Song of the Ancients

Song of the Ancients

Workshop
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 18:30 to 21:30
Personal Growth
Spiritual
Wellbeing
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Discover your true voice in this inspiring workshop with Peia
Description: 

Each one of us is gifted with a uniquely beautiful voice and lineage of song. In this workshop you will discover your true voice through an embodied practice, engaging natural breath and resonance techniques guided by Peia.

Learn to harness the power of your breath, deepen and expand your breath capacity and sing from your core. Unlock the natural resonance of your voice and learn to direct sound, and move it through the body as well as the room.

Working with tools from the ancient Indian alchemy of Raga we will enter a deeply meditative practice known as ‘The Yoga of Sound.’ We also gain deeper understanding of the physical workings of the voice from Vocal Pedagogy (the science of the voice) and learn to sing with grace, power, flexibility and ease.

During this workshop, you will explore:

• Somatic & Embodiment tools to unblock both the singing and speaking voice and liberate your inherent expression of beauty and vitality.

• Breath meditations and techniques to return to your natural breath cycle, which regulates the nervous system and helps to release trauma stored in the body.

• Practices to cultivate both resonance and volume without taxing or overworking the voice

• Vocal Warm Ups and tools to stretch the vocal range gently

• Vocal Care

• One Song from the Celtic Tradition that will connect us to the rituals and way of life of these ancient people. It is said that at it’s height the Celtic culture stretched from as far South as Turkey to the North of Scotland & Ireland. If you have European blood running through your veins, there is a good chance that you share an ancestral connection to the Celtic Clans. This is an opportunity to dive into both the songs and the language of this ancient culture.

About the speaker, Peia

Peia Luzzi is a singer, songwriter and keeper of traditional songs who weaves music, animism and cultural memory into spaces of belonging.

Based in the mountains of Appalachia, she draws from a deep well of Irish and Old World European folk traditions. Her work moves between the ancient and the original, carrying old songs forward, while creating new music rooted in place, memory, and connection to the natural world. Her unmistakable voice has carried her from Child Ballads and 17th-century Irish laments to Scottish waulking songs and Bulgarian mountain calls, traditions she has traveled extensively to study and embody over more than a decade. Yet Peia’s work has never been solely about looking backward. Her work is an exploration of what these old songs can awaken in the present, and how music can give form to our relationship with ancestry, nature, belonging, and one another.

With three studio albums and more than a decade of international touring, Peia has cultivated a dedicated global following. Her newest body of work, Fathoms Deep, marks a turning inward - from songs that speak to the collective condition toward a more intimate landscape of original songwriting, exploring loss, the cathartic process of alchemizing pain into beauty, our relationship with mortality, and ultimately, the redemptive force of love.

Timetable: 
6.30pm
Workshop starts
9.30pm
Workshop ends
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