Stalking Wild ~ A Sound Collaboration with Kim Scanlon Seattle
June 20, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - June 22, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
$520.00 – $580.003-Day Stalking Wild Workshop
A Sound Collaboration with Kim Scanlon
Lakewood Seward Community Center
Seattle Washington – June 20 – 22, 2025
Why are “voice” and “music” separate from the somatic world?
What if Sound,
whether it’s
vibration,
word,
note,
scale,
chord,
or
rhythm
has its own intelligence?
Inwardly accessing simple fluid wave, we’ll unfold from pure sound on the floor to SONG! Working with the ancestral sound of the guttural “O” we begin by letting our primal tube play us.
What emerges is our conditioning: scolding, shrinking, avoiding: silence.
Exploring the possibilities of sounding offers us the opportunity to notice our tendency to contract—physically, imaginatively, and spiritually.
More provocatively, Singing, in a creaturely way, lets us come into a full relationship to self and most importantly Community.
Moving into deeper terrain, sensing bones, we flesh out our animal body.
By playing with the intelligence of sound, rhythm, breath, scales, grammar, and words all at once— sensation and imagination come alive! With the intelligence/sensuality/shapeliness of pure vibration we keep that awareness and move into vowel and then simple song.
Kim Scanlon is a jazz singer, writer, mentor, and teacher, fascinated by the human voice, the invisible instrument. She’s been developing her unique approach to vernacular (non-classical) singing for forty years. Kim’s investigations are informed by broad study—of music, of course, but also: depth psychology, Continuum Movement ™, Steiner’s approach to grammar & punctuation, North Indian scales, communal grief rituals. The point is to restore our birthright to sing, and to be rendered by sound. She works and consults with a wide variety of individuals, groups, and organizations. For over a decade, she was a faculty member at Wisdombridge in San Francisco where she helped to develop programs and curricula combining community development, poetics, eco- and archetypal psychologies. Presently, she serves as a depth coach to women artists and is writing a book about singing. A Compass Records recording artist, in 2025, Kim’s band, The Palace Thieves, will release their first album, When We Were Swans. Kim lives in Seattle with her husband.
Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and bio-intelligence of our primal core. An international educator, author, mother, grandmother, and creator of Core Awareness™ her work focuses on awareness for developing human potential. Her teaching includes racial, social, and cultural explorations of BODY as Process (not object). Direct perception and kinesthetic intelligence is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. With over 45 years specializing in the psoas, Liz is recognized in the somatic, bodywork, and fitness professions as an authority on the Psoas. Nationally and internationally published, her works includes: The Psoas Book, Unraveling Scoliosis CD, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Psoas & Back Pain CD, Mother, Maiden, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. Liz Koch is approved by the USA National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB), as a continuing education provider..
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved
This is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB, please visit their website.
