Musical Immersion Journey Details
12:00 pm ET Thursday, October 2nd - 12:00 pm ET Sun, October 5th
What to Expect On Your Autumn Immersion Journey
- Four Days In Which You Step Out Of Time
We live into the Hero’s Journey by fully practicing the cycle of SEPARATION – INITIATION – RETURN.
We leave behind everything that is familiar to us – people, places, routines, habits, etc. This allows us to shed a familiar way of being, in order to open to the deeper parts of ourselves that await us, and allow us to go, vocally and otherwise, where we haven’t gone before.
- Be Part Of A Musical Ensemble & Experience The Group As a Living Presence
Many of us have been uncomfortable being in groups, as they make us aware of our vulnerabilities, insecurities and shortcomings in social settings. Yet these types of group processes are powerful vehicles for awakening new ways of perceiving and relating, and through the vehicle of musical expression, the group ‘field’ can provide new ways of experiencing one’s self as embodied and alive to the world.
- Experience Activating & Embodied Vocal Resonance As A Group
We will be encouraged gradually move our bodies to help open and deepen our vocal resonance. We will do so gently and intentionally, in ways we would might not typically do in our daily lives. These ways of moving, and vibrating through our vocal registers, take us beyond old self-imposed limitations, and allow for new ways of imagining and becoming ourselves to spontaneously emerge from within.
- Working With A Personal Edge
Each participant will have the opportunity to address a personal limitation or block that tends to hold them back from a more robust and free vocal expression. One might work through an area of struggle that causes them persistently ‘stay small’ and reduce their vitality. Each participant will be provided with opportunities, with support, to transcend these obstacles, and to ‘sing their way’ into new psychic territories.
- Engaging A Sense of Mystery Through Joyful Participation In An Ensemble
Those attending this particular musical immersion will have the chance to experience a gradual, yet profound sense of surrendering deeper and deeper into one’s self. By doing so, participants find themselves becoming more vitally alive, as the encounter a sense of wordless awe and wonder at the edge of a mystery. Music is an incredible vehicle for such an entry. The challenge is to become deeply receptive to the deep longing we have for vocalized expression – the very thing that can passionately move the self forward through new ways of thinking and spontaneously acting.
Upon Your Enrollment
You will be directed to our Preparation Section to help you get ready for your Hero’s Journey® Musical Immersion.
This will include an individual preparation to help you begin your journey while still at home. You will be asked to respond to self-reflective questions, and we will suggest some reading to prepare you as well.
In addition, you will be encouraged to set up at least one private vocal session with Korel Tunedor via Zoom, which is not included in the price of this workshop. This preparation session will of immense value as part of your preparation.
We will also request from you a few concise written responses that you will submit to us before your arrival at Lifebridge, that will further support your journey while at the workshop, along with some necessary paperwork and release forms.
The Hero's Journey® Myth
What is the one great story that best tells us about our past, about the meaning and purpose of our origins? What is the one great story that will inform us of our future, of our as-yet unrealized destiny? What is it that best informs us about how to live into the mystery of our own existence? This is precisely what Campbell described to be the Hero’s Journey.
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”