Voicework & Vulnerability:The Sacred Portal of Your Soul

Something has been happening in my classes lately.

After chanting practices, I’ve noticed more and more people staying in the space, eager to share what’s moving within them. Some describe emotions rising they didn’t expect. Others feel old memories surfacing, or sensations stirring deep in the body.

The common thread…? The voice.

Voicework in Kundalini Yoga is never something I pre-frame with big promises. I don’t announce: “This will transform you”. Instead, I let the practice speak for itself. And yet, time and time again, the voice cracks something open.

For women especially, the voice is a tender, vulnerable threshold. Our bodies carry stories : grief, shame, mistrust, longing - held quietly in the tissues of the gut, the chest, the throat. As Dr’s Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk remind us: The Body Keeps The Score. It remembers.

And when the voice is invited to be used in a deep & connected way. When the sound vibrates through us, it feels like the first breath after years of holding, a sudden expansion into a space you didn’t even know or recognise was yours.

Sonia Choquette refers to the throat as the chimney to the temple of the soul, with the heart being the temple itself - For me, this becomes a sacred passageway into release, authentic expression, and truth.

Many of us were taught from a young age to hold it all in, to pull our stomachs tight & more importantly flat. To silence our feelings, to dim our sound. To make ourselves smaller and more palatable. Before we can even begin to sing, chant, or speak our deepest truth, we have to re-learn something as simple and radical as breathing fully, not just breathing: only breathing into every aspect of ourselves as we do.

To notice when we’re not breathing…to notice when we’re bracing…And ultimately, choosing to soften.

This is vulnerable work. And that’s exactly why it’s powerful.

I’ve lived this in my own life, not just in the yoga space. At times I find myself in everyday places, from supermarkets to café’s with tears in my eyes, as I simply allow myself to feel and process what ever is moving through me. I don’t hide it. If the tears come, I let them. If the shakiness rises, I honour it. Because vulnerability is not weakness -it’s humanity. And if my openness makes someone else uncomfortable, I trust that says more about what they might be carrying, than it does about me.

There is no safer space or place to to allow such vulnerabilities as in the Yoga Studio - or there shouldn’t be, only in many Yoga spaces today, this side of things seems to have been forgotten. It’s not all about skipping out on a high, sometimes - yeah! Mostly, though its about sitting with whatever you have been holding, or carrying with you - holding it a little closer, looking at it a little deeper only with more love & compassion than even before - that’s Yoga.

Your Voice is a Portal…Voicework is not just chanting, not just sound. It’s a portal to your soul.

It’s a way of reclaiming the parts of yourself that were told to stay silent. It’s a way of remembering your own power, your own essence, your own magic.

And it doesn’t have to happen alone.

If you feel called, I can offer 1:1 sessions for those who want a personal journey with their voice - a safe space to explore the sound, the vulnerability, and the liberation that comes with it. Or you can simply join us in class, and begin to discover what your voice has been waiting to show you.

Because your voice is more than sound - It’s the breath of your soul, the channel of your truth, the song of your becoming.

Sat Nam

Ananda Jasgeet