Is your voice longing for release? Step into a safe space where we'll sing, move, meditate and connect as pathways to open our channels and release the innate power of our expression. This immersive, daylong retreat, led by Phoenix Song and Alyssa DeCaro, is an invitation to free your voice, explore sound meditation, and experience the joy of singing and moving in community.

Throughout the day, we’ll journey through practices designed to tune your instrument—your body and breath—while gently clearing your channel for authentic self-expression. Using the power of vocal improvisation, harmony, and rhythm, you'll learn to trust your inner beat and let your voice flow with confidence and ease.

Whether you identify as a "singer" or not, this retreat offers a supportive, playful space to awaken your natural sound, deepen your presence, and reconnect with the music that lives within.

When: Sunday, June 1

Where: A private home in the Oakland Hills

Schedule:

9-9:30am - Arrival Window

9:30-10am - Opening Ceremony
10am-12pm - Free Your Voice: Sound Meditation, Harmony & Vocal Improv w/ Phoenix Song
12-2:30pm - Lunch (catered by Uproot Culinary) + Spacious Time (hot tub, reading, journaling)
2:30-4:30pm - Tune Your Instrument: Clear Your Channel & Trust Your Inner Rhythm w/ Alyssa DeCaro
4:30-5pm - Closing Ceremony

Pricing:

Early bird (by May 25): $195

Regular price: $225

Cancellation: 

Retreat registrations may be canceled up to 1 week prior to the event. After that they are non-refundable but can be applied to a future retreat! Reach out to [email protected].

About your guides:

Meet Phoenix 

Phoenix Song is a queer, nonbinary, trans Korean adoptee singer, musician, sound healer, writer, facilitator, dharma teacher, and bad-ass human being who has been helping people free their voices, rhythms, body stories, and lives since 2006. Phoenix specializes in helping people sing, sound and speak their truths. They are a Somatic Voicework Lovetri Method teacher, certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher, and Tamalpa Associate Teacher of expressive arts. Phoenix has performed and taught at Wanderlust, Esalen, SF Pride Mainstage, UC Santa Cruz, Stanford, and festivals and retreat centers around the world. They studied Indian and Western classical music and provide a fusion of Korean shamanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, blues, gospel, pop, Brazilian, and West African music. 

Phoenix offers a monthly sound bath with their band Fractals of Sound at Grace Cathedral in SF and offers private and group classes and trainings around ancestral healing, griefwork, sound healing, expressive arts, somatics, and voicework. Their main private practice is embodied therapeutic voice. For more information @phoenixsongrises on IG and phoenixsongmusic.com 

Meet Alyssa 

Alyssa DeCaro, founder of Body of Sound and Core GROOVE: Voice Your Impact, is a transformational facilitator, embodiment coach, and badass drummer-dancer with over 25 years of experience blending the healing and expressive arts to awaken the body as a powerful instrument of presence, rhythm, and truth. She creates embodied methodologies that help people connect to their core voice, find their groove, and lead with confidence, clarity, and presence.

Known for her ability to unify a room through rhythm, humor, and heart, Alyssa transforms ordinary spaces into dynamic playgrounds for collective joy, embodied wisdom, and vibrant self-expression. She has guided thousands through immersive rhythmic movement experiences across the globe — from retreats at Esalen Institute, international off-sites for Fortune 500 companies, and opening the TED Conference in Long Beach, to main-stage festival activations at Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, SoulPlay, and Joshua Tree Music Festival.

Whether leading synchronized rhythm and movement or helping leaders develop powerful vocal presence, Alyssa invites every body to tune itself as a resonant, alive instrument of impact.