i had to come up with this one all on my own. my voice lesson was rescheduled for tomorrow, so i didn’t have my muse (great muse too – about six and a half feet of rumbling bass) to generate a phrase for the whiteboard. this just sort of appeared in my head and apparently writing it down makes it so, because all evening i was calm and i felt so alive and, most importantly, i was able to be free. just let go.
i started today’s practice session with some yoga. i looooove my new yoga mat, and the “serenity now” segment on the yoga dvd i rented from the library is absolutely bliss – a half hour of simple, flowing, relaxing movements. so relaxing, i was ready to go to sleep when i was done! at the moment, my favorite parts of the routine are the starfish pose (it caters to my love of sprawling, as criss, my boyfriend, will attest to) and the caring breaths that we do at the end (very centering and refreshing).
after my yoga, i did some warm ups – lately i’ve really liked doing a sort of yawning descending scale on the word/name “eeyore”. makes me feel so free! then i devoted the whole practice time to some musical theatre pieces. i was singing a quaint song from finian’s rainbow and i have no idea what i did, but i opened my mouth to sing something and was flabbergasted, because i suddenly felt this openness i haven’t fully experienced yet. i was shocked – “so that’s what it feels like to sing with freedom!” staying in that frame of mind, i sang the whole song, and then another song, and then another song, and i managed to finish the evening without any vocal discomfort. definitely two steps forward today – tomorrow had better not be one step back!
speaking of which, i see the ent (ear, nose, throat doc) tomorrow. expect an update in a few days. for now, tooralay!
