The Musical Body Camp 2025

🎶 The Musical Body Camp – Sept 2025 🎶

A Week of Embodied Musical Exploration & Improvised Ritual

📍 The Singing Shack, Newham – Macedon Ranges (VIC)

📅 Friday 12 – Friday 19 September, 2025

👥 Limited to 16 participants

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💫 What is The Musical Body Camp?

The Musical Body Camp is a rich, intimate, and playful week of movement, singing, rhythm, music, ritual, and connection.

It’s for shower singers, seasoned improvisers, artists, facilitators, teachers, and anyone curious to explore voice and body in creative, supportive community.

Rooted in deep listening, presence, and spontaneity, this camp is a living, breathing ecosystem of voice, silence, rhythm, and imagination. Guided by experienced facilitators and guest teachers from disciplines such as TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process, body/movement practices, Circle Singing, Musica Do Circulo, Vocal River, The Musical Body Process and Embodied Voice practices, we’ll explore the body-voice as a responsive instrument — using breath, movement, and voice to awaken connection, creativity, and flow.

Each day includes:

• Embodied voice and rhythm practices

• Movement and body-based vocal improvisation

• Co-creative rituals and spontaneous musical creation

• Shared meals, space care, reflection and rest

• Deep reconnection with joy, presence, and creative flow

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🌿 What Makes This Camp Special?

• The Musical Body Process: a small-group, co-creative practice developed by Charlotte Roberts, running across 3+ days. Together, we explore the space between life and music, body and imagination through shared vocal improvisations, musical structures, and emergent ritual responding to personal and collective themes.

• Peer Practice Exchange: a playful, generative space for facilitators and participants to share evolving ideas and creative sparks.

• Guest Teachers: inspiring embodied musical and improvisational processes offered by special guests.

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🏕️ Attendance Options

Full Camp (Fri 12 – Fri 19 Sept)

• 7-day deep-dive for 3–16 participants

• Full-week attendance required

Taster Day – Saturday 13 Sept, 10am–4:30pm

• One-day standalone immersion

• A great way to experience the camp if you can’t make the full week

Note: A pop-up community event may be held during the week — to be confirmed.

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📅 Schedule Overview

Thursday 11 Sept – Optional early arrival

• Arrive in the evening, settle in, and wake up fresh for day one

Friday 12 Sept – Arrivals & Soft Landing

• Check-in: 9–11am

• Orientation & welcome lunch

• Opening Circle (afternoon)

• Evening Singing & Sounding session

Saturday 13 – Wednesday 17 Sept – Immersion Days

• Morning, afternoon, and some evening sessions

• Structured offerings, guest teachers, peer-led spaces, rest time

Wednesday 17 Sept (evening) – Closing Circle

Friday 19 Sept – Goodbyes & Integration

• Final group session + shared lunch

• Departures from 2:30–3:30pm

• Optional sleepovers on Thursday 11th and Friday 19th September, free of charge when staying at Charlotte’s home or studio — arrive early to settle in or stay an extra night to integrate, departing Saturday 20th

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🛏️ Accommodation Options (limited spaces)

• Double room in main house (6)

• Annex of Singing Shack (2)

• Camping onsite (6–8)

• Shearing shed (2–4)

• Local Airbnb/offsite (16)

• Billeted with locals — get in touch to arrange

→ Please contact Charlotte via email with your accommodation preferences when booking.

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👶 Families & Children

Camp designed for adults, but children welcome with prior arrangement.

Please contact Charlotte to discuss ticketing and accommodation needs for parents and kids.

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🎟️ Tickets! 🎟️

Head over to the Humantix link below to grab your tickets:

[https://events.humanitix.com/body-voice-music-camp-2025]

👉 You’ll need one ticket for accommodation & meals, plus a separate ticket for the immersion experience based on the option you choose.

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💸 Budget Tickets

A limited number of reduced-rate tickets available in exchange for help with:

• Cleaning (toilets, kitchen, studio, etc)

• Food prep, cooking, serving, and clean-up

• General care of shared spaces

• Photo/Video of event

• Childcare

These spots are offered through a chat process with Charlotte to make sure it’s a good fit for the role and exchange.

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💳 Payment plans available

• Enquire with Charlotte for details

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What People Say:

“We explored voice, improvisation, feeling and relationships. I was inspired, guided and encouraged by Charlotte to express myself in a way I didn’t know I could.” – Jill

“Charlotte created a very safe and supportive environment allowing us to express ourselves without judgment.” – Jess

“We learn fun and playful techniques for singing, listening and creating together. Lottie’s facilitation style encourages everyone to grow. Come play!” – Karenina

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🎤 Facilitators

Charlotte Roberts

Chiara Cortez

- And, more to be announced soon!

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📞 Contact & Bookings

✉️ music.charlotte.roberts@gmail.com

📱 0432 550 460

🔗 https://linktr.ee/CharlotteRobertsMusic

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About Charlotte

Charlotte Roberts is a dynamic facilitator, vocal artist, and mentor working at the intersection of body, voice, rhythm, music, and co-creative group process. She is the creator of The Musical Body Process and has led immersive, improvisation-based retreats, trainings, and performances across Australia and internationally since 2003.

🌿 A certified Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner®, Taketina Rhythm Process® Facilitator, ISMETA-registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist, Qigong facilitator, VIT-registered teacher, and student of Psychodrama, Charlotte specialises in embodied voice, vocal improvisation, and small-group responsive improvised singing.

🎶 As a composer and improviser, she’s co-created projects such as Murmuring Walk (Sanatorium Lake) and In Your Arms (for carers and babies), released three albums (with a fourth on the way), performed in ensembles and seasons including Vocal Digs at La Mama, and led United Women’s Voices (Creative Victoria). She was artist-in-residence at RM Begg Aged Care (2024–25) and now curates The Singing Shack—a residency and creative exchange space based at her home in Newham, Macedon Ranges, on Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri Country.

👣 There, she raises her son, records music, and collaborates as a surdo player with Melbourne artists Ria Soemardjo and Justin Holland. Her current album spans four generations of family and live community sessions.

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About Chiara

Chiara Cortez is a vocal improviser, circle singing leader, lyricist, and teacher who blends music with connection. Based between the Philippines and Italy, she brings a rich background in jazz, world music, a cappella, and Nonviolent Communication. A psychology graduate from Stanford, Chiara sang and arranged with the award-winning group Talisman before deepening her practice in jazz and ensemble singing across Europe.

She is a long-time student of Rhiannon’s Vocal River, Música do Círculo, and Bobby McFerrin’s Circlesongs, and is a founding member of international collectives The Well and Collettivo CantinCerchio. Her songwriting and voice have featured in multiple Italian film and TV soundtracks, and she regularly teaches and facilitates circlesinging gatherings across Europe.

Chiara co-founded Circlesinging Roma — Italy’s first open vocal improvisation community — and is passionate about creating spaces where collective music-making becomes a pathway to empathy, creativity, and deep presence.

🎶 linktr.ee/makinglifewonderful

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GniRWqNB2uw

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🌱 Dates for 2026 : TBC soon

The Musical Body Camp Est. 2025; will continue as an annual to triannual event!

• April 10–17 — Macedon Ranges, VIC

• July 10–17 — Colo Heights, NSW

• September 11–18 — Macedon Ranges, VIC

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