Many of us live with an unspoken assumption that the body and mind are separate. While the mind is caught up in thought, abstraction, planning, and judging, we may only notice the body when it speaks up via sensations like discomfort, hunger, or tiredness.

Embodiment simply implies that we are not separate from our body and that it has more to offer us. When we bring our whole self to rest inside the body, when we let the body lead us to internal congruence, we discover a full expression of “yes”, a feeling of being fully in and of our experience.

When voice enters the picture, things really start to get interesting. Breath and voice are portals between the conscious and the unconscious, between the mind and the body. We were born with the primal functions of moving and sounding fully integrated. But as we age, we tend to gradually separate them. 

What if we could get back to that space in which the whole body engages to create sound? What if sounding became a way to invigorate the whole body? Brought together, movement and voice can become an incredibly powerful tools for understanding, expressing, and changing ourselves, others, and the world around us. 

Each of us has a unique signature, a presence held in our bodies, built layer by layer from our lived experience. The voice is our body become sound, our history turned into expression. What and how we sound not only speaks to others of our needs, our wants, what we try to hide and try to project – the act of sounding also changes our body in return.

When we learn to witness and ultimately harness this process, the voice becomes something more. It becomes a way to dialogue with all aspects of the self - conscious and unconscious, hidden and visible, inner and outer. Movement and voice can open up a multi-dimensional relationship – a way to connect more deeply - with not only our selves, but also each other, and even the natural world. Discovering our embodied voice can help us understand who we are, who we feel we are, and who we are becoming.

By listening deeply, changing our shape, and sounding out what we hear, we are doing a fundamentally creative act. We are experiencing our reality in new ways, imagining new futures, and making possible the growth and change that we, our communities, and our earth need.