The Primal Sensual Voice for women. A workshop to connect to your voice, your rage, your erotic expression and song.
Before humans spoke, we sang. This powerful, primal connection to our soul, our experienceslineages 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.
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 short embodiment session by Earth Goddess Yoga creator, Koreen V. Incorporating flow into rhythmic intuitive Movment & vocal yoga ("Aum")
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.
⭐️Price ⭐️
PreSale $47
Day of $57
register here or in ticket link: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=206577&stype=-7&sView=day&sLoc=0&date=07/13/25
⭐️Sliding scale for those who need financial assistance. Venmo @Koreen-Valdo (7672)
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You will experience:
-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.
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.
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.
