A mother pulled me aside in the middle of her daughter's lesson and said, with a look of gentle concern: "The sound she's making... it's like she's suffering."
I smiled, because I understood. And because she was not wrong.
Her daughter was exploring the technique of crying, of belting — the sound of expansion. It is, in a very real sense, the sound of becoming.
The sound of expanding your limitation.
We applied the same song with Forcetto this time, as her mother suggested — less intense, more melodic — and I have to admit, it was beautiful. Her mother asked, "Could she perform it that way instead?" The suggestion hung gently in the air between us.
"This is my performance, and I will do it the way I love," her daughter told me.
There is no right answer to look for. The right answer is trusting yourself and your intuition.
It could be a lonely path. It might bring a disappointing result. But you decide it on your own. You trust your decision.
Step by step, listen and trust yourself — the subtle impulse inside of you.
Every decision you make, every success and every mistake, transforms into beautiful jewels that design you.
— Yoko Matsushita
Valle de Bravo