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

Free Your Voice and Body Stories Training with Phoenix Song Feb 5 - Oct 22, 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 the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays/month from 630-930pm at Green Yogi Telegraph near Ashby in South Berkeley and on 1 Sunday/month from 10am to 5pm at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists at Cedar and Bonita in North Berkeley (outdoor space to play).

February: Roots/Ancestral Support/Grounding (Legs/Feet/Perineum: 1st chakra) Wed Feb 5 and 19, Sunday Feb 23

March: Creativity/Sexuality (Pelvis: 2nd chakra) Wed March 5, Sunday March 16, Wed March 19

April: Power/Intuition (Solar Plexus, Belly: 3rd chakra) Sunday April 6, Weds April 16 and 30

May: Love/Protection (Heart/Chest: 4th chakra) Sunday May 11, Weds May 14 and 28

June: Connection (Arms/Hands) Wed June 11, Sunday June 15, Wed June 25

July: Communication/Truth (Throat/Neck: 5th chakra) Wed July 9, Sunday July 13, Wed July 23

Aug: Visioning (Head/Face/3rd Eye: 6th and 7th chakra) Wed Aug 13, Sunday Aug 17, Wed Aug 27

Sept: Performance Rituals/Ritual Performances: Wed Sept 10, Sunday Sept 21, Wed Sept 24

Oct: Integration Wed Oct 8, Sunday Oct 19, Wed Oct 22

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?
• 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

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 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.

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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