The Sound of Nature in your Voice

20 – 27 July 2025

Dates

8-days

Duration

10 – 16

Groupsize

The Sound of Nature in our Voice

20 – 27 July 2025

Costanza Sansoni works with voice and body, inspired by the method of “Giocando la Voce”, which Oskar Boldre has developed through the years. She has guided many workshops with him. She also learned from Rhiannon’s method “Vocal River and All the Way in”. In the past years she has guided many classes and seminars on her own and has developed her own method, “Canticorpi”, which also includes some bodywork. Different body and breathing exercises to selected music help to connect body and voice adn get into a flow. She introduces us to the art of vocal improvisation with playful exercises to find a spontanous natural expression and balance between control and letting go.

Circle songs are guided improvisations inspired by Bobby McFerrin, similar to ancient oral chanting traditions.

Elizabeth Zollinger will guide us to various hidden places by the sea and above the high cliffs where we do some rituals, circle songs and improvisations inspired by the beautiful, magical surroundings.

Sing for the sea, for the stones, for the sky, for mother earth!

More detailed tour information is given in the Itinerary Section.

PROGRAMME DATE

20 – 27 July 2025

BOOKING

before 1 May 2025

TRAVEL / FLIGHTS

Meeting point in Galway City 16.30, flights are booked individually

Flights to Dublin and direct bus from Dublin Airport to Galway every half an hour.

INCLUDED

6 nights in *** Kilmurvey Guesthouse with big Irish breakfast, last night in a comfortable B+B in Galway, sharing

Transport from and to Galway and shared transports on the island.

4 dinners in different places.

20 hrs. singing, organization, guided walks and other activities according to programme.

NOT INCLUDED

flights and bus from and to Dublin Airport, remaining dinners, lunch (mostly picnic)

drinks, tips, insurances

ACCOMMODATION

***Kilmurvey Guesthouse on Inis Mór and 1 night in a B+B in Galway

COST

CHF 1280 – 1510.-, depending on the Euro exchange rate and on number of participants (10 – 16)

SUPPLEMENTS

Single rooms: 6 nights on Inis Mór: CHF 240.-, in Galway: CHF 40.-, restricted number of single rooms, book early!

Additional nights in Galway and on Inis Mór can be reserved upon request, from Euro 60, sharing.

CANCELLATION

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Costanza Sansoni Baratella (singer, music therapist) explores the potential of her voice in various fields of activities. For over twenty years she has been engaging professionally in vocal improvisation and circle singing. As a certified music therapist and a passionate listener of the Other, she faciliates the emerging of their limitless expressive potentials. She leads singing and movement classes and seminars (Canticorpi), also in therapeutic contexts. She is the cofounder of the Italian collective “Canti in Cerchio” and of “The Well”, a Global Voice Improvisation Network. At present she sings in two groups: “Cocoband” (Italian songs with a taste of swing) and “Vocalia”, a vocal ensemble directed by Oskar Boldre aimed to explore the voice spectrum through improvisation with a repertoire of ancient to contemporary music.

Elizabeth Zollinger (organisation and walks), artist from Zurich, has lived part-time on the island of Inis Mór since 1974 and is strongly connected to the island, its people and its culture. In 1996, she founded the “Celtic Spirit” project in cooperation with islanders with the aim of communicating Irish-Celtic culture and developing meaningful tourism on the island. She has 29 years experience in organizing Cutlure Weeks and guiding groups.

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Additional information

Destination	Inis Mór, Co. Galway

Day 1:

Welcome and meeting in Galway 16.30, bus (50 min.) and boat (45 min.) to Inis Mór, transfer to Kilmurveyhouse, dinner.

Day 2 :

Morning: Introduction with Costanza, information about the island and programme by Elizabeth, short walk, shopping in Kilronan and dinner in the American Bar.

Day 3 -6:

3 hrs impro in the morning and easy walks in the afternoon to beautiful places on the high cliffs, wide sandy beaches and to old ritual places where we can continue to sing as we please. On one evening we will do a singing session between us and hopefully also singers from the island will join us.