VOCAL WILDS
The Art of Embodied Improvisation
Tatianah Thunberg and Irene Soléa Antonellis invite you to join their three part workshop series Bringing It Home, inspired by their participation in Rhiannon’s All the Way In 2026 year-long vocal improvisation program.
Directed by Rhiannon and facilitated by primary teacher Cara Trezise, with guest artists Manel Lignares, Zahara, and Zuza Gonçalves, this international training is deepening their vocal improvisation practice alongside a devoted cohort of twelve artists.
The All the Way In cohort gathers for an immersive residential week long training in February, June and October with home practice between sessions. Tatianah and Irene are committed to serving as ambassadors—bringing these musical forms, insights, and embodied discoveries home to their vocal improvisation community in Michigan.
This workshop series offers an introduction into practices from Rhiannon’s body of work known as Vocal River. Expect spacious guidance, playful rigor, and practices you can carry into your own work as singers, improvisers, song leaders, and community weavers.
All levels welcome. Whether you are an experienced improvisational singer or a curious beginner, you will leave feeling more connected to your voice—and to the natural capacity within you to create, express, and make improvisational vocal music with others.
Singers at Bringing it Home will:
• explore simple yet potent Vocal River forms that cultivate courage, presence, attuned listening, musicality, moving with rhythm, and embodied creative flow
• become part of a vocal “orchestra” of improvisers, building confidence in creating repeating patterns -motor, interlocking, melody, harmony, bass and percussion
• practice singing improvisationally with others in a grounded, embodied, connected, and playful stance
• collaborate in small group and large group ensembles
• learn through witnessing and observing live demonstrations
Vocal improvisation is both vulnerable and exhilarating—whether you are brand new or deeply seasoned. Come as you are and bring your whole self—shy, bold, nervous, excited, and everything in between. Together we will sing what has never been sung before.
You're Invited!
The Spirit of this Practice
When we sing improvisationally, the living moment is where truth reveals itself.
Improvisation calls us out of habit and into presence—into the body, into breath, into connection with what is actually happening right now. When we sing without scripts or expectations, we meet ourselves more honestly. We hear the subtle shifts of the nervous system, the quiet impulses of the heart, the instincts that are usually buried beneath performance and perfection.
Improvisational singing invites us to risk, to soften, to trust.
It asks us to listen deeply—to ourselves, to one another, and to the space between us. In this listening, we discover that music isn’t something we make alone. It arises relationally. It emerges from attunement, curiosity, and the courage to follow a sound we don’t yet understand.
We sing improvisationally because it frees the voice.
It makes space for the timid, the wobbly, the bold, the brave, the unexpected. It allows the voice to roam, to wander, to remember itself as something wild and wise. Over time, improvisation becomes a practice of liberation—a way of breaking out of old patterns and stepping into creative possibility.
And we sing improvisationally because it builds community.
When people dare to sound together without a map, something ancient wakes up. Trust deepens. Belonging becomes embodied. A collective song forms that no single person could have created alone.
Improvisation is our way home—back to voice, back to presence, back to the wild intelligence that lives inside us all. Back into the Vocal Wilds.
TatiAnah Thunberg, LMSW (she/hers) is somatic psychotherapist, singer, song catcher, expressive and improvisational artist, and a seasoned experiential facilitator with more than thirty years of experience guiding transformative group spaces. Her work centers the voice as a path to belonging—an embodied, relational practice rooted in presence, creativity, and communal care.
TatiAnah brings a trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware lens, an attuned facilitation style, and a joyfully improvisational spirit to every space she leads—inviting participants to soften protective patterns, take creative risks, and experience the profound belonging that emerges when voices rise together.
She is the co-founder of Vocal Wilds, Supper & Sing Community Jam, Ensemble Night, Vocal Lab and Creatrix Lab, circles of artists dedicated to the art of embodied improvisation in Ann Arbor.
Irene Soléa Antonellis, LPC, LMHC (she/hers) is a music therapist, psychotherapist, vocalist, recording artist, and a co-founder of Vocal Wilds. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and Music Therapy from Lesley University and has led contemplative music concerts, workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. and in South America, Europe, and Asia.
Irene draws musical inspiration from her a cappella roots, Latin folk music traditions, and sacred sounds from around the world. With a musical inheritance that includes Peruvian folk and huayno (her grandfather was Peruvian composer Manuel León), Irene blends musical traditions, the old and the new, and is known for her directness, equanimity, warmth, and humor. She is rooted in her bicultural background and a deep belief in the voice as medicine, and is devoted to embodied practices that connect us to beauty, wholeness, and aliveness.
YOUR HOSTS
The Flow
9:30 AM – Arrive & Settle In
10:00–10:30 AM - Opening Circle
10:30-12:30 PM – Morning Session
12:30–1:30 PM – Catered Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30–4:00 PM – Closing Circle
4:00–4:30 PM – Restore & Depart
Location
🌟April 11: Michigan Friends Center in Chelsea
🌟September 26: Emerald Temple in Manchester
🌟December 6: Michigan Friends Center in Chelsea
Community Care Agreements
🌟All voices welcome. Adults of all ages, genders, ethnic, cultural, racial, faith & sexual identities are welcome. We do not have childcare available on site.
🌟All levels welcome. Whether you’re a curious beginner or a seasoned vocalist, you belong here.
🌟Full workshop commitment. This is a co-created experience that will deepen throughout the day. Please plan to attend the entire day -taking a sacred pause from our full lives- to support our shared container.
🌟Health policy. This is an indoor event with optional outdoor spaces. Come healthy. Masks and distancing are welcome based on personal comfort level. If a COVID exposure is reported directly following the event, we will notify all participants by email.
Lunch
🌟BYO snacks and drinks.
🌟Lunch is catered by our talented Bhakti brother, Ekanti Govinda Dasa of Sage Roots LLC, and included in your registration. This meal will be meat, dairy, egg, soy, garlic, and onion free.
Cost for each workshop in the series:
🌟Green Bottle Sliding Scale: $85–$145 (includes catered lunch).
🌟Two partial work trade positions available ($40 tuition plus support at the event).
🌟Two BIPOC partial scholarships available ($30 tuition).
Cancellation Policy
🌟Tickets are non-refundable, but transferable. If you cannot attend, you may gift or sell your ticket to someone else who would like to attend.
Questions?
🌟Contact Irene & Tatianah at: VocalWilds@gmail.com