The Self-Sustaining Singer:

     a 12-week online group experience 

Learn how to warm up your unique body
so you can do your very best singing,
wherever that may be.

If your voice feels strained more often than you’d like
or sounds pitchy, or tinny or thin,
      warming up well, and consistently, will help you fix that.

And 12 weeks of working with me will give you
the reps you need to make singing well a regular, nourishing habit. 

Warming Up Solves So Many Problems

• Warming up teaches us to lovingly notice ourselves and treat our voice with care and compassion.
• Warming up provides a space to solve the hardest vocal problems deliberately and effectively.
• Warming up raises our baseline level of readiness for singing, and for life.
• Warming up creates a lifelong habit of singing well, with clarity, ease and joy. 

A lot of what goes wrong when we try to sing comes from our brain being in “speaking” mode, and things can’t help but sound and feel strained, pitchy or thin when we try to sing that way. 

We need to make a deliberate effort to coax our body into singing if we want the voice to be free, easy, full and tuneful. 

This means opening up our inside spaces,
getting the air moving, forgetting about words
and settling into the experience of letting sound move through you. 

This often looks like:

• rolling our shoulders, loosening up the neck, standing up and unlocking our knees
• making some easy, siren-y or whooping kinds of sounds 
• singing on “nonsense” syllables, like da-da-da or loo-lee-loo
• massaging the jaw, stretching the tongue

The power in warming up, though, comes from noticing how it’s going, and making adjustments based on how we’re feeling right now.

Not how we usually feel, not how we think we “should” feel.
How we’re feeling right now.

In The Self-Sustaining Singer, I will teach you how to notice yourself so that your warm up starts to grow you as a singer. 

Warming up will no longer be something you “should” do, or mean to do. 
It will be a regular, valued part of taking care of yourself, like a professional would.
Like professionals do. 

Noticing ourselves is hard

We are the instrument we are trying to play. It’s hard to hear ourselves clearly.
And we have years of automatic habits that come from speaking and affect our attempts at singing, without us even noticing. 

It takes a well-trained and experienced teacher to help us understand what exactly isn’t working and show us how to do it differently.

The good news is, we learned to speak by mimicking the adults around us. 
Our brains are wired to learn by copying other people, through trial and error. 

In The Self-Sustaining Singer, I describe the exercises you need and I demonstrate them for you.

Everyone is on mute for this part, singing in their own spaces, so that we can notice ourselves.
And then you get to show me how it’s going for you.
Unmute your microphone.
Show me what it’s like.
Ask questions.
Get coached.
Make changes, and feel and sound better, bit by bit. 

Learning in a group gives you the camaraderie and emotional support to make the trial and error part fun.
We learn faster this way.

In The Self-Sustaining Singer, you’ll learn 

• my method for warming up consistently and confidently, with curiosity and self-compassion

• how to troubleshoot the sounds that disappoint you

• exercises to strengthen what needs to be strengthened and loosen what needs to loosen

• how to practice in a way that supports your long-term growth

• how to learn new music and build healthy habits at the same time

Over 12 weeks, you’ll be doing what the professionals do.
You’ll learn how to treat your voice like the priceless instrument that it is.
You get to keep these skills for life.

If you want to sing lower or higher notes with more ease,
if you want your voice to sound fuller and more resonant,
if you want to sing with less strain,
if you want to sing in better tune, 

The Self-Sustaining Singer is where you need to be. 

Registration is open NOW.

Class starts NEXT THURSDAY, July 16th.

We’ll meet from 10 to 11 a.m. live on Zoom for 12 Thursdays:

July 16, 23, 30
August 6, 13, 20, 27
September 3, 10, 17, 24
October 1

You don’t need special audio equipment. The microphone on your phone or laptop is fine. 

What’s included:

• Twelve 60-minute live Zoom calls. They will be recorded.
• Personalized coaching for your specific voice issues
• Access to all replays through January 31, 2027
• Written versions of the exercises whenever possible 
• Access to my online “How to Sound Better” library

The investment:

$1250 paid in full 

or two payments of $625
(the first is due when you register, the second a month later)

I can’t wait to hear you!