A few weeks ago during one of our Birth Warrior Wednesday sessions, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Shoshana Vogel, whose many gifts to the world include being a musician and vocal instructor. Shoshana also uses music, sound, and play in her work to support the brain development of babies. Because I intentionally used music and voice as part of my baby's therapy when he was in the NICU, I was eager to learn from Shoshana, ways that Birth Warriors could employ music on their own healing journey.
And trust me, there was so much wisdom that poured out of our conversation: intuitive wisdom, wisdom from our own experiences using music and voice to heal, and from the experiences of clients.
As Shoshana shared, when we bypass the emotions we're experiencing, they come back up in the body. Music gives us the ability to create space for the emotions and create a path for their healing. "That allowance of the feeling is part of the path to repair."
More About Shoshana
Shoshana Vogel grew up on Staten Island, where her musicianship and movement background were fostered. She studied ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley, where she learned Ghanaian drumming, sang in the gospel choir and furthered classical guitar studies.
In her graduate work at UCLA, she studied yoga, movement, and ethnomusicology, while helping students to develop their critical thinking skills in performance and critique. Specific work with babies, children and brain development followed, focusing on child directed play.
Shoshana is a classically trained vocal instructor and guitarist. She spent three years as the K-6 music teacher at Our Community School charter, as well as the 2014-2015 school year as music and movement instructor for Kindergarten classes at Staten Island Community Charter School. She was the 2016-2017 music teacher for early childhood education at Creative Steps at the University Settlement Society and is on the faculty at the Bloomingdale School of Music, teaching early childhood music.
In addition, since late 2015, she has been working as a teaching artist at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Shoshana is Music Together and Orff Level I certified and continues to teach children and their parents in music and movement curriculum. She is proud to have created a summer 2017 pilot program between the Bloomingdale School of Music and the Bloomingdale Family Head-Start Program that continues to thrive.
Connect with Shoshana on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shoshana.vogel
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