Tatianah  Thunberg, LMSW
SPIRIT MOVES LLC

​Spirit Moves:
Where the Expressive and Healing Arts Converge

Let’s gather. Come sing, dance, and play in the center of what’s here, right now—just as we are.

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🌿 The Heart of Gathering

TatiAnah’s creative life is inseparable from her healing arts practice at Spirit Moves LLC. A devoted community weaver, she believes deeply in the power of gathering in these fractured times. When people come together, they witness one another’s beauty, open to shared vulnerability, and co-create a field where relational attunement and artistic resonance can flourish. She delights in tending spaces where tenderness, aliveness, and creative expression thrive—where the capacity to play expands through shared presence.

🌿 The Art of Facilitation

TatiAnah is an experiential facilitator and event producer with more than thirty years of experience guiding transformative practices across expressive arts, somatic healing, and community creation. Her work draws from a rich tapestry of embodied lineages—including somatic therapy, yoga, partner yoga, Thai yoga massage, ecstatic dance, authentic movement, contact improvisation, and improvisational theater—all centered in the spontaneous intelligence of play.
 

Her path began in the 1990s with adventure challenge facilitation and outdoor leadership, where nature and healthy risk-taking taught her about trust, resilience, and group cohesion. She later brought these foundations into her clinical social work practice, offering experiential group work in hospitals, schools, and community settings.

For more than a decade, yoga teaching and Thai yoga massage were central strands of her work. These practices continue to inform her understanding of the voice as a full-body instrument—guiding her in creating safety, attuning to the nervous system, and opening to the subtle vibrations of sound.
 

Today, TatiAnah brings a trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware lens, an attuned facilitation style, and a joyfully improvisational spirit to every space she leads—inviting participants to soften protective patterns, take creative risks, and experience the profound belonging that emerges when voices rise together.
 

🌿 Improvisation as Lifelong Play

As a neurodivergent human, TatiAnah has always been drawn to movement and sound as pathways to soothing, expression, and connection—what she later came to understand as intuitive, embodied stimming. Improvisation has been a throughline her entire life: gymnastics, dance, skating, skiing, contact improv, authentic movement, theater improv, ecstatic dance.

Across these practices, improvisation became her home—where breath meets impulse, where feeling becomes gesture or melody, and where individual expression finds its place within a collective groove. These experiences trained her in attunement, embodied listening, and shared momentum—skills that later became the foundation of her song leadership and facilitation.
 

🌿 Voice as a Path to Belonging

TatiAnah grew up singing in choirs, discovering the deep pleasure of harmony and shared focus. Performance felt stressful, but singing together—especially in ceremonial settings—felt like home.

For fifteen years, community singing in seasonal and life-cycle ceremonies shaped her understanding of the voice as devotional practice. In 2011, beloved song leader Carol Bardenstein welcomed her into a local community singing circle, opening a wider world of communal song. That same year, she joined Trevor Eller’s Full Moon Kirtan Ensemble as a response chanter—a collaboration that continues to nourish her devotional practice.

Her movement-based improvisational work eventually led her to vocal improvisation, and in 2013, she co-founded Harmonic Voice Meditation with Jeremy Fulwiler and Don Allen, a practice of deep listening, toning, and presence that flourished for seven years.

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Singing in community gave her a visceral sense of belonging—what in Kirtan is called bhav: the shared devotional mood that arises when voices merge in resonance. Breath, harmony, vibration, presence. Voice becomes more than expression—it becomes connection.
 

🌿 Collaboration as Practice

Collaboration is central to TatiAnah’s artistry. Over the years, she has woven a wide web of song kin through co-leading song circles, workshops, jams, ceremonies, classes, retreats, and improvisational collaborations with beloved artists including:

+Full Moon Kirtan Michigan: response chanter with Trevor Eller’s ensemble since 2011
+Harmonic Voice Meditation: vocal improvisation practice co-founded with Don Allen and Jeremy Fulwiler in 2013, flourishing for seven years.
+Supper & Sing Circle: a monthly vocal improv jam co-founded with Mary Fithian in 2018, still evolving today.
+Song ceremonies & workshops with Julie Kouyaté since 2022.
+Lush Up & Fall Into Harmony: co-producing and co-leading community singing & vocal improv retreats, with Lyndsey Scott, Beth Patterson, Kath Weider, and Carol Bardenstein starting in 2023.
+Temple retreats and weave & sing workshops with Asia Sikkila since 2024.
+The Vocal Lab: co-founded with Kath Weider in 2024, a weekly vocal improvisation immersion and biannual retreat that grew into the songha, a dedicated and ever-evolving ensemble of improvisational singers.

These collaborations, practices, and decades of embodied work converged in 2025 when TatiAnah, Dory Mead and Irene Soléa Antonellis co-led a retreat that birthed the name Vocal Wilds and sparked the formation of the Vocal Wilds Collective.

🌿 Vocal Arts Studies

TatiAnah has deepened her practice through group and individual coaching with gifted teachers.  She continues to study voice, vocal improvisation and percussion with:

• Dory Mead:  Mead Performing Arts — since 2023
• Kath Weider:  Studio for Vocal Alchemy — since 2023
• Dede Alder: frame drumming & singing — since 2024
• Aime Debrone: Neuro Athletics — since 2025

• She is enrolled in Rhiannon’s All the Way In program (2026), under the direction of Cara Trezise.

🌿 Gratitude

TatiAnah is nourished by the wisdom of her song and dance kin—each collaboration a living exchange of presence, artistry, and attunement. These relationships continue to shape her path and inspire the spaces she tends. It is an honor for her to co-create places where people return—again and again—to breath, to voice, to belonging, and to the beauty that emerges when we truly listen and move together.

🌿 Let’s Gather

Curious about upcoming offerings?
Explore her Let’s Sing Together page for the latest classes, circles, and retreats, and visit the Vocal Wilds Collective website to learn more about the co-creative work she leads with fellow vocal improvisational artists.