Sound baths stimulate the water in the body, releasing physical, energetic and emotional stagnation, using specialized tools to gently recalibrate your nervous system, realign energy centers, and elevate consciousness.

Sound journeys at the Singing Dancing Garden take place laying down on a massage table. At the core of the session are osteopathic tuning forks, applied directly or near the body to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. These forks are used to release tension, improve circulation, and facilitate harmony inside the body. Harmony is stimulated through the resonance of C and G tuning forks—also known as the Perfect Fifth interval. This sacred harmonic interval has been revered since ancient times for its power to return to a heart-centered state.

As the session unfolds, chakric tuning forks, each calibrated to the frequencies of the seven main chakras, are introduced to cleanse and balance your subtle energy centers. 

To complete the journey, Angel Tuners are called upon to release further stagnation, blockages, or repair tears around the energetic body. Each sound journey is a personalized experience that brings people closer to their own harmonic frequency.

The Singing Garden is a vocal and choir practice led by Be Heintzman Hope. Drawing from imagery of a garden, Be facilitates voices as a collective ecosystem of listening and voicing.

Using the voice as an instrument, we tune the body in tandem with others. Through activating the breath, voice and ears we deepen our listening and open our sonic chambers. Participants are guided through vocal warm ups and improvisations before learning melodies, hockets and rounds! This class is created for people who want to sing in a group, whether they have a musical background or are exploring voice and singing for the first time. Songs learned are a mixture of original compositions and varied folk music.

Gyrokinesis is a movement method developed by Juliu Horvath that combines circular, spiral, and wave-like motions from movement disciplines including yoga, tai chi, and ballet. Practiced primarily while seated on a stool, it uses rhythmic, flowing sequences in tandem with the breath to increase range of motion, functional strength, and spinal suppleness. With discipline and practice, this method increases spinal length and mobility. It is accessible and supportive to a wide range of participants from dancers and athletes to seniors and people with limited mobility. While the sequences are quite complex, they are accessible because they are performed on a chair, through subtle increments and repetition.

The Singing Dancing Garden opens its doors to people of all walks of life. Simultaneously, this space strives to be a refuge for queer, trans, gender fluid + expansive people, racialized people and sex workers. Social spaces are always co-created and the Singing Dancing Garden seeks participants who seek to uplift and co-create this vision. When entering this space please be mindful. Bodies are unique spaces that house the complexity of many experiences. For this reason, participants are asked not to talk about other participants' bodies unless explicitly invited to do so.

It is our birthright to sing and dance. People of of all experiences and backgrounds are welcome. Classes offer a dynamic range of techniques that can be nourishing for singers, dancers, athletes, and beginners.

Absolutely. If this is you, reach out to hello@thesingingdancinggarden.com and we will set you up.