The voice is the muscle of the soul.”
-Alfred Wolfsohn
Created through Alli Starlight Caw, Sacred Voice Liberation is an animist, somatic, and play-based approach devoted to unleashing the soul’s shameless expression and resurrecting the radical range of the wholly human voice.
A living body of work, SVL is a mashup of Alli’s training in the performing arts, expressive alchemy, somatic coaching, inner parts + shadow work, womb healing, channeling, meditation and ritual theater.
Devoted to dismantling oppressive systems from the inside out, SVL incites play + radical permission to uplift the deep feeling and dynamically expressive nature of being human as sacred, transformational and revolutionary.
Sacred Voice Liberation sits on the altar of our embodied love, right relationship with Gaia, and our collective liberation.
“What Alli taught us about experiencing our voice as a sentient being has literally changed my life. My whole relationship to my Self has shifted on every level since then.”
— Jenna Allin
There’s a chrysalis
in your throat.
“I transformed from someone who was afraid to perform vocally in front of others, to now where you find me vocal releasing, wherever I am. In the final prayerformance, I went to the edge of my comfort and claimed something out loud I've only been thinking, afraid to express it. Expressing it has led me to a juicer more heart connected daily experience. Stepping into sacred voice liberation work with Alli was deeply transformative.”
— Hannah Kullberg
The shoulders SVL stands on…
Roy Hart + Alfred Wolfsohn
While attending Naropa University for their MFA in Contemporary Performance, Alli experienced a spiritual awakening through the somatic voice and movement techniques they were studying, launching them into a 12+ year healing journey. They got real devoted to sharing their expressive arts training with the world outside the theater community with the intention of personal transformation and collective liberation through the evolution of human consciousness.
Sacred Voice Liberation collages pedagogies across the fields of theater, contemplative arts, Polyvagal theory, somatic voice and movement, inner parts and shadow work, expressive alchemy, channeling and womb reclamation.
Core mentors, teachers+lineages :
(without whom this work would not exist)
Adriana Rizzolo (Body Temple Dance/ritual theater/womb healing + reclamation/grief doula)
Ethelyn Friend (Roy Hart vocal approach)
Loyd Williamson + Janice Orlandi (Williamson Technique)
Leeny Sack (The Performative Self)
Wendel Beavers + Bill Buddendorf (Viewpoints)
Erika Berland (Body/Mind Centering + experiential anatomy)
Wendel Beavers (Developmental Movement)
Leslie Grasa (shamanic lineage of Jóska Soós)
Joanna Macy (Work That Reconnects)
Qiddist Ashé (Oracle Body/ Germanic New Medicine)
Elizabeth Watt (Grotowski Method)
Jean-Rene Toussaint (The Primitive Voice)
Alfred Wolfsohn, Roy Hart, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön, Eckhart Tolle, Jessica Litwak, Gary Grundai, Karen Hager, Bonnie Sundance, Whit McLaughlin, Joan Bruemmer-Holden, Christiane Poitras, Kathy Wallace, Steve Black, Prairie Wolf