PAIZLEE BREATH + SOUND SESSIONS

Steep your favorite tea and get ready to vocalize.. Choose from two of PaizLee's class offerings this season; Sacred Sound Session, her latest class which explores the healing modalities of sound, along with her signature 30 min or 1 hr Listening & Mirroring class, the foundation to her work, which she has been developing over the last decade through the various school/music programs she has helped launch & grow, in addition to private instruction.

PaizLee has spent the last 12 years in culinary arts, food & beverage management, and moonlighting between business, music education, beat production and would step out to do special performances that promote the importance of music education & programs for the youth, as with the Shabazz Palaces show at the Doris Duke Theater in 2019, where some of her fellow Soundshop co-facilitators/founders were also featured.  During the pandemic, and over the last two years, she has helped to re/open a number of restaurants in Honolulu, in addition to the first Hawaiian restaurant in Waikiki since the 70s. Her current project Mother Tongue is a Michael Mina restaurant featuring global cuisine, rooted in wellness, is located inside the Heimat fitness center concept in West Hollywood.  PaizLee has found that self-care & sustainability is, more than ever, critical to our overall well being; thus, a musical immersion was the response.

HI / CA / NV

Remote Learning available

2022

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- Sacred Sound Session
- Listening & Mirroring Practice (Music Education)

Course 1:

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In response to the global pandemic, many of us are trying to start a business, pursue a lifelong goal or create ways to forage our own path; something that better aligns with our values and current needs in order to be sustainable while living the life we’ve always wanted. Take the first step in empowering yourself with a supportive mentor and gain the confidence to speak up, use your voice, take a leap, embark on a project, do seminars, start a business, make the sale, or simply stand in your own power. Push out of the comfort zone and do something out of the ordinary; sing, light up the channels that can open doors in your subconscious mind while feeling liberated and charged. Gain confidence to break through delusional obstacles and live your dream while creating a practice that is enjoyable and easily incorporated into your daily flow.

A student of the Dragon Gate Sanctuary (a closed door School for Baguazhang Kung Fu and Internal Martial Arts led by Sifu Christopher Lee Matsuo), PaizLee integrates traditional music fundamentals and invites her students to explore their own instrument, develop feel & resonance in the body, combined with insight & energetics of the internal martial arts to sharpen intuition, learn proper posture & placement for a healthy vocal practice, build confidence in a supportive setting where we can learn to use sound vibration to create healing in the body.

Journey through sound by developing intuition, vision and body awareness. Refine your craft through breathing and visualization, listening, mirroring; explore the voice with intention and technique. Utilize the healing modalities of sound and learn to develop a unique practice that is beneficial for the body, mind and soul through PaizLee’s closed door mentorship. 

Course 2:

Initial class = 45 minutes (single class rate)

Regular class = 30 minutes

Extended class = 60 minutes

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• Single regular 30 min class = $45

• 4 class card/ *Monthly rate = $170 ($10 off)

• 4 class Sibling/Paired rate = $300 ($40 off)

• 10 class card = $430 ($20 off) 

• Single extended 1 hr class = $65

• 4 class extended class card/ *monthly rate= $250 ($10 off)

• 10 class extended class card = $630 ($20 off) 

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PaizLee has been teaching individual and group classes since 2011, after being invited to be one of the first wave of mentors at Halau Ku Mana Hawaiian Charter School thru the Mana Maoli (now Mana Mele) program. She continues to be a supportive music mentor through the program and is also a core facilitator for the Soundshop hip hop based program through the Doris Duke Theater at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

These voice classes are tailored to the goals and needs of each student, focusing on developing the ear through listening, mirroring, and strengthening creative intuition through the use of visualization techniques to experience sound through our various senses, utilizing organic methods to introduce theory, and developing feel for music. The classes are designed using traditional class methods and are fine tuned to the unique needs of the student, with exercises that are practical and easy to incorporate in our daily routine to provide a strong foundation in vocal practice. Developing the tools to heal the body and mind through sound is an emphasis for these sessions.

PaizLee is a regular guest panelist & performer for various social science courses at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for areas related to social justice, identity, gender violence prevention/education, cultural empowerment, spirituality and music, with a special emphasis on jazz and hip hop. She was also one of two Hawaii representatives for the women lead indigenous cultural, music and arts festival Seeds & Soul in Oakland, CA in 2014. A featured contributing writer for the 2013 textbook release “Empire of Funk: Representations of Hip Hop in Pilipino America,” she debuted her first album project in 2007 with the group Tempo Valley under the moniker Paisley in “Memoirs of the Tempo.” She is a respected freelance songwriter, producer, vocalist, mentor & educator with a long-standing history in music performance, production and private instruction. She has graced the stage and studio sessions with the likes of De la Soul, Biz Markie, Shabazz Palaces, Abstract Rude and a handful of prolific local and international artists. PaizLee continues to nurture her passion through education, mentorships, creative projects and collaborations.

Having been raised in household where business and food & beverage were a focus, it is no accident that her most recent projects have a strong emphasis on music, arts & cultural education and community organizing through Atlas Tea + Apothecary, where she can fully express, nurture and integrate her talents in these various fields in a way that tells her unique story.