Overview
Psychotherapy
Not everything that moves us immediately finds words.
Some things first reveal themselves in the body.
Some things become audible before they can be understood.
The voice accompanies this process in a particular way. It can give expression to something we may have sensed for a long time without yet being able to name it.
This is where the vagusonar perspective offers a another view.
It considers the voice not only as a means of communication or artistic expression. It also understands it as a way of encountering ourselves.
Many body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy describe the close relationship between the body, perception and the autonomic nervous system. Vagusonar draws on these observations - through the perspective of classical singing.
The aim is not to control therapeutic processes or evoke particular feelings. Rather, an experiential space can emerge in which body, sound and perception begin to relate to one another.
The voice is neither the goal nor an end in itself.
It becomes the starting point of a process in which sound and the nervous system can influence and support one another.
What changes in the body can become audible. And what becomes audible can, in turn, strengthen our sense of connection with our body and ourselves.
In this way, the voice can gradually become a resource - not because it sounds perfect, but because it finds its place again within our own experience.
Where inner spaciousness is allowed to grow, constriction gradually loses its hold.
Perhaps this is where the encounter with ourselves begins.
