An expressive artist and healer, Phoenix Song explores the voice as a path to freedom and a means to release trauma.
Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Try online therapy today at betterhelp.com/behere and take a step toward becoming your best self. In this week’s BHNN Guest Podcast, Phoenix and Vincent discuss: Connecting with our full emotional lives through vocal work The preciousness (and difficulty) of being born in this incarnation How breathing affects your speaking and singing voice Phoenix’s deep experience with ancestral healing rituals at Plum Village Focusing on vocal work after recovering from dengue fever in India The journey to reclaim and inhabit our own bodies An invitation to ask yourself, “What season am I in?” Create rituals for others and yourself The importance of taking time to heal at your own pace This conversation was originally recorded on the Paths of Practice podcast. Listen to other episodes here. About Phoenix Song:
Phoenix Song is a queer, non-binary Korean-American adopted teacher, performer, writer, and healer who has been featured in SF Magazine’s Best of Yoga Music. Phoenix began his spiritual journey with Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village and serves as a dharma teacher at East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock. They believe everyone can sing and love helping people free their voice and rhythm in private and group classes.
Much of Phoenix’s life has been about exploring questions of identity and healing ancestral, racial, sexual, and gender wounds. They offer the tools that have helped them by leading workshops and trainings in ancestral healing, grief, and diversity/solidarity using expressive arts and bodily processes. For more information about their sound healing offerings, classes, and performances, visit phoenixsongmusic.com.
“By increasing the work of the voice, people begin to shake their breathing, their emotions, their bodily instruments, and the colors of the person, their emotions, their personality, what is going on with them, comes through their voice, and they begin to hear a voice that is more expressive, free, and emotional. It begins to feel like more colors are coming out, instead of just a few colors.” – Phoenix Songs
About Vincent Moore:
Vincent Moore is a creative consultant based in San Francisco, California with over 10 years of experience in the entertainment industry and a graduate degree in Buddhist Studies. For many years, he performed regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, an improvisational and sketch comedy theater based in New York and Los Angeles. As an actor, Vincent has appeared on Comedy Central, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Seth Meyers, Above Average, and Seeso’s The UCB Show. As a writer, he has worked on stage as well as television, including work with Blue Man Group, and his own written projects have been featured on websites such as Funny or Die. Additionally, he holds a master’s degree in Buddhism from the Institute of Buddhist Studies along with a certificate in Soto Zen studies and is engaged in personal Buddhist practice within the Soto Zen tradition. Vincent is also the creator and host of the podcast Paths of Practice, which features interviews with Buddhists from around the world. For more information, please visit Vincent’s website.
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