Speaker: Madeline McNeill
Madeline McNeill is a singer, composer, philosopher and Music Director at UUCS. She combines breath modalities from yoga and meditation to explore how her muscular anatomy is active in shaping emotions, mind and spiritual experience. Madeline composes music, writes, and directs plays exploring these concepts. She also teaches classes at colleges in the community inviting participants to explore embodied concepts within themselves through voice and movement.
Madeline’s formal education includes a BA in Music from Western Washington University where she studied opera. She also participated in the opera residency, EPCASO (Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera) in Oderzo, Italy.
The exciting field of Embodied Cognition explores how our brain and body collaborate to come to know the world and ourselves. It particularly emphasizes movement as important to the process. This sermon will focus on consciousness from an embodied perspective. Using her voice training combined … read more.
