Embodied learning through embodied teaching
Weekly experiential training for voice teachers and singers who want to
free their voice and sharpen their tools through simple strategies
that integrate awareness, movement, and touch with voice science.
What You’ll Experience
The body, heart, mind, and soul of Body Based Voice Ped
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In every session you’ll gain new insights through an experiential singing lesson that will demonstrate new ways to teach and practice.
We will discuss and unpack the sequence, format, sciences, and theories after we feel the magic.
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In BBVP we learn how the body organizes sound naturally, and how to guide that process in your own singing and teaching.
Through the combination of complexity theory and nonlinear pedagogy, we put the proof in the pudding!
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Using contemporary theories and sciences about the body, biology, the world, and learning, we create simple strategies that improve awareness, technique, and enhance performance.
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Getting to a new goal is usually a winding road. Understanding things better can lead to doing them better, but it’s working with what you do that can improve the way you do them.
You could read all of the voice texts in print and not grow as a singer, but active listening, visual analysis, exploration around a goal - these are potent ways to quiet the thinking mind and invite in the feeling body.
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The heart of BBVP is having new and interesting ways to feel new and interesting things in your singing to find freedom and new possibilities.
Sensory information flows before the intellectual kind.
Feel the change first - we’ll make sense of it all after.
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Play, curiosity, and an interesting idea is enough to give your technique and artistry a boost! Through various sorts of games, ideas that intrigue the mind and light up the body, attuning to our senses through hands-on techniques, exploring vocal colors, emotional intentions, and more, you’ll gain a ton of simple tools to practice and teach, but more than that you’ll be learning the fundamentals to create your own.
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Body Based Voice Ped’s soul is the people in the zoom room and the Facebook group ready to hold each others’ virtual hand through teaching challenges and confusions as well as emerging insights and new teaching heights. You never really realize how important community is until you find yourself in the best kind.
This is not another method,
it’s a new lens.
Who Benefits From BBVP?
Connect
sound & sensation,
movement & meaning,
attention & intention.
Learning becomes effortless.
“I’ve done a lot of trainings over the years, but THIS has been so powerful.”
-Hannah May
What’s inside…
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Mondays 12:30–2:00pm EST
On zoom, or asynchronousAll sessions are recorded, emailed within 24 hours, and yours to keep for life!
Each session will have a guided voice lesson, a breakdown of the sciences and theories within it, and discussion about the experience and how to adapt it to different learners.
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A tool that solves a problem is great. If that tool solves several, that’s way better!
Gain tools that enhance
art, technique, and strategy.Learn to guide your clients to discover solutions to their problems through their sensesusing very simple experiential strategies.
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Private Facebook group for continued discussion, reflection, questions, and more.
Access to experts in bodywork, laryngeal massage, fascia, biotensegrity, Alba Emoting Technique, Chekhov, and more.
Shared resources, research, and community inspiration.
Body Based Voice Ped is a community
that connects the dots and fills in the blanks.
Your Learning Journey
EXPLORE
Fall
October - December
Winter
DEEPEN
January - March
Spring
INTEGRATE
April - June
Winter sessions start January 4!
Topics are chosen by you and could include…
As well as special sessions with guest teachers on:
Freeing tension techniques
Singing and the nervous system
Teaching disabled and neurodivergent students
Myofascial Release techniques with certified MFR therapist
Biotensegrity in the voice studio
Checkhov & Alba performance techniques
“It’s a space that opens up my thinking for the week.”
-Kevin
What Shapes Our Practice?
A Taste of BBVP
Explore whole-body alignment through a guided exploration and discover how the feet (and everything above them) can influence the freedom of the voice.
Whole Body Alignment Workshop
This is me, Jeremy. I’m your guide.
After over a dozen years teaching voice, pedagogy, and many aspects of performance, I left academic teaching behind to work with professionals in NYC, LA, and internationally, help those with complex vocal diagnoses, and to teach teachers a contemporary approach to vocal pedagogy that leads to effortless and fully embodied singing. That’s what you have in store in Body Based Voice Ped.
I’m a thirsty learner, always updating my knowledge base and mental model to offer the most aligned and up to date learning. Though there’s a lot of complexity in what we do, the strategies are very simple and easy to do without a lot of explanation - each strategy is an experience that immediately engages the senses and piques curiosity for effortless learning.
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Body Based Voice Ped (BBVP) is a community for voice teachers and passionate singers to learn to improve their singing, practice, and teaching through simple experiential techniques that illustrate new ways of understanding traditional concepts like support, resonance, breath for singing and more.
The pedagogical perspective is holistic and integrative:
We say less while achieving more by creating experiences where a student will discover more possibilities with your guidance.
We generate options to discern good choices from less good choices instead of a fixed idea of what is right or wrong.
We learn how to set intentions and then sequence and streamline a lesson or practice session from warm up through to technical integration and artistic expression of repertoire.
We look at what makes the body whole (this is where fascia science comes in), and how that can lead to effortless growth using ideas that aligns with how the body learns.
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This is a community for people who want to both improve their own singing or feel new vocal possibilities, and also understand the sciences and theories that were embedded within their learning experience.
This includes:
Emerging and experienced voice teachers who want new practical tools, an even more holistic perspective, and a supportive community of deep thinkers.Singers who want to understand how to take charge of their own growth through smart practice, and like to get a little nerdy about the voice!
Voice professionals like SLP/Ts, Vocologists, etc, who want to widen their thinking and deepen their skills, and also share their expertise in a like- minded community.
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We look at traditional topics found in most vocal pedagogy books in nontraditional ways alongside contemporary ideas for a dynamic combination that breathes new life into familiar ideas.
Topics include:
Teaching vocal versatility
Connecting Performance & Practice
Support, grounding, and effortless singing
Motor imagery, and neuroplasticity
The mouth, resonance, and diction
Sequencing & streamlining warming up, technical exercises, and rep
Therapeutic exercises
Improving vocal function
Alignment & Stretching Updates
Experiential Anatomy
Negative Practice (lip syncing variations)
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Every 90 minute session is unique, though each contains:
*quick catch up about previous week’s teaching and singing wins, new insights and connections, lingering questions, etc.
*experiential learning as a group (singing on mute), with live 1:1 open coaching (off mute) to troubleshoot and clarify any challenges or confusions
*unpacking the elements of the lessons (the sciences & theories, sequencing or pedagogical format, etc)
*discussion and questionsSome sessions feature special topics like working with neurodivergent clients, understanding the nervous system, working with tension, having guest teachers (specialists in Myofascial Release, biomechanics, biotensegrity, performance techniques, etc), and guests coming in for a genuine teaching demonstration to observe this work in a 1:1 setting.
We keep the conversation going in a private Facebook group where we can also get support for our particular teaching and singing needs, often resulting in an asynchronous group think. Most of our guests are members as well, so we can consult with the experts as needed on top of it all.
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There are four pedagogical pillars that provide the foundation for the exercises and the way they’re taught:
Fascia - Fascia is far more than mere connective tissue, it is the scaffolding for all of our parts - the environment for our muscles, bones, veins, nerves, brains - everything! Learn how it functions, responds, and to help it move more freely.
Biotensegrity - Biotensegrity is a combination of three other words: Bio (biological, alive) and tens-egrity (tensional integrity). It is a framework for understanding the body and movement that draws from the patterns found in nature, comparing the body to other living things instead of manmade machines (biomechanics).
Nonlinear Pedagogy - Learning happens easily when you’re in the state of play! THIS is nonlinear pedagogy! Learn how to create an environment where piquing curiosity ignites the learning process, and results are unpredictable, varied, and guaranteed.
Complexity theory - Complexity theory suggests that the real magic isn’t in the parts and what they do, but in the relationship between them. Learn how to apply this simple pedagogy of relationships.
If this is all new to you, that is completely ok! That’s why there’s a Body Based Voice Ped!
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Body Based Voice Ped runs in 3 12-week segments from October to June. The dates of the 2026-2027 season are:
Fall October 5 - December 21
Winter January 4 - March 22
Spring April 5 - June 28Zoom sessions are Mondays from 12:30-2pm Eastern.
Every session is recorded and emailed to registered members within 24 hours of the session. Replays are yours to keep.
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Every 12 week segment of BBVP is $595USD.
You can pay all at once or break it down into monthly payments.
Attendance is not mandatory, though sessions are more dynamic the more in the room!
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You can join NOW! Winter sessions start January 4!
Click here to register.
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Oranges are a common metaphor in the fascia community to illustrate wholeness. When we peel and separate the segments, we’re not creating isolated pieces but revealing parts of an integrated whole—each wedge distinct but fully connected to the others, contributing to the fruit’s structure and wholeness.
The twigs also represent how similar we are to the nature that surrounds us. They’re just twigs, but they feel joyous somehow.
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Keep scrolling down - there’s a lot of information, clips, testimonials and more. Click around the other pages on this site and get to know this perspective better. Don’t forget to join the email list to get the free 30 minute workshop that will make your jaw feel like butter!
You can also email me here and we’ll meet on zoom and see if this is the right community for you!
Don’t sleep on BBVP!