About Session
How to Heal a Broken Singer Through Love and Play This presentation shares my journey: losing my professional singing voice and finding it again after two vocal fold surgeries. In the middle of medical routines and prescribed exercises, I discovered something simple but deeply essential: to heal my voice, I had to sing. Not as a goal at the end of rehabilitation, but as a method from the very beginning. I had to allow myself to be a singer, even when my voice was not yet there. I developed my own method of rehabilitation. Through playful singing, mindful body work, audiation, and the practices of self-hypnosis and affirmations, I rebuilt not only vocal function but also my sense of self. My story suggests that traditional rehabilitation is not enough if it ignores the expressive dimension of the voice. Artistic practice can bridge the distance between clinical recovery and professional performance. To speak up and sing out is to reconnect body, identity, and sound. Aligned with the congress theme enCHanting Lucerne, this presentation highlights enchantment not as decoration, but as necessity: singing enchants because it transforms, because it heals.
This link is my abstract, in a short movie. I’d be so happy if you watched it.
