Harmony Singing Retreat
with Rachel HolmesAbout the event:
Join a blissful harmony singing day at Braziers’s park this summer, and meet with others to share your voice in lively harmony singing.
We will meet in the Drawing Room and sing beautiful songs in full harmony, all taught by ear. Over the course of the day we will let the joy of singing songs together wake up our creative selves, working all the way up to expressing it in songs of our own making. The creative process can be elusive or even alien to us. What’s it like to hand over control to the spontaneous part of you that sees endless possibilities and loves to explore them? We will ease ourselves in with a morning of singing, vocal improvisation and creative reflection, then after a guided meditation we will spend the afternoon creating music together, or on our own. The goal is not the musical outcome, but to spend as much time as possible in the beautiful creative mindset and see where it goes. Bring writing that inspires you (a poem, story, your own writing…) to help spark your expression with a phrase or a single word.
So come where you will be looked after all day, with a beautiful room as our base, grounds to explore, and drinks, snacks and lunch all provided. There will be time to enjoy the grounds and work in small groups as well as letting rip in full harmonic chorus. We’ll experiment and work together to come up with new songs, even if you have no experience, to really enjoy the flowing creative process. You will leave feeling refreshed, uplifted and a little more creatively freed!
About the facilitator:
Rachel Holmes is a singer and choir leader based in Oxfordshire. She connects emotion, body and voice into powerful group singing. In 2019 she trained as a natural voice leader with Kate Valentine and currently runs natural voice song circles in Chilton and Cholsey. She completed Line Hilton’s singing teacher training in 2020 and completed her Foundation in Art Therapy at IATE in 2021. Rachel loves bringing these threads together into a holistic and uplifting experience of singing.
Costs:
Tickets at £95 per person including lunch and refreshments.
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