Have you struggled with muscle tension and vocal fatigue?
Is your voice feeling tight and stuck?
JOIN THE FREE MASTERCLASS
Simple, daily habits to transform your voice
with Elissa Maas Weinzimmer, vocal health educator and founder of Voice Body Connection
We’ll cover myofascial techniques to release tension in your neck, shoulders, throat, and tongue.
And I’ll help you uncover vocal habits that may be keeping you stuck in a cycle of
Pushing to make sound 
Winding up fatigued
These practices can release your vocal tension and transform your voice.
The free masterclass is happening live on Zoom on Wednesday, February 11th from 12-1:30pm Eastern Time. The workshop will be recorded for those that can’t attend live.
Hi, My name is Elissa
Vocal tension caught up with me in 2007.
I was in my final semester of my theatre degree - in class all day, in rehearsal all evening, and some nights I was singing with my a cappella group until midnight. I knew I was pushing, but I thought I was invincible.
Then, one morning after an a cappella weekend retreat (IYKYK), I woke up and could barely whisper. It felt like I had shards of glass in my throat, and it hurt to swallow.
I went to a laryngologist who scoped my vocal folds, and told me there were signs that I had experienced a vocal hemorrhage, acid reflux, and vocal trauma. Other than that, though my vocal cords “looked fine” (as in, there was no other visible pathology on my folds). I was put on vocal rest, and sent to speech therapy.
When my voice loss event happened, my plans to become a Broadway performer went poof.💨
But I became a sleuth, learning everything I could about the human voice.
I had to heal mine.
On my long and circuitous path to healing, I finally encountered the phrase “MUSCLE TENSION DYSPHONIA.”
That sparked an aha moment - I realized my tension was keeping me stuck. After that aha, I began to find really useful information...
Information that came from theatre voice techniques, singing pedagogy, speech science, yoga, anatomy & physiology, and the study of the human nervous system.
It’s now nearly 20 years since I lost my voice. My stamina and vocal quality are as good as they’ve ever been. I’m singing and performing again. And I have so much I’d love to share with you about how I healed my voice.
