Coming Home to Your Voice with Julia Norton

What does it mean to come home to your voice? Can you remember when your voice was free and open as a child? Or perhaps it never felt that way? This workshop offers a chance to uncover the stories that hold you back from the relationship with your voice you’ve always longed for.

Through breathwork, gentle movement, vocalization, guided visualizations, and group singing, we’ll journey into unconscious material, play with imagery, release limiting beliefs, and begin to integrate the shadow voice.

Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring water, a journal or sketchpad, and pencils or pens for reflection. No prior singing, movement, or art experience is required — come as you are, and come home to your voice.

“It was a day full of gently guided stretching, visualizations, and singing in a safe, beautiful studio environment. Additionally, the in-person experience creates a bit of magic as you have the chance to join voices with others. I highly recommend this enlightening exploration of the mind, body, and voice.” —Eileen W., San Francisco

This event is in-person only. Tickets are sliding scale $35 - $75

Julia Norton is a Jungian coach, Voice Movement Therapy practitioner, and award-winning singer and voice actor. Born in Oxford and now based in California, Julia has been singing her whole life and teaching groups to sing since she was 19.

Always compelled to understand more about the emotional story behind a singer’s experience, she trained in Voice Movement Therapy and moved from London to San Francisco after qualifying in 2000. Since then, she has composed music for theater and circus, music-directed, produced an award-winning album Lullaby Island, performed jazz and musical theater, and trained as a voice actor.

She was a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild and has presented at conferences worldwide. Julia won a Voice Arts Award for her role in Disney’s Star Wars game Jedi Challenges and was nominated for a One Voice Award for her role in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. She has two podcasts: Dark and Twisty Tales and Your Free Voice. Learn more about Julia here: www.yourfreevoice.com

Host or Publisher The Berkeley Alembic Foundation