Beyond Hearing:  Listening with your Whole Body

In this class we will open with Taoist breathing and chakra sounding practices, followed by a Feldenkrais lesson focused on opening the body up through extending our breath awareness.  We will also sing a song together and use breakout rooms to extend our hearing with Deep Listening exercises developed by Pauline Oliveros and myself. 

As an internationally known countertenor for four decades, Drew Minter sang leading roles in the opera houses of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston, Washington, Santa Fe, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Nice, Marseilles and others, performing with many of the world's foremost baroque orchestras, and making over 70 recordings.  Drew is Senior Music Lecturer at Vassar College, where he teaches voice, choir, opera and the Feldenkrais Method to musicians; he is an opera director and teaches frequent workshops in the singing and acting of opera, incorporating  several somatic methods:  Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, and the Viewpoints acting work.  His additional training is in Polarity, Jin shin jyutsu, Kahuna work and Body Electric.