Workshops in Music-Thanatology and other subjects

"I feel my soul expanded mightily through these days, and I am truly blessed that our souls’ journeys crossed paths. I know I am richer for it than I can realise right now. My heart is singing, my body is singing with gratitude for the healing that took place. I have experienced births and deaths, deaths and births over these days helping me to walk the cycle of birth, growth, death, decay and regeneration more comfortably”

- Workshop Participant

Workshops

I teach people ways to feel more present in their body and spiritually enlivened through sounding, listening, movement and visualisation exercises. My main focus is to provide people with the tools to nourish themselves as well as each other. Toning and breathing are particular ways that deepen our relationship with both our bodies and our environment, enabling the possibility of sustaining a greater capacity for compassion.

Bodywork and breathing exercises can move people through a process of surrender and allow a deeper aspect of the Self to move through them.

By facilitating others in learning their own relationship to sound through toning and/or overtone chanting, they feel the impact of each vowel on their own particular physiology and psychological state. Technical vocal exercises give way to sound that connects them to their deepest state of truth. This develops the capacity to pay attention to and witness the Self. It also acts as a vehicle for communicating this gentle witnessing state through their vocal expressions and song to others.

The principal method for making a connection with an individual and/or group is through working with the breath. Silently breathing in the rhythm of another’s pattern of respirations and or working with the inhalation and exhalation with adapted musical phrases creates a visceral understanding of the others’ world that extends empathy to another much vaster dimension. When appropriate, providing a stronger matching breathing oscillating force and gradually extending the musical phrasing will deepen and slow the recipients breathing, altering the sense of duration initiates the performer and/or listener into the depths and life of sounding the infinite silence.

News! Singing in Sacred Breath weekend retreat in May 2010

Abigail is holding a residential weekend retreat on May 1st-2nd at Living Spirit on Dartmoor. Here’s what they say on their website:

“‘Singing in Sacred Breath‘ with contemplative musician and healer Abigail Robinson. This workshop will explore sacred sound, nurturing our capacities to both root our connection to earth and flower into the larger holding of the infinite. Small group (max 12) weekend workshop, 10am - 5pm each day. Cost £135 or £125 when booked by 22nd February.”

Sacred Sound

Workshops