Vocal Kinesthetics

💋Did I nail the style of a Faith Hill music video? 💅

I just need to add me running at camera in slow motion like Sandra Bullock in the movie practical magic….
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Can’t wait to be in New York next week to give workshop attendees new tools for effortless belting, singing opera, mixing, improvising – you name it – because when the brain is on board, you’ll feel like you can do anything.

Also, I might be this person running on fumes …. I think I need to download some romcoms and stare outside for a while! 🤣

Less than a week – plzzzz buy your tickets now — I know this doesn’t matter to y’all but my deadline for renting a big studio in New York as an out-of-town Artist is Monday…

Don’t wait! Comment 🧠, 🍎 or 🌆 for deets!

zephyrallredolson zephyrolsonvoice NYC Registration closes in 48 hours friends! Comment “brain “to learn more about your nervous system and to be able to help the students you don’t know how to help.


Steal my cues and the five drills I use in master classes, all the time to get results with most students.

i’ve got a couple slots left for private lessons, but DM me they are going quickly.

If your student feels unstable or inconsistent vocally - this might be a sign to ask them about stability in another area…lower leg injuries!

The tibial nerve enables the lower leg to receive messages from the brain. 🧠 🦵

This nerve is an exciting one to play with as it covers a lot of ground. If you have sciatica, you wanna make sure to heed my advice about keeping the sensation at a 3 out of 10.
everybody is different, but this is one that consistently helps students that I’ve worked with who have lower body injuries or sciatica.

Nerves like to be stretched a little bit, slacked a bit or moved a little - they do not like to be yanked.

Make sure to take an assessment before and after either in singing, strength, or range of motion and make sure there is no pain in this assessment or nerve glide.

Let me know how it goes!

Comment 🧠🍎 for info on the NYC workshop! There are still some singer slots!

Pain and performance share a nervous system. You can’t optimize one while ignoring the other. You are also training movement in singing so it might as well be efficient movement….

Pain is in the brain. The IASP updated their definition in 2020, “pain is a threat response, shaped by perception, context, and the brain’s appraisal of danger.”⚠️

Which means the same nervous system running your student’s threat signal is the one governing their range, their onset, their breath capacity, their dynamics under pressure. These are not separate systems. If you address that threat system, performance can shift.

Applied neurology training gives voice teachers a framework. NOT a diagnosis, not a medical protocol. A way to assess where the threat is, apply a targeted input, and measure the output immediately. If the voice frees up, if the range expands, if the pain number drops, the nervous system has registered the input as safe. If nothing moves after modifying and individualizing your cues as best you can, you stop and refer out and simply focus on the music. 🎵 That feedback loop is built into the method. It’s the ethical guardrail and the teaching tool at the same time.

Still, these conversations give me pause and help me update everything I can in my curriculum to prepare teachers to become experts in human performance and know when to refer out to a doctor. 🎭

Comment BRAIN to learn more about the online VK certification this summer in July and in-person in Helsinki!



are the handsomest snowmen an ice queen could ask for! This was such a fun concert. We should do it again sometime!

Hey, I didn’t record in the right format but you’ll get over it.

Thank you kaitlynashleytaylor for sharing a bit of your session with us. Kaitlyn is a gorgeous Soprano/Fierce belter who is a few years into her teaching journey and is such an incredible human to be around. She has been experiencing more anxiety due to ADHD (and some injuries) and she dove head first into my VK teacher mentorship. She’s taken it ever since and regularly does a demo in mentee sessions.

In this session, we worked on a piece she hasn’t done in many years, and she went from a beautiful mix to more stability in her belt quality - but more importantly, her anxiety went down to three when it had previously been an eight on the scale. EIGHT?!?!

That is why I do this work. If I can help someone find a drill that changes their daily life that much…. I am satisfied. And oh by the way, what we love to do, singing, gets easier. That is everything to me.

-crippling performance anxiety 😬
-getting out of your head in a voice lesson😫
-breakthroughs in lessons but not practice 🫠
-ACTUALLY help pitch/rhythm memory and sight reading
-surprisingly common and simple coordination issues 🧠
-vocal fatigue 😓
-helping students that have seen EVERYONE 😳

It’s time to start integrating brain based techniques or what we call functional applied neurology into your practice as a voice teacher.

If you happen to be in New York, I have a workshop tomorrow night at Open Jar Studios. We are gonna have some fun exploring ways to improve Singers.

Otherwise, stay tuned for my upcoming self-paced mentorship!!!

…and less out of BREATH while dancing 💃 WHOA right? 🤯

Sing “I just can’t do it alone” while doing back walkovers and maybe a spread eagle or two. 👯

Kidding. You do you. This is how I modified a coordination drill for a voice student playing Velma in her high school’s production of Chicago a few years ago.

Option 1: Test both sides tapping each finger 5 times on the right, then the left—then try SINGING while doing this it on the more difficult side.

Option 2: touch each wrinkle on your thumb with each finger individually. It’s a little more specific!

Better, same or worse? Fun or overwhelming? Did you learn something about your nervous system?

Great, then I did my job.

Now frug it out. 🌺

Maybe you learned that additional cerebellum training could be REALLY HELPFUL for your voice students?? 😉🧠

PS- counting wrinkles on your thumb is so much harder while holding a phone…🤣

Okay listen b*tch, Vocal Kinesthetics is not your grandma’s singing lesson. No ma’am. This is like if voice science, body awareness, and nervous system regulation had a hot baby in yoga pants—with glitter. ✨

You’re not just doing scales and hoping for the best. No, queen. You’re learning how your WHOLE BODY is the instrument. We’re talking functional breathing, emotional awareness, vocal freedom, and like, actually feeling your damn feelings instead of squeezing your throat and calling it vibrato.
Your Insta is like... part fun-sized neurology, it’s hilariously obsessed with cranial nerves and part “I see you, anxious girlies who’ve been told to ‘just sing out!’” 🙄

You’re giving nerdy-meets-soulful, you’re giving gentle badass, you’re giving “I’ll change your life and your larynx with an eye exercise.”

People come to Vocal Kinesthetics when they’re DONE with pushing, DONE with perfectionism, and READY to sing from a place of real embodiment—like, voice as healing, not just performing.

So if you’re a voice teacher who wants to teach AND live in a regulated body, who loves geeking out but refuses to be bored, and who knows the voice is more than a series of laryngeal levers…

Vocal Kinesthetics is your new religion.

It’s no secret that I love sharing how functional applied neurology can help in the voice studio….

zephyrallredolson and I are definitely addicted…. stay tuned for more residency announcements and comment or DM to bring VK your college / university!

I’ll send a list of applied neuroscience topics/workshops for your music therapy, SLP, vocal performance, musical theater programs :)

Stay tuned for more opportunities to dive into the Functional & magical world of neurology - a beautiful self-paced online training is coming!