Julianna Bloodgood
JULIANNA (she/her) is a vocalist, movement artist, performer and teacher whose work includes anthropological performance research and she has traveled the globe in search of different cultural and spiritual perspectives on the body, voice and the ritual of performance. The performances she creates are made as rituals, meant to be shared experiences of transformation and healing.
The core of her work is a detailed practice in the relationship between body and voice and how this can be brought to expression which she calls Embodied Voice Practices. This practice utilizes integrative somatic trauma therapy techniques and focuses the output in vocal expression, which is a deeply healing and transformative process.
1. THE VOICE OF RELEASE - Through a flow of movement and breath we will awaken sound vibrations within the body - resonating the bones and tissues- creating a visceral understanding of the voice and enlivening new possibilities for vocal and heart expression. Then, through shared and held space, witness and support of community and the powerful act of vocalizing, our feelings can become a thing of beauty that we can transform and release. Breathwork, movement, voice release, no nudity, no partner needed.
2. POWER SONG OR SOUL’S SONG - Finding our “power song” or “soul song” develops through a deep connection to the inner- landscape of the body and a connection with the higher self or supraconscious. A journey through somatic and vocal processing that incorporates pranayama breath work and then vocal release, revealing something from deep within us that can be shaped in a simple song with a message encoded. This soul song is something that we can return to again and again in order to center and align ourselves with our higher purpose. Breathwork, movement, voice release, no nudity, no partner needed.
3. ANCESTRAL VOICE - A somatic (body/psyche/spirit) and vocal practice that guides participants through physical movements that mimic patterns of development within the mother’s womb. Then there is a kind of re-emerging process. In this vulnerable state we invoke the ancestors in a ritual way and through a process of vocalizing we “channel” messages from our ancestors. It is a powerful process or both integration and channeling. Breathwork, movement, voice release, no nudity, no partner needed.