Learning to Speak: Healing Resources for the Voice
The experience of speaking is unique for each of us. What happens when we wait to speak? When speaking affects one’s ability to survive, what accommodations occur in the body, or in generations of people? What resources are available to heal?
This series centers an indigenous perspective in addressing the implications of systemic cultural oppression and privilege as it relates to the voice, one’s sense of safety, and whole body expression.
Participants will be guided into exploring what occurs in the body when waiting to speak. The relationship to speaking is cultural. It is developmental. The vibrational passage of the voice receives underlying support from our lungs, diaphragm, pancreas, and heart. By exploring the embryology of these organs, we enter a self reflective practice to listen, care for, and receive the quality of rebound in our breath, our organs and the expressive manifestations in our bones. Diagrams will be used as a reference, but emphasis is given to each individuals’ experimentation of sound with support from our organs, what occurs when speaking is inhibited, and the expanding and condensing rhythm as a baseline for many variations. We will explore what embodied resources support one’s personal relationship to speaking with the possibility to invite new choices and reflect on the cultural implications of how waiting to speak may provide others with the space to come forward.
Each session will explore:
What occurs in the body when learning or waiting to speak.
Contextualizing the cultural and developmental implications of speaking.
Elemental, embodied resources to support the voice in relationship with self, other and the world.
Weekly Focus:
Each session will explore an in depth, experiential approach to the structures and relationships our internal anatomy has in relationship to ourselves, with one another, in connection with the earth, and our world. Resources will be given during and after class in the form of notes and slides.
Week 1: Lungs
Week 2: Diaphragms
Week 3: Pancreas
Week 4: Heart
The experience of speaking is unique for each of us. What happens when we wait to speak? When speaking affects one’s ability to survive, what accommodations occur in the body, or in generations of people? What resources are available to heal?
This series centers an indigenous perspective in addressing the implications of systemic cultural oppression and privilege as it relates to the voice, one’s sense of safety, and whole body expression.
Participants will be guided into exploring what occurs in the body when waiting to speak. The relationship to speaking is cultural. It is developmental. The vibrational passage of the voice receives underlying support from our lungs, diaphragm, pancreas, and heart. By exploring the embryology of these organs, we enter a self reflective practice to listen, care for, and receive the quality of rebound in our breath, our organs and the expressive manifestations in our bones. Diagrams will be used as a reference, but emphasis is given to each individuals’ experimentation of sound with support from our organs, what occurs when speaking is inhibited, and the expanding and condensing rhythm as a baseline for many variations. We will explore what embodied resources support one’s personal relationship to speaking with the possibility to invite new choices and reflect on the cultural implications of how waiting to speak may provide others with the space to come forward.
Each session will explore:
What occurs in the body when learning or waiting to speak.
Contextualizing the cultural and developmental implications of speaking.
Elemental, embodied resources to support the voice in relationship with self, other and the world.
Weekly Focus:
Each session will explore an in depth, experiential approach to the structures and relationships our internal anatomy has in relationship to ourselves, with one another, in connection with the earth, and our world. Resources will be given during and after class in the form of notes and slides.
Week 1: Lungs
Week 2: Diaphragms
Week 3: Pancreas
Week 4: Heart
The experience of speaking is unique for each of us. What happens when we wait to speak? When speaking affects one’s ability to survive, what accommodations occur in the body, or in generations of people? What resources are available to heal?
This series centers an indigenous perspective in addressing the implications of systemic cultural oppression and privilege as it relates to the voice, one’s sense of safety, and whole body expression.
Participants will be guided into exploring what occurs in the body when waiting to speak. The relationship to speaking is cultural. It is developmental. The vibrational passage of the voice receives underlying support from our lungs, diaphragm, pancreas, and heart. By exploring the embryology of these organs, we enter a self reflective practice to listen, care for, and receive the quality of rebound in our breath, our organs and the expressive manifestations in our bones. Diagrams will be used as a reference, but emphasis is given to each individuals’ experimentation of sound with support from our organs, what occurs when speaking is inhibited, and the expanding and condensing rhythm as a baseline for many variations. We will explore what embodied resources support one’s personal relationship to speaking with the possibility to invite new choices and reflect on the cultural implications of how waiting to speak may provide others with the space to come forward.
Each session will explore:
What occurs in the body when learning or waiting to speak.
Contextualizing the cultural and developmental implications of speaking.
Elemental, embodied resources to support the voice in relationship with self, other and the world.
Weekly Focus:
Each session will explore an in depth, experiential approach to the structures and relationships our internal anatomy has in relationship to ourselves, with one another, in connection with the earth, and our world. Resources will be given during and after class in the form of notes and slides.
Week 1: Lungs
Week 2: Diaphragms
Week 3: Pancreas
Week 4: Heart