Discovering what “your body is your instrument” really means to you.

SenseAble Singing Sessions

SenseAble Singing sessions are out-of-the-box voice lessons that fuse vocal technique, movement, sensory awareness, Wholeness in Motion explorations, and Alexander Technique principles to support your whole-self integration: mind, body, and voice.

For me, embodied means using our bodies and ourselves - sensations, movements, thoughts, feelings, spatial awareness - as a support for deepening our understanding and strengthening connection to our self and our voice, as a means of connecting to others.

Although our work together won’t address posture directly, many SenseAble participants experience postural and functional shifts as a result of fine-tuning their self-awareness, leading to deep and lasting change.

What to expect:

Our work together will offer opportunities to explore new ways of thinking, sensing, sound-making, and moving … from a place of curiosity and support.

Sessions will include a range of experiential explorations including conventional and experimental sounds, guided and intuitive movement, breathing explorations, as well as anatomy updates and body mapping … all with the intention of building awareness and expanding possibility.

Strengthening and honouring your “inner compass” is paramount. I am not the expert about you or your instrument - YOU are the expert about your own experience. My role is to offer observation, feedback, and guidance, as well as pose questions to engage your awareness and understanding in new ways.

Our work together is co-created.  

As you explore your voice and body awareness, you will gain insights that may at times be at the edge of your field of knowing. As your teacher, I will endeavour to support you at all times by offering insights, observations, and suggestions, bringing your attention to emerging tendencies or patterns that may be interfering with your natural sound-production and movements.

My approach is process-oriented rather than outcomes-oriented.  This work does not provide a quick fix, but rather an opportunity to expand your awareness about what’s happening with your “instrument,” which allows your practice to lead you to more choice and freedom.

I am currently offering virtual and in-person sessions.

The fee for SenseAble Singing sessions is $120/60min.

Possibilities for exploration:

Co-creating a vocal and physical warmup and/or cooldown sequence suited to your needs (i.e.: preparing for an upcoming performance vs recuperation post-illness vs getting back into singing after a break).

Exploring vocal resonance and flexibility through vocal tract shaping and vowels.  This could include exploring “classical” vs “contemporary” coordination and shaping as a way to build awareness around your vocal possibilities.  

Vocal improvisation and “dialogue” play as a way to build spontaneity and choicefulness into your sound-making, creative expression, and connection with others through music.  

Exploring the power of semi-occluded vocal tract exercises (SOVTEs) as a way to recuperate after a busy/strenuous time, and/or rejuvenate in order to get back into singing after a break.

Intentional breathwork as a way to play with breathing techniques, taking what you like from the extraordinary buffet of breathwork options out there.