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Upcoming Retreat from Wendy at Heal Grow Shine & Light in the Darkness
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The other day, I wrote this to an acquaintance, who was asking me:
Are you a Singer? Who is this Workshop for?

I am a singer, because i enjoy singing, but i am not a performer.

I was crazy shy most of my life, and it was Really hard to sing on my own, in front of folks.
Since I have been healing from the inside -out, for awhile now…
I naturally find it is so much easier to Sing! with people around, in front of people

Michael says my Singing keeps getting more beautiful.
Not because I have taken even one lesson ; )
But because I can Just Be, and Just Sing - in whole new way, now.

And… I am healing, learning, deepening… still.
This retreat is challenging for me, for just this reason.

I have learned to be an incredible leader and facilitator, and quite comfortable doing that, in my realm….
but it is still a bit scary for me to be the center of attention, and sing, all by myself… eek!
- -  So, of course we teach what we need to learn

I am excited to team with Ben - HE is the talent, the Singer and Performer.
(So he will be carrying half the show ; )

I will be supporting and equipping folks with inner tools and distinctions to assist them to shift, as they are ready.
Ben will be coaching, training and supporting folks, with all His magic - to help each of us step into being a Singer.

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This retreat is for folks who are wanting more, wanting the next step.
I would say to them:

You are Finally ready to
- get over yourself, stop hiding, know your worthiness, find courage, Do your Thing…
- just BE with yourself and others - more authentic, real, comfortable….

It doesn’t really matter if you want to be a better ‘singer’ or ‘performer’ … or not.
For this retreat, the singing is the practice ground for your life!
- Truth be told, maybe you are a little confronted/ challenged to just let go and sing in front of others…

But you are willing to push into the uncomfort of singing,
because you want to play an even bigger game than just Singing better!
(always aim our punch past the ‘board’, right?)

You want to break-through in your LIFE,
communicate more truly & deeply,
experience richer connections…

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I am singing Brave by Sara Bareilles ; )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyAfjUHlFSM

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave

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Let’s be Brave, together.

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Are you in? Make it so:

OWN Your Voice!
Dare to Speak Your Truth, Sing your Beauty

Retreat in Hudson Valley, NY
Labor Day Weekend, 2017

http://OwnYourVoice.info/

I shared this with a friend, when planning this retreat,
what do I want folks to walk away with?

Yes, after the retreat you will sing more comfortably & beautifully
and connect with folks from the ’stage’ more deeply.

BUT MY PASSION for they retreat is this:

People fear public speaking more than death - I GET IT!!
But you can fear both of those, less…

This retreat will serve you every day, in your everyday life:
- when talking to your boss or partner or parent or kids…
- asking for what you want and need

Courageously speaking your truth, totally changes the game, in your life!

Just Being in your body, with your truth, is such a blessing, you can just be more and more authentic…

it is hard for us to sing in front of an audience
therefore as we overcome this, it will shift our everyday voice

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Are you in? Make it so:

OWN Your Voice!
Dare to Speak Your Truth, Sing your Beauty

Retreat in Hudson Valley, NY
Labor Day Weekend, 2017

http://OwnYourVoice.info/

If you can walk you can dance,
If you can talk you can sing.

I love this quote, and I believe it,
do you believe it?

Can you bop along your hallway while the music moves you, while you are home alone?
Can you really belt out a chorus in your morning shower?

I sure can, most of us can.

Can you dance your heart out… sing your heart out…
All on your own? with an attentive audience?

Eeeek! for me - compelled to scuttle back into the shadows…..
What about you?

We see ‘professionals’ sing, dance, perform… on Stage, Media, Movies…
We judge ourselves (and sometimes each other)
and Many of us say:

I can’t dance.
I can't sing.

But, that isn’t really true.
Actually,
We can dance.
We can sing.

We just don’t do it like the ‘professionals’.

Let’s just be with this a minute.

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Ok. this is a deep, painful wound for us.

I believe, from the dawn of human consciousness
we have been singing, we have been dancing
it is in our bones and our blood and our soul.

And we have ceded this to ‘professionals’.
We watch them embodying their love, their sensuality, their life…
and we sit, and we listen, and we watch.

But WE deserve LIFE
ALL of life.

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There are many things in the way of our crazy, wild, delicious life.
One of them is what I call ‘perfect pictures’
Things, I, them, how it is, how its done...
The story that it all Has to be a certain, prescribed way.
Or else it's Not OK.

(I am singing Harry Chapin’s Mr. Tanner, right now ; )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoryhJLz8vI

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So, we want, sometimes we believe
we need to be Great, BEFORE WE START.
Crazy, but true!

Well, you know this is just a story we live-in,
it is a box we allow to hold us back.

I know it can be hard to break out, break through.
But we can!

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I find myself consistently saying to my soul tool classes:

I know you want to write like Shakespeare,
but right now we are learning A, B, C; 1, 2, 3…

and that is Great - keep learning and practicing,
and before you know it, you will be reading, and writing, creating beauty

Even the very best performers, sports stars, etc
Always need to be learning, to be practicing, and to be playing!
And so do we.

Another thing I am constantly saying:
We learn to walk, by falling down.
We are learning to WALK! but it looks like falling down - over and over and over…

When we learned to walk, we were driven, nothing could stop us.
It took time, it took practice, it took a ridiculous amount of falling down!
But we did it - hallelujah!

How did we go from there to:
we need to be Great, BEFORE WE START?!
It goes without saying: this doesn't serve us!

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To start shifting our limits, it must start within us:
Making more room for Life, for Deliciousness, for uncovering our potential!

Don’t you want to start shifting yourself?
Connecting with others who are committed to a similar freedom and self-expresson?

Archimedes said:
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and a lever long enough, and i will move the world.

Don’t you want to get tools and a place to stand,
so you can get out of your old boxes, into your own Greatness?

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Are you in? Make it so:

OWN Your Voice!
Dare to Speak Your Truth, Sing your Beauty

Retreat in Hudson Valley, NY
Labor Day Weekend, 2017

http://OwnYourVoice.info/

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