Episode 663: Using Our Voices to Heal with Marisa Michelson

Marisa Michelson is a singer and singing teacher, an award-winning composer, and the founding director of the embodied vocal-performance ensemble, Constellation Chor which seeks wild embodiment through voice and body and has made a name for itself performing at such venues as Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, National Sawdust, Pioneer Works, and in Greece and Iceland.With Constellation Chor, Marisa has developed a practice for connecting to Self and Other via group voice and movement improvisation, a practice that she teaches to all humans (not just professional artists) and calls Core Sounding™.She recently completed a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing from the Embody Lab which is part of what has inspired her to be in direct conversation with therapists and somatic healers. Marisa is working on her first book, currently entitled “Free: The Embodied Metaphysics of Singing” www.marisamichelsonvocalstudio.comAs a voice teacher, Marisa has taught Broadway stars, opera singers, and people who have never sung before but who know that singing is their birthright. Her perspective is grounded in the Libero Canto© Approach which was first developed by Lajos Szamosi in Budapest before World War II and is her primary pedagogical lineage.Marisa is a student of Tantra and Circling, and has done one on one voice work at the Center for Motivation and Change with humans who struggle with addiction.In This EpisodeMarisa’s websiteMarisa’s Vocal StudioBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.---Thank you to our Sponsors: Jane App - use code GUY1MO at https://janesoftware.partnerlinks.io/ngvcwcxqt2jx-4afv8i (https://jane.app/book_a_demo)Beducated - Complete the quiz for one month free https://beduc.at/pd2633-traumatherapist