About
Phoenix Song is a Korean American adoptee teacher, performer, and healer based in the East Bay. They lead classes and workshops that combine vocal practice, somatic processes, and expressive arts. Song's work focuses on ancestral healing, grief, and diversity and solidarity themes. They are affiliated with East Bay Meditation Center.
Teaching focus
Phoenix Song's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Secular tradition. Several threads come up: grief and loss as practice doorways rather than detours; dharma for LGBTQ practitioners;. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Phoenix Song works with whatever shows up in the room rather than reading from notes, which is part of why these talks land as conversational instead of scripted. Short pauses, longer sits, and questions that come back to direct experience are usual. Listed specialties on the source profile include grief, LGBTQ+, in-person, group. The bigger move Phoenix Song keeps making is back toward attention itself: what's happening, how it's being held, and what gets in the way. That keeps the teaching close to practice rather than drifting into commentary about practice. For talks, schedules, and longer essays, the affiliated organization's page is where the live material lives. Phoenix Song's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on. Phoenix Song's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on.
Background
Phoenix Song teaches in the Secular tradition. The teaching home is East Bay Meditation Center. From the teacher's own profile: Phoenix Song is a queer, non-binary Korean American adoptee teacher, performer and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. They believe that everyone can sing and love to help people free their voices and rhythm in private and group classes. Phoenix leads ancestral healing, grief, and diversity/solidarity workshops and trainings that use expressive arts and somatic processes. If you would like to support Phoenix's teachings, please do so via Venmo @phoenixsongmusic or PayPal [email protected]. To learn more about their sound healing offerings, classes, and performances, please visit https://phoenixsongmusic.com/ Phoenix Song's teaching tends to stay close to direct experience, working with attention, ethics, and the felt sense of the body rather than abstract doctrine. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Phoenix Song's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography.
Lineage
Phoenix Song teaches as a lay teacher in the Secular tradition. The institutional home, per the source listing, is East Bay Meditation Center, and that's where most of the public teaching schedule and any retreat offerings will be posted. Teaching authority and lineage details, where stated, live with the affiliated organization's profile page rather than with this directory entry.
What to expect
On a class or retreat with Phoenix Song, the basic shape is short instruction, longer sittings, and some Q&A. The container is shaped by East Bay Meditation Center, so format details, fees, and access policies follow that organization's norms. Expect plenty of silence, less talking-at-you than you might think, and an emphasis on letting the practice do its work rather than chasing experiences. For exact dates, registration, and any sliding-scale or scholarship information, There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice.
