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ARTIST · EDUCATOR · FACILITATOR

Silvina

Vergara

Silvina Vergara is an artist, educator, and facilitator of inner transformation. For decades, she has explored the relationship between sound, voice, body, emotions, and awareness to create deeply human experiences of listening, expression, and integration.

Her work begins with a simple idea: before we can transform something, we need to be able to listen to it. Sometimes that listening begins in the body. At other times, it emerges through emotion, breath, movement, or a voice that has gone unheard for too long.

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Silvina Vergara con un grupo y cuencos de sonido en un entorno natural.

WAYS TO WORK WITH SILVINA

Ways to listen, feel, and transform.

Silvina’s work can be experienced in individual, group, or immersive settings. Each offering brings together sound, voice, breath, body awareness, and movement, adapting to the context and the people involved.

CURRENTLY IN CALIFORNIA

Individual Sessions

In-person sessions for those seeking a personal space for listening, clarity, expression, and integration.

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FOR GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Workshops and Group Experiences

Experiences that bring together sound, voice, breath, movement, and body awareness to create a shared space for exploration and learning.

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PROPOSALS AND COLLABORATIONS

Retreats and Immersive Experiences

Silvina is open to collaborating with venues and organizers to create retreats that bring together nature, silence, sound, movement, and celebration.

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FOUR MOVEMENTS

Listen, feel, express, and integrate.

Each experience has its own rhythm. These four movements offer a way to recognize what is happening, make space for it, find a form of expression, and integrate it into everyday life.

01

Listening

Notice what is happening in the body, emotions, and inner world.

02

Feeling

Make room for the experience without denying or judging it.

Patrón gráfico de ondas concéntricas

03

Expressing

Use voice, sound, breath, or movement to give form to what is felt.

04

Integrating

Notice what emerges, regain perspective, and bring the experience into everyday life.

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JOURNEY

A

life devoted to listening to what lies beneath the voice.

Silvina’s path brings together artistic training, inner work, teaching, service, and creation. These are some of the moments that have shaped how she supports others.

Silvina Vergara junto a un cuenco de sonido en un entorno natural.

1994

Sound as a Path

She began training in sound with Tom Kenyon, bringing that exploration together with her background in classical singing and movement.

2004–2009

Radio and Conversations

She founded, hosted, and produced a bilingual radio program on personal growth and spirituality for the Hispanic community.

Since 2005

Teaching and the Sound Scene

She began teaching at Globe Institute and became a regular participant in concerts, conferences, and sound gatherings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

More than a Decade

The School of Service

She facilitated sound and movement programs with cancer support groups at San Francisco General Hospital—an experience she describes as one of her greatest teachers of compassion, resilience, and humanity.

2008–2017

Community and Education

She shared her work through appearances on Univision, seminars in Mexico and North America, and programs for healthcare and mental health professionals, as well as older adults.

Today

A Living Practice

She currently offers in-person sessions in California, continues teaching, and develops new independent experiences that bring together sound, voice, breath, movement, and awareness.

MUSIC

Music as a Space for Listening.

Silvina’s body of sound work brings together compositions, recordings, meditations, and pieces shared across different stages of her career.

COMPOSITIONS

Pieces and recordings released throughout different stages of her musical career.

SOUND MEDITATIONS

Recordings created for listening and contemplation, also found in her historical discography.

FREE MUSIC

An archive of music previously shared on SoundCloud.

TESTIMONIALS

Voices of Experience.

Every encounter is experienced differently. These voices share something of what remained after listening, learning, and experiencing Silvina’s work.

“It was wonderful to learn from Silvina and experience her work in the Sausalito sound workshops. I would love to take part in one of her experiences again.”

Peter · Workshop in Sausalito

“Thank you for sharing your wisdom and your beautiful voice. I learned so much from both recordings and had an especially transformative experience. I’m grateful for the opportunity to receive your music and the way you guide attention.”

Christine C. · Sound Experience

“Dear Silvina, what a joy to receive such a beautiful message after so long. Congratulations on the beautiful message you share and on your lovely voice. United in heart.”

Gloria R. · Peru

Biblioteca de Silvina

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“Sometimes, the first step is not finding an answer. It is creating enough space to listen to the question.”

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