Learn with Briony
Hello Journey Person!
You’ve tried vocal improv and you love it. You’re on a journey to learn the forms, integrate CVI into your life, overcome your blocks, become really at home in your voice, and find your place in this world of vocal improvisation. Maybe you’re an Advanced Student.
I have 4 teaching pathways for you. You can explore them one at a time, or mix and match. You can journey at your own pace. You can take modules individually or make your own bundle.
Pathways
Sing sing sing sing sing. It’s not healing, it’s not music theory. It’s not about ritual. It’s vocal improvisation, pure and undiluted.
Musicianship taught through the voice, ear and body: an aural musicianship pedagogy. Rhythm, Melody, Harmony taught levels 1-4. The solid roots you need to feel really at home and creatively empowered in music.
Vocal improv brings up so much inner material: here we use healing forms to meet it. We honour the spiritual dimensions of the artform, learn about ritual in the context of Earth-Based Spirituality, connect with nature through our voices and become Ritual Singers.
Vocal Improvisation mixed with IFS therapy. We connect with our wholeness through singing; we meet and sing our parts, alone and together. We duet and collaboratively improvise with our inner ecology of parts, and support one another as we heal, grow, and liberate our voices from whatever holds them back.
Past Student’s Thoughts
“I’ve loved every minute of working with you and I think all instrumental students should do this. In fact I wish every person could experience this way of being. I have taught music at the conservatory level and at the early childhood level; at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Levine School of Music, The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts, etc. I trained in Juilliard, New York in Dalcroze Eurhyrhmics, a Swiss body-based approach to teaching and developing musicianship, which is extremely powerful work.
But what you bring specifically to the voice is something quite unique. To me it’s body-based, soul-based, healing-based, and community / collective-oriented. Your vocal work has a spiritual dimension that Dalcroze Eurhyrhmics only hints at. It’s very beautiful. I’m quite certain that the need and the desire for what you offer is immense.”
— Marcia Daft, Music Education Specialist
“I mostly wanted to express my deep gratitude for what you do and what you have opened in my life. CVI has literally changed my life. The structures, the skills, the tools I learned in circles with you have opened up my musical and my daily life. I have been able to finally experience and be part of nourishing, exciting musical collaborations! My song writing, my teaching, my performing is transformed by my willingness to stand in the void and let music move through me.” - Emily, choir leader and singer songwriter
“I feel so much more free vocally and like I’m accessing music from a new perspective. You’re a wonderful, nurturing teacher and have so much wisdom that ripples out far beyond the vocal realm.” - Pearl, vocal improvisation teacher
“Thank you for a revelatory and transformational weekend Briony! Much has moved in me. 🙏🏻” Mark
“And then after our course was done the peer group continued…and this has been such an incredible blessing in my life. I can’t even say how much it has meant to me over the last year and a half. Those beautiful people and voices are in my heart (and I hope my life) forever.” - Anon
“The benefits of the course are rippling out in my life in subtle and crystal clear ways. I feel more confident in all areas of my life.” - Lucy
“If everyone in the world did this, there would be no problems. I’m just so high from it! I don’t know of anything, any therapy, that makes me feel this way.” - Isabel
“It’s amazing what’s there. It’s amazing what’s there when I start listening instead of leading.” - Anon
“Working with Briony has been such a gift for me. Her expertise in the field of voice work is inspirational and I have felt so supported by her generosity, strength and tenderness. As someone who also works with the voice, I have felt so ignited by her guidance and knowledge. I took part in her Vocal Improvisation Retreat and it gave me so much for my own creative path. I feel so blessed to have worked with Briony and consider her to be a fantastic leader in this field. I will continue to work with Briony as it nourishes my creative path as a musician and as a vocal facilitator.”
— Nessi Gomes, Artist, Teacher
