The Voice & direction - It Matters
This past week I had the joy of offering a special gathering in honour of International Women’s Day. We came together in a simple but powerful way — through presence, breath, and voice. What always moves me in these spaces is how quickly the voice brings us back to ourselves. When we slow down, listen inwardly, and allow sound to arise naturally, something deeper than effort begins to guide us.
Again and again I’m reminded that the voice is not something we need to force or perfect. It is something we uncover. When the body softens and the mind becomes still, the natural voice begins to appear — honest, resonant, and alive. In that space, expression becomes less about performance and more about being.
In my Activate class lately, we have been exploring the directions of energy in the body. The feminine essence naturally moves upward — rising, opening, and expressing. The masculine current moves downward — descending, grounding, and stabilizing. When these two directions begin to move together, they meet in the heart, creating a sense of balance, presence, and wholeness.
Often the upward movement of the feminine is active in us, but the descending current that grounds and holds it is not as present. Some people are naturally wired with a strong descending, manifesting, grounding current, while others are more oriented toward expansion, growth, and rising energy. Neither is wrong — they are simply different expressions of how energy moves through us.
One reason the descending current can be difficult to access is that there is so much within the body that asks to be held and processed. For the descending energy to truly meet the rising current, there must often be a kind of reckoning — a willingness to meet what lives in the body and allow a purification of the energies.
The rising movement can carry with it layers of pain, memory, and emotion that belong to our story, but not to our deepest being. When the grounding current descends with steadiness and presence, it creates the space for these energies to move, soften, and release. In this meeting, something begins to settle, and the heart becomes a place where both currents can live in harmony. Some have called this ‘The Divine Marriage.’
This all sounds poetic and gentle, but in truth, it’s not—well, not at first. There can be a real stand-off between the old and the new energies in the body. Whew… that’s all I’ll say about that.
That being said (haha), I know my way around this. If you feel curious to explore your own energy body and the flow within you—and some of what I’m speaking to resonates—I’d be happy to support you.