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Session 1 | EARTH
This week’s invitation is about instinct.
Notice this week when your instinct arises. What does it feel like in your body? What voice does it speak to you with?
Ask for help from the element of Earth, our mentor for this week, to help you learn how to discern the voice of instinct from the other voices in the body like anxiety, reactivity, and fear. How can you recognize the voice of instinct? You don’t have to know the answer. Ask Earth, and your own body, to teach you. Use your song to help that conversation open.
Practice vocalizing this week. When sensations and emotions arise give them voice. It doesn’t need to be dramatic and it doesn’t need to be high stakes. Start with low stakes moments like vocalizing a sigh when you’re running late and feeling stress driving your body. Maybe doing a little bounce to acknowledge a fear. We have damaged connection lines between what’s happening in our mind and how we’ve learned to stop ourselves from expressing it through our body as a metabolic process.
We’re repairing those lines now.
Notice opportunities to express and take courage in what you can give voice or movement to. Be patient with yourself.
There’s nothing wrong!
Session 2 | WATER
This week’s invitation is about play.
Where can you bring more play into your day this week?
Taylor shared today about working with the sounds of nature as a way of finding our own song and the real point of singing: connection. Explore the natural world as inspiration for your own voice.
Taylor Schleith of Little Bird Vocal Studios
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My joy is like a spring so warm
It makes flowers bloom all over the earth
My pain is like a river of tears
So vast that it fills the four oceans
Please call me by my true names
So i can hear my cries and laughter at once
So i can feel that my joy and pain are one
Please call me by my true names
So that i can wake up
And the doors of my heart
Will be left open
Session 3 | FIRE
This week’s invitation is about truth.
Where can you bring more awareness to thoughts aren’t yours as you move through your day?
Nico shared about authenticity and burning through the projections to get to the heart of our own unique voice. The invitation to create for the sake of it, as your birthright, not to produce an outcome of what we’ve been told or what we think the culture wants to see.
Work with Nico
One-on-one bespoke containers designed to help artists of all kinds align internally.
Together we uncover the unconscious patterns, inherited stories, and protective identities that obstruct the creative current. Through deep inquiry, we cultivate the conditions for authentic expression to emerge naturally.
My work is informed by over a decade as a producer, songwriter, and multidisciplinary artist, alongside my practice as a ceremonial facilitator. I also hold private ceremonial containers for those called to deeper work.
oh black mother we invoke you in this space
burn away the pain mother fill us with your grace
oh black mother goddess of the night
burn away the darkness fill us with your light
kali burn it all away burn it all away
if it doesn’t serve us then burn it all away
om namo Kali Kali om namo
Session 4 | AIR
This week’s invitation is about presence.
Reflect on the journey now. Which element do you feel most connected with? Which element could use more tending in your life?
This journey has not delivered you to the top of the mountain where your voice is unhindered and in it’s fullest expression… no one can deliver that in 4 weeks! Over these weeks together, however, we’ve gathered a tool kit. Your practice is up to you. It is through practice our instruments become the thing we turn to without having to think about it when the moment calls for it. Whether a moment of challenge or joy, our voice is our instrument here to sing us through.
The Air element invites us to expand our awareness from this just being about “singing” to being about the fullest expression of your voice. Your vocal alchemy practice gives you access to your song, yes, but also to your empowered voice—your boundaries, your desires, your f*ck yes and your f*ck no. Cultivate that instinctual clarity, sing with your own voice, and all moves with more ease in life.