Body Based Voice Ped
A weekly experiential training for singers and voice teachers who want to unlock vocal freedom by integrating body awareness, movement, and voice science.
Connect sound & sensation,
movement & meaning,
attention & intention.
Learning becomes effortless.
Body Based Voice Ped is a community
that connects the dots and fills in the blanks.
Sessions open your mind and senses weekly. In every session you’ll gain new insights through a guided vocal experience, and as we discuss and unpack its contents afterwards.
Featuring contemporary theories and sciences, we create simple strategies that make big differences.
This is not another method, it’s a new angle.
In BBVP we learn how the body organizes sound naturally, and how to guide that process in your own singing and teaching.
This is for…
Emerging and experienced voice teachers who want new practical tools, a WHOLE-istic 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 get a little nerdy about the voice!
Voice professionals like SLPs, Vocologists, etc, who want to widen their thinking and deepen their skills, and share their expertise in a like- minded community.
“I’ve done a lot of trainings over the years, but THIS has been so powerful.”
-Hannah May
How it flows…
September-December, January-March, April-June
Every 3 month segment features 3-4 deep dives into topics including:
Support, grounding, and effortless singing
Connecting practice & performance
Warming up, therapeutic exercises, vocal function
The mouth, resonance, and diction
Imagination, Visualization, and Neuroplasticity
Alignment and stretching for singers
Experiential Anatomy
Belting, Mixing, Opera:
Teaching vocal versatility
As well as special sessions
to focus on things like:
Freeing tension
Singing and the nervous system
Teaching disabled and neurodivergent students
Myofascial Release techniques with certified MFR therapist
Guest teachers, and more!
What’s inside…
Weekly 90 minute sessions
Mondays 12:30–2:00pm EST
On zoom, or asynchronous
All 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.
Ongoing learning and support
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.
Transformative Teaching Tools
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 senses using very simple experiential strategies.
“BBVP has seriously improved my teaching and understanding of how to help others learn!”
- Alex
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 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).
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 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!
All of this will come alive in your senses weekly!
What You’ll Experience
The body, heart, mind, and soul of Body Based Voice Ped
Learn through the body, not just about it.
The heart of BBVP is having new and interesting ways to feel new and interesting things in your singing to find freedom and potential. Sensory information flows before the intellectual kind. It’s good to know the vocal anatomy, but you could read all the voice books out there and still not sing any better.
Feel the change first, and we’ll make sense of it all after.
From intellectual to instinctual.
Sometimes learning isn’t a straight line, in fact it rarely is. Usually it’s a winding road that gets you to a goal - this is the body of BBVP. It’s having an intention, which sets a direction for learning but who knows what might happen along the way?! Learn to teach using the body’s feedback to point the way forward. You’ll feel it for yourself and know exactly what I mean..
Unlock vocal freedom and creativity.
Let play, curiosity, and a few interesting ideas give your technique and artistry a boost! Through various sorts of games, ideas that intrigue the mind, attuning to our senses through hands-on techniques, exploring vocal colors, 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.
A global community of deep thinkers
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 and interesting new insights and teaching wins. You never really realize how important community is until you find yourself in the best kind.
“BBVP is such a curiosity-driven space for us to explore and grow in, and my curiosity has been VORACIOUS because of it!”
-Susan
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.
“It’s a space that opens up my thinking for the week.”
-Kevin
Are you as excited as I am for spring?!
FAQ
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Body Based Voice Ped (BBVP) is a community of voice teachers learning to understand the body - what it is, and how it learns - in a wholistic and up-to-date way:
Instead of looking at the body by reducing it into parts, we look at how different systems interact.
Instead of giving instructions, we create experiences where a student will discover more possibilities on their own.
We look at what makes the body whole, and how that can be used for good teaching.
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Though it’s how we’re used to thinking, the living body isn’t divided into anatomical units - it’s fully connected and integrated at all times.
What connects our anatomical ‘parts’ is fascia, which is a new frontier for understanding how energy travels through the body, gives the body shape and stability, and also gives us our sense of intero, extro, and proprioception.
Biotensegrity explains the interconnectivity of biological organisms and provides a model for understanding movement.
Though this seems complex (because it is), the pedagogy we create using these emergent sciences is simple.
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Weekly 90 minute synchronous get togethers over zoom where we will put our heads and perspectives together to generate the most resonant voice pedagogy that networks the most up-to-date knowledge of the body, learning, singing, and pedagogy.
This is supported by ongoing conversation in a private Facebook group with thought-leaders in fascia, myofascial release, biotensegrity, and more.
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Monday from 12:30-2pm EST.
Everything is recorded and emailed to enrolled community members after each session for future viewing or to catch up on anything missed.
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NOW! April 6 is our first session of the spring.
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Body Based Voice Ped runs in 12 week segments at $495/segment, which can be paid as one payment or 3 installments of $165.
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It’s absolutely fine if you miss sessions - you’ll get the replay to work through at your leisure.
If you can’t make it ever, that’s also ok! There are lots of people who have worked through BBVP completely asynchronously.
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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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Email me here and we’ll meet on zoom and see if this is the right community for you!
