Introducing: Sound Circles

I remember it so clearly.

I was 5 or 6. In the kitchen playing around with a friend singing like Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

You know the part, when Ursula tells her to sing louder and louder, as she steals Ariel’s voice.

Ah ah ah, ah ah ah...

A tiny orb of white light is ripped from Ariel’s throat and her voice is gone.

I remember my mom jokingly saying, “Don’t quit your day job,” or something along those lines.

Innocuous enough, especially for someone who probably had to listen to me screech about the house pretending to be Ariel for months.

Why, now, as a 36 year old woman, am I able to recall this memory so clearly?

Because it reinforces one of my core wounds: that it isn’t safe to shine and that I am not good enough.

As women, we are conditioned to dim our light, to keep ourselves small, to be quiet and polite.

As a result, we lose the strength of our voices, the connection to resonance and our ability to heal ourselves through making and releasing sound.

I’m ready to SING because I love it, not because I want to be the next American Idol.

I’m ready to SPEAK because I am full of conviction and wisdom and my body aches from holding it in.

I am ready to SCREAM and MOAN and WAIL to heal my grief and loss and wounds.

I am ready to CHANT to connect to something bigger than myself.

I am creating a container for this sound healing because I need it and want it, and because I have a feeling that you do too.

Sound Circles are coming soon on IG Live. We’ll laugh, play, talk, sing, scream, chant, whisper and make all manner of sounds...because we can and because it feels good.

Are you with me?