TEACHERS: Kelly Vogel and Robyn Coady
Cost: $25

Deepen your practice with Soundsurfing!

Your yoga practice is deeply satisfying. But at times you still feel constrained, and you long to expand and deepen your practice in other ways.

You might be missing out on the healing power of your own voice.

Soundsurfing is a unique practice that helps you reach what has been bottled up, both physically and emotionally. Using a combination of gentle yoga and sound, Soundsurfing helps you access parts of yourself in a way few other mediums can. Through simple breathing exercises, sounds, and movement, we open the natural resonators and relax areas of the body that hold tension and are not easily released. The more we expand and play with sound and movement, the more we relax and come more fully into ourselves.

Soundsurfing uses the vibration of the voice as a tool to access and uncover our latent potential, both vocally, physically, and emotionally. Sound is a subtle medium so it can access aspects of the body that other movements cannot.

But don’t worry! No singing background is required and there are no wrong notes. Soundsurfing is simply an opportunity to let go and give over to an innate drive to express yourself from the heart. No matter what level of comfort you have with your voice, Soundsurfing co-creators Kelly Vogel and Robyn Coady meet you exactly where you are. The only requirement is that you are open to being delighted as you deepen your yoga practice with the sound of your own unique voice.

For more information, please visit the Soundsurfing website.

Kelly Vogel

Raised in Northern California, Kelly Vogel learned to sing around campfires, in church choirs, and within the loving swell of gospel groups. She found her niche in the San Francisco singer-songwriter scene and has recorded 4 independently-produced albums. She also holds an MA in English Literature and has been teaching English Composition and Literature at the college level for 20 years, helping students find their voice in the classroom and through the written word.

 Kelly has also experienced intense anxiety throughout her adult life, feeling a constant tension between reclusiveness and a desire for greater public expression. This tension helped fuel the development of Soundsurfing, which has helped her move from a place of holding back to a place of inspiration. She has found renewed confidence by listening to the nuances of her own voice, in all its whispered softness, tentativeness, boldness, and strength. Her desire is to share Soundsurfing so that others can experience this practice as a doorway to creative expression and expansiveness.

 You can see her sing locally in the vocal/bass duo, Shadows & Roots.

Robyn Coady

From age 3 until college, Robyn danced. Robyn spent hundreds of hours training in a discipline that was quiet and often quite controlled. Then, Robyn went to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for experimental theater and she was introduced, for the first time, to her voice. She says, “It was incredibly scary for me to be so open, honest and raw. I came up against intense resistance.” Robyn’s teachers, the highly acclaimed Lisa Sokolov and Richard Armstrong, offered her the space and support that eventually helped her to not only free her voice, but to free the fear that had kept her from fully expressing herself. Releasing her voice has become the main engine of her growth.

Working with the voice led Robyn to Kundalini Yoga which uses mantra and sound as the foundation of the practice. In 2007, Robyn became a Kundalini Yoga teacher and eventually went back to  NYU to get her Masters in Social Work. 

Now, when Robyn isn’t Soundsurfing she uses her communication and psychology background building brand culture alignment within organizations.