{"id":284,"date":"2020-12-28T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:07:29","slug":"about-mariana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/about-mariana\/","title":{"rendered":"About Mariana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo: Lisa Graves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About Mariana <\/b><\/p>\n

I have always been drawn to sound’s potential to reveal, engage and heal. I was born in rural Brazil, in a family connected to the earth who sang to their animals and lived on a countryside tree-spotted landscape. Music, singing and sounds have been part of my life since I was a child. <\/p>\n

However, the awareness of being connected to the sound, myself as a sonorous being, took 30 years to manifest itself. It was during my PhD in Clinical Psychology at PUC-S\u00e3o Paulo that I finally affirmed the essential place of sound, singing and music in my life. My thesis, Sons de Banzo<\/i> (Banzo Sounds), led me to deep encounters to the power of sound and opened a new path in my course: the studies about sound as a vibrant matter and its vivid-active effects on our lives. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Looking to combine scientific knowledge of the sound vibration in the body with spiritual and integral understanding, I found the work by Fabien Maman and Terres Unsoeld, with whom I have been studying at Tama-Do, the Academy of Sound, Color and Movement\u00ae.<\/p>\n

With Tama-Do, a curiosity and passion for this vibrant matter\u2013sound\u2013as a therapeutic tool for the way of the soul<\/i> has been the force that moves me since 2017. <\/p>\n

I deepened my studies of sound when I moved to Tiohti\u00e0:ke \/ Mooniyaang \/ Montreal for postdoctoral research at Concordia University in partnership with Universidade Federal Fluminense, in 2016. There, I worked with PPGCA, SenseLab, Acts of Listening Lab, and the performing arts cluster LePARC. As a postdoc, I expanded on my studies of sound as a therapeutic tool, and the voice as a musical and therapeutic instrument beyond the limits of language. Portions of my research were published in BANZO SOUNDS and BANZO LANDSCAPE, a 2019 English-Portuguese edition by Grosse Fugue Edition. <\/p>\n

I am currently furthering my studies through a 4-year training course at Somatic Experiencing<\/b>, with which my sound therapy work gains depth and enrichment.<\/p>\n

Our work together is also informed by my 15 years as an artist, as well as an art educator with more than 10 years of experience with children between 3 and 10 years of age. I work in the intersection between art, research-creation and psychology. <\/p>\n

Through engagement with sound as vibration and voice-without-language\u2014as performance, aesthetic proposition and clinical intervention\u2014I seek to facilitate new modes of experience, and new techniques for living. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Mariana  I have always been drawn to sound’s potential to reveal, engage and heal. I was born in rural Brazil, in a family connected to the earth who sang to their animals and lived on a countryside tree-spotted landscape. Music, singing and sounds have been part of my life since I was a child.… Read More »About Mariana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamarcassa.com\/sound-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}