Podcast appearances and mentions of marisa michelson

How do we express aliveness and honesty through our voices? How do our relationships with moving, interruptions, and presence help in the journey of finding authenticity through the sounds our voices make?I feel blessed to record this conversation with Marisa Michelson. Marisa has been building a body of work that examines singing through the multidimensionality of the human being / becoming. When I first found Marisa's work, I was stunned that someone has not only asked the questions I grapple with at various points in my journey, but has sincerely explored them with the devotion, love, and skill they deserve. In this conversation, we discussed Marisa's process with composing music, teaching, and exploring the voice in service of freer singing, healing, self-growth, sexuality, and spiritual inquiry. We explored non-verbal expressions, feeling saturated with life, the connections between limitation and liberation, and the practice of presence.To connect with Marisa:Marisa's websiteListen to Marisa's music Sappho Fragments and Tamar of The River.Vocal De-Armoring Community Weekend on Oct. 25-27th, 2024 in Ancram, NYThe Vocal De-Armoring Channel on Mighty NetworksJoin Marisa's newsletter at the bottom of this page to hear more about her upcoming workshop on Primal ScreamingHere's Marisa's bio: Marisa is a multiple award-winning composer of music-theatre, musicals, oratorio and choral works, and was the founding director of the psychedelic vocal performance ensemble Constellation Chor | an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit which performed throughout New York City and international for seven years, debuting a new music composition with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center in 2018. Her musicals have been produced off-Broadway, her oratorio was performed many times in NYC and in Salt Lake City, and you may hear some of her music wherever music streams. Marisa has been obsessed with all the magic that is the singing, voice-giving, expressive human for over two decades, exploring the uniqueness of solo, ensemble and multiply interweaving voices as a composer, a performer and a sought after somatic singing teacher. Somehow, voice-giving and its relation to the body, spirit and psyche has continued to call her forward - no matter the musical genre, and beyond any binary between performance and healing, composition and improvisation, process and product. After almost two decades of devotion to the Libero Canto School of Singing (a primary lineage of hers), she created the School of Vocal De-Armoring, a somatic and holistic approach to working with singing and voice-giving in a way that connects us more intimately with the layered dimensions of Self. Vocal De-Armoring is not focused on particular aesthetic sound outcomes, though aesthetic improvement - which is subjective - is an important byproduct, but, instead, on self-connection and on learning to sing from a place of honesty. At the same time, Vocal De-Armoring practices help a person develop musical and vocal mastery. Vocal De-Armoring is also about de-conditioning, and Human-ing from a place of Truth. Marisa lives, works, plays and teaches in Ancram on Mohican land in upstate New York. If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

4/16/24: John Pucci: Trump's trial. THE Mash-up: Y@H, Pride Chorus, Children's Choir & The Best Thing Ever. The monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy. Mohawk Trail Regional School District. Poetry & song with Rich & Marisa Michelson & Kinga Cserjési, coming to Bombyx.

4/16/24: John Pucci: Trump's trial. THE Mash-up: Y@H, Pride Chorus, Children's Choir & The Best Thing Ever. The monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy. Mohawk Trail Regional School District. Poetry & song with Rich & Marisa Michelson & Kinga Cserjési, coming to Bombyx.

4/16/24: John Pucci: Trump's trial. THE Mash-up: Y@H, Pride Chorus, Children's Choir & The Best Thing Ever. The monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy. Mohawk Trail Regional School District. Poetry & song with Rich & Marisa Michelson & Kinga Cserjési, coming to Bombyx.

4/16/24: John Pucci: Trump's trial. THE Mash-up: Y@H, Pride Chorus, Children's Choir & The Best Thing Ever. The monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy. Mohawk Trail Regional School District. Poetry & song with Rich & Marisa Michelson & Kinga Cserjési, coming to Bombyx.

What insights can we glean from Mars, Venus, and Pluto about desires and needs? How might we expand our ideas of what it means to be human within an ecosystem of an alive universe through the lens of Aquarius?Recorded for the week of 02.12.24, I share some thoughts about how contemplations can assist us in cultivating grounded sight. I then share some reflections on the Mars and Venus conjoining Pluto, as well as Mercury squaring Uranus during the coming week. References mentioned:Kristin Mathis on Pluto and the underworldMy conversation with Katie Dove and Marisa Michelson on Ep. 125: HeartSongAstrological lineup:Tue 02.13 Venus (Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (Pisces); Mars enters AquariusWed 02.14 Mars conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Thurs 02.15 Mercury (Aquarius) sextiles North Node (Aries)Fri 02.16 Mercury (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus)Sat 02.17 Venus conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Sun 02.18 Sun enters Pisces If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to work with me, I encourage you to check out my 1:1 offerings. I offer single sessions and long term work.Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

What does it mean to sing from the etheric heart? Who do we become as we listen to the stories, sensations, and sounds that live in our hearts? How do we reclaim our desires through liberating our voices?Join Katie Dove, Marisa Michelson, and me for a profound conversation that explores the relationship between the heart and the voice. Marisa and Katie are creating their first collaboration, HeartSong, which weaves and alchemizes their profound connections to spirit and music, as well as the decades of experience in their respective private practices of guiding others back into their authentic selves.We discussed our personal experiences coming home to our authentic voices, the fear responses that singing can bring up, and the difference between desires and needs.Marisa and Katie brought such aliveness, curiosity, reverence, and playfulness to our conversation. It was the first time the three of us gathered for a conversation and we immediately settled into a womb-like energetic space where time flowed freely like a river. It was deep and jovial.Learn more about HeartSong here. The journey begins on February 14, 2024 and Sunrise special pricing is available through February 7, 2024. Here's Katie Dove's bio:Katie Dove is a somatic therapist, intuitive guide, healer, and mystic, who has been exploring esoteric teachings and mystery schools for over two decades.Her gatherings and teachings are an alchemy of what she is fascinated by and often working with in the moment. Weaving together a tapestry of collected wisdom and personally cultivated modalities, Katie invites exploration through touch, voice, vibration, sound, dance, and movement. Through this inquiry, as well as investigating habits, freedom of choice, and expressiveness, she helps to illuminate the profound interplay between our senses and the world around us, unraveling the secrets of our whole being.Curiosity has Katie captivated by sensation as a sacred language and a path to awakening. She guides her clients and students towards an empowered embodiment, teaching one's body and mind to allow the inner wisdom to shape their external reality, rather than the opposite. In this way, they reclaim sovereignty over their own being.Katie shares valuable insights on cultivating resilience and shine light on the vital practice of self-regulation within the nervous system, illuminating the path toward balance and well-being. She encourages the attunement of one's internal potency and magnetism to attract people, activities, and communities that support and align with their true nature. Creating intimacy - a space for sharing deep connection and a sense of belonging - is Katie's passion. To witness the embrace of presence in people's lives fills her heart with joy.Curiosity is her guide, leading Katie on a lifelong journey of learning. She finds delight in delving into anatomy, often geeking out on its intricate wonders. In her free time, you'll find Katie tending to her garden and crafting by hand. With a profound reverence for the ancient ways, primitive skills, and wisdom of the old, she is driven to infuse these timeless traditions into modern expressions, honoring the roots while embracing the present.Find Katie on her website and Instagram.Here's Marisa Michelson's bio: Marisa is known for helping people of all ages and backgrounds sing with more ease, freedom, authenticity, joy, and skill. She has been teaching singing as a path of liberation for twenty years. She is the creator of The School of Vocal De-Armoring™ and Somatic Singing Pedagogy, an offshoot of the Libero Canto School. The Libero Canto Approach was first developed by Lajos Szamosi in Budapest before World War II. This holistic, process-oriented approach rooted in the Western Classical Tradition is her primary pedagogical lineage.Marisa has worked successfully with professional and non-professional singers, many of whom come to her after experiencing extreme pain when speaking, or frequent voice loss, and others who want to explore voice as life-force energy and for purposes of their own aliveness and self-expression.She also works successfully with singers with certain vocal injuries, and those who need a teacher who is able to tune into and work with their nervous system states as well as their bodies, psyches and spirits, in the service of holistically healing an injury that has deep roots.Marisa founded and directed the NYC-based embodied vocal-performance ensemble, Constellation Chor || an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit for ten years. She is also an accomplished and award-winning composer working at the nexus of theatre, experimental music, opera, new music, and improvisation.She was trained classically as a pianist, received her B.F.A from NYU (Tisch) in Musical Theatre and has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from the Embody Lab. She finished a year-long Akashic Records mentorship with Leah Garza. She has Anthroposophy, Tibetan Buddhism, Circling, and neo-tantra. Being in intimate relationship with singing is my life's passion, encompassing all.Find Marisa on her website, her personal Instagram, and Vocal De-Armoring's Instagram. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to work with me, I encourage you to check out my 1:1 offerings. I offer single sessions and long term work.Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

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 StudioThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Summary In this episode Kimberly and Marisa discuss vocalizing, breathing, and various similarities between singing and somatics. Marisa shares her evolution as a singer and how somatics, embodiment, and understanding her nervous system was fundamental to embracing her natural sound. They also describe how they began working with each other, how creating sound is an embodied practice, and various ways to create our own authentic sound both mechanically and metaphorically.   Bio Marisa Michelson is a composer, vocal coach and accomplished award winner at the nexus of theatre, experimental music, opera, new music, and improvisation. She is the Director and Founder of Constellation Chor, has taught various renowned workshops, earned her B.F.A. from NYU in Musical Theater, and is a former yoga instructor. Marisa is currently working on her upcoming book “Free: The Embodied Metaphysics of Singing” as well as various workshops that combine vocalizing and nervous system healing.    What She Shares: –Her background in singing and performing –Similarities between singing and somatic experiencing –Bodily mechanics and spiritual metaphors of vocalizing –Voice pitch and gender/authority  –How our sounds are ancestral   What You'll Hear: –Language similarities between somatic experiencing, embodiment, and vocalizing/singing –Kimberly and Marisa discuss their lessons together –Background in singing, music, and theatre –Coming home to self before performing as a break from tradition in singing/performing –Singing as a genuine way of connecting with self and embodied practice –Paradigm shift while working with singers and composing music after new embodied practice –Founding and codifying music and somatics –Differences in voice pitch in relation to gender and authority –Bodily experience of owning and accepting one's own voice –Practice of valuing what comes out authentically and is internal not changing for external –Various breathing practices prioritize particular ways to breathe but depends on flexibility and context –Having presence and self-awareness with whatever emotions come in singing, speaking, living –Element of control in breathing doesn't allow free relationship to own voice and sound –Authentic expression –Practice “letting go” of breath instead of controlling –Infinite ways for diaphragm to move with sound –Touch and gentle tapping in breath-work for more subtle movement of diaphragm –Magic in the letting go and surrendering of breath and less of controlling in big inhaling of the breath –Existing in a gentler space through breath –Ancestral sounds and imitation versus authenticity –Lack of ritual and ceremony in community in hyper-individualistic culture –Bringing attention to the body and honoring the body –Infinite human sounds existing in our bodies –Our bodies and sounds are ancestral –Artists Marisa enjoys –Music genres as cultures –Upcoming classes and workshops on voice and nervous system   Resources Website: https://www.marisamichelsonvocalstudio.com/

What’s in a poo? Shawn Shafner, the Puru (Artist, Educator, Activist), proves to Laika and Albie that poop is worth its weight in gold! Well, maybe not gold, but it’s got a lot more going for it than we think. You’ll never think of a #2 the same way again! Shawn Shafner is an artist, educator and activist. Creator of The People's Own Organic Power Project (www.thePOOPproject.org), he catalyzes conversation about sustainable sanitation for every pooper from preschool to college, from the floor of the UN to the mountains of Rwanda. In his other lives, Shawn teaches meditation and mindful creativity, leads movement classes through the lineage of acclaimed choreographer Tamar Rogoff, sings with Marisa Michelson’s Constellation Chor Ensemble, tells stories to young children and their families, and develops arts-integrated curriculum for learners of all ages. He loves to ferment vegetables and foment revolution of the heart against business as usual. Join in the fun! shawn at thepoopproject.org Featuring Tessa Hersh, Liz Gerger, Matthew S Starr & Shawn Shafner Edited by an Arthure Sorrentino Produced & Written by Alec Plasker Produced & Researched by Kate Downey Get to school with SpaceBus! An educational adventure podcast with a mission to launch kids to school, even if their desk is the kitchen table. This free remote learning resource helps parents & teachers start their kids’ school day by replacing the physical transition of a school bus ride with a wild audio journey. Kids board the SpaceBus every morning with new friends Laika, Albie and their SpaceBus Driver Gordy, plus real scientific experts. With mysterious riddles to solve, active episodes to get kids moving in the morning, and genuinely amazing scientific knowledge, SpaceBus gets the fuel burnin’ and their brains learnin’!

Photo by Bridget Badore for the 14th Street Y | @bridgetbadore Shawn Shafner is an artist, educator and activist. Creator of The People's Own Organic Power Project (www.thePOOPproject.org), he has catalyzed conversation about sustainable sanitation from NYC's largest wastewater treatment plant to the United Nations. Shawn's solo show An Inconvenient Poop was a Time Out NY Critic’s Pick and won him the 2015 NY International Fringe Festival Award for Overall Excellence in Solo Performance. Other major POOP works include the feature documentary Flush, family musical Innie / Outie, and monthly episodes of SHHH: The Poopcast (aka Shit and Shame with Shawn). His new show, Assume the Throne, is currently touring living rooms across the USA. Shawn was a 2005 Spielberg Fellow, 2014-15 LABA Fellow, 2014-15 iLAND/LMCC resident (featured in their book, A Field Guide to iLANDing), 2017 Global Social Impact House fellow through UPenn's Center for Social Impact Strategy, a 2017 Performing Arts Legacy Fellow, 2018 National Fellow through the Environmental Leaders Program, and is a member of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation's ROI Community. Outside of The POOP Project, Shawn pursues work that invites human interaction and connection. Community-based projects include The Clap (with Laura Silver), art walks for Jane's Walks NYC and Elastic City (featured in their forthcoming book), and Latch/Attach commissioned by the World Policy Institute and Fourth Arts Block and exhibited at Cooper Union. An accomplished theatre artist, Shawn's performances have graced New York Stages from Madison Square Garden to Joe's Pub, and venues around the world including the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, and Harpa Concert Hall in Iceland. He has sung with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center alongside Marisa Michelson's Constellation Chor (of whom he is a founding member), and spent the summer of 2017 in residence at the Art Monastery Project, directing a new play about white supremacy. Shawn teaches movement through the lineage of acclaimed choreographer Tamar Rogoff, tells original stories for young children and their families, develops arts-integrated curriculum, and is devoted to manifesting a world of creativity, mindfulness and joy. Shawn in his 2015 award-winning solo show, An Inconvenient Poop, directed by Annie G. Levy. Photo by Ellise Lesser Spring 2018, Shawn created a two-part performance, beginning at the Soil Symposium hosted by the University of California at Santa Cruz, and ending at the Follow the Flush Wastewater Walk in Santa Cruz produced by Fictilis. During The Sum of My Soil Part 1: Realization of the Grotesque Body, Shawn baked his own body weight in mud cakes, and led participants in contemplation of the body's form and impermanence (traditional Paṭikkūlamanasikāra meditation). In The Sum of My Soil Part 2: Earth Witness, Shawn retold the story of Siddartha Gautama becoming the enlightened Buddha by naming the earth as his witness, and thus claiming his right to enlightenment. Visitors were reminded that they, too, are worthy of the space allotted them, and each person was gifted a mud cake. Sprinkled with native seeds, audiences were invited to plant the cakes or allow them to dissolve in a final gesture of embodied impermanence. Photo by Timothy Furstnau.

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In Episode 507 of the Something New podcast, award-winning songwriter Joel B. New sat down with Louisa Proske, Founding Co-Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera. Now entering its third season, Heartbeat Opera transforms great works of the operatic canon through visionary adaptations, radical arrangements for chamber ensembles, and intimate, visceral productions that put the singers and the instrumentalists at the center of the work. Heartbeat distills opera to its essence, and cultivates new audiences for the art form. Heartbeat Opera's Spring Festival runs May 20-28 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York, featuring two fully produced, premiere adaptations of opera in repertory: Bizet's Carmen (directed by Proske) and Puccini's Madama Butterfly (directed by fellow Founding Co-Artistic Director Ethan Heard). For tickets, visit heartbeatopera.org. For the live song portion of the episode, Joel revisits his musical setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, "Travel." Performed by Joshua Hinck, Charlie Levy, and Allison Mickelson. Originally aired on the web series "New Works Wednesdays" in March 2015. This interview was recorded live at Pearl Studios in NYC.

You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce recently had its world premiere at The Flea Theater in New York. The play consisted of four actors playing their parents in verbatim conversations each actor had with his or her parent or parents about the parents' divorces. Following the performances, the company presented a series of Salon Nights, in which artists created new monologues or songs from audience responses, online comments, and interviews. This episode features some of that material. First up, is a new monologue by New Yorker scribe Michael Schulman, performed by Michael and his sister Alyssa Schulman, for which he interviewed their grandmother about a divorce that they didn't know that she had. Then Kamara Thomas sings a song called "Onions" that she wrote about a break-up. Lastly, Jason Grote (one of our R&D Group writers and a staff writer on Smash) and his writing partner Marisa Michelson present an original song crafted from online responses performed by Marisa. For more, please visit http://www.thecivilians.org.To leave a comment, please visit The Civilians' blog http://blogforthecivilians.blogspot.com/!