Free your voice & body stories 9 month training with Phoenix Song

Free Your Voice and Body Stories 9 month Training with Phoenix Song Feb 5 - Oct 22:

What do you want to birth in 2025? Free your voice and life by singing, sounding, and speaking your truth with confidence 

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 training program centers QTBIPOC, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA folks. It's half singing/music practices (spirit and freedom songs from around the world, rhythm work, vocal technique including belting, harmony, vocal improvisation, and sound healing) and half embodied expressive arts. Each month we focus on a different body part/chakra and express its stories through movement, drawing, writing, theater, and sound and give voice to its songs as we move from root (feet and legs) to crown (head and face). We culminate in final performance rituals where you are witnessed with love by your classmates. If you want belonging, intimacy, and joy in community, this training will be the medicine you've been seeking.

We will 

• 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
• Harmonize
• Give and receive sound healings
• Become more embodied, creative, and vibrant
• 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

Every month, we meet 2 Wednesdays 630-930pm at Green Yogi Telegraph near Ashby BART and 1 Sunday 10am-5pm at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists with outdoor space to play near Shattuck and Cedar on Sundays. Starts Feb 5 and ends Oct 22. 108 hours. 

• Wednesdays 630-930pm Feb 5 and 19, March 5 and 19, April 16 and 30, May 14 and 18, June 11 and 25, July 9 and 23, Aug 13 and 27, Sept 10 and 24, and Oct 8 and 22
• Sundays 10am-5pm, Feb 23, March 16, April 6, May 11, June 15, July 13, Aug 17, Sept 21, Oct 19

Influences include Fitzmaurice Voicework, Sharing Your Life Story from Page to Stage with Ann Randolph, Clowning, 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 certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher and somatic voicework teacher trained in the Lovetri method. They are also a 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. A few spots for awesome allies. 

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