Yvonne de Bruijn

Yvonne was born in a small village in The Netherlands, close to a big river. The sound of the water was in her ears from the very beginning, it was her first teacher. The voice of her mother was her second teacher. While she sung, Yvonne always started crying, as if longing for a far away world. From pre-school on Yvonne has sung herself and amazingly never forgot any of the words of all the songs.

She took singing lessons and went to music workshops in search for something in the music that could fulfill the longing of her soul. How beautiful the songs, how interesting the workshops, it lasted many years before she discovered another way of singing and found where her heart was looking for.

Working as a psychotherapist she once worked with a client who had a terrible brain damage after an accident. During the session the woman said: I know you can help me.

Yvonne was feverishly searching in her mind what she could do. Then her mind became totally empty and she knew: I can only sing.

A bit embarrassed she suggested that this could be a possibility and the client agreed for an experiment. Yvonne for the first time started singing long tones, no melody, no words. She sensed that the energy in the head of the woman was changing rapidly and after 45 minutes of singing the woman stood up and said: This is it, I feel I am healed. Yvonne could not believe her ears and did not trust at all that this could be true. But after some weeks the woman phoned her and told that her brain was healed and that she felt happy in her life again.

This was the start for Yvonne’s own research. She knew that she had to find everything by herself and that the human voice hides a powerful secret of healing.

At that moment singing only long tones without melody or words was not accepted. After ten years of lonely research she discovered a woman who taught to sing long tones and listen to the vibrations within that tone. Yvonne heard that the music from the long tones was really different from the music she knew and she felt that she had come home. She followed a one year training in Germany to go deeper into the sound and from there changed her psychotherapy practice in a singing practice.

The most extraordinary things happened. It turned out that the sound of the human voice can reach every part of the body and rebalances and heals that part. The healing force of Yvonne’s singing is in the long tones. Yvonne will always tell: It is not me that is singing. I just listen and open my mouth. The sound is already there and I am transferring it. I open my heart and let in what comes. The sound itself will heal whatever is needed, be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual, the sound has its own wisdom.

She has sung for many different clients. She started to sing for people with a CVA (cranial vascular accident) a severe brain stroke. After singing for these damaged brains, always remarkable improvements happened. She also sung for a famous chess player who afterwards always won, for pregnant women and deaf people. She sung for alcoholics who through the singing came in touch with their deep need for the drug and after the singing started to handle their addiction. She also sung for people with organ transplants who suffered from memories originating in the organ of the donor.

After some time professional singers came to her practice and had to learn how to listen without judging and finding new vibrations. Yvonne discovered that healing can take place on all levels of human existence.

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