A 3-to-10-day intense, 6 hours per day workshop, for 4 to 12 participants, with the possibility for a public presentation at the end…

Reunion Practices – a Voice / Body Integration Workshop, is for performers, dancers, speakers, singers, teachers, and anyone interested in widening their knowledge of performance and training. The workshop presents a playful, quick working, broad, and deep exploration of all the potentials in our human voices, that is integrated from the start with breath and movement too.

The technique incorporates relaxation, massage, movement, breath and voicework all at the same time, with solo, pair, and group work as well, unlocking and unblocking our voices for singing, speaking, and safely screaming as well...

The workshop is based in part on Jonathan Hart's version of Roy Hart Theater's Extended Vocal Technique (in the tradition of Alfred Wolfsohn), incorporating other elements from disciplines like Expanded Viewpoints and Contact Improvisation as well. 

The work is designed to help participants explore, expand, and integrate their mind / body / impulse / emotion / voice / and personalities - using practical tools to give them a more personal, full, and authentic self presence in performance and in life as well. To speak and sing more from the heart... 

There is lots of stuff from the workshop that can be used in solo and group warmups, vocal work, and foundations for working on performance too...

What are Reunion Practices? 

Inspired by the meaning of the word Yoga in Sanskrit To unite. The practice of yoga “aims to create union between body, mind and spirit, as well as between the individual self and universal consciousness. Such a union tends to neutralize ego-driven thoughts and behaviors,[1]“ and allow us to exist more fully in the present moment. Reunion Practices have the goal of reintegrating us with our authentic selves, empowering us to embody our physical truth with power and joy…

Few people know this, but Constantin Stanislavsky the great Russian director, actor, and founder of the first complete, modern theater pedagogy system, was a secret student of Hatha Yoga[2], its study was forbidden under both the Tsars and the Communist regimes. He used many of yoga’s principles and even the structure of education as part of his Actor Training System – even using the word prana in his everyday teaching, but because of the ban on these subjects in Russia, and a prejudice against such eastern philosophy and religion in the west, his writings only contain the word “energy”, “life force” and “union of body and mind”... “In yoga, Indian medicine and Indian martial arts, prana (प्राण, prāṇa; the Sanskrit word for breath, "life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects.[3]

[1] See - yogapedia.com/definition/4/yoga

[2] Stanislavsky and Yoga, By Sergei Tcherkasski, Routledge 2016,

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana