4.30pm - 8.30pm 27, 28 29 January 2026 @ San Geronimo Valley, West Marin
Vocal Improvisation is a powerful transformative healing modality, alone and with others. This has become such a central topic in my teaching over the 15 years that I’ve been a vocal improvisation teacher that I’m using this trip to the U.S. as a time to write a book about it.
In this 3 evening workshop, I will share a suite of healing forms for doing vocal improvisation alone and with others, and some guidance for ethical practice as a facilitator. And we will do them, together.
This is brave work. To be clear, these are forms I would normally teach in the second week onwards of a year-long course. Now, to share this work while I briefly visit California, we’ll do it in 3 evenings.
We’ll lay ground rules for safe relating and then dive in. We must hold all this with confidentiality.
This is for people with experience of vocal improvisation. You can’t access these forms if you’re new to the art form. You need to be experienced with free collaborative vocal improvisation, improvising with words, and able to sing in tune and keep a beat.
My hope is that it supports your healing directly through the immediate experience, and also gives you tools to bring back to your vocal improvisation collaborations and communities so that you can return to these forms again and again over… potentially over your musical lifetime. It takes agreement from a whole group to turn towards healing in this way. It’s possible and it supports depth, power and intimacy in groups - it can act as a glue. Because you become more than a singing community, you become not a mens group or a women’s group but a humans group, a wellspring, a place you can come to again and again to drink from the well of kindness, community, mutual support, the the profound nourishment of singing together.
Details
Cost
Tier 1 $450
Tier 2 $350
Tier 3 $250
Please select your tier in integrity, you will not be assessed.
How to Pay
Please pay directly, also please register using the button below.
Venmo @Briony-Greenhill
Paypal brionygmusic@gmail.com
Payment plans are fine. Email info@brionygreenhill.com and propose something that works for you.
Booking 2 courses? 10% off. 3 Courses? 15% off. 4 Courses? 20 off!
About Briony Greenhill
Briony is a highly experienced, internationally recognised teacher of collaborative vocal improvisation. As a student, vocal improvisation brought up much of her trauma and provided a support rope for her to navigate this difficult terrain - with singing.
As a teacher, then, it didn’t surprise her when the same happened for her students. For over 10 years she’s endeavoured to find ways to hold an ethical, kind and skillful container to share this artform whilst also holding the human experience with care.
Students have said things like:
“It was deeper than an ayahuasca ceremony, I grew more than in workshops with leading psychologists, and it’s the safest I’ve ever felt in a group.”
- Robin
“I have suffered with depression and all sorts of stuff for always. And I genuinely think now that I have released something monumental. I feel as if this black mass that I’ve carried all my life has lifted. I’m just a new, different person. It’s really extraordinary, really really really.” - S
Since finding herself holding this depth of space for people, Briony subsequently did a 2 year Somasource training with Dr Melissa Michaels. “SomaSource LifeCycle Practitioners are psycho-spiritual educators, artists, activists, and healers who have an integrated understanding of how to creatively work in developmentally attuned ways with diverse people throughout life’s cycles. They are initiated adults who embody what they teach, offering transformative learning opportunities through the arts of body, heart, and soul, for people in different stages of human development. Each practitioner is adept at tracking the relationship between the body and the Spirit, creating culturally sensitive experiences that inspire individuals to feel at home within themselves along with feeling a part of the Cosmos, the Mystical.”
Briony has also done a month long IFS (Internal Family Systems) residential with the Cultural Catalyst Nework, a good deal of somatic trauma healing, womb surround, as well as Vision Quest and nature based healing work. Briony has been holding grief rituals in the Dagara tradition since 2015, after a 3 year apprenticeship with Sobonfu Some. So between dance, 1:1 therapy, singing, healthy grief, initiation and IFS therapy, Briony at last finds herself regulated, able to love securely, able to parent calmly, able to hold others through a variety of human experiences with calm and understanding.
She weaves all of this life experience into the way she holds space for the human element of vocal improvisation. For 5 years Briony collaborated with The Elements - Shay Nichols, Chrisopher Kuntzsch, Green Huse and Sam Rogers. Many of those folks are therapists and coaches so the quintet evolved and created many forms using vocal improvisation for mutual support and healing.
These forms are a rich library of resources for folks interested in staying steady with a group of collaborators, and going deep.
As Manda Scott says, we all need to heal, right now. So this is a training into how to weave healing into your CVI communities and collaborations, for those who love singing, and vocal improvisation, it’s a beautiful, beautiful pathway to healing and growth.
Welcome.