Unleash your Creativity – Healing through Music & Acting

In this workshop, you will learn to use the power of music, singing, and acting to release emotions and change moods. It will also help you cope with the complexity of your feelings, whether they are pain, anxiety, or stress!

Researched and proven techniques from ancient approaches and modern technology will be taught using the human voice, musical instruments, and acting with singing.

The sounds and songs are mostly a mix of Bengali Indian songs, but as music is a strong connecting force with no language, its vibes are understood by people of all backgrounds. We want to connect with people and bring them together to heal and develop skills artistically and otherwise.
Balance freedom, self-confidence, and inspiration, unleashing the creative self.

What to expect

Workshops aim to give people the understanding and skills of music and singing with acting while also learning how this effectively heals pain, stress and anxiety and clears blocked traumas. At the same time, movements can help expression and release stored stress.

Workshops will cover:

1) Scientific information: How music affects the brain, the autonomic nervous system and what that is. Tradition chakra system and singing, writing songs, unlocking the musician

2) Music for comfort – preparation for stressful situations, breathing exercises and ancient practices, unblocking chakras, using voice to create free flowing sound and find our singing voice, using modern gadgets. A wakening of the senses and sensibilities Mantras, focus the attention, personal jingles.

3) The foundations of Indian classical music: The ancient names of musical notes and how to practice notes, phrases, alaap breathing when singing, and sing simple songs: Bengali, Hindi and English.

4) Movement to relieve pain, stress, anger, exploring acting in expressing emotions.

5) The fundamentals of acting and singing with emotion & acting.

About Piya

Piya Mayenin: lawyer and community artist trained musician (learned with various Gurus, Bharati Vidya Bhavan 1st class post graduate diploma in Indian classical and Bengali music). Acting training: City Academy and University of Cambridge – short courses
Founder/chairperson of Sur Bandhan Society (arts organisation. Sur Bandhan means a tie of melody). Has been collaborating with local, national & international artists to spread the practise of South Asian arts, particularly from 2016.

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