Free Your Voice & Body Stories 9 month Training with Phoenix Song

Free Your Voice and Body Stories Training with Phoenix Song Sept 30, 2024-June 2, 2025:

9-month transformational training program: What do you want to birth?

Do you want deeper embodiment, a community of belonging and love, vocal confidence; more joy and play; creativity, empowerment, and a rewriting of your life narratives? This program centers QTBIPOC, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA folks and consists of vocal practices to help you sing, sound & speak your truth and somatic expressive arts practices to help you release and rewrite your body's stories.

We will start from the root (feet, legs, and base of the spine) and go up the body and energy centers to arrive at the crown/top of the head. Each month we will focus on a different body part/chakra and express its stories through movement, drawing, writing, theater, and sound and give voice to its songs.

Classes will be held in Berkeley on 2 Mondays/month from 630-930pm at Green Yogi Telegraph near Ashby and on 1 Sunday/month from 10am to 5pm at Cal Shakes in Orinda (retreat like setting in nature with lots of outdoor spaces to play).

September: Introduction to the Body/Process Mon Sept 30, 2024

October: Roots/Ancestral Support/Grounding/Roots (Legs/Feet/Perineum: 1st chakra) Mon Oct 7, Sundays Oct 13 and 27

November: Creativity/Sexuality (Pelvis: 2nd chakra) Mon Nov 4; Sun Nov 10; Mon Nov 18

December: Power/Intuition (Solar Plexus, Belly: 3rd chakra) Mon Dec 2; Sun Dec 8; Mon Dec 16

January: Love/Protection (Heart/Chest: 4th chakra) Sun Jan 12; Mon Jan 20

Feb: Connection (Arms/Hands) Mon Feb 3; Sun Feb 9; Mon Feb 17

March: Communication/Truth (Throat/Neck: 5th chakra) Mon Mar 3; Sun Mar 9; Mon Mar 17, Sun Mar 30

April: Visioning (Head/Face/3rd Eye: 6th and 7th chakra) Mon April 7; Sun April 13; Mon April 21

May: Performance Rituals/Ritual Performances and Integration Sun May 4; Mon May 12; Mon May 19, Mon June 2

Do you want to

• Sing from your whole body, not just your throat?
• Discover and express stories of different body parts/chakras?
• Release chronic muscular tension and holding patterns in the body?
• Create beautiful improvisational music in community?
• Give and receive sound healings?
• Play, have fun, and free your inner child?
• Create a performance ritual/ritual performance to help release what no longer serves you and birth you into the next chapter of your life?

You will benefit from this course if one or some of the following apply:

• You are an artist, facilitator, healer, therapist, or change agent and want to fill your own well and come away with more tools for your own clients
• You crave spaces of connection & belonging and want community
• You are a singer, actor, or performer and want to come from an authentic, internal foundation and connect to your body
• You want to transform a stuck area and free your voice and life

Influences include Fitzmaurice Voicework, Sharing Your Life Story from Page to Stage with Ann Randolph, Drama therapy and Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance with Armand Volkas, Tamalpa Institute--Body Part Mythology, Vocal Improvisation with Rhiannon, Circle singing with Bobby McFerrin, Mindfulness and loving kindness practices for the body.

Bio: Phoenix Song is a queer, nonbinary Korean American adoptee facilitator, musician, writer, and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay. They delight in helping people sing, sound and speak their truths with confidence. Phoenix is a somatic voicework teacher and Tamalpa associate teacher of expressive arts. They teach the Art of Solidarity training and offer ancestral healing courses, sound baths, grief rituals, and private and group classes to help you free your voice and life. phoenixsongmusic.com

The cost is $3240 for 108 hours over 9 months ($360/month or $30/hour). Payment plans are available. Sliding scale, scholarships and work trade are available for folks in financial need. To apply for the program, please fill out this application. Visit phoenixsongmusic.com for more info. Admissions are on a rolling basis. This course prioritizes QTBIPOC, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA folks.

Testimonials:

• I healed and released SO much more than I could have imagined. Phoenix is an incredible facilitator, holding a tight container while keeping it real!--V. Pham, singer, musician and therapist
• Phoenix Song's "Free Your Voice and Body Stories" was truly a transformative, life-changing experience! I was gently guided to discover and play with all the different parts of myself longing to be expressed. At the end of the class, I feel a sense of joy and liberation and feel grateful to have been so lovingly witnessed by Phoenix and my classmates. I'm so glad I took a chance on this class and am rewarded with the love and embodiment of my authentic self <3--Christine D., nurse
• This course has helped open my heart and body, increasing voice volume and clarity.--Bernard A., architect, web designer, visual artist
• This is the best training I've ever taken, and I've taken many--Laurie M., therapist

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