What is LifeSong?
Explore your voice as an instrument of self-healing and life transformation. LifeSong helps you grow a voice that is responsive to your inner landscape and flexible enough to convey your own emotional and spiritual music. Before we could speak, our voices were totally uninhibited. As babies we whimpered our anxiety, sobbed our pain, screamed our rage, cooed our contentment. As our interior experience changed, the sounds we made changed too. But as we acquired symbols — words made less and less use of the physical agility of our vocal instrument. Our voices flattened out and lost much of their ability to authentically convey the feelings underneath our words. LifeSong is exercise for the voice. It opens you up — physically, emotionally, spiritually — to more fully express the genuine, authentic, multi-faceted you.
Songs? Singing?
You don’t need to have musical experience to do LifeSong. We will work together with the lines you’ve written, playing with
them, exaggerating the natural rise and fall of the spoken language, expanding and freeing your voice, until your uncontrived melody emerges spontaneously from the well of joy or pain, laughter or despair, anger or delight, that bubbles within you.
“I live by breathing in and breathing out. I sing by transforming this breath into sound, sound which in turn forms the material for the contents of the soul.”
– Alfred Wolfsohn