Come to Wintergreen for a weekend singing retreat!
No need to prepare food, sort out your bedding, or worry about a place to sleep. It’s all here. Just indulge yourself in a weekend of song.
This retreat weekend at Wintergreen Studios, run by music therapist Nicola Oddy, will include song at every step of our time together. Together we’ll sing songs, chants, partner songs, part songs - songs that feed the spirit and that will nourish us all. We’ll try our hand at vocal improvisation, we’ll write our own signature song together, and we’ll enjoy a song circle during which we’ll share our favourites with each other. We’ll make full use of the environment at Wintergreen and (weather permitting), we’ll sing outside, and perhaps on the trail if all are able, in addition to singing inside the beautiful space in the lodge.
This workshop is for anyone - from those who have never sung with others, to those for whom singing is a daily passion. It’s for music therapists, teachers, lovers of song and for those who approach song with a tentative arm’s length. Everyone will find something to take away with them.
About the Instructor
NICOLA ODDY (MA, MTA, CCC) has been a music therapist since 1985, a community choir leader since 1993, and a certified counsellor since 2001. She has served the Canadian music therapy community as president of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy (CAMT), as conference coordinator and as a committee member. She created and led ‘Embracing the Voice: A Symposium for the empowerment of the use of the voice’ in Perth, Ontario and has led workshops throughout Canada for universities and groups of interested music therapists.