Body Based Voice Ped
Optimize Your Voice and Transform Your Teaching
Body Based Voice Ped is a community specializing in understanding the body in its wholeness as an organism and complex adaptive system that has a unique way of learning and shifting towards efficiency. In collaboration with voice teachers around the world, each 12-week segment results in potent yet simple teaching strategies rooted in contemporary sciences aimed to harmonize technique, art, and strategy for practice and performance.
For Skilled Voice Teachers Like You
Shifting paradigms can be scary, but seeing new possibilities in traditional ideas can be exciting!
This is a fresh perspective on vocal pedagogy that fully aligns with the body and how it evolves towards efficient habits and emergent moments onstage.
You will be joining the most supportive community of curious minds, all untying the knots from generations of voice teachers who did their best with what they knew. We honor our history while moving towards the future leaning on the organic intelligence within the body and its inherent ability to adapt and be more than the sum of its parts.
Discover a New Paradigm in Voice Teaching
You don’t have to change a thing! You can continue teaching whatever model, method, styles, or genres you love. Body Based Voice Ped is the world view that that will enhance how you do what you’re already doing.
We connect all elements of practice and performance uniting art, technique, and strategy while organically leading students towards discoveries that unlock new vocal and expressive possibilities through the simplest of ideas.
We redefine WHOLE-ism and experience…
…the body in real life: complete, whole, interconnected, complex.
…self-organization and learn simple formulae for changing behavior through play.
…ways to optimize the whole body for effortless singing.
…fundamental laws and contemporary sciences related to movement, the body, singing, and learning.
Each session will nourish the mind, body, voice, and spirit!
What you get in BBVP
The 12-week segment starts the week of April 7!
There are TWO unique sessions over zoom weekly:
Mondays 12:30-2pm EST & Tuesdays 6-7:30pm EST
You can come to both if you wish!
All sessions are recorded and sent out via email.
In each session we collaborate using the most up-to-date body-focused pedagogical strategies.
But that doesn’t mean alignment, alignment, alignment! There’s so much more!
Focus areas include:
Grounding: the science of ground reaction forces
Learning about fascia through touch and movement
Why singing in the shower is vocal magic: Complexity & Emergence theories
Biotensegrity: the body and a pedagogical approach
Full body breathing
The Imagination-Activation triangle: Visualization and motor imagery
Anatomy from the Bottom-up
Integrating Art, Strategy, & Technique
Reexamining traditional ideas through a contemporary lens
We learn to teach students to teach themselves through their senses. After all, the latin root for ‘education’ is educare, which means to draw out what is within…
Along with weekly sessions, there is continued support in a private Facebook group with members past and present, outside experts in laryngeal massage, myofascial release, biotensegrity, and more. This is a space where questions are asked, problems are solved, research is shared, and community continues to grow.
All of this for less than $500 USD!
What members have to say…
What the pros say…
Join today!
The next 12-week segment starts the week of April 7!
For less that $500 USD you will gain access to tools that will transform your pedagogy weekly!
Space is limited!
Get a sense of things…
Your internal intelligence.
There is some potent magic in turning the voice OFF. Suddenly the mind’s eye can see and sense so much more about what’s in the way and what’s pointing the way! The body knows SO much more than our consciousness ways of knowing, and it can teach them mind a lot!
Background/Foreground
Teaching often feels like holding space for a lot in every moment. We nurture so much beyond the craft of singing including artistry and emotional life in performance.
HOW we do it is a large part of the discussion in Body Based Voice Ped. Because the body is non-linear and learns in non-linear ways, be explore how to point the student’s attention somewhere while we listen many other places.
Quality/Quantity
More important than how much you moved something is the manner in which you moved it.
The quality of movement has a direct relation to the output of an action, whether physical or vocal (which is also physical). Laban gives us a wonderful vocabulary that can be shared with our students.
In experiential pedagogy, everybody learns.
When we ask a student to do something, we invite them to have an experience. When they reflect on that experience we can get a glimpse of how they process and help them integrate new ideas into their existing mental model.
FAQ
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Body Based Voice Ped (BBVP) is a community of voice teachers learning to understand the body - what it is, and how it learns - in a wholistic and up-to-date way:
Instead of looking at the body by reducing it into parts, we look at how different systems interact.
Instead of giving instructions, we create experiences where a student will discover more possibilities on their own.
We look at what makes the body whole, and how that can be used for good teaching.
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There seem to be two main approaches these days (with a million variations, of course):
1) Traditional methods that feature vocalizes and arpeggios and route methods to help the voice find stability and ease, usually informed by classical singing.
2) Anatomy-based training that assigns a function to each muscle.
Both of these perspectives have a time & place - you’ll find no judgments here.
What hovers above both of these approaches are fundamental truths about the body and how it learns.
BBVP transcends models and methods and vocal styles. It is the bigger picture in which both old school and new approaches are nested. We explore what is in common across all approaches and vocal styles.
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Though it’s how we’re used to thinking, the living body isn’t divided into anatomical units - it’s fully connected and integrated at all times.
What connects our anatomical ‘parts’ is fascia, which is a new frontier for understanding how energy travels through the body, gives the body shape and stability, and also gives us our sense of intero, extro, and proprioception.
Biotensegrity explains the interconnectivity of biological organisms and provides a model for understanding movement.
Though this seems complex (because it is), the pedagogy we create using these emergent sciences is simple.
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Weekly 90 minute synchronous get togethers over zoom where we will put our heads and perspectives together to generate the most resonant voice pedagogy that networks the most up-to-date knowledge of the body, learning, singing, and pedagogy.
This is supported by ongoing conversation in a private Facebook group with thought-leaders in fascia, myofascial release, biotensegrity, and more.
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There are two weekly sessions that you can attend: Monday from 12:30-2pm EST, and Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm EST.
Everything is recorded and emailed to enrolled community members after each session for future viewing or to catch up on anything missed.
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NOW! The spring segment starts April 7 & 8. Enroll today!
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Body Based Voice Ped runs in 12 week segments at $495/segment, which can be paid as one payment or 3 installments of $165.
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Email me here and we’ll meet on zoom and see if this is the right community for you!