Resonant Bodies and Vibrational Ecologies

After 10 Years of somatic exploration of my voice, I decided in 2022 to start sharing the intimite practices that I have been developing. Since then I have been regularly opening collective spaces for voice exploration, giving several workshops as well as individual sessions.

These sessions are an open and inclusive space to practice vocal toning and experimenting with the voice: We explore vibration and frequency of the voice through the physical and energetic body – with playfulness, somatic experiencing, imagination, not only through voicing/toning but also by listening to ourselves, each other, spaces, substances, ghosts and dreams – to become a polyphonic choir of voices.

This practice departs from the perspective that living beings are hyper sensual and empathic organisms who intuitively perceive the energetic architecture of their environments – in an invisible field of frequencies and vibrations where we are both receivers and senders. Self is understood as intricately woven into a complex web of relationships that spans both human and more-than-human connections. These layers range from the physical to the imaginal, from deeply personal experiences to collective dimensions, and from immediate somatic awareness to mythological understanding. As we develop awareness of these interconnections—we participate in a dynamic feedback loop where individual shifts ripple outward to affect the entire web, while environmental events similarly transform our experience of self. Resonance forms the foundation of this structure, based on a reciprocal relationship with the world: what we send out determines what we receive back and vice versa. Sound is therefore a relational practice: when our bodies are tuning in, our voice can embody and express the impact of energies within our own organism. As resonance bodies we resonate what is present for us, using the voice to expand, release or transform sensations/feelings/e-motions, sensing and listening through our body as a channel.

The practice of sensing and listening through the voice can be used to explore physical and energetic inner as well as outer environments. Through time you will be able to get to know how to work intentionally with your unique tone, to direct it to transmute e-motions, raise vibration and shift states of consciousness, as well as become aware how to fine-tune your instrument within the broader orchestra of the ecosystem.

Within the vocal explorations, we consciously engage with states of trance or flow – and nonlinear, intuitive, experiential informations that can come in the form of dreamlike images and sensations. When we open this channel, between earth and sky, in communication with the elements, our bodies and the spaces around us, songs of our souls, of the earth, of the universe, can arise in us. Through establishing this relation we can learn to listen and follow intuition, a divine intelligence, speaking through us. We remember the beginning of language, where sounds of the voice replace words, speaking in tongues or cosmic language.

Within this context we are striving to establish a safe space for ourselves and each other, to learn to distinguish what feels safe in the body, to explore how much space we allow ourselves to take up and when we trust and rest in silence.

This research has developed into several projects such as 'a piece of endless body', 'Song Becomings' and the research 'Tuning–Resonant Bodies as Sites of Transformation'.

Tuning seeks to create a practice based artistic methodology that inspires interconnected experience and creative expression by: Restoring perceptual sovereignty, re-imagining our relationship with the living world, decolonizing perception, creating sensitive spaces of slowed temporality, developing embodied ethics and building capacity for authentic (creative) response. By working directly with the perceptual apparatus—the sensing, feeling, resonating body—the research addresses the problem of disconnection at its root, recognizing that conceptual understanding alone cannot heal what has been severed at the level of direct experience. The relational model of resonance at the core points to the creative process as a process of becoming, of shapeshifting, of fusing: an organic process such as composting, where one body of matter transforms into another. This shift opens possibilities for understanding creativity as a collaborative process that includes the more-than-human world and reimagines creative practice beyond anthropocentric models.

contact me

for more information on the collective classes and/or to schedule individual sessions

mail@helenadietrich.com