Free Your Voice: Tuning Our Songs to the More Than Human World

Sing, sound and speak your truth and connect to your body instrument and to nature and the wild ones around you.

We will tune our body instruments with some sound meditation and vocal warmups and learn some songs that help us connect to the four elements of our bodies. We will harmonize with each other, connect to nature around us, and do some improvisational singing to the plants and animals and other invisible ones, tap into our medicine songs and prayers for the world, and connect deeply to ourselves and each other in this playful, interactive playshop.

By the end of this workshop, you will leave with:

• Deeper connection to our voices and body instruments 🎶
• Tuning into each other and nature and singing in harmony ☯️
• Our voices as carriers for medicines songs for our planet and peoples 💚

What's Included

Shared access to Wild Awake workshop materials, including:

• Guided meditation and singing practices
• A cozy cup of tea

What to Bring

• Comfortable clothing for spending time outdoors, such as a jacket, hat, warm socks, hiking boots etc.
• A blanket for sitting comfortably on the grass (we'll have a few extras)

Workshop Pricing*

By all of us contributing what we can afford, make this experience accessible for a diversity of incomes. The range reflects the disparity between economic conditions in the Bay Area, and is designed for those with more wealth to cover some of the costs of those with less access to wealth. Thank you for giving as much as you are able so that people of different economic backgrounds are able to join our programming.

As you decide what amount to pay, we ask that you not only consider your present-day financial situation governed by income but also factors including historical discrimination faced by your peoples, your current financial wealth, your access to income and financial wealth, people counting on your financial livelihood, and the socio-economic conditions of your locale.

• Partner: $85
• Supporter: $75
• Friend: $65

*Adapted from Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s We Will Dance with Mountains: Into the Cracks Slow Study course with For The Wild.

Covid-19 Safety

Please do not attend if you are not feeling well, have COVID-19 symptoms, or have been in close contact with anyone who is COVID-19+.

About Wild Awake

Wild Awake curates immersive outdoor learning experiences that are rooted in connecting with and caring for ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human world. We believe that when we re-orient our attention to the time and space around us, we can cultivate relationships that recognize our mutuality and interdependence.

For more details about Wild Awake, please visit www.wildawake.us.

About the Guide

Phoenix Song is a queer, non-binary Korean American adoptee teacher, performer and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. Phoenix specializes in world fusion music and transmits the love frequency through many instruments, including didgeridoo, djembe, Arabic tambourine, Native flute, esraj, harmonica, harmonium, and more. They believe that everyone can sing and love to help people free their voices and rhythm in private and group classes. Phoenix leads ancestral healing, grief, and diversity/solidarity workshops and trainings that use expressive arts and somatic processes.