Optimize your voice with the science in your senses in
a learning community for voice teachers, singers, and voice nerds ready to explore the voice through the body’s brilliance.
Register today for Fall 2025!
Register today for Fall 2025!
Transform your teaching & practice habits
Connect sound & sensation, movement & meaning, attention & intention
and feel how easy learning can be as you feel your singing become effortless -
without thinking or trying. It is not too good to be true.
Body Based Voice Ped is an immersive community designed to open your mind and expand your voice through optimizing your body’s singing systems making some key adjustments to how we think about voice, technique, teaching, and learning.
Using cutting-edge theories, sciences, and simple strategies we shift the paradigm. Instead of putting mind over matter, this is an experiential approach that helps the mind learn from matter.
This is not another method, it’s a reframing.
A shift in perspective.
Who this is for…
Emerging voice teachers who want practical tools and a more holistic perspective.
Singers who want to take charge of their own growth - if they only had the tools!
Experienced teachers looking to expand what they already know.
BBVP will expand your thinking, deepen your skills, and connect you to a vibrant supportive community of explorers seeking deeper truths about how it all works.
“There are no unrelated parts. If a plant has discolored leaves, we do not expect the cause or the remedy to be local to the leaf.”
-Susan Lowell de Solórzano, “Everything Moves: how biotensegrity informs human movement”
Why Body-Based Voice Ped?
Sensation and imagery based teaching have trended downward as voice science has become popular, but these sciences are rooted in machine-based thinking with isolatable parts that have specific functional roles.
The body is not a machine, doesn’t act like one, and doesn’t get programmed like one!
The body is an adaptive system that learns through intention, trial & error, time, and play. It is ever-changing, responding, self-organizing, and only moves in one direction if you treat it right - towards efficiency.
It’s time to return to vocal pedagogy’s roots - but with a lot more know-how!
In Body Based Voice Ped
we network:
Biotensegrity
a framework that draws from the patterns found in nature, comparing the body to other living things
Nonlinear Pedagogy
learning happens easily when you’re in the state of play! THIS is nonlinear pedagogy! Learn how to create an environment where learning will just happen. No thinking or trying required.
Complexity and Emergence
instead of thinking in parts, complexity theory suggests the magic is in the relationship between them leading to new possibilities that emerge as if out of nowhere. Like what happens when you’re singing for joy in the shower - something wonderful and new comes through.
Fascia
the body-wide ‘fabric’ that makes us whole. Learn how it functions, responds, and how to free it.
Don’t know much about some or all of that? Don’t worry about it! You’ll learn everything you need to know in BBVP, and better yet - you’ll feel it AND feel how this approach fast-tracks learning and expands what you think is possible - every week.
“The body that you have has muscles,
the body that you are has movements.
The body that you have has brains,
the body that you are has thoughts.”
-Jaap van der Wal, embryologist & phenomenologist
What You’ll Experience
Learn through the body, not just about it.
This is all about experiencing change, not just conceptualizing it. It’s all good to learn about muscles, but you could read all the anatomy and physiology books out there and still not learn anything about your body in real life. You’ll move, explore, and feel your way into understanding and then learn about the sciences that went into the experience, scratching the mind’s itches.
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. Learn to teach and practice in real time, using the body’s feedback to reveal what comes next.
Unlock vocal freedom and creativity.
Learn how to optimize your breath, resonance, support, articulation, artistry and more by working with the whole body in a fun and creative way. The best part is that you can’t go wrong - even if you do something that doesn’t feel good, that’s a part of the way your body learns what’s right.
Connecting all the dots
from practice to performance
How it flows…
September-December, January-March, April-June
There are three 3-month segments that each will have three 3–4 semi-deep dives into topics such as:
Optimizing breath and support
Balancing technique & expression
Vocal health & therapeutic strategies
Freeing tension
Resonance & the articulators
Singing in different styles
Commit to the full 9 months for the richest experience and biggest picture, or join for one segment and see how it resonates.
What you get…
Weekly live Zoom Sessions
2x/week - come to either or both!
Mondays 12:30–2:00pm EST
Tuesdays 6:00–7:30pm EST
All sessions are recorded, emailed within 24 hours of the 2nd weekly session, and yours to keep for life!
Ongoing learning and support
Private Facebook group for continued discussion, reflection.
Access to expert voices in bodywork, laryngeal massage, fascia, biotensegrity, Alba Emoting Technique, and more.
Shared resources, research, discussion, and community inspiration.
Tools to transform
Learn strategies that integrate art, technique, and strategy
Learn to guide your clients and yourself through sensory-led discoveries using very simple strategies - you won’t believe how simple!
We won’t throw the baby with the bathwater. Instead we will reframe traditional ideas through a contemporary lens.
The Investment…
$495 USD per 12-week segment
That’s weekly live sessions, expert support, community access, recordings, and a radically transformative approach — for less than the cost of a daily Starbucks latte.
Payment options
Pay for all three segments upfront for 15% off.
Commit to all three segments and pay in monthly installments for 10% off.
Go segment by segment and pay $495 or 3 monthly installments of $165/segment.
What members have to say…
ARE YOU READY TO JOIN?!!
The next segment starts October 6!
Space is limited. If you’re curious, click here to get in touch.
If you know this is for you, join now!
What the pros say…
Get a sense of things…
Your internal intelligence.
There is some potent magic in turning the voice OFF. Suddenly the mind’s eye can see and sense so much more about what’s in the way and what’s pointing the way! The body knows SO much more than our consciousness ways of knowing, and it can teach them mind a lot!
Background/Foreground
Teaching often feels like holding space for a lot in every moment. We nurture so much beyond the craft of singing including artistry and emotional life in performance.
HOW we do it is a large part of the discussion in Body Based Voice Ped. Because the body is non-linear and learns in non-linear ways, be explore how to point the student’s attention somewhere while we listen many other places.
Quality/Quantity
More important than how much you moved something is the manner in which you moved it.
The quality of movement has a direct relation to the output of an action, whether physical or vocal (which is also physical). Laban gives us a wonderful vocabulary that can be shared with our students.
In experiential pedagogy, everybody learns.
When we ask a student to do something, we invite them to have an experience. When they reflect on that experience we can get a glimpse of how they process and help them integrate new ideas into their existing mental model.
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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There seem to be two main approaches these days (with a million variations, of course):
1) Traditional methods that feature vocalizes and arpeggios and route methods to help the voice find stability and ease, usually informed by classical singing.
2) Anatomy-based training that assigns a function to each muscle.
Both of these perspectives have a time & place - you’ll find no judgments here.
What hovers above both of these approaches are fundamental truths about the body and how it learns.
BBVP transcends models and methods and vocal styles. It is the bigger picture in which both old school and new approaches are nested. We explore what is in common across all approaches and vocal styles.
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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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There are two weekly sessions that you can attend: Monday from 12:30-2pm EST, and Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm 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! The 2025/26 season starts October 6! Join today!
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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.
You can also commit to the full 9 months at a discounted rate:
Get 15% off by paying for all three segments at once (over $200 savings).
Get 10% off by committing to all three segments paying in monthly installments (almost $150 off).
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Email me here and we’ll meet on zoom and see if this is the right community for you!