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Celebrating Summer Solstice

Posted on May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 by Maria Soriano

When: on Friday 21st June.Where: At Ham Library (Richmond), Ham Street, TW10 7HR Time: 7pm to 9pm (with possible extension by singing in the park)Cost: 15 GBP (to be paid on the day)Bookings: please book your space at maria@singing4health.com After a...Read More

How and why I celebrate Spring with Song

Posted on March 15, 2019March 21, 2019 by Maria Soriano

Photo by Rena on Unsplash I want to celebrate the Spring Equinox singing seasonal songs in circle, sharing with others, meditating and attuning my mind to new beginnings, enjoying the feeling of longer days and the equilibrium between day and...Read More

Celebrating Spring

Posted on February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 by Maria Soriano

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...Read More

A brief history of Primal Singing Integrative

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 by Maria Soriano

How does one train to deliver a Singing for Better Health workshop?

Posted on August 31, 2018September 5, 2018 by Maria Soriano

[caption id="attachment_965" align="alignleft" width="169"] It is indeed, a journey. A wonderful one.[/caption] 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...Read More

Ham House Heritage2Health day

Posted on June 30, 2018September 4, 2018 by Maria Soriano

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...Read More

PROTESTING CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

Posted on May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 by Maria Soriano

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...Read More

Ancestral reason for not shutting up anyone

Posted on June 5, 2017February 2, 2018 by Maria Soriano

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....Read More

MUSIC, SINGING AND MENTAL HEALTH, WITH NACHO DIAZ

Posted on June 9, 2015October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

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...Read More

BE YOUR OWN KIND OF LEADER

Posted on February 25, 2015October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

Actually, the tittle says it all so I won't need to extend myself too much this time. What I want to mean is that we all, as musicians, as choir leaders or directors, want to do our best, to know...Read More