The birds are singing, the days get longer, and we will be soon celebrating equilibrium: a day as long as the night. I want to make the most of the evening of the Equinox by leading a singing workshop in celebration of nature and renewal. This will be in Ham, Richmond Upon Thames, on the READ MORE
Posts by Maria Soriano
How does one train to deliver a Singing for Better Health workshop?
Far before I started offering workshops and singing groups for better health I have been thinking in something I still thinking about, and that is, what is it that makes a singing group for Health and Well-being different to any other singing group, like a regular choir, or a community choir? How does must apply READ MORE
Ham House Heritage2Health day
We had a beautiful day and a great weather on the Ham House Heritage2Health day last 28th June. It consisted on a shared activity with public, student nurses and various health and well-being organisations, mostly local to Kingston, who gather to share a day of activities and networking. Heritage2Health is an organisation, but also a READ MORE
PROTESTING CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
I am having a great experience teaching a monographic of six workshops on Protest Songs at the Brompton Cemetery. This is a colaboration between the Brompton Cemetery, Radio Days Music and Sing to Live, Live to Sing (RBKC), funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, to Commemorate 100 years since women got the vote in UK. Having READ MORE
Ancestral reason for not shutting up anyone
1.8 million years ago, the homo Ergaster started to walk in two legs as us, and that posture gave our ancestors the possibility of a bigger brain and a lower position of the larynx, that favoured musical and linguistically ability. Singing is as old as communication, as old as the origin of speaking is, and READ MORE
MUSIC, SINGING AND MENTAL HEALTH, WITH NACHO DIAZ
Nacho Diaz is a sociologist and PhD student at the Centre for Narrative Research, CNR, University of East London under the direction of Maria Tamboukou. His professional life has taken place in different psychiatric hospitals and prisons, in the field of reinsertion. He has also worked with different NGOs. So I am spending this beautiful READ MORE
Singing
just enjoy to express yourself!
Singing
for everybody, no matter your experience
Mindful Singing
Being present in the very moment with your song