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Transforming Lives Through the Power of the Human Voice


[Volume 4, Issue 2, Jan 8, 2014]  

 
Kara Johnstad  

2014 is starting out at a very fast pace. I began the year with a  Kindle book writing challenge on January 2 and on January 30th I turn in my finished manuscript for publication. 

It is exciting and a bit like a whirlwind. 

 

What I keep on reminding myself is that even the wind cannot run from it's center.

 

In the middle of every whirlwind is a quiet place, and in between learning new writing software, understanding ISBNs and affiliate links, choosing which of my many ideas to make into the first book, I have finally decided to make the first book to be what I wanted as a teenage girl, a lover's rush. I decided to take all my many loved Kara Sutras and wrap them into a  book of daily inspirational quotes.

 

On the first day of writing I reached out to those of you on my Facebook and Google communities and asked for your cheers to help me stay on track. Wow! I got a flood of "go go go," comments, clients dropped by with the most beautiful flower bouquets, green smoothies and the best dark chocolate and I am buzzed and sipping more espresso than usual. So thrilled that many of you are willing to check for spelling mistakes, read through content that is being developed and write reviews! 

 

For those of you who would like to join in the kindle book fun, drop me an email via my homepage or Facebook, and I will send you a personal invitation.

 

In today's article I share with you a powerful exercise that will transform your voice in record time.

Whirling and toning as a life practice.  

 

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ONE "WHIRLD" ONE VOICE 
Disappear In Song and Enter Prayer

  

 

  

  

"And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?" Mevlana Rumi

 

So, it's the first full week of the new year. I hope it has been good to you. No matter where you are at, remember it is a process. Enjoy the moments. Go step by step. Love what you are doing this very moment and make it all count.

 

Here's to your continued success,

Love and blessings, 

Kara

 

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ONE "WHIRLD" ONE VOICE  
Disappear In Song and Enter Prayer
 
 
 
 

 

 

Toning and whirling

as life practice.


The greatest miracle in the world is that you can sing and disappear in the song - laugh and disappear inside laughter - dance and disappear within dance and let existence move through you. Disappear into the love and let love take you to where you need to be.


You are not doing it,

it is happening through you.


Toning: a meditation practice used to transform and to connect to the divine.

Whirling: a meditation practice used to transform and to connect to the divine.

 

 

   
Toning + Whirling = Twirling

Singing + Whirling = Swirling or Winging



From the center life is born. 

An impulse. An invitation.

Every atom turns bewildered.

Every night slips into  dawn.

Every question craves an answer.

Every breath reveals a song.

Every scream evokes the wild.

Every knock, a neighbor's  need.

Every dream seeks out a child.

Every flower plants its seed. 

The universe is spinning.

The planets orbit the sun.

We spin our tales, and circle round the truth,

'Til grace descends as one.


When you fuse whirling with tone and singing, for a few moments time stops and the mind does not function. For a few moments you are energy pure. Creation pure, one with existence. Divine starts where division ends. The dance. The laughter. The movement through time and space. It seems to be a race, and yet, even inside the winds, there is a still point, ask the hurricane. 
 
Where does breath begin?
When is a poem born?
At what moment does breath materialize into tone?  

At which moment does tone become a song?

How can we find our center amid so many life events?
Find truth in the middle of a sea of illusions?  

How can we use whirling and toning, to center ourselves?

 

 

We, a piece of one "whirld,"  

we at peace with our "whirld."

 

 

If the wind can not run from the center,

then we too, can not run.


We can return. We can arrive. We can dare to discover. We can use the dervish practice of spinning and whirling round one point, to arrive back at our centered core.  Aligned with a greater mystery.

The same breath that is inside our lungs and throat, is the wind that moves the weather patterns across the ocean.

The same breath that creates conversations and carries powerful songs out into our world, is the  breath of life that moves us towards each other.


The sweet lover's sigh, the salty tears, the laughter, the giggle, it is all the wind, the breath. It moves within and without and connects us all.

 

Our body is married to airflow.
Our voice is married to our body. 

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It is not separate. We are one.


We are orbiting in space. Our spine  is the axis of our spin and our voice resides in the middle of the vortex, centered between the heart and the mind, it uses wind to spin its tales.


I have been using whirling combined with toning and singing in my life practice as a singer-songwriter and voice coach since my first Sufi workshop in 1987.


I began whirling as a daily practice and later I added  in-toning and toning to the practice. I did it playfully. I would whirl and begin to pull in sound on the inhalation and exhale on silence. Later I would change directions and allow the silence to drop within on the inhale and exhale on tone. Soon, 

 

I was doing what I coined, "circular singing."

We revolve in order to evolve.

 

I was toning on the inhale and exhale while spinning round and round. I was creating an energy field and my own personal vortex. I was entering a state of trance. A state of purification.

 

I started adding toning and whirling to my voice workshops, and the results were immediate. My clients began to understand the voice channel. How to bring heaven to earth. After my clients understood the powerful practice of "circlular singing," whirling and toning in both direction


When they were able to hear the hum inside the silence, the hum that was still ringing in their bones, I asked them to sing from a place of peace and of centered oneness. "At one - a tone." 
s and on the inhalation and exhalation,  I would have my clients slowly come to a stand still and see if they could still hear the deep hum within.

  

Sing from a place of peace
and of centered oneness. 

"AT ONE - A TONE"

 

 

Here's to your continued success. May you have the courage to persevere and stay true to your inner voice and strongest visions.

Love,

Kara 

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Thank you, as always, for tuning in, reading and contributing.

 

  

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Kara Johnstad is a singer-songwriter, author, voice specialist and owner of the successful company VOICE YOUR ESSENCE™

 

Kara empowers audiences around the world and helps independent artists and singer songwriters become more successful. A thriving  singer-songwriter and passionate lecturer,  Kara is no stranger to transforming hearts through her words and music. 

She is an advocate for change in ways that heighten the human spirit. 

 Kara Johnstad is Transforming Lives Trhough the Power of the Human Voice

Her most downloaded songs include Love Never Fails, Message of Hope, Open Up and ReceiveHeal Me Hold Me and Thank You.

 

Her mission is to help our world understand the role our voice plays in fine tuning our body-mind-spirit system. Each year Kara transforms thousands of  lives via her concerts, lectures, articles and coaching programs. Sign up for a F.R.E.E. subscription of the eZine. Click this link and enter your name and email in the box.Thanks!

 
 
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