“For what makes you come alive can keep you alive,
whether you are paid well for it or not.”
~ The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo, p. 399
I’m just back from my last training session to become a Full Voice Coach!
What a rich and beautiful time, being with others so fully committed to bringing more wholeness, aliveness, and freedom into the world!!
On the journey of learning to live my life more fully, I’ve found I needed to repeatedly inquire into what was keeping me from living fully.
Why don’t I give myself more time to play, to rest, to get outside, to hang out with friends, to dance, to sing? Even though I love these things?
Your list may be different from mine, but I bet you have things that make your life feel more rich and full of meaning that you don’t prioritize either. What are yours?
Barbara McAfee, our fearless leader, models what living fully can look like. She fills her life with things that make her come alive, and, in brilliantly following her passions, has created a life in which she can earn her living doing them!
At the end of our final training session on Wednesday morning, we were talking about our time together—about what really worked and what we might have missed in our process of becoming Full Voice Coaches. We got to talking about more and more goodness we could add in on top of what was already SO well sequenced. Knowing they didn’t want to make the training longer, I mentioned that I’d never participated in a training where we had the whole afternoon off every day!
I was really struck by Barbara’s response.
She passionately talked about how necessary it was to have a break—to integrate, to walk outside, to rest, to connect with our fellow trainees and our aliveness, to live a FULL life, even when training…
I am freshly re-committing myself to this.
How can I choose to live my life fully RIGHT NOW?
Even though I have to cram a lot of hours in this week to make up for being at the training… Even though there is ALWAYS more to do…
How about you?
Even in the midst of the busy holiday season. How can you live your life more fully?
Here’s one fun way—it’s 4.5 minutes and worth every single one (and you get extra credit if you can identify the 5 Elements of the Full Voice Approach!).
Keep your eyes open—I’m going to be offering Full Voice Coaching, individual sessions and groups in the New Year!
If you want to a practical and experiential way to explore how you can live more fully, you might want to consider a session. We start with making sound as a way in, and the aliveness, freedom, and wholeness you find there tends to trickle into your whole life! (And you don’t have to be a singer, but singers will benefit, too!)
p.s. You might be wondering what’s with the dwarves… They live in a boulevard garden in a nearby neighborhood, and I think they look like they are living their lives fully! They are talking, smoking, healing, playing instruments, walking, hanging out, foraging, resting, welcoming, boating. 🙂
Nourishing Wholeness 