Beyond Yoga and Coaching: I sing!

"Music is a language of its own, one that tells stories, evokes emotions, connects, and music is my way of telling them."

Before, the title of this blog was "beyond wellness: my creative side". Then I stop reflecting on this word wellness. Still very vague for me but I believe I am not the only one and most I believe the word wellness is vague on purpose. So I reflect and realised that singing is wellness for me.

Wellness doesn’t have to look like meditation or being green smoothie (in french I will say "c'est tellememt ringuard" I cannot translate so ask chatgpt!!). It can be singing, painting, writing, dancing, mediatting, drinking green smoothie, anything that connects you to joy and presence. For me, singing is not just creative expression; it’s emotional release, breath work, mindfulness, and self-connection all at once.When I’m not guiding clients through their wellness journeys, you’ll likely find me singing and creating connections through music. I believe in the power of self-expression, whether through movement, words, or sound, it's all part of wellness and being.

I don't remember exactly when I started to sing but I sing for as long as I remember it used to be my thing but I was so ashamed to believe in myself. I was so embarrassed to believe I could be a singer.

The emotion when I was singing was so intense that I used to push it away a bit, acting like it was nothing, or just the conversation around it made me so embarrassed. At a young age, around 12, I was thinking and telling myself, don't be a fool. But it was also a kind of thing that I wanted to hide; it was for me. Some people write, paint, or run to express and release; for me, it's singing. It's like keeping this for me. And at some point, that's what I did. Keeping it for myself and ending up stopping.

I knew why and probably that was the reason why I was acting like that around singing. Because it was connecting me with my mum, a person I had not the chance to know, and it makes me scream inside. It was so hard that singing was difficult. Until I became a mum.

I started to sing again while I was pregnant. And recently really reconnecting with this part of me more than a year ago.

I used to believe I was not a creative person until I went back to singing again, expressing myself that way opened up so many doors. When I have doubt or lack confidence about something because confidence is showing up as a wave, I know that singing will help support me. It helps with my nervous system, with the way I move and see myself. What I say here is not about singing; it is about reconnecting with a part of you or discovering something about yourself that makes you be. I do not act or show while I am singing; I am just being. That helps me show up as the woman I am today. and I am that.

My journey as a coach supported me to reconnect with singing. This is something I support women with, sensitive women. It can be anything. I was in a search for so many years because I knew something was hidden. I have tried many things, pushing the singing again, but reconnecting with my emotions and my intuition helped me to face singing my voice, which I discovered, by the way, that I can sing actually (joke). At 37, almost 38 in two weeks, singing helps me to build new skills, learning rhythm, instrumenting my voice, and music instruments to understand rhythm, which I found fascinating, learning to develop my ears, which I did not have. It is not only about the emotional side but the technical as well, which I found extraordinary to continue to learn something, being passionate and dedicated. It helps me with concentration so much.

This is a life learning lesson that you can be. That's it. Doing is one thing, but being is another one. If I wanted to do, do, do, I will probably never stick with music, but the moment I enter the studio, I am being.

I do not have any goal in singing. The little girl inside is grateful that I am doing it because I am good at it, something that I used to be ashamed of.

So I am grateful for myself for trusting myself and pushing all the doubt and the shame away.

Sometimes I am singing at pubs. If you are interested, let me know. I would love to see you.

Avec Bienveillance.

Cecilia.