BODY VOICE CENTRE

Working towards a kindness pandemic.

Welcome,
we are open again

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
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...

ZUMBA on Monday mornings. For all information contact Ying Ying: 0424870708

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 with Tess Healy
The dates for first classes back in 2021 are:
MONDAY the 4th of January
Yoga Nidra at 7:30pm
SATURDAY the 9th of January
Flow & Yin Yoga at 9:30am
SUNDAY the 10th of January
Restorative Yoga at 6pm
Timetable + Bookings
For more info contact Tess: Phone, email, Website
Slowing down / making space for rest.
Thank you for being a part of my online yoga classes over these last 9 months. Connecting together virtually through yoga and meditation, has been such a precious gift for me this year. In the midst of many big changes and shifts, having this community to connect with each week has been so special and nurturing.
So, in reverence to the practices of slowing down, resting and integrating, classes will be taking a little break over the holiday period. The final sessions for 2020 will be (all times are AEDT): SATURDAY the 19th of December
Flow & Yin Yoga at 9:30am
SUNDAY the 20th of December
Restorative Yoga at 6pm
MONDAY the 21st of December
Yoga Nidra at 7:30pm In the new year, online classes will be re-commencing, so please feel welcome to tune in whenever you have the space. Also, if there are any additional times or sessions you’d like to see in the new year, just let me know. :)
The dates for first classes back in 2021 are:
MONDAY the 4th of January
Yoga Nidra at 7:30pm
SATURDAY the 9th of January
Flow & Yin Yoga at 9:30am
SUNDAY the 10th of January
Restorative Yoga at 6pm
Timetable + Bookings
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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Simon Faulkner

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

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

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.