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Before man had words to communicate he used sounds and movement!
Voice Movement Therapy is the process where you use sounds and movement to get to know yourself better and learn how to express yourself more clearly.
If you can talk you can sing…
If you can walk you can dance…
There is no wrong sound or movement in VMT unless you damage your voice or body! There’s so much inside you that wants to be free… VMT will give you the tools to set yourself free from your fears, memories or other obstacles holding you back.
"It is the limitation of our being which makes us sad and angry and constitutes our fear... if one wants to change character, it is not enough to talk about feelings: they must be experienced and expressed". (Fear of life, Alexander Lowen)
"Music is the language from the place before the word is born" (Paolo Knill)
Purpose of VMT: "To facilitate a more embodied and hence a more flexible versatile and durable voice with which to achieve greater expression and communication of the self – one’s wants, needs, desires and ideas – by accessing the affective feeling qualities of the voice more fully" (Anne Brownell)
"The most vibrant way of accessing and expressing the full self is through the act of singing" (Paul Newham)
Is Voice Movement Therapy for you?
If you say yes to one of the following questions VMT is for you!
1. Do you feel that people don’t always understand you?
2. You know there is more to life?...
3. Do you feel that past experiences is holding you back?
4. Were you told as a child that you should be seen and not heard?
5. Were you told as a young person that you can’t sing or dance?
6. Is your work putting a lot of stress on you and you need a break but don’t have time to go on holiday?
7. Do you need a confidence boost?
8. Do you want to fly but are scared of heights?
"In VMT we use all our available senses, especially our hearing, to connect what we meet outside our minds and bodies with what is within us, what we feel and know." (Singing cure)
"When I speak of singing, I do not consider it merely as an artistic exercise, but as a way and means of recognising oneself and bringing to consciousness what is within" (Alfred Wolfson)
"The arts in therapy are the return of the folk song in all of us" (Shaun McNiff)
