How might you bring awareness of your voice in your body?
In my workshop Journaling Your Values, Vision & Voice one of the exercises we do is make sounds and notice what our voice feels like in our bodies. Yes, it’s gets folks laughing, but it’s also quite fun and mind opening.
Try it now for yourself. Start with some vowel sounds – AAAHHH, EEEEE, IIIII, OOOOOO, UUUU and put your hand on your throat, your chest your belly to notice where the sounds resonate.
Then try sounding some consonants and notice how it feels to make the sounds:
- Ha like breath and laughter – where do you feel the ha sound?
- Woo like the winding and weaving wind, that’s higher in your throat.
- SSSes are silky and sensual, a like soft shimmer moving through you.
- PPP’s are percussive and powerful.
- And the MMMMMMM sound, the sound you make intuitively when something is delicious, a sound expressing yumminess, a sound that is a hum that melts you from the inside out.
During the workshop, participants notice that feeling their voice in their body makes them more aware of the power of their voice, and how their voice influences and affects other people that they’re interacting with.
When you feel your voice in your body, it deepens your awareness of who you are and helps you connect with your own voice song – this song that is yours whether or not you embrace an identity as a “singer.”
What would it mean for you to be aware of your voice? How might you bring to your daily life that awareness of how your voice resonates within your body?
