Vocal Play! Singing session for mamas and babies

Join us for a mamas-and-babies singing session with a twist! If you’re a weary mama looking to recharge your batteries while reconnecting with your creativity – and soothing your baby along the way – Vocal Play could be just the tonic you need.

Suitable for: mamas with babies who are not yet crawling (up to around seven months).

Sing, sound, and play with us!

You won’t learn traditional songs in Vocal Play. Instead, Agustina and Danielle will teach songs made up of simple, layered parts that they’ll improvise on the spot. As we move through the session, you’ll have the opportunity to reawaken your creativity by adding your own little improvised phrases to our group sound – but only if you wish. Otherwise you can simply sing parts that someone else has made up, and immerse yourself in the magic of songs that take shape in the moment.

Together we will:

• Play with sounds and simple rhythms

• Sing accessible improvised songs made of repetitive parts, layered to create beautiful harmony

• Sing our babies’ names and spontaneous lullabies

Come as you are, do as you need

This will be a zero-pressure, relaxed musical experience with an emphasis on nourishment and play. All singing abilities and levels of experience are welcome. All levels of sleep-deprivation and states of ‘baby brain’ are welcome too! You are free to feed, rock, and change your baby, as well as move around at any time during the session.

Join us to:

• Connect with yourself, your baby, and other mothers and babies through spontaneous music-making and vocal play

• Harness the power of your own voice to nourish yourself, calm your nervous system, and soothe your baby

• Reawaken your creative self in an accessible way, and remember who you are outside of your role as a mama!

Tea and biscuits will be provided.

We (Agustina and Danielle) look forward to welcoming you into our mamas and babies circle! If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to us at [add email address].

Meet your facilitators

Agustina Plos

Agustina is a birth doula, space holder and vocal improviser based in London. She had sung and taken singing lessons her whole life, but nothing prepared her for what she found in Wales in 2019: an intensive vocal improvisation training that began on the very same day she completed her doula training with the late Michel Odent. That was not a coincidence. Vocal improvisation changed her relationship to her own voice and she has never gone back.

Agustina believes that vocal improvisation can offer pregnant women a way back to themselves, their voices, their bodies and their babies. Birth and vocal expression belong together and are incredibly human.

Danielle Styles

Danielle is a creative vocalist, and vocal improvisation and songwriting coach. Working under the name Bird Flies Free, she has specialised in helping nervous and inhibited singers to unlock their artist within, and sing with true freedom and confidence in front of others.

Since discovering Collaborative Vocal Improvisation, Danielle has dedicated herself to the study and practice of it, training with many of the UK’s leading practitioners. She is currently writing songs for her first album.