Upcoming Events
Somatic Experiencing® Vocal Workshop: Connecting the Body and Voice for Creative Freedom
with Yoon Sun Choi * (Musician/ Music Educator) and Corinthia Mirasol-Spath** (SEP/ BASE Practitioner)
Photo Credit: Erika Kapin
Photo Credit: Vivien Yip
This in-person workshop helps singers and voice users develop greater creative freedom by learning to listen to the body as part of the artistic process. Through sensation, movement, sound, improvisation, and play, you will explore habitual patterns of holding, effort, judgment, and restriction to discover new physical and vocal possibilities. The goal is not to produce a "better" voice, but a more available, responsive, expressive, and imaginative one.
❉ Who Is This For?
Beginning & intermediate singers looking to build a healthy foundation
Seasoned professionals wanting to break through creative plateaus
Any voice user looking to deepen their somatic connection
❉ What Will You Begin to Explore?
Somatic Experiencing: An introduction to learning how to connect more deeply to your body
Sensations vs. Emotions: Noticing the differences between the two and how you might use this awareness in your art
Internal vs. External Space: Becoming aware of nuances in how you experience yourself and your environment
Constriction vs. Openness: An opportunity to explore how your body reacts when restricted versus when open
❉ The Work
Identifying physical & mental blocks and working towards releasing tension and restrictions you might not even realize you are holding
Playing with how you might move past performance anxiety, creative blocks, and professional hurdles
❉ The Ultimate Goal
Moving from Habit ➔ Awareness ➔ Choice ➔ Play ➔ Greater Expression
Expect a space filled with playfulness, curiosity, and creativity where you can begin to unlock a more responsive, authentic, and expressive version of yourself
* Yoon Sun Choi is a New York-based vocalist, pianist, composer, and improviser whose work spans jazz, experimental music, and spontaneous composition. With a career spanning more than three decades, she leads her own quartet and maintains a longstanding musical partnership with pianist Jacob Sacks, with whom she has performed and recorded for over 25 years. Her collaborations include Kenny Wheeler, Mark Dresser, and Dave Taylor, with performances at Carnegie Hall, international jazz festivals, and venues throughout Europe. As an educator, Choi draws on improvisation and embodied awareness to explore new possibilities for vocal expression and creative freedom.
** Corinthia Mirasol-Spath has had a total of 20 years of experience in the classroom as a 4th/5th grade teacher in NYC. She is dual certified as a General Education Teacher (Grades 1-6) and Teaching Students with dis/Abilities (Grades 1-6). She currently works as a special education teacher at The Neighborhood School in an Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) classroom.
Outside of school, Corinthia is a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner through the Somatic Experience Institute (SETI) and is also a BASE™ Practitioner. Corinthia believes that it is through play and movement that we come to know ourselves and others. In her practice as a Somatic Experiencing® (SE) and BASE™ Relational Bodywork Practitioner, Corinthia works with children, adults, families and teachers by weaving in her experiences in the classroom and integrating her interests in play, project work, Polyvagal Theory and implicit psychotherapy.