Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Lindsay Facknitz. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Lindsay, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I didn’t become aware of my intuitive gifts of being able to ‘read’ people’s energy bodies while singing to them and simultaneously transfer universal healing energy to them until I was 40 years old. That’s a long time to live your life as a person not using any intuition! So, when I asked my husband if I could try doing a singing energy healing session with him, I had no idea if it was going to work or not. It was an enormous leap of faith by my conscious ego mind. But as soon as I started that first session, a deep, intuitive knowledge filled my heart, my voice, my spirit and I knew exactly what to do, like I had done been doing it forever. And that’s how it was for the first several months. I would invite a friend over, ask them if I could practice on them and would have no idea if anything would happen. But before every session I would breathe into my heart, say a few prayers, would let go of everything, and then my intuition would do the rest. It was completely life changing! This was a precious gift to my soul AND it was very challenging for my conscious ego mind because it was not in control. It had to surrender and trust every time! My ego still has to surrender and trust before every session but it’s easier to do that now because I’ve seen that it works over and over again.

Lindsay, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I’m an intuitive singing healer and a holistic voice teacher. Those are some loaded titles so lemme break ‘em down. (smile)

My intuition is the primary faculty used to guide my healing sessions. I receive information on a client’s physical, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual health through my intuitive senses. And my intuition shows me where to ‘hone in’ on a clients body throughout the session to help with the client’s particular issues or intentions.
Singing and vocal sounding is my healing modality. To put it simply, when you do a Heartsong Healing session, you get to lay down and get comfortable. I will put a sustained 3 note chord on my keyboard that sounds like a beautiful organ, and then I sing to you. These are wordless, completely improvised melodies, sounds, and vocal expressions that come from my heart as I tune into your body. It is as if I’m singing directly to your heart, mind, and spirit in a language that you know and respond to. Singing and vocal sounding is something I’ve done my whole life, professionally and in everyday life. Since starting this new path I’ve discovered new ways to use my voice that I never knew before! For example, a technique I call “sonic acupressure” where you bend a note by moving it through different vowels and it gives the body a kind of energetic massage. So, singing the concert of people’s body, heart, mind, and spirit is just the coolest healing modality ever in my opinion! (laughter)
And the final word is healer, or healing practitioner. Heartsong Healing sessions are energy healing sessions. Universal healing energy can also be called chi, prana, life-force, or Divine love and there are endless energy medicine traditions, therapies and activities around the world that help clear, rejuvenate, and strengthen the human energy body. And when the human energy body is improved, it improves the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health of the person as well. Since energy healing can improve all these facets of ourselves, my clients’ healing experiences range from improvement of physical ailments and pain to relief of stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as a cultivation of childlike joy, wonder, love, peace, and/or having a sense of being grounded. Clients may have increased feelings of mental clarity, peace, trust, openness, and receptivity. They may feel deep connections with the divine, their heart, their life path, and their soul. They may deeply connect with spirit, nature, angels, guides, and ancestors.
And really, it all makes sense to me. Music and singing is what humans have been doing for thousands of years across cultures spanning the globe. We are anatomically and spiritually built to give and receive healing energy this way. Singing, rhythm, music, and dancing were the original medicines, the original therapy, the original church, the original way we emotionally regulated ourselves and our communities, the original way we communicated with nature and the Divine. We take our voices for granted when they are actually the most powerful instrument of healing we have throughout our lives. Which leads me to talk about also being a Holistic Voice teacher.
Simply put, I’m here to connect you with and help you unlock all the awesome healing power and beauty of YOUR OWN singing and sounding voice. My workshops are a blend of the basics on vocal training, energy medicine, and polyvagal theory (anatomy of vagus nerve and why it is the information highway between the brain, voice, and the body). Luckily, my ego conscious mind gets to be more in charge of this offering in my work! I have a bachelors degree in voice, a masters in music education, and have been studying, teaching, practicing, performing, and writing music and songs professionally for 20 years. So I’m very comfortable and LOVE to get people up and moving and singing and making music together. I’m also a professional goofball so my classes and workshops tend to be very fun and lighthearted. I find that lightness and loving encouragement is critical when teaching singing and voice. Our culture is very black and white with singing and making vocal sounds. Well, I’m here to change that!

And before I forget, I’d like to say that Heartsong Healing sessions are available in person or online through Zoom. I’m able to work with your energy field from a distance in the same way as in person. Sign up at www.bodiesofsonghealing.com.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Training and knowledge matter of course, but beyond that what do you think matters most in terms of succeeding in your field?

I love training, knowledge, classes, books, education, and lineages of learning. Before I stepped into my healing gifts I would only claim that I could ‘do or be something’ if I had a diploma or certificate on the wall or if some other projected authority figure said I had their permission to call myself something (a teacher, a professional singer, a songwriter, a performer, etc). I take titles and formal education seriously. They are good and they serve a lot of people in wonderful ways. They have served me in ways that I needed at those times in my life.

But when these healing gifts came to me, they came with the huge message from my heart, “Do not give your power away to anyone. I am guiding you to how you are to serve this world.” So, that’s how I have been walking this path. My heart and intuition have been guiding me to the right people, the right resources, the right books, the right communities, the right opportunities for me and MY path, MY calling, not anyone else’s. (I actually am in the process of pursuing some supplemental education and certificates to enhance my practice and the healing techniques I am already doing). It is truly a beautiful path to be walking. But I am not some separate, special person. You are sourced by the same energies, the same Divine love that I am. It is who you are. Trust your heart. It is right here. It will lead you to amazing, beautiful surprises. I promise.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.bodiesofsonghealing.com

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Steve Willis Photography