VOICE MOVEMENT THERAPY

Voice Movement Therapy (VMT) is central to Vessel of Voices. VMT is an interdisciplinary healing arts form designed to help you liberate your voice. Emotional and spiritual release occur faster and more spontaneously when you allow your natural voice its full expression. Through a rich array of creative tools you:

• discover a fuller, richer, more resonant voice
• release long-held tensions and constrictions in your physical & emotional bodies
• heal childhood wounds and reclaim your core self
• feel more confident to speak up, to speak your truth

Take a moment now ~ remember when you last walked barefoot on the beach and stood at water’s edge… as you gaze out to the horizon a wave softly laps over your toes, sand rushes between your toes, and your feet sink into drenched sands… as waters flow back to their source something in you has been washed clean… with VMT voicework imagine being washed free of old burdens, breaking open your heart, and setting sail your hopes and dreams…through calling, sounding, singing, chanting…

VMT is a “means of giving form and shape to the deepest parts of our souls.”
— Paul Newham, founder of Voice Movement Therapy

VMT is a dynamic tool for learning ‘how to push the envelope’ and create beyond what you can even imagine! Other creative processes such as drawing, painting, mask making, creative writing and psychodrama are possible. Using the expressive arts adds a surprising ‘lift’ of lightness to what might otherwise feel heavy and painful.

“The way to learn to live, to learn to love, (to learn to sing) cannot be methodised. Therein lies the difficulty of explaining the work – and therein, too, lies its splendour.” — Marita Gunther

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT

Authentic Movement (AM) is a self-directed form of dance movement therapy, also known as ‘Contemplative Dance’ or ‘Movement-in-Depth’. It is a simple and powerful vehicle for increasing your body-mind awareness and enhancing your spiritual development.

Like VMT, Authentic Movement taps into the wellspring of the inner healer and wisdom lying within the cells of your own body. AM and VMT must both be experienced to fully appreciate what they are and the changes even one session can set in motion. Authentic Movement has its roots in Jungian philosophy and movement therapy; founded by Mary Starks Whitehouse in the 1970’s.

JUNGIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY

The focus in Jungian-oriented therapy is on you as a whole human being; this is truly soulwork. As such, we regard the unconscious with as much respect as the conscious self. In Jungian work we recognize the uniqueness of each individual, thus, each person’s process is different with its own personal symbols, dreams, and rhythms.

Authentic Movement and Voice Movement Therapy are based upon much of Carl Jung’s writings on human development. Interweaving of forms often times unfolds in an organic way at a pace that supports your growth and broadening perspective.

MEDITATION & DEEP RELAXATION
(Stress Reduction)

Vessel of Voices uses an integrated form of meditation, synthesizing eastern and western approaches to renewing and restoring deep relaxation for maximum vitality and sense of peace. The basic foundation for the meditations is the oldest and one of the most comprehensive meditation systems available to us today: The Healing Tao System.
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HEART RHYTHM MEDITATION (HRM)

Heart Rhythm Meditation is a simple, 3-part method of giving your heart the energy to heal and open to its innate capacity for love, generosity, courage, and profound joy. HRM offers a unique, comprehensive series of meditations that address the dimensions of the heart and the health of the physical heart. It is practical, powerful, and deeply authentic.

The heart is the magnetic center of your body; life force streams through your heart ˜ freely flowing when unobstructed. In our day-day lives we tend to accumulate blockages on several levels – emotional, spiritual, physical, mental. HRM addresses all of these so that our hearts can once again flow freely on all levels and be strengthened in all of its dimensions.

Dr. Katherine Burleson, cardiologist at University of New Mexico, says of HRM:
“A powerful, authentic method for healing your emotional and spiritual heart and improving your physical health.
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EMDR/EFT

EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming was developed to treat people who have experienced trauma; applications are much broader today; this process is very specific and can be used to help a person break a specific thought pattern, habit, or basic belief that is not supportive in helping the person move forward in his/her life.

EFT: Emotional Field Therapy is a process to help a person release old patterns of behavior, reactions, & thoughts that are limiting growth. EFT is based upon science of mind-body integration and eastern medical model. If you are seeking relief from a current or long – standing problem that simply will not go away, remember that you are not ‘that’ (the problem). EFT reconnects you with healthy beliefs and behaviors by breaking through habituated thought forms and neural pathways.

MEDICAL QI GONG

The gentleness and slow pace of Qi Gong naturally enhances our body awareness, balances our systems, and strengthens our alignment with physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Qi Gong predates T’ai Chi; medical qi gong has been used in clinics in China for centuries to treat illness and to increase balance and promote health in all individuals. The movements are coordinated with the breath and one’s awareness.

Qi Gong is a profoundly satisfying system of exercise that can serve anyone who has a desire to improve health and longevity. In VoV medical qigong is incorporated as an integral part of an individualized healing system. Additionally, Qigong lends itself to busy schedules & to those with little energy. Sessions at home can be short or long – easily adapting to any schedule.