In this episode I'm sharing with you some of my ideas for creative rituals for the winter solstice. I also wanted to make sure this one was properly grounded in our voices and how we feel about them so I offer: Working with the pause between the in breath and the out breath.Writing a Shadow Inventory.Writing a letter from the self you are ready to become.Making a collage.Singing the things from your shadow inventory as you release them into flames.Scanning your body for the holding and stories that are hiding there. I also invited you to join my mailing list which you can do here to be the first to know about #7 which is the new resource I'm creating for the new year about releasing ancestral blocks. Take care of yourself in these cold months, give yourself up to the darkness for a moment to relax and listen to what your body is telling you. You'll be glad you did. And lets make 2026 the year you fully Free Your Voice! Happy Holidays! Julia Messy transcript [00:00:00] If you would like to give yourself the gift of a free voice in 2026, I am accepting a few, coaching students for the new year, so reach out to me. That could be for singing or public speaking confidence. My real area of expertise is about overcoming performance anxiety and stage fright, but also stepping into your whole voice. Through the process of individuation, which is a Jungian approach to becoming your full self. I've been a registered voice movement therapy practitioner for over 25 years. I've been a folk singer, a jazz singer. I have an award-winning lullaby album, and I'm an award-winning voice actor, so I know a few things. I don't know all the things, but I know a few things, and if you like my vibe and you think we could work together, I would love to help you on your journey to a free voice. Reach out to yourfreevoice.com and contact. See you then. Hello and welcome to [00:01:00] your Free Voice with me, your host, Julia Norton. This podcast is for people who use their voice professionally or for fun, and they want to understand how it works a bit better, or to get over old stories that might be holding them back. Whatever level you're playing at right now, my goal is to bring you lots of actionable stuff from the technical to the creative, to the deeply woo, to help you free your voice. Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 56. In this episode, we are coming right up on the solstice from where I'm recording this. The solstice begins really at dusk tomorrow till dawn on Sunday. This is a little late getting out to you, but I hope that it's helpful anyway, and just you can really just use it at this time of year when it's dark [00:02:00] and everything is drawing in, and I thought that. And when we are thinking about what we want to let go of, what hasn't been working for us this year, or that we've just had enough of and doesn't suit us anymore, and what we want to open into next year, and this is a very kind of quickie episode because of course, you know all the things are happening, but. I wanted to take some solstice rituals that I love and really put them into a voice user perspective. You know, for somebody that has their voice as their primary, either way of making a living or tool for communication in terms of the creativity and performance, all that kind of thing. So, if that's you, why don't you walk along with me here and try these practices. So if you want to, you could get yourself, uh, ready with a notebook. And a cup of tea, and we can just imagine that we are sitting next to a cozy fire together, and we're gonna jot these things down. You can [00:03:00] go into them in more depth by pausing the recording or just coming back and listening to this another time. Okay, so let's start. First of all, take a lovely quiet breath through the soles of your feet into your belly and releasing, feeling yourself connecting to the chair. Or maybe you're lying on the floor, but just reconnecting with your breath and your body. You don't need to change how you're breathing. You just need to notice that you're breathing. When we are talking about the solstice, the winter solstice in particular, there's a pause between the letting go. And they're taking in the new, it's that dark space where we're waiting for the transformation to happen. So let's just try a breathing exercise, first of all. So let's say, let's take the solstice in breath and [00:04:00] let's do the breathing for four. Hold for five and then out for seven, which is again, a lovely nervous reset, uh, when you're around. Uh, family, just overstimulated, all that kind of thing. So let's do this breathing practice together. Breathe in for four. 1, 2, 3, 4. Hold for five. Relax your body. Five and out for 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Let's do it one more time. So exhale, breathe in for four. 1, 2, 3. Four, hold for five. 1, 2, 3, 4, [00:05:00] 5. And exhale for seven. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, so first action is coming into your breath. Second action is to write a ...
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