Become Music
Discover Your Music Being
One-off session, 60–90 min online via Zoom. Sliding scale $80–150 CAD. I take up to 4 people a month.
There's a musician in you right now.
Not someday, once you finally learn the right technique. Right now.
You hear it in how you talk when something excites you.
The rhythm you tap without thinking.
The tune that shows up in the shower and disappears the second you notice it.
It's been there the whole time.
And most of it stays inside.
You catch the sound before it gets out.
You hum it under your breath instead of singing it out loud.
That guitar is still in the closet, closer to your hand than it's ever been to getting played.
The door isn't locked. You just haven't walked through it yet.
This is a space held for the music that's already alive in you.
And for your longing to play it freely and let it out into the world.
The bridge between your heart, your throat, and your mind gets clogged.
Fear. Old stories.
A teacher's verdict. A sibling's laugh. A parent's warning.
The voices of people who told you that you weren't musical, that you couldn't sing, that your sound wasn't welcome.
What if that bridge could be cleared?
What if the music already inside you could move freely, and find its way to the people who need to hear it?
What this space is
Let's not pretend this isn't vulnerable.
You're going to make sound with your actual voice, live, without knowing how it'll come out.
That's the point.
I'm not there to judge the note. I'm there to hold the space while you find it.
Here's what actually happens.
We start by settling in, getting present, grounding into the call.
From there it depends on you.
Sometimes we talk first about what brought you here. Sometimes we go straight into sound.
I'll invite you to drop into your chest and let whatever's there become sound, however it wants to come out.
If you're flowing, I get out of the way.
If you're stuck, I'll pause you, coach you, ask you to try it differently.
Partway through, I'll tell you what I'm seeing. Where you're at, what's in the way, what might be next.
Then we sing. For a few minutes, for real.
That's usually where something opens that wasn't open at the start.
No musical training required. No need to be good at it.
The call is recorded. I send you the recording and my notes afterward, so it stays with you.
What we'll explore
- •Breath and tone. Finding your ground note, the sound your body naturally wants to make
- •Clearing blocks. Releasing stuck energy in the throat, chest, and voice
- •Rhythm and pulse. Letting your heartbeat become sound
- •Improvisation. Trusting the music moving through you without thinking it through first
- •Presence. Being fully in your body while the sound moves
What people have found here
"I experienced an initiation—calling my being further into being in my visit with Jorge. TOTALLY recommend his space holding. His ability to hold an empty space that calls forth. A silent Karanga."— J. Redmond
"Recently I have been trying to connect with myself on a deeper level and trying to break cycles of generational trauma. Jorge has been an amazing coach, mentor and space holder for me. He has been helping me figure myself out these past few months. He loves doing this work and I can tell from how much love and enthusiasm he shows while holding space. Jorge you are a beautiful human."— C. Spark
This is for you if
- You've always wanted to "be musical" and never knew where to start
- You feel creatively blocked and want to open a new channel
- You work with people and want to deepen your presence and voice
- You're curious about sound as a healing or expressive practice
- You want to feel more alive in your body
- There's music in you that's been waiting to be played, and shared, and you don't know how to start letting it out
This isn't for you if
- You're not willing to risk sounding bad. This only works if you're willing to try something different, even messy
- You want music to build you a following, an income, or a name as a leader. That's a different room
- You're more interested in explaining yourself than feeling something. There's no wrong way to show up, but there has to be some willingness to actually feel
A note from Jorge
I've been working with voice, music, and presence for over a decade.
Through men's work, initiatory spaces, and my own practice as a musician.
I've seen sound reach places words can't touch.
I once held a fire circle where a group of men were chanting, improvising, playing.
Two of them couldn't quite let go, holding on to some idea of doing it right.
So we ran an exercise. One breath, from the lowest sound they could make to the highest, tapping their body from feet to head the whole way up.
By the end they were reaching notes they didn't know they had.
And actually feeling them. Not just making the sound. Feeling it.
That's what's possible when the block finally moves.
This space comes out of that practice.
My invitation is simple. I hold the space, you let your music being unfold.
Whatever's been waiting in you to play freely, to be heard, gets room to move.
It's intimate, experimental, and alive.
Every day you don't say what you need to say, you're still communicating. Through what you're holding back.
I can only take up to 4 people a month for this.
If it's calling you, let's explore sound sooner rather than later.
Jorge
Where this can lead
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