Going Deeper: Practices for reclaiming your voice
Sound, breath, and the body’s way of releasing what words can’t hold.
This is the going deeper practice for my paid subscribers to:
It’s a post about cultural conditioning, nervous system defenses, and what happens when the throat and womb lose their connection - when you can speak but can’t say, when intellect protects you from feeling, when your body holds what your voice won’t release.
If you haven’t read it yet, start there. It tells the story of how Dutch directness and Japanese indirectness collided in my relationship, how I mistook my defenses for virtues, and why my body kept the score when my words couldn’t.
What you’ll find below are the embodied practices to support that work - sound practices to reconnect throat and womb, somatic tools to meet your defenses without shame, and ways to release stuck energy when conflict gets trapped in your system.
These practices work for anyone who’s learned to protect themselves by disconnecting from their body, intellectualizing their feelings, or keeping their truth locked in their throat.
Sometimes the most important voice to reclaim is the one that speaks from your pelvis, not your head.
Going deeper: Practices and reflections
🌿 What’s waiting below
Sound practice: Reconnecting throat and (energetic) womb
Body practice: Meeting your defenses
Somatic practice: Releasing stuck energy
These are all invitations.
“We can only begin to heal when we stop defending against our own tenderness.” — Marion Woodman
You don’t have to do them perfectly. You don’t have to do them at all. But if something in this piece stirred something in your body, these practices might help you meet it.
