The Voice Keeps the Score:
Sounds as a Portal to Embodiment
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
Having a voice is a fundamental part of being human and allows us to connect to others in healthy ways: to communicate our needs and desires; to speak up when expectations have not been met, or when boundaries are over-stepped; and to connect and to share our innermost worlds.
When escape from a life-threatening or attachment-threatening situation is impossible, the body and the psyche adapt to survive. These adaptations can endure, particularly if they are successful in ensuring survival of the body and/or of the attachment relationship.
Trauma lodges in the body, mind, spirit, and in our voices.
Voicelessness becomes synonymous with choicelessness.
Don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel are survival adaptations.
Healing involves reconnecting to one’s capacity for vocalization in an embodied way, and starts with interoception of cues of safety. Sound vibration is our first experience of attunement and attachment - of safety - and can be accessed through intentional vocalization.
This part-experiential, part didactic Master Class with Linda Thai will delve into the vibratory resonance of sound as the first experience of attachment, the developmental actions of attachment and attunement, and sounds, vocal expression and songs as portals to attachment and to embodiment.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Linda Thai
Linda Thai, LMSW ERYT-200 is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body-based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people from all over the world to promote mindfulness, recover from trauma, and tend to grief as a means of self care. Linda’s work centers on healing with a special focus on the experiences of adult children of refugees and immigrants. Her teaching is infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom.
She has assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She has a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.
Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and structural dissociation of the personality, and offers the Safe and Sound Protocol, yoga, and meditation within her practice. Linda works on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people (Fairbanks, Alaska) with those recovering from addiction, trauma, and mental illness. She is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.
For more information visit: www.linda-thai.com.