Knowing Your Authentic Voice

Let’s talk about the authentic voice.

Authenticity has become somewhat of a ‘buzzword’ these days, with gurus and teachers telling people to “be authentic!” and “be yourself!”

And while that is all great–

What does authenticity really mean, anyway?!

How do we actually learn to sing, speak, and express ourselves from an authentic place, and put it into tangible practice?

When I was training at music school, I learned wonderful vocal technique tools, but I didn’t learn much at all about my own personal authentic, soul-level expression.

And I spent many years trying to understand how to find my own expression.

It wasn’t until I started learning and integrating my spiritual studies and yoga principles with the systematic vocal technique that I began to understand that there is indeed a way to create the conditions for authenticity to arise within the individual.

This was a eureka moment!!

And it’s one that I am called to share with others, as I want to live in a world where more people feel free and tapped into their authentic expression.

These vocal tools that create the conditions for authenticity start with awakening the physical body and the physical voice.

Starting at the physical level, in turn, awakens the energetic body and opens the throat chakra, our energy center for self-expression.

When the throat chakra is cleared and open, we can experience freedom in our self-expression.

Here’s what I’ve learned from holistic voice training tools:

🔹 There is an authentic inner voice that is MUCH easier to tune into when we use the power of sound to attune ourselves to the vibration of our higher self.

🔹 When we follow our “authentic inner voice’s” guidance, we can create the manifestation of what we desire in our lives, and experience a creative and artistic flow state.

🔹 Connecting with our authentic inner voice allows us to express our authentic “outer voice“(our physical voice we share with others through singing, and speaking).

🔹 We can create the conditions of a fully resonant, embodied voice by incorporating alignment and breathing principles into our singing practice.

🔹 When we come into alignment, the full spectrum of our voice’s natural harmonics come forth, creating richness, warmth, and radiance in the tone of our voices.

🔹 This rich, full tone of our voice is the key to transferring healing frequencies to listeners. It creates a visceral response in the mind-body-spirit.

🔹 An ’embodied voice’ moves the soul and spirit beyond words.

Express from an embodied place

Imagine what it would be like to sing, speak, and express from this deeply embodied place?!

Imagine being able to emanate the frequency of your soul through your voice and moving listeners in profound ways.

Imagine that you could have these tools in your “back pocket”–AKA, you know exactly how to arrive at your authentic voice over and over again, at your will.

Imagine feeling so confident in your voice, that you could simply think about what it is you wanted to sound like, and it would actually come out that way!

While the power of the voice can seem mystical at times, the process to arrive there is not mystical at all.

There is a systematic set of tools that ANYONE can use to tap into the power of their voice. 

And it starts with approaching voice training from a holistic perspective, using Somatic practices like yoga to help the singer come into alignment within their energetic and physical body, and then training the body to sing from this place of alignment. 

The results speak for themselves!

This is exactly the type of voice work I offer in both 1×1 virtual coaching sessions, as well as my women’s group program, The Embodied Voice Academy. 

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And, as always, happy singing!

Singer, Certified Voice Coach, Sound Healer