Rewilding the Primal Voice: Soul, lineage, and land.

A workshop to connect to your voice, your rage, your erotic expression and primal song.

Before humans spoke, we sang. This powerful, primal connection to our soul, our lineages and lands has been muted by modern culture, but not erased. Come remember your wildness and power through one of the most ancient of human technologies: your voice.

With 2 epic voice coaches and songstresses, you will discover just how versatile an instrument you have as you learn techniques and practices to express what is often deeper than words. We will move, sing, grieve, rage, play, and connect through our voices. The workshop will start with a grounding embodiment session of Earth Goddess Yoga  led by Koreen. 

We’ll then tune into our voices and breath, connecting to the pleasure of making sound, and practice some simple vocal techniques. Natalie Nowitsky, an expert on dozens of musical folk traditions from around the world, will teach us how to use our voice to connect with our environment and ancestral traditions, and how to vocally release grief. Laurel Armstrong will complete the workshop with group practices in Primal Singing where we will use our voice to support and be supported by the larger community. Topics covered includes Primal Erotic Expression as well as uncovering how the voice is  stifled and throat chakra can be blocked. Know the power of release through voice. What to expect:  circle of voices, no need to know how to sing, just a desire to express, process emotion with voice, and enjoy the power and beauty of a chorus of voices, in all their unique glory. Feel your powerful primal self, throat chakra unlocked, rediscover or ease into feeling confident in your voice. . 

There will be a break with provided tea, snacks, and discussion. Feel free to bring your own lunch or snacks to share. Join us and discover the power of your voice, re-wild its expression, and experience your primal and communal belonging.

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You will learn

• How finding pleasure in the body allows for more free vocal expression

• Giving primal vocal expression to taboo emotions like rage and grief

• Overview of several traditional singing styles ranging from Scandinavia, Ireland, and the Balkan states

• Nerdy self-study on where certain vocal expressions are held in the body. (Find where your body is holding vocal expression)

• Diving into some ways our ancestors used ritual and voice to hold, share & move collective emotions & shared states. (think of a wake/ funeral procession in ancient times, song circles to celebrate or grieve). 

• How singing can be an eco-erotic experience as we connect our voices back to our bodies and the land

Flow of the day

• a short Earth Goddess Yoga to get embodied & out of your head 

• Playful vocal yoga warmups. Getting to know your tool box (so many tools here!)

• How voice relates top the land, the animals, our animalistic connection to energy and boday

• Rage vocalization embodying animals and connecting to root chakra

• Traditional techniques and where they come from 

• Grief release techniques and experience with natalie

• Tea Break & snacks

• Freestyle primal singing tune into each other in group, hum with drone, deep listening, Choosing something to sing about, to (example: a land or experience or hope/prayer) Feeing the prompt and vocalizing our response to it. 

• Call and response (w drums) 

• Learn, listen & feel with Final song “One and Many”

• Feeling the collective experience of the voice and song. A chance to say or sing or scream your desires, experience or prayer. 

• Findng a trance like experience and a reminder that humans are connected in this web. 

Bios: 

Laurel Armstrong has been a professional performer and theater-maker for almost 25 years working as an actor, dancer, singer, voice-over artist, writer, composer, and producer. After some life-changing experiences with the Great Mother, she shifted her focus to projects and practices that connect the body to spirit, the individual to community (living and dead), and humans to the land. Primal Singing is the practice she created from combining techniques of Western vocal training, essential elements of traditional folk-singing, animist-somatic practices, and her never-ending curiosity about all the ways humans can human. She currently leads monthly Primal Singing workshops at the Acorn and is a member of Wonderlust Theater Company in Saint Paul which works at the intersections of art, story, and community. She also recently opened her own practice, SAP (Sacred and Primal) to help individuals and groups connect more deeply to their innate and sensual life-force through somatic, spiritual, and creative practices. 

Natalie Nowytski:Natalie Nowytski is a classically trained performer, award-winning composer, and educator whose superpower is traditional Eastern European vocal styling. Her repertoire spans more than 50 languages, including her native Ukrainian. She has studied and performed with folk luminaries across the US and Europe and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion. Performance highlights include Minnesota Orchestra, The New Standards, Peter Ostroushko, Olga Bell of Dirty Projectors, Mila Vocal Ensemble, Theater Latte Da, The Rose Ensemble, Paris 1919, Follow the Firefly, Flying Foot Forum, Ethnic Dance Theatre, Ukrainian Village Band, AM Supperclub, Country Roads, and as a founding member of Orkestar Bez Ime. Informed by her experiences as a first generation Ukrainian-American, she writes genre-bending folk-inspired music for theater, dance, a cappella choir, and chamber ensembles. Natalie has received performance and composition awards from the American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, SAGE Awards, and Minnesota State Arts Board.  You can find her music on Bandcamp.

Koreen Valdovinos, aka Earth G Koreen is the creatitor of Earth Goddess Yoga. As am embodiment teacher and Conscious dance DJ, she is an expert at synchronizing the rhythms of music with the flow of intuitive & primal movement, breathwork, and conscious dance.  Owner of Open Minds Fusion Studio and creator of Earth Goddess Yoga, you can find her teaching yoga, guiding and DJing  at Dance, Church, AcenDance, Shake Your bones, & Sound Temple Ecstatic Dance & Giant Gong baths. Koreen serves as a Pleasure Activist, Women's Circle Guide, and Embodied Movement Coach, promoting healing and self-discovery through the celebration of the the body, our senses & sensuality.