Phoenix Song is a compassionate and astounding voice teacher and their process and methods ignite a variety of creative levels – they teach others to connect with a truthful and empowered voice from a deep internal foundation!–Gabriel D

As a holistic vocal coach trained in Fitzmaurice Voicework and the LoVetri Method of Somatic Voicework™ and a Tamalpa Associate Teacher of Expressive Arts, I help you with the technical, psychological, and emotional aspects of freeing your voice so that you can fully express yourself with confidence in a way that is healthy for your body. Sing, sound & speak your truth!

For singing, we will: 1. Tune your instrument (breath and support, release throat and body tension, scales, warmups, pitch, timbre, range). 2. Play your instrument (sing songs, phrasing, dynamics, vibrato, etc.) 3. Express your soul’s song (connect in with your intention/emotional connection as you sing). We can play with harmonies, improv singing, creating your own songs, and preparing for performances.

For vocal therapeutics, I use creative movement, touch, tremoring, somatic practices, and sounding to help you transform emotionally and somatically. Release tension patterns in your body so that your voice can resonate more fully throughout your entire instrument. Play with your focus line. The voice reveals your mood and how you feel about yourself and how the world perceives you. Release rage, grief, joy, love, and other emotions and express yourself through sound. Move forward with more ease. Express your boundaries and your desires. Transform your life and your body through voicework.

For speaking purposes, we can explore your voice tone and range, and address nasality, raspiness, huskiness, hoarseness, breathiness, throat tension, losing your voice, intonation, and more. I can help you with presentations and speeches and your facilitation skills as a wedding officiant, coach, or large group facilitator, for example.

I am honored to work with my trans and nonbinary communities to help explore our voices in a loving, supportive environment. Whether you want to feminize your voice or work through transition on T or explore your voice in a safe container or make some noise and sing, I’m here to be your guide and champion.

I also love to work with yogis to teach mantra, devotional chants, and how to sing and play harmonium. This nada yoga (sound yoga) helps you focus, get clear, feel calm, and connect to the divine.

I am drawn to people who work with plant medicines and spirit realms and love to help you channel your own ancestral and medicine songs as well as teach you set ones from different cultures.

We can see what you’re looking for and what methods/modalities resonate with you in each individualized session.

I work with a range of clients from absolute beginners to those with a lot of vocal trauma to professional performers and presenters who want to heal some of the psychological (and physical) restraints/blocks that are holding them back. Ideal clients want to use singing, voicework, somatics, mindfulness, and expressive arts as a therapeutic tool for healing, not just hitting that elusive high note (though that can happen in the process). We might be a good fit if any of these are true for you:

• You were told you can’t sing, your voice is bad, or were shamed around your voice and would love to break through this block and story
• You feel tension, pain, blocks in your throat, voice or body would love to clear out the energy and release painful experiences through voicework, movement, and other body-based creative modalities
• You have a dream to sing, and want to realize it in this lifetime
• You’re a performer/singer and want to take your voice to the next level of freedom and confidence and joy and need to heal from some trauma from the perfectionistic music school/performance path you’ve been on
• You want to tap into your own creative well and start writing songs or complete the album you’ve been working on for years or get on stage to perform
• You want to speak your truth and with the power of your words, change your life
• You want to connect more deeply with yourself, your body & your emotions through voicework
• You are interested in voicework as healing and therapy in addition to becoming a better singer
• You want your voice to be free, confident, and expressive!