What do you appreciate? What do you desire to experience more of in your life? And what are you willing to get rid of to make room for the fulfillment of your desires to flourish?

Imagine knowing that your every step is aligned with your intuitive guidance.

Astrologically, we’re in the midst of the Lions Gate portal: a phenomenon of cosmic / spiritual transfiguration.

Traditionally, it’s a time that signifies becoming “larger than life” in the sense of walking into a greater sense of purpose…

I had participants lead circlesongs, then deconstruct how the practice develops embodied leadership, deep listening and real-time responsiveness, presence, compositional best practices, and most importantly: self-trust.

I’m uploading Reels of mantras, chants, improvs, loop recordings, and anything else that tickles my fancy – and may tickle yours.

Here are examples of results from people I’ve worked with, once they made the decision to focus on cultivating their well-being through vocal self-expression…

What all my offerings have in common is that you will walk away with a deeper awareness of your values, a greater appreciation for your unique expression, and an increased capacity to connect with your own heart…

This is a motif that the show returns to throughout its six seasons in poignant, unexpected ways. 

The word “resembling” always stood out to me. Why not just stick with the straightforward cliché of alchemizing lemons into their most obvious, seemingly inevitable transformation?

Fast forward to now. How far we’ve come. Healthier, stronger, more adaptable, innovative, resourceful, dynamic, resilient, and loving than ever before.

The biggest transformations happen underground, behind the scenes. This is true for plants, and for us. What seeds have you been sowing? What is starting to bloom in your life?

While there are guiding principles when it comes to effective communication and inspired self-expression, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Some folks love hearing your relatable stories. Some folks love for you to help brainstorm solutions to a problem. And some folks love for you to just listen. All are valid.

Release old soundtracks that no longer serve the highest good calling to be expressed through you.

Listen for the new songs that are brewing in you.

There are more stars than you can ever see, more mountains than you can ever climb, more chocolate than you can ever eat, more songs than you can ever sing, more flowers than you can ever smell, more humans than you can ever intimately know.

Expressing difficult truths constructively with tact and grace serves your highest good, and the loved ones you communicate with.

Your unfiltered truth is exactly what’s needed to begin that journey.

The phrase “vocal empowerment” didn’t quite get at the heart of the experience that I am creating in this monthly container. Our voices are already powerful. Otherwise, why would it take so much effort to hold ourselves back from fully expressing ourselves?

In this monthly online masterclass series, I’m sharing practices for clearing energy blockages through vocal expression: chants, affirmations, sound meditations, listening practices, the mechanics and metaphysics of the voice.

This weekend gave me ample opportunity to reflect on the importance of self-expression – the messy process of learning to say what you feel in the moment that you feel it, rather than stuffing it down, only to have it be vomited back up at the most inopportune time.

We are communal beings. We create feedback loops of meaning by connecting with each other. We co-create our identities. We co-create our stories that we tell ourselves and pass on to future generations. We co-create our destinies. 

 It was that chaos of “traditional” vocal coaching that pushed me toward cultivating my own relationship with the mechanics – and metaphysics – of the voice. I learned to listen to my body. I learned to listen to time. I learned to listen to emotion. I learned to trust my creative impulses.

I am grateful to every woman who stepped onto a new path of her own making. I am grateful to every woman who summons the courage to embrace her own magnificence.

In the ten years that I have been leading improvisational singing circles for people of all skill levels and backgrounds, it has brought me immense joy to facilitate spaces in which people get to merge the roles of audience and participant to create this ecstatic experience.

Stepping into your power means allowing yourself to make others uncomfortable, allowing yourself to disappoint others, opening yourself up to disapproval, rejection and ridicule, and relieving yourself of the responsibility of managing other people’s perceptions of you.

The brain cannot bypass the body, the emotions, the nervous system. They are all one ecosystem, and the voice is a powerful hub that can unite, focus and direct the various facets of our selves – the mental, spiritual, physiological – on a path of greater well-being and fulfillment.

As many of you may intuit, there is rich symbolism in kicking off this 3 day series on Valentine’s Day. The Mother (both the literal primary female caretaker and the symbolic energetic imprint of love and nurturance) widely represents our “first love”: the first blueprint for how we relate to, and embody love. 

What if you learned how to wield words and sounds to maintain a state of flow and expansion while dealing with difficult emotions? What if you could embrace and express the fullest range of your feelings as tools for building self-awareness, accessing personal power, and liberating your creativity?

This is the last week to register! Enrollment closes at the end of February 1st. Voke is a 6 week online experiential course designed to use the power of your voice to: clear emotional debris from your energy field (unexpressed resentments, hurts, grief, desires)…

 I riff on reframing your way toward the words that activate and enliven your soul as you cultivate your affirmations. This is a POTENT skill to cultivate. It especially comes in handy for those moments when you catch yourself going on a downward loop of disempowerment, disappointment, fear.

What are you invoking into existence? Voke is my flagship program: an immersive, experiential program in which the power of your spoken, sung, written, and embodied voice is invoked to manifest your deepest desires, heighten consciousness, gain intuitive clarity, clear energy blockages, and optimize well-being.

So how do you develop the clarity to know what’s a YES for you and what’s a NO for you? How do you develop the capacity to make empowered decisions? Answer: creativity and mindfulness! My own path has led me to vocal expression as a healing tool for clearing out the gunk and conjuring the gold.

I am grateful for all your support through engaging with my words, courses, workshops and events throughout the year. I celebrate all the ways you’ve grown this year. I celebrate all that you’ve healed. I celebrate your serendipitous moments, your health, your blessings. I celebrate all the ways in which you’ve been a blessing to others.

This is one of my favorite images from my art modeling adventures, from the photographer Victor M. Ramos. This extreme contrast of shadow and light is called chiaroscuro. I found this portrait particularly fitting on this day, the solstice: the longest night, giving way to daylight waxing toward the summer solstice.

…our vision (literally and figuratively) is informed by our experience and perspective; as they grow, so does our vision. Though I work primarily within the medium of voice and group facilitation, one aspect of visual art that has always resonated with me is how it is informed by symbolic awareness.

What consistently keeps you awakened and inspired? What visions pull you forward? Most likely you brush your teeth, shower your body, lotion your skin at regular intervals. What is your psychic / spiritual hygiene for nurturing your reverence for the ineffable?

…as you check in with yourself throughout this season of heightened gift-giving: : are you giving from a state of overflow? Is there any aspect of your life where you feel depleted, unfulfilled, stuck? Do you ever feel that weird tug-of-war between a desire to give freely, and an anxiety that holds you back…

There are certain perennial themes that tend to emerge during the U.S. holiday season – conflicted familial relationships, unease with the contradictions embedded in the genesis of Thanksgiving, loneliness, anxiety, depression. A dose of gratitude can soothe and uplift and lighten your energetic load…

Even the most enlightened among us have a filter through which we see the world. All our ideas about the way the world is happen to fit within our respective boxes, and some boxes are more expansive, adaptive, and responsive than others, based on the ratios of love and fear, power and privation, possibility… 

I am thrilled to announce the release of Moving Star’s debut EP, BlesSings. I am honored to sing with such an eclectic and dynamic ensemble of vocalists and composers.

People climb mountains, run marathons, bungee jump, and go zip-lining, all to access what the psychologist Abraham Maslow calls a “Peak Experience.” Did you know that you can achieve the same exhilaration and sublime oneness within yourself through something as simple and profound (and for many, terrifying) as coming together to sing? 

Have you ever struggled with your self-expression skills feeling like a battleground, and wishing it could be more like a playground? Have you had experiences where you’re afraid to speak up, and by the time you summon the courage to do so, the moment has already passed?

Sign up if you desire to clear energy blockages, strengthen your discernment and decision-making muscles, deepen your listening and intuition, and empower your own wise, still voice through vocal play, breathwork, guided journaling and more!

Why do so many of us have difficulty jumping right to saying NO as soon as we feel it, without the help of a mindfulness cue? Answer: unraveling a lifetime of please-aholic conditioning from the nervous system requires interrupting the old behavior patterns as we establish the new ones. And integrating voice with mindfulness...

Harness the power of your voice to deepen your connection to your inner wisdom, awaken your creativity, and grow your confidence. Voke is a six week online experiential workshop that integrates singing and other vocalization techniques, breath, movement, mindfulness and relational…

I am so honored to be involved in the online series for children and family, Sing With Carnegie Hall. And I happened to take a look at the video this past weekend and saw the jump in viewership to over 13,000 people…