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Schedule of Workshops and Classes
2010 Spring Workshops 

Vocal Alignment: Empowering Your Voice to Support, Motivate and Inspire
with Jonathan Bender and Abby Tucker
Designed with yoga, movement, and fitness teachers, the workshop is perfect for anyone who wants to communicate and motivate more effectively!

Your voice is perhaps your most important tool of teaching, and yet, most yoga teachers have never had any formal training on how to cultivate and refine their voices to more fully support, inspire and motivate students. We’ve all heard “the yoga teacher voice.” Sometimes, it’s “sing-songy;” other times it’s soft, but monotone. We’ve also experienced the magic that some teachers can create in their voices – a magic that fully supports and carries the practice from beginning to culmination to a calming end. This workshop will teach you how to turn your voice into a powerful teaching tool!

  • Integrate proper breathing with the voice
  • Relax into the act of speaking and self-expression
  • Improve diction and clarity, and vastly increase pitch, tone and feeling
  • Connect more effectively with your class
  • Practice teaching in small groups using new vocal techniques

Location:  YogaKula, Berkeley, CA
Dates: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 1:30-5:30pm
Cost:  $60 by 5/1, or $75 after
Get more information and sign up here.


The Performance of Your Life: Acting into Awareness at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA

How would life be different if you viewed it as a play, where you were a character? What if your everyday life was actually an unconscious performance, in which "all the world's a stage?" Using acting, vocal,and performance training techniques, this workshop experientially studies life and identity as ongoing yet often unconscious performances. Combined with simple awareness practices, we nonjudgmentally and compassionately observe ourselves and others, andl earn how to make new choices. 
Location: The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA

Stay tuned for more upcoming workshops!


Can't wait?
If you would like immediate attention to improve acting, public speaking abilities, or self-expression, or to hold a private seminar at your organization, be in touch to arrange a free consultation.