Embodied VoiceWork: Moving Toward Wholeness in the Musical Field of Play

Abstract

Embodied VoiceWork is a method of free, expressive, non-verbal, improvisational singing, developed by Lisa Sokolov. It aims to develop a fuller human potential through the practice of attentiveness, an attitude of radical receptivity and listening. In this method, musical expressivity is considered as inherent to everyone, and improvised singing is understood as an universal language. A human being lives on many levels simultaneously: the physical body, the energetical body, the emotional body, the mental body, the knowing body. When there is a break in congruence between the different levels, there is doorway into process. rough improvisational singing we learn how to trust and how to let go into the flow of process, promoting congruence between the different levels. e five tools of this voicework are: breath, tone, touch, imagery and improvisation. The translation of the original article, in English, into Spanish is presented in this publication.