Singing the Psyche: A Voice Movement Therapy 5-Day Immersion

Wednesday, May 10th – Sunday May 14th

Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat: 10am – 5pm 

Sun: 10am – 2pm

arrival: evening of Tues May 9

departure: afternoon Sun May 14

Location:

Walker Farm Theater

Weston, VT

Voice is steeped with emotion and made of the personal story. It reveals us, betraying our inner life and struggles. We open our mouths and soul pours out. 

So much of who we are is expressed through our voice. It is our unique signature, conveying our emotional states, our words, and thoughts. The voice is also a mystery which emanates from within us.

In this workshop, we will:

• seek to release the body, breath and voice from habitual limiting patterns

• engage the Psyche in expressive, creative acts able to unite us somatically, psychically, emotionally and vocally

• create individually and collectively from the totality of these experiences

In voice, movement, song and creativity, we attend to reclaiming some of the missing parts of us, and make our way to wholeness to bring us home to ourselves.

Individual attention will be given to each participant within the context of the group and its process.

If you want to know yourself better, come sing your soul with Christine Isherwood and Mali Sastri in Vermont!

Fees

Tuition: $500 USD
Lodging (meals not included): $200 USD

^{Partial Scholarships available: inquire for details}

Teachers

Christine Isherwood M.A., VMTR (Registered Voice Movement Therapist) directs and teaches the Voice Movement Therapy Training Program, works with individual clients, conducts workshops and trainings internationally, and supervises VMT students and practitioners. She has been engaged in teaching Voice Movement Therapy internationally for more than twenty years: in the UK, the USA, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Engaged in a quest for voice and psychological well-being, she trained with the founder of VMT Paul Newham in London in the mid 1990s and subsequently taught with him prior to his retirement from this work. In partnership with Anne Brownell, she established, co-directed, and taught the Foundation Training in Voice Movement Therapy in the USA. She is now its Director and will be conducting more full training programs in the USA and elsewhere. She also founded the first Voice Movement Therapy Training Program in Beijing and Shenzhen, China, under the auspices of The Apollo Institute, dedicated to the training and development of VMT practitioners in China.

Christine has an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counselling from Goddard College, Vermont, USA, and holds a Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies through the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, USA. Before training in VMT, Christine took a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK; gained a Diploma as an Assertiveness Training Teacher with the Redwood Women’s Training Organisation; undertook a two-year training in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychotherapy; and studied therapeutic healing with noted eclectic healers. She has over thirty-five years’ experience working with: street homeless people in Central London; as a mental health counsellor in the fields of addiction, domestic abuse, sexuality, and gender; as a group facilitator and trainer; and as a VMT practitioner and trainer with those seeking to transform their personal or professional selves through the voice. She is a founding director and member of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy.

Christine is a singer and writer who has written and performed in political musicals, toured the UK and Europe with theatre groups and bands, and has recorded several albums, as well as performing internationally. She has lectured and taught at Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA); the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts (WAAPA); is adjunct faculty at the Creative Integrative Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program at the CREATE Institute, Toronto, Canada; and teaches at Apollo Education and Consulting, Beijing, China. Christine continues to commit herself to an intensive exploration of VMT and to experiment vocally, write, and learn, and has completed performance studies in the USA and abroad. She lives in the Boston area, MA, USA.