May 24, 2022
Some of you may recognize that phrase from a beautiful tearjerker saga called This is Us. The series finale just aired. What a sendoff!
In the very first episode, an obstetrician comforts a young father whose wife just experienced a stillbirth.
He says, “I like to think that one day you’ll be an old man like me talking a young man’s ear off explaining to him how you took the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade.”
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?
On a hunch, I googled “uses for lemons:” ice cream, meringue pie, cookies, marinade, countertop cleaner, insect repellant, potpourri, and so on.
One article even gave a hundred different options.
Humans have an astonishing capacity to harness wisdom and create from despair, from difficult circumstances, from trials and tribulations, from our sourest lemons.
Over the past two years, most of the In-Real-Life (IRL) performance and facilitation work disappeared. My lifeblood. Music, meditative practices, and family are what kept me going in moments when I felt like giving up.
The lockdown – a major lemon for many of us – compelled me to re-imagine how my work can serve more of you in both the virtual space and in person.
This exploration led me to alchemize my lemons into a suite of products, designed to heal and expand your self-expression through your voice and creativity:
- 1:1 Single Session for you to get a powerful dose of support and transformation
- Voke: Six Session Series for a deeper dive working one on one
- Free Your Voice: a Monthly Masterclass for a fun online group workshop experience
- Sounding: Hudson Valley for an in-person group vocal journey
- FUNdamentals of Vocal Improv, a 4 week course for an in-depth, in-person experience
Schedule a discovery call to learn more about any of my offerings. And those of you who mentioned that a 6 session container is not enough and you want more, stay tuned for a new course this fall. It’ll be your deepest dive yet!
My work serves holistic-oriented women committed to moving beyond fear and emotional stuckness to voice their truth, expressive arts enthusiasts whose souls are deeply nourished by community vocal rituals, spiritual eclectics who embrace wisdom from a wide variety of sources, or some combination of these.
Through structured group improvisation and vocal embodiment practices, I facilitate sound healing sessions, workshops, private vocal empowerment coaching, retreats, and concerts that “a-ha!” you to new levels of self-discovery, emotional freedom, joy and creative flow. I am a partner artist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute as a core member of the vocal improvisation ensemble, Moving Star.