Classes & Workshops
Treat yourself to some wonderful self care! Come work on your Vocal Technique, Vocal Embodiment, and Vocal Power in weekly classes.
- Sharpen your vocal skills and improve multiple areas of your life.
- Reap the benefits in business and personal relations, vocal and movement artistry, and develop a stronger connection to yourself and your voice.
- Classes delve into solid techniques to open and connect you to your instrument.
- You’ll enjoy a greater sense of presence and feel more connected to your body, mind, and spirit!
Online Courses
New Offering: Online Courses!
There are now even MORE OPPORTUNITIES to study voice and accent with Austin Vocal Empowerment.
Each course includes pre-recorded video lessons, bi-weekly online classes via Zoom, handouts, homework, access to a private page to share resources, and more!
And coming by 2020 – Mastering Accents and The Resonant Voice Level Two.
Register now and start learning today.
Drop In Classes
$20 – drop-in (pay at door)
$15 – per class (pay in advance)
$60 – 4 class pass (pay in advance)
Friday Morning: Somatic Sound Vocal Training
Each class you work on vocal techniques designed to help you master your vocal instrument in any environment. Whether it be for business meetings, interviews, live performances, interpersonal communication, or you are seeking this therapeutic work as a complement to your personal self development journey, these weekly lessons will give you solid tools to put into immediate practice! Classes cover resonance, vocal support, vocal anatomy, being connected to your body while speaking, grounding, presence, and breath. Find the power in your voice!
Appropriate for beginners and people wanting to deepen/refresh their skills.
Classes start January 4th. We meet every Friday from 11:00 am – noon
Location – Soma Vida 2324 E Caesar Chavez St, Austin, Tx 78702
Saturday Workshop Series
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Book Austin Vocal Empowerment for a workshop or class
Wanting a workshop or class in your area but don’t see one listed? E-mail me at melissagrogan1@hotmail.com and let’s discuss! I’m available to travel and happy to fine tune a workshop or class to meet the populations needs. Let me know what your ideas are and let’s make it happen!
Previously Offered Workshops, Events and Classes
Resonant Vocal Power
Using two techniques of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Destructuring and Restructuring, we will go into an in-depth study of technique for healthy vocal support and exercises to open your body and release unnecessary tension. Classes offer physical awareness, how to balance vocal effort & ease, and release muscles that inhibit vocal power and breath. The result: freedom and power in your voice and a new way to live in your body.
Mastering Accents – Part One
Having difficulty being understood? Want to learn how to teach yourself accents?
Detailed introduction to sharpen skills in articulation and gain necessary tools for accent study. Based firmly in Knight-Thompson speech work, the course trains your ear, deepen your awareness, and gain a working knowledge of your articulators. That last part is the most essential to have for ability to master accent work – a working knowledge of your articulators and how to use them.
Vocal Power, Freedom, and Ease: Support and the Core Muscles
Do you lose your voice? Get vocally tired? Desire more vocal power? Want to reach your audience better?
This workshop is an in-depth study of the technique for healthy vocal support. We’ll also use somatics to connect to intrinsic core muscles that give the body the support it needs for freedom and ease in movement. This allows the voice to be resonant, full, effortless, and efficient regardless of the physical activity.
The course offers deep physical awareness, how to balance effort & ease, build muscles for alignment, release external muscles that inhibit vocal power and breath, and more! The result: freedom and power in your voice and a new way to live in your body.
Cellular Listening – Bringing Communication Alive with Presence
Do you feel like communication is stilted?
Have an intuition that part of the problem is that you don’t fully listen?
Or maybe you get overwhelmed in conversation – taking too much in?
We’ll dive into the wisdom of the cells and the auditory system to find answers of how to enhance communication. Let the cells guide you as you choose what information to take in and what to say no to. Listen with the whole body. Create clear boundaries. This workshop is a somatic offering that brings connection to self, the world around you, and your community.
Vocally Grounded from the Inside Out
This two-day immersion in vocal embodiment work is a must attend event! The workshop focuses on a somatic approach to finding freedom and power in the voice. We will learn the Developmental Path humans go through as they navigate their body’s movement, breath, and perception from laying on their belly all the way to when they can finally stand and walk.
Friday Mornings
Treat yourself to some wonderful self care! Come work on your Vocal Technique, Vocal Embodiment, and Vocal Power in weekly classes this fall. Sharpen your vocal skills and improve multiple areas of your life. Reap the benefits in business and personal relations, vocal and movement artistry, and develop a stronger connection to yourself and your voice.
Classes delve into solid techniques to open and connect you to your instrument. You’ll enjoy a greater sense of presence and feel more connected to your body, mind, and spirit!
Clarity in Speech
This 2-day workshop will be a detailed introduction to sharpen your skills in articulation and also gain necessary tools for accent study. Based firmly in Knight-Thompson speech work, the course works to train your ear, deepening your awareness, and gain a working knowledge of your articulators.
Monday Nights
Treat yourself to some wonderful self care! Come work on your Vocal Technique, Vocal Embodiment, and Vocal Power in weekly classes this fall. Sharpen your vocal skills and improve multiple areas of your life. Reap the benefits in business and personal relations, vocal and movement artistry, and develop a stronger connection to yourself and your voice.
Classes delve into solid techniques to open and connect you to your instrument. You’ll enjoy a greater sense of presence and feel more connected to your body, mind, and spirit!
Presence and the Senses
June 13-14, 2015
1-4pm
Listening – a lost art. And, yet, is vital to effective communication. I often speak of vocal power when I describe the work I offer. When I speak of power, I mean speaking from your truth, where your whole being is involved in the sending and receiving of the message, and inviting true and intentional connection. This workshop is designed to help you achieve just that.