9:00 Social time
9:30 Business
10:00 Presentation, Dr. Stacey Mastrian: Reconnection: The Power of Linking the Brain, Body, and Breath for Self-Care in Turbulent Times
Stress, anxiety, constant connection to devices, and information overload – all of these affect our bodies’ functionality at every level, as well as cause us to disconnect, which has a further impact on our ability for self-awareness and self-care. It is essential that we have easily implementable tools that enable us to reset and proactively nurture our own bodies and minds.
Dr. Mastrian helps us to explore these links and guides us through a series of brief but profound head-to-toe interventions, including gentle touch and movement, as well as multisensory imagery—accessible for all levels of mobility and modifiable for seated or standing participants—that allow us to calm our nervous systems, re-establish balanced alignment, access deeper breathing, and let go of tension in key areas of our anatomy.
This reprogramming gives our bodies the opportunity to recover and reminds us that even with external chaos, we have a choice about the ways in which we move through the world.
Dr. Stacey Mastrian is a soprano, voice teacher, acting and diction coach, and functional anatomy facilitator who offers holistic, client-centered learning in individual and group settings. Her work focuses on vocal health and the connections to the mind and the body, in order to facilitate expressive communication and well-being in performance and in life. She has spent the last three decades on a journey of exploration into a multitude of modalities—including Alba Method, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Franklin Method, mindfulness practices, Pilates, sound healing , and more, and she has founded Mindful Vocal Engineering™, Singing with Ease™, Sounding the Voice Within™, and Vocal Freedom for Life™, through which she shares elements of this work with other teachers and with students.
Dr. Mastrian is a certified Franklin Method® Level I Movement Educator and a Lower Back and Pelvic Floor Trainer, and she has been a Fulbright fellow to Italy and has sung in over a dozen languages and around the globe at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in NY, the Kennedy Center in DC, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. She has been Assistant Professor of Voice and Coordinator of Voice/Opera at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College and has taught voice, diction, and pedagogy at American University, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and College Park, and privately to countless successful students and teachers.
She currently maintains a select virtual private voice studio and gives masterclasses and workshops worldwide. For more information, see www.mastrianstudio.com.