These sessions invite you into deep listening, bringing awareness to the sensations that arise when you express your voice, supporting your natural ability to release and return to a state of balance. Sessions are trauma informed and can include movement, focused breath, somatic enquiry, self holding, co-regulating touch, sounding, toning, melodic mantra and vocal improvisation, depending on what’s alive in the group..

Whether you identify as a singer or someone curious about the resonance of your body and vocal sounds, your voice is a resource for health and wellbeing and a pathway into an intimate relationship with your own creative source. The Voice Sanctuary offers you the space to explore and play safely with other voices where the emphasis is not on making great music (although sometimes this happens) but on expressing honest sounds through which a sense of wholeness and connection can emerge.

Sessions can be booked individually or as a series.

Saturday 22 July from 2.30-4.30pm

A place of refuge for your body and voice, where you can hang out safely, embrace the mystery and intuit your soul's song.

This is my first offering in the Stroud area since moving here a year ago. This session will bring you into deeper listening, bringing awareness to the sensations that arise through the expressions of your voice, supporting your natural ability to release and return to a state of balance.

Whether you identify as a singer or someone curious about the resonance of your body and vocal sounds, your voice can be a resource for health and wellbeing and a pathway into an intimate relationship with your own creative source and community.

Intentionally small group - booking essential.

Sundays 10-11am starting 13th March 2022

13, 20, 27 March (free taster sessions)

10, 24, April, 1, 8, 22 May, 5 June (6 Session Course)

The Lotus Retreat, 2 London Street, Faringdon SN7 7AA

Awaken your body through sound and discover the power of sounding, chanting and embodied singing with others in safety.

There is an emphasis on vocal freedom, self expression, and inner-outer connections.

No experience is needed, just a curiosity to connect with your voice and discover the many health benefits of engaging your voice in this way.

All voices are welcome.

Taster sessions are free (come to one or all of them) Thereafter, £12 per session or £60 for 6 sessions if paid upfront.

Booking essential as spaces are limited.

Fortnightly · Tuesday Evening · Drop In ·

7 - 8.30pm

Starting 29 March 2022

(then 12, 26 April, 10, 24 May, 7 June)

St Albans Hall, Charles Street, Oxford, OX4 3AH

A 6 week drop in for those who wish to express their own natural voice and discover the mystery and healing power of sounding with others.

A deep yet playful space where you can feel safe and supported to drop a little deeper into yourself through movement, gentle breath work, vocal play and sound expression.

As a group we enter deep listening together, we use structures from Collaborative Vocal Improvisation to weave vocal sounds and co-create soundscapes, uncovering beautiful, raw, wild and imperfect human music.

There is an emphasis on vocal freedom, self expression, and inner-outer connections.

No experience is needed, just a curiosity to connect with and express your voice with others. All voices are welcome.

Tuesday 8 March 2022 · 7-8.30pm

St Albans Hall, Charles Street, Oxford, OX4 3AH

This is a co-created workshop with Namvula an inspirational friend, mother and musician.

We will be inviting you to explore what it means to be ‘woman’ through gentle movement, breath and vocal play, uncovering you’re unique expression. The session will involve deep listening and the joyful creation of collaborative vocal music with each other.

No singing experience necessary · All voices welcome · Booking Essential

Ticket Price: Regular £12/ Concession £9 /Abundant £15 (please self select)

Group size will be limited to 10 participants.

For bookings and more information call Sarah Jane on 07788668640 or

email: heathsarahjane@gmail.com

Friday 11th March 2022

Stroud Goddess Temple. Basement, 50 London Road, GL5 2AD Stroud

An evening of soothing reconnection to our resonant bodies, our voices and to each other as part of the Stroud Sisterhood International Women's Week.

I am partnering with Varvara Mexi (musician, vocal improvisor and facilitator) in an invitation to slow down, drop a little deeper, and explore your unique expression through gentle movement, breath and vocal play. We will guide you into a vocal sound bath where you can discover for yourself your capacity to restore balance and healing energy through collaborative vocal sounds and music making with each other.

No singing experience necessary · All voices welcome

Group size will be limited to 6 participants therefore booking is essential. this is a free event, any donations will go to Stroud Women’s Refuge and The Goddess Temple.

For bookings please send a DM to Varvara Mexi on facebook or text her on 07935 710591.

Alternatively email: taramexis@gmail.com

Saturday 19th March 2022 · 10.30-2.30

Workshop to explore the Celtic Horse Goddess Rhiannon through drum journey, voice & improvisation.

Rhiannon is a magical being - earthy, passionate, smart, regal and a powerful healer. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to make a personal relationship with Rhiannon, and claim her as a source of power and inspiration in your life.

We invite you to take a guided drum journey straight to ‘the horse’s mouth’ and then explore what happens when we let this vibration come through us, giving voice to a more grounded, authentic version of ourselves.

I’m delighted to be partnering with Jackie Singer, storyteller, musician, drama therapist and shamanic practitioner who will be digging into her magic bag to share some of the practices she used in her own creative process in the making of Rhiannon Unbridled (which Jackie will be performing the night before) .

Together we will offer a safely held space in which to work with story, embodied movement and voice. We aim for it to be fun, creative, improvisational, celebratory, surprising, investigative and nourishing.

NB This workshop accompanies the one-woman show Rhiannon Unbridled. It is recommended that you see the show before coming to a workshop.

Sunday 5 December 2021

4.30 - 7 pm · The Lotus Retreat

An evening of rest, connection and natural voice exploration for women in the local area.

This time of year invites us to slow down, to look inwards and listen more deeply to our intuition. Together we will drop into the darkest season of the year and revel in the power of night, of being together and discovering expression for the natural, authentic sounds of our voice.

We will combine slow movement, gentle breath work and voice expression to enter deep listening together, weaving sound and co-creating sound scapes, with the potential to uncover beautiful, raw, wild and imperfect human music.

Booking essential as spaces are limited.

East Oxford · Tuesday 14 December 2021

6.30-9pm. Venue TBC

An evening of rest, connection and natural voice exploration for women in East Oxford.

This time of year invites us to slow down, to look inwards and listen more deeply to our intuition. Together we will drop into the darkest season of the year and revel in the power of being together, discovering expression of the natural, authentic sounds of our voice.

We will combine slow movement, gentle breath work and voice expression to enter deep listening together, weaving sound and co-creating sound scapes, with the potential to uncover beautiful, raw, wild and imperfect human music.

Booking essential as spaces are limited.

Wednesday 26th January 2022 · 10.30am to 12

5 Week course at the Ashcroft Centre, 21 Ashcroft Rd, Cirencester, GL7 1RA

I’m deleighted to be partnering with Siobhan Nolan who I met whilst learning about Collaborative Vocal Improvisation with Briony Greenhill. Siobhan’s passion for singing is infectious.

Come along to learn how to improvise with your voice and weave sound into wild and beautiful, human music.

We use games, self-expression and some circle singing to help participants build skills and confidence in their natural voice.

There is an emphasis on vocal freedom, self expression, and inner-outer connections.

No experience is needed, just a curiosity to connect with and express your voice with others. All voices are welcome.

First session free. Suggested donation thereafter, £5-£10

Booking essential as spaces are limited. here