For as long as I can remember, the human voice has been my greatest passion and my most powerful teacher.
My journey began with classical vocal training, leading me to earn a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Over the years I built a career performing and teaching internationally — spanning opera singing, songwriting, creative coaching, and embodied vocal practices.
But it was through my work with diverse communities — university students in New York and Berlin, inner city youth in the Bronx, and middle eastern refugees navigating displacement and trauma — that I truly witnessed what the voice is capable of.
Facilitating somatic singing workshops for people navigating trauma, grief, and profound uncertainty, I saw again and again how sound, breath, and creative expression could regulate the nervous system, move stuck emotion, and restore a sense of connection and aliveness that nothing else could reach.
These weren't people with trained voices. They weren't musicians or performers. They were people in pain who discovered — sometimes in a single session — that their own voice was carrying medicine they never knew they had.
That discovery became the foundation of everything I've built since.
I founded Artists Rising Co. as a platform dedicated to artistic development, emotional resilience, and wholehearted living through music, voice and creativity. I began weaving together Somatic Singing – a proprietary framework for emotional processing through vocal practices - breathwork, nervous system science, musical neuroplasticity, compassion exercises, creative recovery and spiritual sound practice into a coherent, evidence-based approach to transformation.
Vocal Shift is the culmination of all of it.
It is the app I wish had existed when I was first discovering what the voice could do. A warm, grounded, scientifically informed space where anyone — regardless of musical background, vocal training, or life experience — can use their voice as a tool for regulation, healing, creativity, and connection.
My deepest hope is that these practices help you feel more alive, more resilient, and more fully yourself.
One breath. One sound. One day at a time.