I signed up, and here I am in LA this day, awaiting my first appointment. I thought it would be personally helpful to keep a blog about this journey. Frankly, I'm a little nervous, because I'm certain there will be emotional releases as well as physical. They say trauma is held within the fascia. I've been on the cusp of those emotional releases before, but each time my body says, "nope, nope, nope, not gonna go there" and I shut down. I really want to crack that egg.
Stay tuned. Here we go.
I see things in terms of potentiality - what's next. As I listen to my students I hear a step beyond their present expression. I hear their pending technical breakthroughs and marvel with gratefulness for this gift of hearing into their futures. After having put in my 10,000 hours a la Malcom Gladwell, I am confident in my abilities to bring out the best in my students.
My personal journey to learn how to sing naturally led me to seek out the best modalities to help others achieve their most authentic and free voice. This path awakened a desire to understand more substantively the mind body connection in all aspects of human existence. During my two decades of study and conversation with the brilliant and contrary Fritz Moses, I discovered other contrarian thinkers and students of postural mechanics like Judith Aston, Mary Bond, Pete Egoscue, Esther Gokhale, and Theodore Dimon, each of whom has inspired me to learn as much as possible about the unique vessel that is our human form and the soul within it. In the last year or so I have experienced a cosmic shift. I love teaching voice and hope never to retire. The human voice in song touches the soul in a profound way. However, I'm now compelled to understand everything about Being (with a capital B) in hope of understanding my place in this universe and what's next for me. To be my best me, within and without.
Recently a friend of mine who came about his interest in postural mechanics through a completely different path asked me if I had heard about the Human Garage in California. I hadn't. As soon as I looked into their underlying philosophy which is "mind/body repair and alignment" I knew I simply had to become a client. In my voice studio, I work 90% in the body, helping students to organize themselves physically to allow for optimal function of muscle which releases a much freer organic sound. Co-owner Garry Lineham is quoted saying “Alignment is when all of the processes that define our human existence are working together.” Bingo! Excitement!
So I signed up, and here I am in LA this day, awaiting my first appointment. I thought it would be personally helpful to keep a blog about this journey. Frankly, I'm a little nervous, because I'm certain there will be emotional releases as well as physical. They say trauma is held within the fascia. I've been on the cusp of those emotional releases before, but each time my body says, "nope, nope, nope, not gonna go there" and I shut down. I really want to crack that egg.
Stay tuned. Here we go.
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