OUR CORE CURRICULUM
Signature Courses
Comprehensive, cohort-based courses that include live coaching with Elissa
A comprehensive 18 lesson course to help you release muscle tension and overcome vocal fatigue. You’ll learn how to transform your nervous system state, re-train your movement and breathing patterns, and re-pattern myofascial issues that are keeping your voice stuck and tight. Students graduate from class feeling like they finally have a handle on their vocal health challenges, and can share more resonant voices with the world.
 Pre-recorded content: 18 core lessons, 90 minutes each, separated into five modules
  Live participation:  An annual cohort starts each year in the winter. The cohort is encouraged to move through one lesson per week. Elissa holds monthly live 90-minute lab sessions to answer questions and provide live coaching. Note: You may enroll in Release Your Voice anytime of the year.
  Home-play: The first module has a handful of reflective writing assignments. Then the home-play largely becomes practice oriented, with the opportunity to reflect on progress after each lesson. Students who submit home-play for each lesson can request a certificate of completion.
  Bonus: Once you’re a student in Release Your Voice, you may participate in the live cohort every year for no additional course fee.
 $1,199
💳 six-month payment plan available
People call it  “The best public speaking class you’ll ever take.” This 9 lesson program goes far beyond the do’s and don’ts of most performance coaching. It’s a nervous system re-training program that will transform your connection to your audience. Students report getting feedback about their clear eye focus, excellent body language, dynamic voice, and powerful messaging.
 Pre-recorded content: 9 core lessons, 90 minutes each
  Live participation:  An annual cohort starts each year in the fall. The cohort is encouraged to move through one lesson per week. Elissa holds a bi-weekly live 90-minute lab session to guide students through the material and provide coaching. Note: You may enroll in Authentic Voice Academy anytime of the year.
  Home-play: Each lesson includes assignments like worksheets and video prompts. Lessons 7, 8, and 9 focus on a final project, which can be a video, a talk, a song, or any other form of presentation. Students who submit home-play for each lesson can request a certificate of completion.
  Bonus: Once you’re a student in Authentic Voice Academy, you may participate in the live cohort every year for no additional course fee.
 $699
💳 six-month payment plan available
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Do-it-yourself Courses
Pre-recorded, self-paced courses to provide a foundation for your vocal practice
The Voice Body Connection Process™ Core Training
For speakers and singers who want to express themselves more authentically
Learn the Voice Body Connection Process™ - a seven step method to identify how you’re feeling so you can express yourself authentically. This is a somatic process, so it starts by tuning into your bodily sensations. You’ll name a stimulus and any accompanying emotions, and clarify your desires. People who use the Voice Body Connection Process on a regular basis find that they’re able to express themselves more easily, and communicate better with others.Â
 Pre-recorded content: 90 minutes of total content, separated into 12 short video lessons
  Live participation:  We use the Voice Body Connection Process™ during each session of our Voice Body Connection Community gatherings. We invite you to join the Community so you can practice with us!
  Home-play: Filling out the the Voice Body Connection Process worksheet as often as you like!
$79Â
Note: This course is included as a bonus the first time you join a Voice Body Connection Community session
How To Warm Up
For singers, speakers, and performers who want support designing an effective vocal warm-up
A choose-your-own adventure course with 40+ exercise videos arranged in seven categories. Choose an exercise or two per category, and you've got a perfectly balanced vocal warm-up. The course also includes pre-designed 5 and 15-minute warm-ups for Singers, Actors, Voice Actors, Public Speakers, Podcasters, Business Professionals, Yoga Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Lawyers, Non-Native English Speakers, folks with Vocal Fatigue and Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD), and people who want to attend to their Everyday Vocal Health.
 Pre-recorded content: 42 short videos for a total of ~3.5 hours, plus 24 PDFs outlining suggested sequences
  Live participation:  This course is fully pre-recorded, but we practice many of these warm-ups in the Voice Body Connection Community. We invite you to join the Community so you can practice your warm-ups with us!
  Home-play: Practicing the exercises!
$199
How Your Voice Works
For singers, speakers, and performers who want a better understanding of vocal anatomy
This course covers a seven-step sequence to understand the mechanics of the human voice: 1) Impulse, 2) Body, 3) Breathing, 4) Sound, 5) Resonance, 6) Articulation, 7) Language. When you understand how your instrument works, you can use it with much more freedom and ease! This is the first online course Elissa ever released, recorded in 2016.
 Pre-recorded content: ~4 hours of core content, separated into 7 modules, with two exercise videos accompanying the main lesson in each module
  Live participation:  This course is fully pre-recorded.
  Home-play: Practicing the two exercises that accompany each core lesson.
$199
How to Have Presence
For singers, speakers, and performers who want more confidence and presence
This course is an earlier version of Authentic Voice Academy. This course is organized into seven modules: 1) Identifying your habits, 2) What is presence?, 3) Overcoming nerves, 4) Being fully embodied, 5) Dynamic vocal inflection, 6) Landing your message, and 7) Memorization and Performance.
This course was recorded in 2017.
 Pre-recorded content: ~3 hours of core content, separated into 7 modules, with two exercise videos accompanying the main lesson in each module
  Live participation:  This course is fully pre-recorded.
  Home-play: Video assignments, plus practicing the two exercises that accompany each core lesson.
$199
PARTNER COURSE
Vibrant Voice Technique, the online course
Elissa collaborates with her mentor David Ley on this innovative method. Vibrant Voice Technique uses external vibration (yes, a vibrator!) and anatomically-based exercises to enhance vocal resonance and reduce the muscle tension that leads to vocal fatigue. The online course covers all of the exercises of the technique, including muscle tension release for the shoulders, neck, jaw, and tongue, as well as resonance and articulation.
 Pre-recorded content: ~4 hours of core content, separated into 31 videos, plus the “How-To-Guide” PDF with written explanations of the exercises
  Live participation:  This course is fully pre-recorded.
  Home-play: Practicing the exercises taught in each video.
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