
A Mystical Journey into the world of Your Voice
Discover how Neuro-Sensory Voice Work can help you regulate your nervous system, heal from trauma, and reconnect with your body all through your voice.
A six week interactive online course that brings together metaphysical principles with cutting edge somatic practices.
Sound & Soma is a unique course that blends voice work with meditative vocal practices to become more fully embodied and expressed. It not only teaches you how to use your voice to open your breath, but provides a physical, possibly even mystical, experience into your sense of Self that leads to greater confidence, agency and power.
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Your tone of voice, reflects how you feel, it's a tool that connects to your Soul, shifts your state of being and regulates your nervous system. Essentially Sound & Soma is a vocal embodiment practice that uses your voice as a catalyst to connect to deeper layers within the Self allowing more Soul Essence to course through your being as the throat chakra opens. As a consequence you'll start to experience a deeper sense of peace and lucidity.
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These gentle and playful practice sessions will give you the opportunity to explore the rejuvenating capacity of your voice while exploring your own relationship to your voice as well as connecting to each other through exercises using sound. The sessions provide a space for physical self exploration that will bring awareness to what depletes or replenishes your energy from the inside out. Plenty of time and space is given to share and integrate your experience.
With only a small number of participants in a deeply supportive environment, you'll explore how to use your voice to ...
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start feeling safer in your body
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​​open your breath and breathe more deeply
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shift energy by gently directing sound-waves
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reduce severe anxiety
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release chronic tension through gentle vibrations
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open your throat Chakra
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replenish your energy levels
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tap into your subconscious mind
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connect to your sensual essence & the pleasure of making sound
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Stay tuned!
More dates for tasters coming soon!
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Join the FREE Taster Sessions in March 2025 now!
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What people are saying...
I felt much, much better after each session. Seeing the quick positive effects, I was eager to start practicing everything I learned.
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It was fun and exhilarating to try to express myself without holding back.
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I so appreciate how you hold the space at Sound & Soma. There's ease and flow and also homour and cheeckiness. I really get the sense that you have your eyes on the arc of the experience and your finger on the pulse, by the time we end it always feels complete.
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I learned that a louder volume doesn't necessarily imply straining the vocal cords.
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It's actually possible to be louder and have a fuller voice by getting more of my body involved in producing the sound.
Somatic Voice Work makes your body release a powerful cocktail of feel good hormones. The four most obvious ones are …
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Dopamine - a neurotransmitter that forms an important part of your brain's reward circuit and is associated with pleasurable sensations
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Oxytocin - also known as the cuddle hormone that promotes bonding, trust and empathy in relationships and generally increases affection
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Serotonin - a further neurotransmitter that regulates your mood, appetite, sleep and digestion
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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.
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SOUND & SOMA is for
Alternative & Spiritual Practitioners: Sound healers, shamans, and meditation-resistant individuals looking for a new path to embodiment.
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Healing & Trauma Recovery: Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and individuals healing from anxiety, low self-esteem, or dissociation.
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Regular people & those afraid of speaking up
Who want to find their voice
Singers in Crisis: Singers and artists who are experiencing vocal problems or who desire to deepen their craft.
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Helping Professionals: Therapists, hypnotherapists, yoga teachers who want to enhance their voice’s impact in client sessions and integrate NSVW into their work.
​Science & Brainwave Focused: People struggling with high-beta brain activity who want to access deeper states (alpha, theta, delta).
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Together we'll explore
The Fundamental Building Blocks for a Healthy Voice
Similar to yoga postures vocal exercises affect your whole being. They develop your respiratory capacity, help you breathe deeply, increase lung volume and strengthen your voice.
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The Five Pure Vowels
Vowel sounds are the feminine element of voice. They give colour, express feeling tone and create atmosphere. But too much vowel without enough form can lead to feeling depleted, loosing energy and possibly even a sore throat. It ends up being murky, a bit like mixing too many colours turning all into a muddy grey.
Similarly, the pure vowel sounds, need to be clear and distinct like primary colours. This lays the foundation for wholesome vocal development.

Sensual Enunciation
Through sensual enunciation we use sound as a vehicle to connect deeply to our body's internal viscera. These specialized exercises are designed to help you connect to the pleasure inherent in making sound and re-connect to the verbal phase of adolescence where sound was juicy and fun. The focus on combining enunciation with sensuality will give you a deep experience of the self within your body.

Opening the Breath
Most breathing practices focus on the breath and ignore the voice. However breathing to develop vocal potential is different from breathing for purely meditative purposes. When you breathe to vocalize, your breath needs to support sound, as it forms the bases upon which sound waves travel.
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Combining breathing exercises with sound is unique. It reduces stress, regulates heart rate and builds core strength. It also opens new energy pathways and leaves you feeling nourished and energized.
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Releasing Jaw Tension
Relative to size, the masseter muscles are some of the strongest muscles in your body. A huge amount of tension gets held here. Too much tension in this area symbolizes a withholding of expression. By releasing jaw tension you'll experience deep relaxation and a sense of ease flowing into your voice and being.
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The 3 Basic Principles
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of chanting that underpin all mystical traditions are breath, rhythm and sound. Gaining a practical understanding of these principles will open a door to experience the power of voice work and why it's so effective and healing. We'll delve into each principle so you can begin to work with them in your own practice and explore accessing altered states of consciousness, feeling subtle energy, as well as releasing tension enabling deep states of relaxation.
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The Nervous System
The ancient practice of singing lullaby's serves a deep purpose of soothing and calming a child in distress. The pace and tone instill a sense of calm and peacefulness for the mother as much as for the child. The tone transmits a sense of safety and familiarity that signals all is well.
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As adults we too can use our voice to calm our nervous system on a physical level, and thereby sooth our mind. Through healing sounds we can reduce anxiety, come out of a freeze response and regulate our state.

Primal Expression
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The primal voice is spontaneous, effortless and universally understood It's the essence that gives colour and vibrancy to every voice. It can be as subtle an inaudible sigh or as loud as a scream.
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As we become attuned to the nature of our expression, we'll explore wholesome ways of shifting healthy aggression through our system. This can be a positive surprise as the experience of healthy aggression can be very different from our mental understanding of it.
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Rhythm & Consonants
Emotionally infused articulation coordinates reflexes in the vocal folds and strengthens the voice as a whole.
It is the masculine element of the voice creating the structure that enables flow. It is the rhythm in language setting the pace.
Similar to a yoga workout, emotionally enfused articulation invigorate the whole body, activates the breath and strengthen the diaphragm which builds resilience. It enables tension to flow where needed, while reducing tension where it is unwanted.
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Nothing reflects your wellbeing as much as your voice, and when you lose it, it's your Soul calling for attention, and that call needs to be heard!
If you've ever lost your voice you'll probably know that it was because you were going through a crisis, a dark night of the soul or a rite of passage.
Sound & Soma provides a safe space to explore your expression, align to your body's rhythms and needs, and learn to trust your inner voice. You'll develop your intuition, practice attuning to your own truth and guidance, and unlock the wisdom of your Soul. You'll also understand how to change your state and feel subtle energy.
Your voice is a key that can open doorways into mystical realms of experience, because it's the seat of your Soul.
Still on the fence? Find out
what this course isn't
It isn't about catharsis or any kind of re-enactment, which, unfortunately, I've seen way too often! This is a trauma informed approach. Catharsis can be re-traumatising as boundaries easily get violated. Further, it can become a habit to re-create intensity which is a form of addiction that prevents more subtle nuances of growth. Overwhelm isn't helpful, it locks the nervous system back into more shame, adding further layers to already existing ones.
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Real voice work leaves you feeling replenished, calm and energised, expansive, connected to yourself and others. It restores a profound sense of agency and trust in life and deep confidence.
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Cordelia deeply understands the connection of the voice with the body, the emotions and the intentions one carries. Her balance of humour and depth make her teaching a fascinating and wonderful experience.
Mary Ann Ferguson
Munich Germany
Course details & format
what to expect...
Pre-recorded theoretical modules
​Each week you'll have access to one or more segments varying in length, usually between 10 to 20 minutes. These are designed to give you a foundation in Neuro-Sensory Voice Work and the principles we are working with. You'll gain insight into why your voice is such a powerful healing tool, and understand the anatomy, metaphysics and psychology of why we are doing what we do in the practice sessions.​
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Two live two hour practice sessions per week!* (times to be decided, one for EU time zone and one for US) ​
In these twelve practice sessions you'll learn how to work with your voice and body instead of overriding it. You'll be guided through a series of explorations, exercises and practices and receive strategic adjustments, so you get the most out of NSVW and avoid forming any bad vocal habits. Personal attention makes all the difference in good voice work. ​
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Interactive and relational inquiries that encourage exploring your voice in connection to others will be explored in the practice sessions. These inquiries allow you to delve more deeply into the influences that formed your expression and still impact it today. By incorporating your whole being, your body, voice and use of language you'll gain new ways of relating that enable more intimacy and deeper connection. *The practice sessions will not be recorded for this reason as well as to ensure your privacy.
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PDF Handouts with essentials
You'll also get PDF handouts that accompany the essential theory, anatomy of the voice that we cover as well as some recommendations for you tube videos that go more deeply into certain topics.
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Private Members Platform with access to recordings ​
And last but not least there's a members only platform where you can access all the links to the videos and course content in one place, where you can also ask questions, post comments and interact with one another.
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Cordelia was fully present, compassionate and knowledgeable as she gently guided me on a journey of hearing my own voice express just what I needed to move forward. I feel heard, understood and nourished. I highly recommend working with her.
Susan Barker
Hypnotherapist
Sound & Soma Starts in May 2025
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Early Bird - Premium & Payment Plans available
What you need to know, before joining!
This course is designed to be interactive, it's NOT a prerecorded course. In order to join and get most out of Sound & Soma you'll need to have your cameras on and participate in in the live practice sessions, as much as possible. Time-zones for the live practice sessions are TBD; they will be for European and for U.S. time-zones. The practice sessions will not be recorded to insure your own privacy!
