Ancient philosopher Lao Tzu said, “music in the soul can be heard by the universe”. I dedicate my work to support others and myself to listen deeply within, and to express from a place of undivided wholeness. This process creates a rhythm of offering and receiving an unconditional life force - a gift. Together we learn to extend this experience into all our relationships, including the one with nature. I look forward to sharing this exploration with you ~ Liangyeh

• "Music comes from such a deep place within you.  You must keep making it." ~ Meredith Monk (composer, choreographer, recipient of 2014 National Medals for Arts)

• "Your music transfixes me.  It's stunning, and sublime, and moves me deeply." ~ Candace R. (Tibetan cranial therapist)

• "During the workshop... I was able to make sounds that honestly reflected how I felt in my heart ... it was really liberating and freed me from thinking I 'cannot sing' ... it allowed me to connect deeply with the others in the room and experienced the mutual joy of singing together" ~ Nina H. (psychotherapist)

• “I can’t tell you how much I liked your singing hike workshop. You combined the love and respect for nature, as well as your beautiful voice sharing the power of music. You created a very unique experience for the attendees and was able to make them feel comfortable at sharing their authentic voices." ~  Juanita E.(OSMP and the Arts Coordinator for City of Boulder)

• “Liangyeh is a gifted singer, musician, and teacher who is here to help us open our hearts … heal ourselves, and remember who we are.” ~ Janet G. (physician assistant)

• “I experienced Liangyeh's sound meditation and healing during the stressful holidays season. Her work helped me to reflect on stress' toll on my body, and to observe different sensations without judgment … As a hospital nurse, I hope other people can experience this amazing woman's gift and her calming presence.  I know this program can help people sleep better, regulate their stress responses, and to heal.” ~ Abigail C. (Nursing Graduate from Yale University)

• “With a kind and gentle presence, Liangyeh’ classes weave together sound and breath to create a rich environment of growth.” ~ Caterina Z. (Fulbright scholar in Colombia)

• “Liangyeh teaches music through the senses, using metaphors that are vivid with colors and landscapes to help her students grasp the energy of the music. She uses touch and movement helping students to feel the music from within their body, transmitting the somatic sense of how to make different musical qualities. She sees the unique gifts and potentials of her students clearly and is able to inspire discipline by allowing the student to feel they and their music are meaningful and recognized." ~ Eve H. (psychotherapist)

• “Ms. Tai artfully inspired the participants to be vulnerable and brave whilst experimenting with movement and voice work in a collaborative process.” ~ Ruth G (Director of Admission and Advancement at Boulder Valley Waldorf School)

Bio

• Liangyeh: my name means "compassion & shimmering light" in Mandarin.

• I am a somatic-oriented musician, teacher, healer, and group facilitator for embodiment practices.

• Growing up in Taiwan, I studied both Chinese and western classical music.

• After receiving graduate degrees in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, I performed at the Barcelona International Music Forum in Spain, the Obidos International Music Festival in Portugal; the Prague International Piano Masterclasses in the Czech Republic.

• During this time, I had a life changing experience of sitting next to a hospice patience and singing directly from the core of my being. This patient was transported by the sound vibrations and forgot about the intense pain no drug could previously ease. I became curious of the connection between sound and healing, something I experienced as a child but had somehow forgotten.

• With the intention to facilitate individual and community growth and transformation through embodied sound and movement expressions, I began designing workshops for performing arts, educational and health communities.

• I helped design a program titled “Students Produced Operas” for the Santa Fe Opera Education Department, inspiring public school students throughout New Mexico to create original operettas through a collaborative and empowering process.

• I led creative music workshops and rituals at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico; Girls Inc.in Massachusetts; the Crochet Mountain Foundation and Hospital in New Hampshire.

• As a regular faculty member, I taught at the MacDuffie School in Massachusetts; the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in New Mexico; and the Boulder Valley Waldorf School in Colorado.

• I am always seeking to deepen my own understanding and experience of the breath-body-mind-energy-consciousness connection. I have received additional training in energetic wellbeing from the LightWorks Healing Institute in New Mexico; mindfulness-centered somatic psychotherapy from The Hakomi Institute in Colorado; and holistic nutrition from Bauman College in California.

• I am also a certified bi-lingual mental health and medical interpreter. My cross-cultural lenses enable me to hold a fluid, curious, and empathic space in working with people.

• I love being in nature, traveling, writing, dancing, and I am passionate about healing food traditions from around the globe.

• I currently live in beautiful Lyons, Colorado with my daughter and our fabulous cats.

Youth one on one : Integrative Piano & Singing sessions

I have maintained a vibrant music teaching studio for the last 15 years focusing on creativity, imagination, listening with a whole-body awareness, technical fluidity, and a multi-sensory understanding of musical patterns and meanings. My teaching focuses on helping youth to connect for the first time, or to reconnect with their love for musical expressions. I also help them to integrate musical practices into their daily lives by choosing materials which are relevant to their developmental stages. Sessions are offered at a weekly or every-other-week interval. I teach in-person in Boulder and Lyons area, or online.

Adults one on one : Somatic-Focused Music Learning & Healing Sessions

In working with adults, we start with cultivating an awareness on the interconnectedness of breath-body-mind-energy. The reason is that we are the instruments through which music is created and delivered. Whether the session focuses on the voice, the piano, or improvisation, the principle is the same. When we are well connected within, and in harmony with the breath, we can tap into the creative impulse of music making. From there, we learn the skills and choreographic movements necessary to create music. My teaching focuses on helping adults to connect for the first time, or to reconnect with their love for musical expressions. If applicable, I also assist students to repair and re-pattern self-limiting beliefs and habits formed during their earlier music education. In this way of working together, the sessions are empowering, healing and insightful. Students often find these experiences becoming catalysts for transformation in other areas in their lives. For more details and scheduling, please contact me directly.

Creativity-Menstruation-Belonging

At age 12, when my menstrual cycle began, my Taiwanese grandmother would honor my body by preparing various herbs-infused soups and teas. She would offer these nourishments to me during different phases of my cycle. With the support of this familial and cultural understanding around menstruation, I experienced myself as a part of this infinite web of beautiful life.  Grandma was always honoring life. Therefore, I knew this celebration was also happening within me. 

When I moved to the United States, I was surprised to discover that the concept of allowing the bodies to rest, release and renew during these transformative cycles is instead replaced by shame, annoyance, and judgement. 

Exploring, inquiring, and transforming the narratives of menstruation can provide a lasting and empowering relationship with ourselves. My “Creativity-Menstruation-Belonging” offerings draw on my personal experiences as a menstruating person across two cultures, as a mother of a teen girl, and as an educator who has worked with hundreds of youth and adults over two decades. These offerings also incorporate my trainings from energetic medicine, somatic healing, as well as holistic nutrition. I believe re-creating a culture of reverence toward menstruation brings people back into a life-affirmative connection with themselves and with the cyclical nature of time.

This is what one retreatant and her mom shared from 2023:

“"I enjoyed every experience I had at C.M.B., especially learning about how to take care of my body, meeting new people, and doing fun crafts like making my own wisdom cards. Before this retreat I felt worried about my menstrual cycle, like I had to keep everything a secret. But as did this retreat I realized I had people around to support me, all with the help of Liangyeh" ~ Pele, age 11

"My daughter attended Liangyeh’s "CREATIVITY, MENSTRUATION, BELONGING" retreat this week, and I can't recommend it enough! She learned about the female anatomy, cycles, tea/soup recipes, talking about emotions, medicine card making, yoga, and becoming a part of this exciting adventure of becoming a young woman. My prayer for her is to be embodied and empowered as she moves forward into tween/teenhood and onto adulthood, and this experience was a major springboard toward that end." ~ Tracey H. (mother of Pele :)

2023 Summer Retreats for Pre-Teens & Teens

Through stories, crafts, movement, theater games, meditation, holistic nutrition, study of animals and time spent in Nature, we will observe how various world cultures view menstruation, explore our own personal experiences, gain knowledge of self-care and self-advocacy, practice self-love when the bodies are going through rapid changes, and create a new celebratory narrative as individuals and together as diverse menstruating bodies.  

This program is also assisted by the fabulous Michiko Theurer (https://www.michikotheurer.com).

Where: Inspiration Farm in Longmont, Colorado

When: Monday through Friday from 9:30 ~ 3:30 pm for the participating pre-teens.

Session 1 : June 19 ~ 23 / Session 2 : July 10 ~ 14 / Session 3 : July 17 ~ 21

Fees: Early-bird rate for registering prior to one month from the first day of your chosen session, $550 per week.

Regular rate for registering within one month from the first day of your chosen session, $600 per week.

Registration:

To hold your spot by paying in full in one quick step, please go to STORE on this website (please note that there is an additional 3% through registering on squarespace).

To pay through a payment plan, to avoid the extra charge on squarespace, or to request a policy in change or cancellation, please contact me directly at liangyehmusic@gmail.com or via CONTACT.

*Each session is limited to 8 participants.

coming soon: 2024 “Creativity-Menstruation-Belonging” Summer retreat for pre-teens & teens @ Inspiration Farm, Longmont, CO

coming soon: monthly in-person C.M.B. workshop for pre-teens & teens in Lyons, CO

coming soon: monthly in-person C.M.B. workshop for adults in Lyons, CO

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“Creativity-Menstruation-Belonging” : 2023 Summer Retreat for Youth

Upcoming Events

COMING SOON: 2024 “CREATIVITY-MENSTRUATION-BELONGING” SUMMER RETREAT FOR PRE-TEENS & TEENS

COMING SOON: 2024 MONTHLY IN-PERSON C.M.B. WORKSHOP FOR PRE-TEENS & TEENS IN LYONS, CO

COMING SOON: 2024 MONTHLY IN-PERSON C.M.B. WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS IN LYONS, CO

COMING SOON: 2024 NATURE’S CONTEMPLATIVE VOICE HIKE, sponsored by the CITY OF BOULDER, CO

*For information & registration, please contact me directly.

past events

July, 2023 @ Inspiration Farm, Longmont, Colorado

• Summer retreat, “Creativity. Menstruation. Belonging ” for teens and pre-teens.

Friday, May 19, 2023 @ Stanford University, California (postponed …)

• Facilitating an “Embodied Practice, Relating, and Improvisation in Nature” class.

Feb 18 to Mar 23, 2023 ~ “Reservoirs”, a multimedia exhibition curated by Michiko Theurer, in celebration of climate action @ The Boulder Canyon Library Gallery, CO

• An immersive installation featuring paintings by Alejandra Calvo, poetic invitations by Ambika Kamath and music by Liangyeh Tai.

Sept 10, 2022 ~ Collaboration with calligrapher Marlow Brooks and violinist Michiko Theurer @ The Boulder Shambhala Center, CO

• With Michiko Theurer on the violin and Liangyeh on the flute, improvising to the life force found in the large scale calligraphy work by Marlow Brooks, based on ancient pictographic Chinese characters.

Aug 18, 2022 ~ “Art inspired by the land” @ the Canyon Library Theater, Boulder, CO

• I will be performing live on the piano and vocal along with moving images of Boulder County’s beautiful nature projected onto a large screen. This event is sponsored by the City of Boulder.

Dec 20, 2020 : an online “Winter Solstice Voice Circle”, sponsored by the Historic Ute Theater, CO

• “2020 has been an unexpected year with much intensity and challenge at a personal, communal and global level. It has also presented the invitation for many to slow down, listen, cry, laugh, heal, and awaken to the call of Earth. This workshop aligns with the Winter Solstice in North America . Our voices are our signatures and our lights. This FREE online/zoom gathering is a celebration that amplifies the light within us as power to dispel darkness in the world. In an atmosphere of acceptance and nurturance, musician and healer Liangyeh will guide each participant through breathwork, imagery, toning, chanting, and singing. She will also provide a step-by-step process for participants to experience vocal improvisation based on a favorite poetic text. All are welcome. No previous singing experience necessary. During break time, the group will also be making and sharing warm beverage recipes with one another virtually to bring happiness to our bellies!” ~ Historic Ute Theater

Oct 17/ Nov 21/ Dec 19, 2019 : Monthly “Embodied Toning & piano music meditation” @ Congregation Nevei Kodesh, Boulder, CO

7 PM, Nov 9, 2019 : performance titled, “Music & Poetry inspired by inner and outer landscapes”

“Liangyeh will bring an evening of sublime inspirations from around the globe to the Historic Ute Theatre in Saguache, Colorado. Piano music by Debussy, Satie, Santoro, Cage, Ginastera; songs from Taiwan and Brazil; poetry by Mary Oliver and Rumi. The audience will also be invited to participate in creating a unique soundscape, and a universal peace chant.”

Nov 10, 2019 : a community workshop ~ “embodied voice, inspired by inner and outer landscapes” @ the Historic Ute Theater, Saguache, CO

Aug 12, 2018: "Singing with Nature's heartbeat" - an afternoon event at the flagstaff trail, boulder, CO

This 3-hour singing hike will take place at the stunning Flagstaff Trail in Boulder.  We will begin with a simple breathing exercise to help us connect with our bodies, our voices, and Nature.  Beautiful and yet easy-to-learn songs, reflecting nature’s beauty and bounty, will be taught throughout the entire hike.  Spontaneous vocal improvisations and soundscapes will also be created and woven into this experience.  This is a heart-opening opportunity to express our relationships with the landscape.  This event is sponsored by the City of Boulder Open Space Mountain & Parks. It is free and open to everyone and every age.  No previous musical experience necessary.