October 14, 2020
“On Purpose”
1. Lush Tongue: Sound Meditation, Improv and Musings #44
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Thanks for your support! In this late edition of my weekly newsletter, I am sharing my most recent LTSMIM video musing on the definition(s) of purpose. I refer to a diagram that has been superimposed on the Japanese concept of Ikigai, which translates as “a reason for being.”
2. Voke
The “ikigai” diagram resonates for me as a powerful guide for centering our lives, livelihood, and relationships within a strong and clear sense of purpose. It is one of many frameworks that are available for you to explore in-depth through Voke, a personalized program I offer in which you use your voice and creativity to discover, express, and deepen your alignment to your purpose. Voke is an immersive, experiential coaching series in which the power of your spoken, sung, written, and embodied voice is invoked to manifest your deepest desires, heighten consciousness, gain intuitive clarity, and optimize well-being. This program is designed for people who are interested in the power of the voice as a tool to heal, empower, and catalyze positive changes in people’s lives: music therapists, public speakers, somatic practitioners, energy workers, artists of all mediums who are looking to expand their creativity. All music skill levels welcome.
Voke: Five Session Package
75 minutes per session via Zoom
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Voke: Single Sessions
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Send an email to lushtongue@gmail.com to schedule a session.
3. Onome’s Offerings on Outschool!
For those of you who are looking for more online opportunities for your children to access the power and beauty of their voices, I am now offering classes for kids on Outschool!
For students who are new to singing, I am offering The FUNdamentals of Singing, an ongoing workshop to learn the basics of breath, resonance, pitch accuracy, and more. I also recently introduced Create and Sing Positive Affirmations to Build Self-Esteem (Ages 9-13). And there will be more classes to come, so click the link below to follow my Outschool page, where I’ll post upcoming courses.
Onome’s Offerings on Outschool
4. Soul Incites: Self-Development Book Club Discussion
The September book selection is The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.
I’m hosting the next live discussion in my Facebook group, Soul Incites: Self-Development Book Club on Thursday, October 15 at 9pm ET. Save the date! The recording will be posted in the private Facebook group so join today if you are a woman who loves books and personal development. Guys, spread the word to the women you love!
The purpose of Soul Incites: Self-development Book Club (SDBC) is to bring my extensive background as a teacher and workshop facilitator to the online sphere by providing a space where women can witness and support each other in our growth journeys by harnessing the wisdom of personal development texts. We are covering a diverse range of topics such as mindset transformation, energy work, money, relationships, clearing trauma, creating breakthroughs, specific self-development techniques and healing modalities, spiritual and metaphysical approaches to personal development, and more.
Who is Onome?
Onome is a vocalist, facilitator and interdisciplinary artist of Urhobo heritage in the Niger Delta. She incorporates improvisation into her practice as a tool to expand consciousness, creativity, and personal development. Through her audience-interactive performances, workshops and sound installations, Onome embodies joy, enchantment, and infinite possibility. She is a partner artist at Carnegie Hall as a core member of the vocal improvisation ensemble, Moving Star.
She has performed sound poetry at hundreds of venues nationally, recorded soundscapes for podcasts, and created vocal film scores. She received her MFA in Performance Studies at Pratt Institute. She is the artistic director for Lush Tongue, a vocal improvisation project where sound, creativity, self-discovery, connection, and joy converge through singing—via sound healing sessions, workshops, vocal coaching, retreats, and concerts. She leads Soul Incites, a women’s self-development book club. She got her start in spoken word poetry and opera via Nuyorican Poets Cafe and New York University, and now facilitates community vocal immersions at concert halls, conferences, galleries, museums, schools, cultural centers, shelters, prisons, parks, churches, wherever voices gather.
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Love and gratitude,
Onome