Embodied Voice Practices: The Voice of Release

About the event

🎤 Full body, full breath, full emotion, full potential. Overview: Join us for a transformative two-day workshop on September 19-21, in Warsaw at Academia Sound Therapy, led by vocalist and guide Julianna Bloodgood. This immersive experience is designed for individuals seeking a profound connection to their voice, body, and creative expression. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced practitioner, this workshop promises to boost your confidence, enhance vocal abilities, remove blocks, and deepen your connection to self and others. An embodied approach to vocal training which utilizes somatic practices and vocal technique to bring about the awareness, awakening, and activation of our authentic voices. Exploration of voice as experienced through the body and the space around us. The body is our gateway to all creative sources, and from the body we begin our investigation of voice, sounding, song, and words through a dynamic exploration of the origins of sound. Through a flow of movement and breath, we can awaken sound vibrations within the body - resonating the bones and tissues - creating a visceral understanding of the voice and enlivening new possibilities for vocal expression. 📝 REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/sRuErC1ZLFib3sQ88 Key Highlights: - Vocal Liberation and Release: Discover the power of your voice as Julianna guides you through exercises to liberate and release vocal blocks, unlocking your full expressive potential. - Singing and Improvisation: Explore the joy of singing and improvisation in a supportive environment. No prior singing experience is needed – just an open heart and a willingness to explore. - Boost Confidence in Vocal and Personal Expression: Gain tools and techniques to boost your confidence in expressing yourself vocally. Unleash the authentic power of your voice with guided exercises and personalized feedback. - Connect on a Profound Level: Experience the magic of connecting with yourself and others in a profound way. Through Embodied Voice Practices, Julianna has facilitated healing processes and opened pathways to creative expression for years. 🎯 Purpose and Objectives of the Workshop: - Participants will deepen their understanding of the vocal process through the body. - Open new possibilities for vocal expression. - Increase confidence and power of voice. - Release stored and stuck emotions. - Become more present in their physical and emotional expression. - Awaken creative capacity. - Learn to express their emotions more effectively through voice and body. 👥 For Whom: - This workshop is for anyone who would like to develop a deeper connection with their body and voice. - For those who would like to increase vocal scope, perspective, range, and possibility. - For those who want deeper paths of self-expression, creativity, and expression. - For those who feel they have “something” inside of themselves that they want to free. - For those who feel emotionally, physically, or vocally blocked. - For those seeking greater feelings of freedom within their bodies and voices. - For artists and non-artists alike. 📅 Workshop Plan: - Each day will be divided into stages of: - Physical and vocal exercises designed to create a visceral understanding of the voice through the body. - Partner work to open creative and connective space. - Partner “hands-on” work to deepen understanding of physical structures and vocal resonance. - Technical and creative exploration of the “resonators” of the body - spaces that carry and amplify vocal vibrations. - Vocal improvisation designed to create freedom of sound, sounding, and singing. - Group voicing to enliven the power of voice in the group, to give and receive support during transformation. - Integration and sharing. 📌 DETAILS: - DATE: 19-21.09.2025 - TIME: Friday 18:00-21:00 Saturday 12:00-18:00 Sunday 12:00-18:00 - INVESTMENT: 600 PLN (500 PLN for students and those facing financial difficulties please inquire) - REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/sRuErC1ZLFib3sQ88 - LOCATION: Akademia Sound Therapy, ul. Filarecka 3, 01-582 Warszawa Participant Preparation: Participants are asked to wear comfortable clothes, suitable for movement, and bring a notebook. 🌐 Website and other information: - https://juliannabloodgood.com - https://www.juliannabloodgood.com/music - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmbodiedVoice/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julianna.bloodgood/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embodied_voice_practice/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliannabloodgood/ About Julianna: Julianna has been teaching since 2008. Through these years she has worked with countless students throughout the world. She regularly teaches internationally and is considered an expert in the field of performance and vocal research and the healing capacities of the voice. Julianna Bloodgood, originally from California, USA, is a vocalist, movement artist, performer, and teacher whose work includes anthropological performance research, and she has traveled the globe in search of different cultural perspectives on the body, voice, and the ritual of performance. Many of the performances she creates are made as rituals, meant to be shared experiences of transformation and healing. Julianna was a leading actress and singer in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Polish theatre company Song of the Goat Theatre from 2009-2019. She is an associate artist with Bru Theatre of Ireland, Theatre MITU of New York City, and Honey and Dust of Slovakia. The core of her work is a detailed practice in the relationship between body and voice and how this can be brought to expression, composition, and performance. Her research with the body and voice has led to an in-depth and ongoing development of this connection which she calls Embodied Voice Practices. This practice utilizes integrative somatic trauma therapy techniques and focuses the output in vocal expression, which is a deeply healing and transformative process. Julianna specializes in the research and practice of vocal lamentation, giving shape and voice to our pain and loss, which has become a through-line in all of her teaching, performance, and composition. She continues to research the technical, historical, and contemporary aspects of lamentation in different European countries. Julianna holds a master’s degree with high honors from Manchester Metropolitan University; is a graduate of University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music; The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. She is a former yoga and Pilates teacher and a dancer with 20 years of experience. Julianna has studied with vocalists, movement artists, and somatic practitioners in the United States, throughout Europe, in India, and Thailand. Participant Testimonials: - “This workshop is my first voice work experience and it has opened up so much to me. The connection between voice and body, recognizing how natural it is to let out voices (but very often we restrain ourselves). I will take with me the wonderful energy of the whole group, but especially of Julianna who, with her approach, pushes the boundaries of our expression, instills confidence and invites us to play! Wonderfully! I want to thank her for everything she has given us in these two days, with a lot of heart and authenticity…. Thank you!” - Mia, 2021 - “I was energized by the workshop, filled with positive emotions, developed the parts of me that were suppressed. It invited me on an inner journey. It released some fears, showed me what I needed to work on, where I was stuck. It entertained me, enriched me, gave me an idea for some new creative solutions in the current project.” - Marija, 2021 - “Julianna is one of the most generous teachers I have ever encountered. She opens a very deep and at the same time safe space that she holds with great respect to everyone’s personal journey. Her invitation to go deep and to connect with what lies hidden within, our authentic voice, is delivered with such care, wisdom, and trust, that one feels safe to follow her, ultimately finding the strength and trust to follow one’s own voice.” - Maria, 2022 - “The method she is using and the way Julianna Bloodgood teaches are breathtaking! As a participant you are taken on a journey of self-discovery and tension release to a level that you wouldn't believe is possible in that short amount of time.” - Felix, 2022 - “With her extreme consciousness, after so much practice and observation, a looooong way of exploring and improving, Julianna builds a super safe space for each one to materialize, vocalize, express, manifest our inner, deep powerful landscapes. She helps us to re-discover the connection with our roots, our stories and our people but also to bring in front our future steps. Every meeting is a multilevel experience beyond just a voice workshop! It’s a gift to ourselves being able to tune in our greatness of existence.” - Eirini, 2023