YOUR VOICE IS THE DOORWAY TO YOUR POWER
VOICE, BREATH AND ART WITH KATIA
SINGER, PAINTER AND KEEPER OF THE VOICE FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS
VOCAL NATURE
Your voice belongs to the same living forces as wind, tide and fire.
It holds more of your power than you’ve been using.
working with voice nature
Long before we learned words, we had sound. It’s how the body speaks its weather, its grief, its joy and its strength. Over a lifetime, we learn to manage that sound, shaping it to be acceptable, then smaller, then safe.
I work with vocal nature: the understanding that your voice belongs to the same living forces as wind, tide and fire, and that it holds more of your power than you’ve been using. I will listen to the whole of you, and what you hear back is something you may have forgotten you carried.
ways of working together
These are for singers, speakers, and anyone ready to meet their voice. You can work through singing or through the speaking voice, in person* or online.
ONE-TO-ONE SESSIONS
Working with painting, movement and sound for the moments when expression needs a different door.
ART THERAPY
Let’s create a concert shaped for your place and its people, anywhere in the world. Residencies weave performance, teaching and creation together over time.
BESPOKE EXPERIENCES
WORKSHOPS, RETREATS LECTURES
Each one is made for your group and setting, and priced accordingly.
GET IN TOUCH SO WE CAN START WORKING TOGETHER:
what do you get when we work together?
conscious breath as the source of your sound
a healthy voice, cared for and protected from damage
ease, and even pleasure, in hearing yourself
the freedom to move between styles, from jazz to opera to fado
your natural voice, and the message it was always carrying
About Katia
Born in Angola, Katia was singing, painting and moving before she had names for any of it. For 25 years she has followed those three languages through research, creation and teaching.
Her work alongside professional opera and jazz performers has carried her around the world. From those collaborations she developed her own vocal method, which deepens performance, heals, and guards the voice against harm.
When the voice opens, the whole person opens with it. Old holding softens, buried feelings move, and power that had been waiting finds its way out. This is why she also trained as an anthroposophic art therapist. For her, singing and painting and healing were never separate disciplines.
She improvises fearlessly and composes, and she sings the way some people breathe. She is also a painter, an anthroposophic art therapist and a certified vocal coach.
“Katia has an incredible knowledge of vocal techniques, and, most importantly, she has the ability to guide me through corrections… She is also a very intuitive and sensitive teacher. She is firm and focused.”
Kate Anastasiou, singer, New Zealand.
Came to Katia for fado after 20 years of lessons.
The work moves the way nature does, from the ground up.
a path through the elements
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Everything begins in the ground beneath you. You learn to stand in your body, breathe from its roots, and protect your voice so it can carry you for a lifetime.
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Then comes what has been held. The mouth opens, emotion finds its current, and you feel your body begin to sing on its own.
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With that weight released, the voice gets lighter. You play the way children do, curious and unguarded, trying sounds simply to hear what they become. There’s nothing to get right here.
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From that freedom, the breath becomes force. Power that was scattered or swallowed is gathered and channeled, and your voice takes on its full presence.
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Finally, sound leaves you and joins something larger. Resonance links your body to the space around it and to the people listening, and you begin to read your own instrument as part of the living world.
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