Finding Your Song

Songs are little houses in which our heart once lived. Within your subconscious sleeps an inner language- a library of wisdom, memory, and feeling catalogued in the words of songs, from lullabies to songs of love and longing.  Even if you think you don’t know any songs or have forgotten them all, your subconscious has been storing songs and their meanings since birth.
The power of Finding your Song is experiencing a new connection to yourself and to others. We will use songs and lyrics as a way to express and explore emotion and relationship. (Enrolling in pairs is encouraged, but optional.) 
If you have trouble listening to your own voice and/or the idea of getting up and singing in front of other people terrifies you, this workshop is for you. If you love to sing in front of other people and want to stretch yourself further, this workshop is for you. If you’re an actor who doesn’t consider yourself a singer and you want to experiment, this workshop is for you. And if you've been too shy to try, this is your opportunity to experience the power of connection through song. Please bring a pen and paper or your journal if you have one.

Friday March 6 ?12:00-2:30pm
Trinity Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall?
420 Melrose Ave. Santa Cruz
Instructor: Nancy Lunney Wheeler
Cost: $35.00
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Nancy Lunney Wheeler, MA, MFT, served for over 30 years as Director of Programs at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where she organized some 15,000 courses taught by over 5000 teachers over the years.  She continues to serve Esalen as Senior Advisor, and is a longtime member of its Board of Trustees. With a background in musical theatre in New York and Los Angeles, she has coached a number of well-known stage and film personalities, specializing in helping non-singers prepare for singing roles.  Out of this work, influenced by many years of Gestalt training, she developed her popular course at Esalen, Singing Gestalt, where she likewise specializes in working with people, musically inclined or not, using song and text as a way to express emotion and explore relationship.  Nancy lives in Santa Cruz where she continues to work with actors preparing for auditions and singing roles, as well as others interested in exploring personal expression through song.