Sing Your Best Song

Solo or In Collaboration

Forest Walks: These integrated and interactive forest walks that are designed to bring about a greater intimacy with the sentience of the plants and creatures that we dwell among. Identification of plants and plant properties, listening for bird song and observing other signs of forest dwellers, coupled with a visceral experience utilizing all the senses; help nurture a curiosity and this sense of connection. Participants glean both practical knowledge and potentially expanded ways to experience the natural world.

Staff Making Workshops: Making a staff involves aprocess of connecting with the energy of tree, making relationship with the branch or staff that is to be used, often anointing the wood with natural oil, and then working to create staffs that either represent what supports us or what we support. The staffs are then decorated in various ways with items or markings that fit the intention.

Listening, Seeing, Experiencing and Writing from the Perspective of Nature: A combination of guided walking meditation and movements that leads to embodying the essence of the observed. Writing, singing, or dancing, or a combination is then utilized as if speaking as the tree, creek, animal, bird, soil etc. Includes an opportunity for everyone to share in circle what the experience was like and what new insights may have occurred.

Collaborative Sounding and Song Writing: With an innate joy and playfulness that is contagious, Teresa creates a space that allows others to connect freely to their voices and creative self. Through guided meditation and play she encourages spontaneous sounds to flow, generating a collective sounding that can be both individually and collectively liberating. Each participant putting words to their unique sounds and then weaving it as a group into a collaborative work can take the workshop further.

Chi Kung and Meditation: Working in tandem with other artists, through a combination of Chi Kung movement, guided visualization or meditation, Teresa offers a gentle way to bring people to an inner space that is conducive for various styles of art expression and engagement. The meditations are tailored to fit the particular activity