What can we get from a singing retreat?

 

Singing retreats; what are they all about? Are they about learning new songs? are they about learning to sing better?  Are they just another retreat from life? Is it more about the location, accommodation, food?

Perhaps we retreat because we are looking for something new in our lives, like new friends, new memories or a new hobby, a new habit, or a new space to start again as a new singer? Maybe we hope we will find a home-from-home, a community, somewhere to belong? It could be that we are looking for that light bulb moment, an epiphany, that ‘ah ha’ moment when we realise what's been missing for all these years.

Our participants usually report to us that they were expecting to ‘have a good time’ or that they thought it ‘might be quite nice’ to go on a weekend singing course. Then they say ‘but I wasn’t expecting…. ‘ and then they mention some or all of the things above….and it makes all of the hard work worth it! Thank you all. This year we have really missed meeting the new faces and seeing the  familiar faces. Roll on 2021.