VOCAL WILDS
The Art of Embodied Improvisation
WELCOME
Who We Are
Welcome to Vocal Wilds — a sanctuary for the untamed, instinctual voice.
Vocal Wilds was founded by vocal artists and psychotherapists TatiAnah Thunberg and Irene Soléa Antonellis in 2025 as a hub for the vibrant, evolving collaborative community of vocal improvisers, song leaders, teachers, and facilitators devoted to the wild, relational intelligence of the human voice in southern Michigan.
Vocal Wilds nurtures a culture of creative freedom, communal care, and wild, embodied song. We uplift one another as independent artists and as a collective, each bringing our own lineage, style, skill, and vision to our singing communities. Rooted in years of personal and professional practice, we tend circles where music becomes a living field of connection, creativity, and communal belonging.
We cultivate spaces where song arises from deep listening, presence, and play— spaces where people feel safe enough to soften, brave enough to sound, and inspired enough to co-create.
We collaborate with each other and with a dynamic constellation of artists, singers, musicians, dancers, ritualists, and creative facilitators who share a devotion to embodied voice and communal artistry.
Each offering is co-created with the singers who join us, the artists who stand beside us, and the more-than-human world that inspires us.
Learn more about our Vocal Wilds collective here.
The Heart of Our Practice
At Vocal Wilds, we believe the voice carries the wisdom of communion, the stories of our lineages, and the wild intelligence of the natural world. We believe singing is our birthright—an embodied, communal practice that reconnects us to ourselves and to each other.
Here, we gather in circle to breathe, listen, express, play, and remember that singing is a practice of presence—a way of remembering ourselves back into connection.
We believe that when people gather to improvise, to sound without a script, something ancient stirs. A field opens. A place where creativity flows freely, bodies soften, and belonging is remembered.
We believe creative practice is medicine, that community is needed for practice to flourish and that singing—raw, imperfect, spontaneous—can inspire us to reimage our wholeness.
This is the practice we’re tending: a place where voices rise not to impress, but to remember. A place where improvisation becomes a pathway home.
Whether you come seeking community, creativity, healing, or the simple joy of sounding in a room of brave hearts, this is a place to soften, to open, and to return to the wild intelligence within.
Join us in boldly reawakening the innate capacity we all carry to co-create spontaneous song.
What we offer
Retreats
Immersive weekends of longer sessions of spacious singing—where nature, community, and the wild voice meet.
Workshops
Focused explorations of vocal improvisation, embodiment, and creative play in a supportive circle.
Classes
Ongoing practice spaces to build skills, strengthen presence, and grow your improvisational voice over time
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Jams
A more casual vocal playground where we practice listening, taking creative risks, and letting collective music emerge in the moment.
Ceremonies
Devotional song gatherings that center presence and weave a communal field of reverence, resonance, and renewal.
Trainings
We host guest artists to provide expert-led intensives to deepen our skills, artistry, and community practice.
Performances
Live, improvised sound journeys that invite audiences into the mystery and beauty of spontaneous song.
Socials
Community gatherings for connection, play, and celebration—where friendship, joy and musical adventure meet.
What Singers Are Saying
JEREMY F.
What a remarkable experience of feeling, community, harmony, fun, ease, adventure, friendship, unity and possibility! Thank you for your generous, caring, capable and affirming guidance. Looking forward to diving in again.
JENNIFER F.
This community has made such a difference in my life. Through song, sharing, and love I have healed in so many ways over the years. The acceptance and love in safe space provides a personal growth opportunity that is not just me - but WE.
M.S.
What a joyful and embodied experience in song! I was able to be in a supportive, loving, allowing circle with others and share my voice through song. To experience this in such a nurturing and playful circle allowed me to tap into those quiet, shy, uncertain parts of me. There was very little room for the inner critic. What a relief!
