Come explore your parts using vocal techniques!
Not currently scheduled for 2026. If interested contact Melissa
Subtle IFS Voice Techniques for Working With Yourself
Only 3 people per class
On Zoom for 2 hours
During the 2 hour class:
Check-in
Short demo/Open-hearted response to demo
Q & A
Practice
Check-in about practice
Closing
Interested? Give Melissa a call at 847-804-3200!
or apply below by scheduling a quick Zoom consultation to learn more, get all your questions answered, and make sure it’s the right fit!
My aim in all Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS groups is to present a simple concept that can transform the way you practice IFS with yourself. A little bit of IFS goes a long way, and if you take in ONE concept in a class, play with it, practice it, and incorporate it, that can be much more powerful than learning ten different techniques but not fully embodying any of them.
Less is more!
Tuesday August 5 • 3-5 pm CST
Every time I have this class coming up…I start using more sounds and singing in my sessions. Even with clients!
Hilariously, today I made a very short little singing sound and a client said, “What a lovely voice you have!”
Oh my gosh, I can’t sing worth a bean, but it was a very sweet moment — all I did was hold a tone for a few beats. It did come out quite delightfully, I’ll admit!
It enhanced our connection and brought playfulness, creativity and Self-energy to our session.
My freedom to bring sound into the session was a marker of my capacity to stay open and in the flow, literally atTUNEd to the work as it unfolded.
So I love this class, which is deceptively and delightfully simple.
Our vision is simply to open ourselves up to how our parts would like us to use sounds and singing in our work!
It’s not a teaching class, because that’s all the teaching there is!
It’s a practice class, where we’ll work with:
—the parts of us who WANT to use more sounds in our work
—the parts who want to tone or sing in our work
—the parts who feel shy or inhibited about using sounds and singing in our work
— the parts who may carry shame or burdens around sounds and singing
— navigating deeper conflicts around sounds, such as parts who want to scream or make noises other parts feel concerned about
—And anything else that arises around using tones, sounds and singing in inner work!
We will be a very small group of 3 or 5, so if you feel called to explore the throat chakra and open it up a little bit in your IFS work, to bring joy, freedom of expression, creativity, fun and playfulness to your IFS endeavors, I invite you to join us!
Past Voice Technique Classes
The Parts’ Voices class will explore the difference between speaking for a part and speaking from a part. Specifically, we’ll inquire into how to speak FROM a part while ALSO NOT being blended with the part.
Blended = I’m a part, I don’t know I’m a part. But what if you speak FROM a part, but the part knows it is a part and you know it is a part? I don’t consider that blended. I call that EMBODIED.
I propose there is a spectrum of knowing / not knowing if you are a part, which is:
Blended and speaking FROM the part— I’m taken over by a part
Unblended and speaking for the part — I (or some other part I’m slightly blended with) speaks FOR a part that I know is a part
Embodied: Unblended and speaking FROM the part — the part speaks for itself, knows it is a part, and I know it is a part.
This is the concept we will practice in the July 29nd Parts’ Voices class. There is more to it than this, but that’s the basis for the class.
I invite you to get the care you and your parts may need by joining in this small, safe space for some Self-energy and parts support!
Tuesday July 22 • 3-5 pm CST
