Musical Retreats

Healing Ourselves through Music  

This is an interactive therapeutic music workshop  It is warm and fuzzy and brings great joy.  Most people do not understand how a song is created and it is a bit intimidating to think that they could actually come up with one themselves.  Everyone has a song in them and even if they don’t want to use their own voice to sing it they can use their own voice to write it. With my help participants will create a song based on the lyrics they have written from a group poem. I will pass out words to them, such as ‘beauty’ ‘love’ ‘peace’ ‘life’ ‘bloom’ ‘harmony’ ‘friends’ ‘together’ ‘believe’ etc.

We will make a poem out of these words. One person starts the first line of poem, sometimes that’s me, once it’s started everyone wants to chime in with their line based on their word. The lines form and connect and a pattern emerges as a cohesive lyrical idea. I pick up my guitar and a put the poem into a song. Participants will sing it as we go. We keep it simple. We will record the song or songs with my porto studio and CD’s will be made for all participants to go home with and forever be a reminder of their accomplishment and the joy they had in creating a song together. Magic occurs in this program.

A Woman’s Voice can be done as a retreat as well. Email for more information.