More than just a trite saying, this issue is key to many of the challenges we face while learning how to sing. In an effort to find easeful power we are often pushing, straining and forcing. In an effort to find a "natural sound" we practice release work without a balance of energy and intention, thereby pulling off and out of our power. Often we feel like we have energy, but it is sitting atop a layer of anxiety. We feel relaxed, but it is based on an underlying reality of exhaustion. Our goal is power and energy in tandem with a sense of relaxation and ease. You can't talk someone into this, it has to be felt. The Wilson Method has created a path to living in a place of both power and ease.
This is a global, trauma-induced paradigm. So much can be seen through this lens.
I see this pattern every day through my teaching in the Performing Arts.
Many vocalists stay quiet for years because they don’t want to sound like they are yelling... so in the process of avoiding force, they withdraw from their vocal and personal power.
Actors hold onto their emotional barriers because the vulnerability aspect of openness feels like too big a risk. In avoiding that perception of weakness, they withdraw from the public connection that surrender offers.
Surrender can lead to Power, and Power can lead to Surrender. Either way, we have Flow.
That’s why, as a teacher, having an idea of the meta-patterns below the surface is sooooooo important.
All teachers in the Arts should be “Trauma-Informed”. Or actually, “Human-Informed”.
Find your inner Supernova: We all have one.
We all ARE one. 💥
