Nervous System Regulation: Vooing

Vooing is a deep, low sound made on the exhale that you can feel resonate through the body. Zara Dureno teaches you how to do it and how different pitches resonate in different places, from the chest to the face, helping you feel more present and embodied. No singing experience needed. This content is educational and is not a substitute for one to one professional care.

Transcript

In this video, We're going to practice with the VU skill, And I'm also going to teach you a little bit around singing. We're not going to actually practice singing together, Don't worry about that. But what we are going to do is notice how different pitches resonate differently in our body as a way to connect with our body. Let's do the VU practice five times. All it is is a nice inhale into the belly, Soften the shoulders, Soften the jaw. On the exhale, We're going to hold the sound VU. Long as you can, As long as me or your own personal preference. You don't have to follow along exactly with me. Let's try it together. So take a nice inhale into the belly. And an exhale, Voooooo. You may notice some shakiness. You may notice it hard to hold the note. You may notice you don't like the note you're holding. The note itself doesn't matter. Don't worry about that. We're just trying to vibrate the ventral vagus nerve through the throat. Let's do it four more times together, Eyes open or closed, Whatever you're most comfortable with. Let's try it again. Good work. Another big inhale through the nose into the belly. And we're going to do it two more times. Amazing work. And like I said, We're not going to try and sing together when we use the skill of singing. What I want you to do is sing along to your favorite song or hum along to your favorite song. But something I do want you to notice is that when we're seeing lower notes, It vibrates through our chest. And when we're seeing higher notes, It vibrates in our nasal cavities and in our face. So we can experiment with a really embodied approach to singing by noticing where we feel it in our bodies. So if you want to try this with me, You can put your hands on your chest and try doing a lower note. So just something that is a little bit deeper, Maybe a note like For me, I can feel it vibrating in my throat and I can feel it vibrating a little bit in my chest. Experiment with that and then the difference with a higher note the or even higher. You might feel it in different spots in your face or resonating through the nose, Through the cheeks, Maybe through the jaw. This just helps you to be a little bit more embodied with it. So it brings it into your body. So we're already engaging the ventral vagus nerve, But this gives you the added effect of being present and being in this moment even more.