Sunday May 19
10am-5pm
Seattle University
Vibrational Wake-Up: Giving Voice to New Possibilities
In this one-day workshop that intersects sound healing and voice work,
you can experience more joy by
amplifying your capacity to give and receive vibrations.
The desire to express yourself reflects your willingness to receive.
Your voice is a powerful instrument that knows intuitively how to harmonize with everything outside of your body. Whatever your relationship with your own voice, it’s possible to create more space and self-compassion so you can enjoy communicating with the world on a different level. Join us.
Is this for you?
This one-day voice workshop is for people who usually shy away from the spotlight, and also want to explore the boundaries of opening up in community.
Whether you want to fine-tune your communication skills, or gain more confidence with speaking and singing, you will come away with new ways to ground and calm yourself, gracefully dwell in the present moment, and playfully collaborate with others.
What you’ll learn
In this safe container, you’ll learn fun, freeing vocal and movement exercises that will help you release tension, tune up your instrument, and embrace a spontaneous approach to co-creating with others. The workshop incorporates practical/imaginative approaches as well as ancient wisdom traditions, designed to nourish your brain, body and spirit.
The day starts with a crystal singing bowl sound bath that invites deep relaxation and heightened listening. Transitioning into gentle movement, vocal toning and visualization prompts, you’ll then practice sharing your experience through journaling, speaking and improvised group singing. Throughout the day you’ll explore your personal resonance with the support of the crystal singing bowls. You’ll also have the opportunity to witness each others’ courage to listen deeply, attune to each other, and express your authentic self.
Meet your guides
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Judith Shahn is an internationally known Voice Practitioner, having taught in Wales, Scotland, Mexico and Brazil. She is a Senior Designated Linklater Voice teacher, in the method known as “Freeing the Natural Voice” and co-taught with Kristin Linklater for the last several years of her life. Judith has worked in the theatre most of her life as an actor and dialect/vocal coach as well as directing and adapting plays for the stage. What gives her joy is instant ensemble singing which she has shared in her teaching CD, Sing Together. Judith has worked with actors and with people in just about any profession, but particularly lawyers. She is a Senior Lecturer Emerita at the School of Drama (University of Washington) for 26 years, and is just finishing teaching her class, Persuasive Communication at the School of Law there for the last 8 years.
“This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression.” – Kristin Linklater
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Julia Francis is a sound healing practitioner, singer-songwriter and lifelong disciple of the vocal arts whose vibrations offer soul-level catharsis. With her voice and crystal alchemy bowls, she provides sacred sound experiences that create space for relaxation and profound inspiration. Julia offers private vocal attunement sessions that help people create space in the body for emotions to move and transform. Working with groups through workshops and retreats, Julia facilitates the practice of sacred sound-making for processing grief and working with the ancestors. Julia looks to her Celtic heritage, and studies with shamanic practitioners and sound healers across the globe to understand the power of the unseen.
“Working with clients who are seeking support to focus, ground and clear energetic blockages gives me the courage to sing about the brilliant light that shines from within and connects us all.” - Julia
“I walked away from my work with Julia understanding how important it feels for me to sing my emotions - grief, love, anticipation, etc. I've begun seeking out ways to better express myself through singing - thanks for that nudge :)”
- Workshop participant
“Judy is a masterful teacher who effortlessly opens me to joyful new possibilities of expressing myself.”
-Workshop participant
Workshop Details
Sunday, May 19, 10am-5pm
Lunch break 1-2pm (byo sack lunch)
Seattle University Fine Arts Building
901 12th Ave, Seattle, 98122
Workshop Fee: $200
Early-bird price: $175 until Apr 19
12 participants max
To register:
Venmo the full workshop fee to @Julia-Francis-4
and include a note with your email address and the phrase ‘Voice Workshop’.
You will receive a prompt confirmation.
All registration questions can be directed to juliafrancisnow@gmail.com
Cancellation policy: 48 hours notice for full refund.
Less than 48 hours notice will result in credit for future workshop.
****Group photos by Jay Lurie <3****