BODY VOICE CENTRE

Working towards a kindness pandemic.

Welcome,
we are open again
from Monday 16th November, 2020.

We are a COVIDsafe venue and request that you do what's needed to help us stay that way.
Thank you.

Look below at what's on and online marvels. Check out the regulars and what's coming soon.

The Body Voice Centre proudly support the Animal Rescue Craft Guild (RCC Vic Hub, Facebook).

what's on from Monday 16th November 2020

BINDU CREATIVE DANCE & YOGA with Lisa Sommerlad
Term 4 classes begin on November 16th, 2020.
Private yoga classes are available by request- addressing specific requirements or guidance in a solid foundation for practice.
Suitable for 1:1, families, or small groups.
Please contact Lisa to discuss: 0431590109
Strengthen & lengthen in body & breath with warming, slow paced asana. Enhance your breath awareness & soften into your true nature through guided meditation & relaxation. Feel revitalised & energetically harmonised with the nourishing sustenance of a whole yoga practice.
Beginners welcome.
Further enquiries via message
www.facebook.com/binducreativedance

FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY CHOIR.
FREE for 2020. Join us at the studio or through the ether via zoom.
All welcome!
Monday evenings 7-8.30 pm from 16th November, 2020.
Contact John 0430 120 436 about how to connect and other questions.
Keep singing together and keep connected.
Physical distancing doesn't mean social distancing.

MAX TINKLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL
Experienced in Harmonica, Saxophone, Clarinet & Piano!
For all ages, and especially younger ones in Jazz, Blues and Popular Music.
Enquiries: Max 0418 587 687 - 7 Days 9.30-8pm
Click here for Max's website
Click here for Max's email
Max's YouTube Play Blues Harmonica in 5 Minutes is here
Enjoy and keep in touch...

Creative Voice Summer School with Hilde Knottenbelt. Friday 15 January – Sunday 17 January. Times: 10:00am-4:30pm daily. Cost: Early Bird $450 (by January 1) Late Bird $490. Maximum Participants: 9
All enquiries: email: info@creativevoice.net.au  ph: +61 419 192 187. Creative Voice on Facebook: fb.me/CreativeVoicewithHilde
LOVE SINGING WITH OTHERS?
WANT TO BE MORE PLAYFUL WITH YOUR VOICE?
Come and join us for 3 days of vocal adventuring:
•   Explore connections between voice, body, breath, and the imagination.
•   Work with voice on the thresholds between sound, spoken word and singing.
•   Bring the uniqueness of your own musicality and voice to what becomes a co-created community of sound.
•   Share moments of experiencing and personal story that form the basis of improvised responses.
Throughout the 3 days, attention will be given to harmony, melody, text, rhythm, ensemble work and variations in vocal timbre. Drawing on these elements will enable you to enter the realms of human experiencing using your voice and yourself as an instrument of sensitive responding.
Perfect for:
People who want to develop their creativity through voice, aspiring and established singers, improvisers, people who sing in choirs, and people who simply have a desire to sing with others and are ready to give it a go.
Also of interest to musicians, voice teachers, music therapists, creative arts therapists, playback theatre practitioners and to people who love the immediacy of working in the moment.
Facilitated by:
Hilde Knottenbelt began running Creative Voice workshops in 1987. Since then she has led sessions throughout Australia, New Zealand and in Switzerland. Hilde has an extensive background in the creative arts and psychodrama and brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to every workshop. She skilfully facilitates groups of all backgrounds and abilities, creating a relaxed and supportive atmosphere in which to explore, create and express through the medium of voice. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Hilde is also a Psychodrama Practitioner and Director of Psychodrama Australia. She is on the teaching faculty of the Melbourne Campus and has a private practice in voice work, counselling and supervision.

online marvels

A YOGA SEED
Online Yoga Classes with Tess Healy.
Booking form is available below or via my website.
Online Yoga Booking Form
I will be continuing to offer online yoga and meditation classes, even as restrictions ease across the state. It's been so special to be able to stay connected through this time. The online teachings have also opened up new possibilities, including being able to share classes with those a little further away geographically from my cosy nest in Footscray: (including the Mornington Peninsula, Adelaide and even Sweden!)
My new weekly timetable for online yoga classes is below (all times listed are Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Restorative Yoga (75 minutes) every Sunday 6pm - 7:15pm
Chair Yoga (30 minutes) every Monday 12pm - 12:30pm
Yoga Nidra (45 minutes) every Monday 7:30pm - 8:15pm
Flow & Yin Yoga (60 minutes) every Saturday 9:30am - 10:30am
In an effort to make these classes as accessible as possible, I'm offering a few options for class fees. Choose from a single casual class at $10 (full price) or $5 (concession). You can also purchase a 5 or 10 class pack, which works out more economical, long term.
Booking form is available below or via my website.
Online Yoga Booking Form
Each time you'd like to sign up for a class, simply complete the booking form at least 30 minutes before class starts, and you'll receive a confirmation and Zoom invite link ahead of time.
If you're wanting to sign up for a class, and still have a valid class pack, just leave the payment section blank when you're booking.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel most welcome to contact me directly. I look forward to connecting again, virtually, soon. :)
For more info contact Tess: Phone, email, Website

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE with Shona Innes. Shona is offering a couple of different types of lessons. The first is the usual hands-on lesson and the second a hands-off lesson (in Alexander language called a "talkthrough".) A "Talk through" can accomodate social distancing and is something which is standard practice for Shona. Hands washing and usual precautions apply.
Find out how the Alexander Technique can help you with Pain Posture Performance Stress Management
Shona: 0421 285 338 shona.alextech@gmail.com
Footscray, Fitzroy

Shona offers private classes. Contact Shona for booking.

THE PALMIST IS IN with Ruth Gale. Book Ruth for an online or in person session.
You have a map to your life in your hands. It can tell you who you are and why you are here. I can read it for you.
I can identify your life purpose, areas of challenge and soul path. You'll gain an expanded sense of who you are and why you are here. Phone 0439947287 or email Ruth to make an appointment. Sessions are available over the internet.

LIFE MOVES with Marg Peck and Heidi Barrett.
Zoom online
Sharing our joy of movement and dance.

http://www.lifemovesworkshops.com/

LIFEWISE COACHING Online with Marg Peck.
Lifewise coaching and mentoring. Life and health coaching move towards ease, growth, creativity and joy. Clarify your personal and professional purpose and authentic mission. Align with values and create life balance. Realise our gifts and share them in creative and sustainable ways.

BLAKE MUSIC SCHOOL Professional tuition in guitar, bass, singing, keyboards, violin, drums and even yodelling. You can contact individual teachers directly to arrange lessons.

Singing: Belinda Foster email 0418502095. Belinda has moved all lessons online for the time being. She will continue online lessons until restrictions are lifted.
Guitar, ukulele, bass, drums, theory and composition: Jake Donohue email 0411384112.
Piano: Frank Zhang email 0467093902.

coming soon

DRUM CONNECTION FACILITATION: VMC
Accredited Drum-Circle Facilitation Training. Please contact him for details. For additional information on the course itinerary
Hosted by Simon Faulkner and FREA - Facilitated Rhythm Events Australia.
This is a fun, experiential, and intensive three-day program that details the different stages and processes involved in leading a community, playing improvised rhythmical music in an empowering and uplifting way. This training is supported by a range of quality resources, and includes ample time for participants to practice the different facilitation techniques covered in the material. Each three-day workshop finishes with an open community drum-circle offering further opportunities for practice.
Cost - Full $395 (CMVic members are offered a discounted price of $295. Use the code: CMVIC at checkout. Join CMVic here)
Register Here for the workshop.
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the regulars

SUN YOGA with Lisa Worley.
Contact Lisa.
General Hatha yoga classes for adults.
They are gentle and slow paced, developing a deep meditative focus that nourishes your body, heart and mind.You will strengthen and stretch, relax and focus, slow down and breathe...
Casual attendance welcome. First class FREE :-) Join anytime.
Info and bookings call Lisa 0411 111 794

2020 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Alice Heyward and Megan Payne. No Matter What.
'No matter what' is a dance invested in listening, sharing and empathy between bodies. It engages synchronicity and divergence, partial perspective, making and breaking cycles in motion. We have done a two week development in NYC and an in-progress performance at Movement Research at the Judson Church. This studio residency is in preparation for a performance in Bus Projects gallery, Melbourne and Good Grief Studios, Hobart in March 2020.
Thinking of our choreography as a container for offering and responding, we move together through recognisable dance vocabularies and rhythms into abstractions of material archived in our bodies.
We aim to locate the dancing within the step; the rhythm in patterns, unfixing knowledge in embodiment.
We attend to, and facilitate the ‘matter’ at play, becoming vessels for transformation. We exist in a slippery state of interdependence, in which we each are response-able for our condition and depend on each other for support.

HULA HOOP DANCE CLASSES with Donna Sparx. Donna is now teaching her hoop classes online. Please contact her for information
Do you feel like it’s time to inject some fun, fitness and flow into your world?
Needing to tone up, tune in and take some time out for you?
This Melbourne hula hoop class will get the body moving and grooving with a hula hoop.
If you are looking for new ways to get fit, relax, have fun, connect with other awesome people and play, then Hoop Sparx classes are for you!
Our hula hoop classes are a combination of inspiration, fitness, tech, flow, play and dance. Classes include instruction, practice and challenges for everyone at all levels.
There are 5-10 hoopers in every class aged from about 20-65!
Each term runs for 8 weeks and each class focuses on different moves, tricks, drills, transitions and concepts. Classes don’t add on to each other so you can join at any time although, people who come more regularly do start to get comfortable in the hula hoop and begin to pick things up a little quicker.
Donna Sparx is a professional hula hoop dancer who is passionate about bringing the dance into the hoop and sharing the freedom found in play and flow. Recognised globally for her creativity, innovation, flow facilitation and playful approach, she has shared the hoopla with thousands of people aged 2 to 72! Donna has performed with the Women’s Circus and at many festivals and events. She brings a passion and playfulness to her work that is infectious. Her motto: Do it ‘til you can.
What to bring: All hoops provided. BYO playfulness, water bottle and wear comfy clothes.
Web: www.hoopsparx.com.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hoopsparx
Instagram: @donnasparx
BOOKINGS HERE

THE THINKING BODY with Shona Innes. Alexander Technique lessons, Experiential Anatomy and Todd Alignment are Shona's areas of expertise.
2020 by appointment. Shona's website. Shona 0421285338 or shona.alextech@gmail.com

HOLISTIC MASSAGE by appointment with Victoria Bonte. Phone for a booking.

Victoria's massages are great! I fall asleep every time, it's so relaxing.
Meredith

I love relaxing in the sea of sensation that Victoria's massage creates in me.
John