
VOCAL WILDS
The Art of Embodied Improvisation


The FOUNDERS
Welcome to Vocal Wilds: a creative home for vocal improvisation, community singing, and the embodied, untamed, instinctual voice.
Founded by TatiAnah Thunberg and Irene Soléa Antonellis in 2025, Vocal Wilds is a hub for a vibrant, evolving community of vocal improvisers, community song leaders, and experiential facilitators in southern Michigan.
We each bring our own lineage, style, skill, and vision to the circles we tend. Rooted in years of personal and professional practice, we cultivate vocal music as a living field of connection, creativity, and belonging.
Each offering is co-created with the singers who gather with us, the collaborators who lead beside us, and the more-than-human world that inspires us.
Meet the founders and collaborating artists whose voices, practices, and lineages enrich Vocal Wilds.
TatiAnah Thunberg, LMSW (she/her) is a somatic psychotherapist, couples therapist, singer, song catcher, and expressive improvisational artist. A seasoned experiential facilitator with more than thirty years of experience, she guides transformative group practice rooted in presence, play, and relational awareness. TatiAnah brings a trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware lens, an attuned facilitation style, and a joyfully improvisational spirit to every circle she leads—inviting participants to soften protective patterns, take creative risks, and experience the profound belonging that emerges when voices rise together. Her current work centers the voice as a path to belonging—an embodied, communal practice where creativity, nervous system attunement, and deep listening converge. Origins in Song: She grew up singing in choirs, which sparked a lifelong devotion to ensemble music. As a teen, she discovered her deepest passion at the intersection of improvisational music-making and dance. In her 20s, choral music and community singing in ceremonial and ritual spaces revealed her next true home—song as communion, devotion, and shared reverence for the cycles of life. Embodied Lineage: Throughout her 30s and 40s, she studied and practiced a rich tapestry of somatic practices: yoga, ecstatic dance, authentic movement, contact improvisation, Thai yoga massage, partner yoga, acro yoga, and somatic attachment therapies. These lineages live as an integrated field—informing her understanding of the embodied voice as a practice of relational intelligence. Collaboration & Song Kin: Since 2011, Tatianah has deepened her exploration of community singing, vocal improvisation, chanting, and movement, with collaboration at the heart of her artistry. She has co-founded and tended a wide web of circles, ensembles, and creative containers devoted to embodied improvisation and collective voice. She is the co-founder of Vocal Wilds, Supper & Sing Community Jam, Ensemble Night, the Vocal Lab, Creatrix Lab, and the Vocal River Lab, all circles of artists dedicated to the art of embodied improvisation in Ann Arbor. She has been the response chanter for the Full Moon Kirtan ensemble since 2012. She and Michael Zielinski formed TAZ in 2025, an improvisational duet. In 2025, these threads converged into a retreat she co-led with Dory Mead and Irene Soléa Antonellis—an experience that inspired the founding of Vocal Wilds. Ongoing Study: TatiAnah continues to deepen her practice through study with teachers in voice, rhythm, and improvisation. She is currently studying with Aime Debrone, Dede Alder, and Kyler Wilkins and recently completed Rhiannon's year long immersion program, All the Way In, under the creative direction of Cara Trezise. Invitation: She welcomes those drawn to singing as a relational practice—to come lift their voices in Vocal Wilds spaces shaped by deep listening, creative risk, and shared humanity.


Irene Soléa Antonellis, LPC, LMHC (she/her) is a music therapist, psychotherapist, vocalist, and recording artist with a lifelong career in the healing and expressive arts. 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 sacred sounds around the world and Latin folk music traditions. 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. Early in her career, she found a home in the vibrant a cappella communities of the Northeast, where she directed university and semi-professional vocal ensembles, toured with a cappella sextet 6Appeal, and earned multiple Best of Collegiate A Cappella (BOCA) nods while serving as adjunct faculty at Suffolk University. Her album Beloved was featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga Chicago, and on stages and in studios from the Kripalu Center (MA) and Yoga Tree (CA) to the Prague Spirit Festival. Rooted in her bicultural heritage and a deep belief in the voice as medicine, Irene is devoted to embodied practices that connect us to beauty, wholeness, and aliveness. In her private practice, one of her specialties includes working with musicians and creatives to heal trauma, build and maintain deep emotional health and groundedness, experience expressive flow, and navigate the unique challenges of liberated, nontraditional career paths. Her approach blends talk therapy with somatic modalities including Music Therapy, Brainspotting, and Parts Work, offering a dynamic and deeply grounded path to healing and self-discovery. In 2025, together with TatiAnah Thunberg, she co-founded Vocal Wilds, a community-rooted initiative devoted to supporting and strengthening vocal improvisation circles and collaborations in the region. Irene completed Rhiannon’s year-long vocal improvisation intensive, All the Way In, under the direction of Cara Trezise in 2026.
OUR COLLABORATORS
Vocal Wilds grows through creative collaboration. We are grateful for the artists, teachers, and facilitators who have shared their gifts, musical lineages, and imaginations in the circles we create together.
Each brings a distinctive voice to our evolving musical community, enriching the practice and expanding what becomes possible when we sing together.





