More than ever singing is becoming a health and leisure activity. Recently I have been seeing more and more students who are interested in singing purely for themselves, for fun, to improve confidence, to express themselves freely. And why not? With the state of the world we live in, the fast paced lives we can live and the pressure we can put ourselves under, joining a singing class that helps us reconnect to ourselves and express our voices can be a very welcome thing to do with many therapeutic benefits.
The feed back I’m getting is that the experience of singing is a break from our hectic daily lives, a gentle time to reconnect that is just for us. A treat. I agree, singing is a beautiful thing to do. When I sing from a connected place, I feel my body soften and open up, my mind becomes more still. I am right here in the moment and nothing else maters. How awesome would it be to feel like this all the time I wonder? Could I walk like this? Talk like this? Work from this feeling? I also feel that when I hear someone else singing from their connection to themselves, that I benefit. It inspires me to reconnect to myself if I have come away.
Once this feeling of reconnection has been achieved of course the trick is to take it with us into the rest of our lives and infuse the everyday things we do with a more gentle and self-loving approach. Easier said than done I hear you say….but it is possible.
With so much going on out there, there is an increasing need to regularly come in from the chaos and reconnect to ourselves by doing self loving things. Cooking, bathing, cleaning and preparing the home, drawing, painting, sewing, reading, and of course singing! All of these things done in a gentle self-loving way can help to reconnect us and help confirm who we are.
Rachael Kane teaches Joy of Singing Group Classes weekdays and Saturdays from her studio in Caulfield South, Melbourne.
She also teaches individual classes.
Contact 0416 967 880
rachael@connectedvoicecentre.com
