Our Purpose:
Learn music fundamentals, Play your favorite artists and genres, Create your own compositions.
Specializing in voice, guitar, piano, bass, and drums; we offer all instrument lessons, band coaching, and songwriting workshops. Our purpose is to facilitate a lasting relationship with music and art, while prioritizing music theory and encouraging creativity.
Our Team
Founder & Secretary
Harley is a healing artist dedicated to supporting local music and art scenes. They advocate for the process to learn, play, and create art that challenges people to be seen for who they are. They are a multi-instrumentalist composer with a wide range of contrasting pieces; earning their Masters of Music in composition from the B.C. Conservatory at CSU Puvungna with a performance art piece revealing how gender socialization promotes cultural harm. Their current practice at Brain and Body is in community creative arts healing. When they are not mentoring young musicians; they spend their time reading, practicing archery, and sound near a tree.
President
Francis is a Santa Ana singer-songwriter who in the past has participated and volunteered at Brain and Body events. He is committed to creating and protecting diverse and inclusive spaces where people can find and express themselves through music and art.
Treasurer
Kathryn Hoist is an artist of many mediums but she focuses on hair artistry in Costa Mesa, CA. She is the owner of Happy Lab West and involved in many community building organizations. She believes art is healing, unifying, and much needed fun. Words she lives by: “It’s not about symmetry, it’s about balance.”
