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In Person Neuro-Sensory Voice Work to Harnesses the
Therapeutic Power of Your Voice in Bristol UK

Your voice is an extension of your nervous system — a direct reflection of internal regulation, safety, and connection. Neuro-Sensory Voice Work applies trauma-informed principles to sound and physiology, using the voice as a diagnostic and regulatory channel — revealing how the body holds, releases, and reorganises energy. By engaging the voice through precise, sensory-based vocal practices, participants learn to support parasympathetic regulation, deepen interoceptive awareness, and rebuild trust in the body’s natural rhythm of activation and rest.

Discover how your Voice can become a pathway to regulation, awareness and embodied healing.

These workshops are suitable for practitioners, therapists, teachers, and facilitators seeking to integrate voice and embodiment into their work. Each workshop introduces a distinct theme, offering a fresh entry point into the work. Together, the three sessions form a progressive journey into voice, presence, and nervous system regulation. While each workshop can be attended individually, participating in the full series is encouraged, as the learning and embodiment deepen over time.

Join the full three-part journey (valued at £225) for £175 with our

Early Bird rate — available until Jan 15th 2026

Early Bird for students of BCMB (Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork):

£59 per workshop / £165 for the full series. Add the promotion code

you received from BCMB

Each 4-hour workshop can also be booked individually: £75 standard rate

Early booking is encouraged, as spaces are limited to support an intimate, embodied group experience.

All workshops are held at Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork

Bristol Clifton, 109 Guthrie Rd BS8 3EF

Times are 4:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

What people are saying...

Cordelia - it was amazing! I got more out of this morning than I've got out of many many embodiment courses. I think my biggest take away (and one that I'll be applying to life in so many different ways) was to stop trying. Rachel Bath UK 2024

Week 1 - March 3rd 2026

Naturally Extending the Exhale with your Voice

Discover how your voice and breath work together to support regulation and ease. This experiential workshop explores the relationship between body, voice, breath, and the nervous system, inviting you to sense how vocalisation can naturally lengthen and soften the exhale—activating the body’s calming, parasympathetic response without control or manipulation.

We’ll look at ingrained breathing patterns that limit the body’s innate ability to breathe deeply and fully. These often arise from inherited or imitated ways of being—shaped by family or environment—or from stored survival responses held in the body. Rather than trying to fix or override these patterns, you’ll learn to meet them with awareness, developing a relationship with areas of holding or inhibition so the breath can begin to move more freely again. Together, we’ll explore how the relational field—the presence of others, subtle shifts in tone, or environmental cues—affects the way we breathe. You’ll also learn to recognise your own growth edge: those moments when the breath shortens, pauses, or withdraws, and how to stay curious and connected in those places. This meditative, trauma-informed session offers practical tools for self-regulation, embodied awareness, and relational attunement, enriching both personal practice and professional work.

Week 2 - March 10th 2026

Opening your Jaw & Releasing Tension

This workshop explores the functional and emotional relationship between jaw tension, breath, and the nervous system. Chronic holding in the jaw often reflects sympathetic activation, bracing, or the suppression of emotion. Through gentle, sound-based exercises, you’ll learn to recognise and release these patterns while staying connected to the rest of the body. The work emphasises graded exposure to activation—developing the ability to remain present with intensity without overwhelming the system.

Releasing tension in the jaw supports the gradual discharge and integration of bound survival energy that can appear as contraction, numbness, or a chronic sense of holding. These protective patterns are the body’s way of managing unprocessed stress or overwhelm. When approached with sensitivity and pacing, sound and awareness help this energy move toward completion, allowing the body to regain its natural rhythm of activation and rest. Working with the jaw in this way builds capacity for healthy aggression—the vital, life-affirming force that supports clear boundaries, self-expression, and grounded confidence. As this energy integrates, many people notice a growing sense of aliveness, steadiness, and authenticity in how they relate to themselves and others. This process cultivates a relationship with primal life force energy without becoming overwhelmed by it—using the voice as a means of regulation and genuine emotional expression. Through sound, energy is guided and integrated, building trust in the body’s innate capacity to respond, reorganise, and heal.

Week 3 - March 17th 2026

The Diaphragms & Your Voice

The diaphragm is one of the body’s primary centres of tension and release—a responsive bridge between the breath, the nervous system, and emotional experience. This workshop explores how stored trauma and long-held tension within the diaphragmatic tissue can restrict elasticity and limit our capacity to breathe freely and feel fully. Through gentle, sound-based explorations, you’ll learn how working with the voice can gradually restore suppleness and movement to this vital area of the body.

Rather than aiming to eliminate tension, we’ll investigate its regulatory function—understanding that healthy tension is essential for structure, stability, and expression. Many of us carry too much tension where softness is needed, and too little where support is required. Through focused awareness and specific vocal exercises, you’ll begin to sense how the voice box acts as a dynamic pressure valve, modulating internal pressure and influencing the body’s overall balance. By engaging with tension and release in a slow, titrated way, you’ll build the capacity to integrate sensation safely, allowing awareness and the nervous system to reorganise together. This process not only restores elasticity to the diaphragm but also deepens the felt sense of inner coherence and vitality.

Somatic Voice Work makes your body release a powerful cocktail of feel good hormones. The four most obvious ones are …

Dopamine - a neurotransmitter that forms an important part of your brain's reward circuit and is associated with pleasurable sensations
Oxytocin - also known as the cuddle hormone that promotes bonding, trust and empathy in relationships and generally increases affection
Serotonin - a further neurotransmitter that regulates your mood, appetite, sleep and digestion
Endorphins - your body’s natural pain reliever that also increases when you engage in working out, eating etc.

These hormones are generated through connection, tone of voice and sound waves. By cultivating expression that comes from a genuine, embodied impulse we grow our body’s ability to create these hormones and experience profound states of well-being.