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Mariana Marcassa

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Un-domesticate your voice.
Somatic practice as a political act.
Genuine voice | Genuine self.
PhD in Clinical Psychology and SEP
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🌀PT: Quem Sou Eu?
Eu sou mãe, educadora, artista, psicóloga, pesquisadora da voz, do som, da mente e do corpo (soma). Tenho raízes nas práticas espirituais afro-indígenas-brasileiras que nos auxiliam na expansão da consciência.

Amante do cerrado, é com as matas que habitam em mim que venho percorrendo um caminho de conexão com os ritmos, com os fluxos, com a vozes, contemplando o jogo dos encontros entre humanos e animais, entre as forças da terra e dos cosmos. Um encontro que acontece através de diferentes regimes de signos numa dimensão não-comunicacional. Nesta dimensão, a voz, e não a palavra, serve como elemento fundamental, com o poder e o amor de expandir o campo dos sentidos e recriar os ritmos, padrões, memórias e fluxos do corpo. É com esta dimensão não-verbal e sonora da voz que faço minha morada intimamente tecida com as forças ancestrais que ali atravessam.

Uma morada em constante movimento espiralado que oferece sustentação para o canto (no duplo sentido da palavra) da minha própria alma!

#sound #voice #somaticpractice #montreal #therapy #somaticexperiencing taken in Montreal, Quebec, Canadá by @ma_somaticpractice

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2 years ago

🌀 PT: Meu trabalho faz um cruzamento com a psicologia somática, a terapia sonora e as práticas ritualísticas com ervas, sons, movimentos e cantos.

Meus estudos no campo da terapia sonora estão relacionados à Medicina Tradicional Chinesa; elementos e princípios dessa antiga sabedoria nos acompanham em nosso percurso terapêutico.

Eu sou fascinada pela faceta curandeira da voz e como os seus sons - para além e aquém da linguagem falada - podem ativar memórias e sabedoria corporais, ancestrais e cósmicas da vida. Ajudo meus clientes a se conectarem com sua força vital por meio de encontros com sua própria voz. Não se trata de aprender a cantar, mas de descobrir maneiras de ativar o poder de sua expressão genuína, em sua vivacidade singular, abrindo caminhos para a canção de sua alma.

Meus grupos e retiros terapêuticos incorporam uma série de práticas, incluindo QiGong, canto circular, voz, som, movimento, Somatic Experiencing e partilhas coletivas. É um trabalho íntimo, que envolve uma escuta cuidadosa, por meio da qual, pouco a pouco, criamos um ambiente seguro o suficiente para que o trabalho se desenvolva.

Minhas sessões individuais envolvem terapia vibracional com diapasões, instrumentos acústicos e a e a Somatic Experiencing para ajudar os clientes a compreender e regular seu sistema nervoso. Essas práticas ajudam a libertar bloqueios emocionais, superar traumas ou crises não resolvidos e expandir a resiliência.

Meu trabalho busca ativar aquilo que necessita escuta, cuidado, consciência e fluxo, abrindo caminhos para meus clientes se reinventarem e afirmarem um ritmo de vida pulsante.

#sound #voice #somaticpractice #montreal #therapy #somaticexperiencing taken in Montréal, Québec by @ma_somaticpractice

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2 years ago

*sounding light in the shadows*

EXPERIENTIAL 3-DAY RETREAT bringing together vocal practices and rituals of ancestral connection.

We are excited to collaborate for the second time, as Moe Clark & Mariana Marcassa, in this deep dive offering, weaving together somatic practices, vocal improvisation, deep listening, embodied rituals, land-based connection, and collective song.

Through individual, group, and relational earth-based practices, we explore how voice and sound can accompany us into the unknown. Collapsing linear structures, we expand cyclical and intergenerational timelines to call “all our relations” back into the circle in acts of reciprocal care, listening, and love.

Body is vibrating territory—a place where personal, ancestral, and more-than-human memories find expression through sensation, rhythm, breath, image, silence, and voice. Come explore with us.

niwahkomâkanak ~ all my relations

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friday oct 30 - sunday nov 1
arrival 4pm friday
departure 4pm sunday

join us!
detailed info in slides
sliding scale rates

DM with questions
🔗 in miyosoma bio to sign up
or
email miyosoma.healing_at_gmail.com for sign-up by @ma_somaticpractice

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24 days ago

Um ano desse encontro lindo. 11 dias na Praia dos Algodões, deixando a voz encontrar outros caminhos no corpo.

Voz que não começa na palavra. Voz que é corpo, matéria, vibração. Voz que é entre. Que escuta e ressoa com a terra, o mar, convoca memórias e inventa outros modos de estar junto.

Foram dias de um processo profundo, delicado e intenso de escuta, som, silêncio, movimento, vínculo e presença.

*Resounding the Soul*, na @casadelmar_brasil, com a maravilhosa @gabipimenta_odespertar .

Um ano depois, sigo escutando o que nasceu ali. 🌊 by @ma_somaticpractice

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O que pode a sua VOZ?

A voz não é apenas som.
Ela é vibração, corpo, respiração, sensação, emoção, relação, contexto.

Ela acontece entre:
entre corpo e ambiente,
entre eu e outro,
entre desejo e possibilidade de expressão.

E a nossa voz foi domesticada.

Desde muito cedo aprendemos quais sons, tons, intensidades, palavras e modos de expressão são aceitáveis. Aprendemos a modular o corpo, conter intensidades, silenciar a voz e, muitas vezes, a nos afastar da escuta fina das forças e dos desejos que nos atravessam.

Des-domesticar a voz não é encontrar uma voz “verdadeira”.
É abrir possibilidades para o genuíno.

O que acontece quando você começa a escutar aquilo que sua voz pode fazer para além do que aprendeu que ela deveria fazer?

O que a sua voz sabe que você ainda não sabe?

Em setembro, abro um pequeno grupo para quem deseja viver esse processo em português — 4 encontros terapêuticos e experienciais através da voz, do corpo e do som.

Saber do corpo. Saber da VOZ.
Para além e aquém do domesticado.

12, 19 e 26 de setembro + 03 de outubro
10h–13h BRT · online
Investimento: $580 (na sua moeda)
3 vagas sociais disponíveis

Inscrições abertas.
Comente VOZ para receber mais informações. by @ma_somaticpractice

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I grew up in the rural landscapes of Brazil, in a predominantly masculine environment, among rodeos, cattle herders (boiadeiros), horsemen and berranteiros (the cowhands who speak to cattle through the breath-sound of the berrante horn). As a child, I took part in milking cows, tending herds, and the cycles of rural life. Within these gestures of care, I learned to sing, to sound, to enter relation with land and animals. Today, I return to these experiences from another place, through another body.
My work re-appropriates and re-inscribes imaginaries and practices woven into my family history and the territories that formed me, while unsettling the relations between humans, animals, and land forged within Brazilian agro-industry. I am interested in displacing these inheritances of extractive regimes into an unstable field of relation, where listening is not given but must be continuously practiced, and where relation itself becomes a site of friction, risk, and negotiation between human and more-than-human bodies.
My artistic research investigates the resonances present in pastoral songs and their multiple, entangled lineages: the sonic worlds of rural Brazil and their Indigenous matrices, the calling of cattle, the aboio of the sertão and its Moorish and North African reverberations. I am interested in how sound travels across geographies, cultures, and historical times, remaining alive in the memory of bodies.
The voice emerges as a carrier of primordial sounds that desire relation with the other: animal, mineral, landscape, earth. Through resonance, it leads us into affective and ancestral territories that escape language. It does not represent memories; it activates them.
And, in a feminist gesture, the voice re-claims its creative force and its entanglement with the forces of the earth. By entering a territory historically reserved for the masculine — that of boiadeiros, horsemen, and berranteiros — it unsettles their sounds and imaginaries, pulling them out of logics of extraction, conduction, and control, and into a field of listening, resonance, and shared vulnerability between human, animal, and land.
Continued in the comments ↓ by @ma_somaticpractice

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4 months ago

In 2026, I will be offering two Somatic Therapeutic Groups, as spaces of ongoing care, embodiment, and relational support.

These groups invite you into a slow and attentive process of listening to the body and the voice — working with somatic practices, sound, presence, and emotional regulation. In group, and in relationship, we create the conditions for integration, grounding, and meaningful transformation over time.

• Saturdays (once a month) — a welcoming group for beginners, focused on foundations of somatic work, voice, and embodied presence.
👉Each participant will also receive one individual session, offering close accompaniment to what emerges in the somatic work and additional support when needed.
Cost: $250 plus taxes monthly (sliding scale upon request)

• Fridays (twice a month) — a deepening group for those who have worked with me and wish to go further into somatic, vocal, and emotional integration.
👉Weekly follow-up to support what has emerged in the process.
Cost: $250 plus taxes monthly (sliding scale upon request)

These groups are intended for those who:
• feel the need to reconnect with their body and voice
• wish to work with emotions, blocks, and lived memories
• are seeking depth, continuity, and embodied presence
• value a gentle, trauma-informed, and relational approach

If you feel called to join, you are welcome to sense which group feels right for you. It will be a joy to walk together through this process in 2026 🤍

Link in Bio
Photo 1 by @lifeandlight

#somatictherapy #voicetherapy #soundhealing taken in Montreal, Quebec by @ma_somaticpractice

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Mais uma dupla, seguindo seu destino sonoro para o Canadá 🇨🇦. Obrigado pela confiança @marianamarcassa @ma_somaticpractice

#terapia
#terapiadosom
#percussao
#valedojequitinhonha
#soundhealing by @ma_somaticpractice

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4 months ago

In Brazil, we have a gesture, a collective ritual to celebrate the turning of the year and the arrival of a new cycle: we dress in white and, at the edge of the beach, exactly at the moment of the New Year’s countdown, we stand together facing the sea and jump seven waves. With each wave, we set an intention, a wish for the year to come.

We light our candles, anchor our prayers, and thank Yemanjá, Orixá of the oceans, for protection, abundance, and presence. Even though life can be difficult at times. Even though it may arrive wrapped in challenges, grief, and violence. We sing, we dance, we celebrate.

After all, it is not life itself that fails, but human gestures and collective irresponsibilities that ripple back to us and reach us in heavy waves.

Life itself is full of life. And for it, we give thanks for the opportunity to be here — breathing, feeling, sensing, learning, creating.

It is with this joy, with this vitality, that I toast to you today.

May your 2026 be alive and vibrant.
May you cultivate the small beauties of existence, even when the world sometimes seems to collapse.

And with the awareness that there is, indeed, much we can do to help create a more sensitive, just, and life-affirming world, I invite you to begin — or continue — this work from “within”.

To gently meet the emotions, blockages, and memories that are asking for passage. To listen to the body, the voice, the silences, and the impulses of life that long to be reorganized.

In 2026, I will continue opening spaces of care, listening, and transformation through my collective and individual therapeutic work. Therapy is an opportunity to become more whole, lighter, and more joyful — deeply connected to what pulses and makes you feel alive.

If this call resonates with you, it will be a joy to walk together in the cycle ahead.

With love,
Mariana Marcassa

📸 Tamás Wormser by @ma_somaticpractice

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songs of sîkwan: voicing the waking body

EXPERIENTIAL 2-DAY WORKSHOP INVITING A THERAPEUTIC EXPLORATION OF VOCAL AWAKENING THROUGH SOMATIC PRACTICES, RITUALS, VOICE + SONG.

We are excited to collaborate for the first time, as Mariana Marcassa & Moe Clark, in this deep dive offering, bridging our practices of somatic psychology, somatic experiencing, land-based ritual and vocal improvisation together.
we honour sîkwan—spring, and all that wants to be born through song; personal, collective and in active response to the awakening worlds around & within us.
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saturday + sunday
may 9-10 • 13h-17h

join us!
detailed info in slides
sliding scale rates

DM with questions
email moe.clark_at_gmail.com for sign-up by @ma_somaticpractice

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🌀Words often fall short when I try to express what the Cerrado means to me.

I still remember the first time I was immersed in its vastness—and the years I later spent living within it. Since then, this landscape, this living universe, this forest of twisted trunks and golden light has become a part of me. Its sounds, its silence, its rhythms—they awaken me, shape me, and are always with me.

They live in how I perceive the world, and they echo through the sounds, gestures, and songs at the heart of my work.

#cerrado #chapadadosveadeiros #goias #brasil #soundhealer #soundtherapy #voicehealing #somatichealing taken in Chapada Dos Veadeiros - Goiás by @ma_somaticpractice

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👉 Resounding The Soul_ 11 a 21 de Junho, na @casadelmar_brasil Praia dos Algodões, Bahia

✨ Mais um pouquinho do meu trabalho terapêutico com a voz ✨

🌀A tensão crônica na mandíbula, na garganta ou na musculatura do pescoço é frequentemente observada em mulheres com histórico de repressão emocional ou traumas sexuais. Esse padrão também se manifesta sob a forma de disfunções menstruais, dor pélvica ou bloqueios relacionados à expressão do prazer.

🌀Trabalhar a liberação da voz é uma ferramenta terapêutica eficaz para restaurar o fluxo de energia vital entre o centro laríngeo e o centro uterino.

🌀Além disso, práticas integrativas como o canto terapêutico, a respiração vocalizada, o uso de sons guturais e mantras têm demonstrado potencial para estimular a circulação energética na região pélvica, auxiliando em processos de regulação hormonal, reconexão com a sexualidade e até mesmo alívio de sintomas ginecológicos.

🐚Trabalhar com a voz é ativar uma via de cura que atravessa o corpo verticalmente, ligando o centro da expressão (garganta) ao centro da criação (útero e ovários).

🐚Essa ponte entre voz e ventre é um eixo essencial para o equilíbrio do sistema reprodutor, da saúde emocional e da expressão plena da vitalidade feminina.

👉Link na Bio!

👉Preços para brasileires:

✨ 11 dias de trabalho terapêutico intensivo na Praia do Algodões, Bahia 🏝️

🌀Opção 1: incluso 3 refeições e um lanche da tarde , 8mil reais

🌀Opção 2: sem refeição, 6mil reias

*O pagamento pode ser parcelado

#somaticpractice #voicehealing #soundtherapy #somaticexperiencing #retironabahia #retiros by @ma_somaticpractice

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