Vocalizing to become lighter

I use vocalization to clean my energy if I feel that something burdens my chest or if anxiety creeps in.

So this is a little exercise I want to share about how I use vocalizing to let go of energetic burden:

Be ready to make some alone time and space.

Put yourself on the ground horizontally, whether it's a bed or a soft floor of some sort.

Make sure you're comfortable and your temperature is warm enough, you might need a blanket.

Close your eyes and allow yourself to ground by breathing comfortably. 

See if there are any adjustments you want to make to your body or little shifts.

Breathe comfortably

As you exhale, feel free to allow whatever vocal sound wants to be freed.

 Take as much time as you need for every exhale, and free with it any kind of sound that is stored in your body until everything gets out.

Once all these sounds are freed and you don't have any more sounds, go back to breathing.

Bear in mind that there's a turning point usually where the mind starts to think worrying thoughts from the past or thoughts related to the future.

There's a beautiful way out of that and into the presence of your body again by listening to external sounds. Put your attention in whatever sounds are happening around you, and you will instantaneously become present again since your mind will focus on that and not swing to other thoughts.

Do this mechanism as many times as you need.

As you come back into the body, start doing a little hmmmm with your voice, It's an internal humming. Feel how it warms up your inner organs as the voice creates a natural vibration (not forced).

Remember not to involve any kind of tension in the neck or in the belly.

Everything happening is effortless and soft to the level that if somebody was there, they wouldn't even be able to hear you.

Do this as long as your body enjoys it.

Come back to breathing.

Feel gratitude for all you are being.

You are now light and in a new state.

Lia Haraki

Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performer, maker and practitioner working across performance, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word and what she calls repetitive poetry. As a creator, she is occupied with issues related to identity, community and value and she beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perception towards a fairer world.

Lia usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body, in order to speak about its sociopolitical position, by challenging notions of normality associated to it. Beginning from self-sarcasm and working with satire, she enjoys finding performative ways to crack socially constructed narratives and reveal the illusion we have of them as ‘real’. In her pieces vulnerability and empathy are celebrated as human super powers and act as threads that connect the performer with the audience.

Her work in general takes the shape of staged works, site-specific pieces, one on one experiences, sound installations, standup shows, music bands and performances in shops.

At the same time she is proud to have developed several practices through the collaborative artistic research of the past twenty years in the forms of workshops, coaching and artists’ mentoring. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services !

https://www.liaharaki.com/
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