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CVI Weekend for Experienced Students


  • 230 Arroyo Road Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA, 94938 United States (map)

Folks performing at Rewilding the Voice Show @ Point Reyes Dance Palace, February 2020

This weekend is now fully booked. To put yourself on the mailing list, email info@brionygreenhill.com


Hello dear ones! O I have SO loved working with you over the past many years.

It’s a huge adventure to return to California now that I’m woven into a 3. But we’re coming.

This is a weekend of creativity for folks who have worked with vocal improvisation a lot already.

We’ll warm up and connect, familiarise ourselves with the folks we don’t know, and then spend the weekend luxuriating in a variety of small and large group forms for swimming in vocal improvisation together. Music, music, music.

Please bring what you need for lunch and snacks;

Teas will be provided.


Timing

Saturday arrive 10am for a 10.15 start.

Sunday arrive 10.45 for an 11am start

Each day, we’ll be done by 4.45pm for a 5pm departure.

Travel Details

Directions:

Follow directions to Arroyo Rd.  When Arroyo makes a Y, veer left.  After the Y, we are the second driveway on your right.  Go up the long drive, we are the first gate on the right.

Opening the gate:

Before you get to the gate, on the opposite/creek side of the driveway (nowhere near the gate) is a black post with a keypad on it.  The code is 3211#

Parking:

Feel free to park in our parking area.  If that is full, please go back down the long drive and park on Arroyo Rd.  Please do NOT park on the long driveway that we share with our neighbors, to keep our neighbors happy! 

Arriving to the Ceremony Room:

From the parking area, walk so that the 2 story home is on your right hand side.  Go through the fence gate with the wisteria-covered arch.  Walk straight down the path, there will be a red building on your left, and a green-tiled roof building to your right.  The ceremony room is in the red building, the last door on your left.  Come on in!


Cost and Registration

Tier 1     $325

Tier 2     $225

Tier 3     $125

We invite you in integrity to select your tier, we don’t assess you.

Payment plans are available: email info@brionygreenhill.com to arrange something that works for you.

Please Register Here:

and Pay Directly by Venmo or Paypal:

Venmo @Briony-Greenhill

Paypal brionygmusic@gmail.com

Booking 2 weekends? $50 off.


Tier 1 - $600

Tier 2 - $400

Tier 1 - $200

Briony Greenhill is “one of the world’s leading proponents of collaborative vocal improvisation (CVI)” - The Guardian.

CVI is the art of co-creating vocal music in the moment. Here is a short film about Briony’s teaching. Briony is in the lineage of Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Joey Blake and others, and holds the transformational aspects of the art form with skill and care.

Briony is a co-founder of The Well Global Vocal Improvisation Network, and the UK Vocal Improvisation Festival.

She has released 4 entirely improvised albums. Her debut studio album took improvisations and reproduced them adding instrumentation in the studio: Crossing the Ocean featured in The Guardian, Mojo, Radio 3, Woman’s Hour and more.

Briony teaches vocal musicianship from beginner to advanced levels, while also honouring the spiritual, ritual and therapeutic application of CVI. She is a qualified SomaSource Leader; a “psycho-spiritual educator, artist, activist and healer who has an integrated understanding of how to creatively work in developmentally attuned ways with diverse people throughout life’s cycles.” You can read more about Briony’s teaching values, Vocal Musicianship Trainings, and a history of vocal improvisation in the American tradition here.

Students have said:

“One of the most powerful experiences of my life! I feel changed on a cellular level!” (ok it was a 4 day retreat not a weekend…)

“Briony really made us all feel at home – starting off with exercises that didn’t force me outside of my comfort zone, and a no judgement pact, really allowed me to feel comfortable with the group, which then gave me the confidence to try out some solos.”

“It was seriously fun, crazy, inspiring, opening and meditative, all at the same time.”

“Some singing teachers teach you sing with your voice. Briony teaches you to sing with your heart and sing from your soul.”

“You made it feel like a womb. Protected, loved, nourished, warm and holding.”

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