What You’ll Learn
Though we mostly understand the body as a series of parts that each have a responsibility, it is always whole and can actually be damaging to suggest otherwise! How do we work with the body without reducing it into components? What are the dangers and pitfalls when applying the anatomical model to the living body? This workshop will unfold ways we can think about and work with the whole body for voice improvements and still get to specific outcomes
Through an interactive and explorative workshop, a new perspective on teaching & learning voice will be brought through the senses into the mind with a vivid presentation that will highlight different ways to work with the body as a functional unity. Those in attendance will embody themselves more fully as they learn about the organ left out of classical anatomical models, the organ that makes us whole – the connective tissue, fascia. In combination with biotensegrity, this contemporary lens offers a non-reductive perspective of the body that draws from universal patterns found among all things in nature. Attendees will learn to use movement, touch, and imagination to soften restrictive tensions while freeing resonance and expanding vocal possibilities – all at once!
Come prepared to sing (on mute) to feel your voice shift with every new idea, proving that we are a lot more than the sum of our component parts.
About Jeremy
Jeremy Ryan Mossman is a teacher of voice, movement, and wholistic expression from Ontario, Canada. Knowledgeable in both biomechanics and biotensegrity, Jeremy has a unique way of reconciling long-held beliefs with new understandings about the body and teaching voice, which he teaches to other voice teachers in his program, Body Based Voice Ped.
Jeremy has been a presenter at several conferences and symposia, most recently The International Congress of Voice Teachers, Pan American Vocology Association, The British Fascia Symposium, and was one of four presenters for The Fascia Hub’s recent event, ‘The Fascial Voice.’ You can hear Jeremy on podcasts including Vocal Fri, Singing Teacher Talk, and The Intelligent Vocalist, and read his pedagogical ideas in The Vocal Athlete Workbook (all editions), as well as The Singing Teacher’s Cookbook, and Classical Singer Magazine, and most recently in New York Singing Teachers’ Association periodical, Voice Prints and NATS’ InterNos.
Please note: All times are in Pacific Time (PT)