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YOUR
REAL VOICE - the vocal ezine for real people
September
16,
2006 #30
FEATURE EDITORIAL
What
I Learned on My Birthday Trip!
I had an amazing weekend being away for an event this past
weekend. Since it was also my birthday, I knew it was going to be
perfect, and was it ever! I spent four days in a Native American
Lakota event called the Peace & Healing Dance. For four days
we danced, sang and sweat to bring peace and healing to the
world. It was a profound gift to my life, and of course, who
better to give that gift to than my YRV readers! So here is at
least one of the gifts I got for my birthday this weekend.
"Now what does this have to do with singing?" you ask. Plenty, I
found. One of my goals for the event was to experience being
completely joyful, and I definitely found that in myself in some
amazing ways! I experienced complete joy for many moments, and I
found that in the moments of complete joy, I was not tired at
all. The more I payed attention to feeling joy, or love or peace,
the easier it was to dance for the long rounds we did. I had more
energy, was able to ignore how stiff my back and calves had become, and
I had much more fun, just by being present to joy and letting it
flow. I've written before in YRV and various places on the
website about "being the music" and the more I let myself experience
joy or love or peace or just feeling great, the more I felt physically
"powered" by the music!
Despite the sunburn and the sore body and the lack of food (fasting was
part of the event), I found renewed energy every time we entered the
arena if I let the flow of love and joy and peace take me over.
As the days progressed and my body got stiffer and my calves more
cranky, the higher and more energized my steps were during the
dance. Each round of dancing I let go more and just rode the wave
of feeling joy, and my step got higher and higher. I stopped
thinking about "how" I was dancing and just let my body move without
censorship or worrying about how I looked.
Now imagine how ridiculous I looked: I had clay smeared on my
face to fend off the sunburn, I already had goofy sunburn spots from
where we missed with the clay, my hair was a mess from the wind and the
dirt being blown in it, and I had the dirtiest feet I've ever had in my
life! And still, when I just let myself feel joy as completely as
possible, and let it flow, the dance was miraculous! We also had
the opportunity to sing Lakota songs during our lodges. I am
completely awful at the songs because I don't know the words to any of
them (they are in Lakota, which I don't know). So here I am,
expert on memorization techniques and learning songs completely,
singing along with everything I've got and goofing about eighty percent
of the words! It STILL was amazing. People in the lodges
kept coming up to me and thanking me for my singing! How much
would you love to experience that in YOUR life!?!?!
Here's how: the experiment for the next two weeks is to sing
EVERYTHING just being full of joy! Let yourself be as joyous as
you can be! Put everything else out of your mind and be
completely in love with SINGING, not "how do I sound?" The more
you throw yourself with abandon into the song and forget technique and
sound and all the stuff that gets in your way, the more you will have
an experience of singing that fulfills YOU. The only goal here is
for you to feel complete joy or love or fun or silliness, or whatever
feeling makes you the happiest WHILE you are singing. Remember,
you are not singing ABOUT the emotion, you are experiencing FEELING it
and letting the voice out in celebration of that great feeling.
You really are out to experience letting your emotion sing FOR
you. Try that out for two weeks and let me know how it
goes!
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