Become the singer of your dreams.
Give your voice permission. Find your authenticity. Boost your confidence.
Sing Like No One’s Watching
Hello beautiful singers, I’m Kayla Green - a voice teacher and coach who specializes in emotional vulnerability on the voice for seasoned performers and developing vocalists looking to find their most authentic expression.
I empower people to experiment, play, and explore their vulnerability through singing because I believe to work on the voice IS to work on the self. My mission is to make you sound more like you than you may have ever known to be possible.
Singers often struggle with finding permission or think that they need to improve their tone or hitting notes.
But I’ve noticed something different…
A lot of people aren’t struggling because they can’t sing…
They’re struggling because they don’t actually know what they’re trying to express.
They memorize songs.
They desperately try to sound “good”
They only focus on technique.
But they don’t ask:
“What does this sound MEAN coming out of me?”
Once you understand your role in the music -
Your tone changes.
Tension and restriction is released.
Your breath is connected.
Technique matters 100%
But if there is no mind-body connection to the sound,
It’ll always feel like something is missing.
The Approach
I specialize in emotional vulnerability on the voice and how your psychology affects your sound making. Learning how to feel your sound in your body as you make it is the most effective way to release physical and psychological tension around your voice.
I work with the stories you tell yourself of who you are and what you are allowed to do, and embrace a theory of limitless expansion around extending range, resonance, breath support.
I’m going to teach you to embrace your emotional life, as you learn through doing that your most emotional sound is the sound your body and soul actually want to make.
My mentor, Jonathan Stancato, trained me in his Inside Voice Technique and I have been fortunate to get to add his knowledge to my repertoire of classical/MT voice training, Linklater Voice, Meisner Technique, Breathwork, and my own experiences with grief and cathartic release on sound.
Voice Work and Packages
Take a step toward the voice you know is ready to be heard by signing up for a voice lesson. Whether this is your first voice lesson ever, or you want to pick up where you left off before, committing to your voice is a wonderful first step. This can be a one off lesson, or a part of a series of lessons. My hope for all new students is a 10 lesson commitment so we can really dive into the offerings I have that I know work. If you are looking for a brush up, or audition prep, this is a good fit for you as well.
Do you want an in depth introduction to the techniques I teach to help people tap into their most resonant voice? These 5 lessons will rely solely on the String Quartet Technique that has been used to expand range, resonance, and emotional understanding of one’s own voice. Whether it is your first time taking voice lessons ever, or you are ready to jump in where you left off in the past, I am excited to get to show you the techniques that are going to open your voice to new versions of expressiveness.
This is for the singer ready to put the work in for ultimate growth! 10 lessons gives us enough time to truly explore, navigate, and unlock the richness and beauty of your voice using the techniques I have collected throughout my expansive journey with my own voice. 10 lessons will get us through the string quartet, breathwork and support, range expansion, and bringing emotions to songwork.
10 lessons must be booked within 6 months of purchase.
FIND YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC VOCAL EXPRESSION
I’M THE VOCAL TEACHER THAT CAN TAKE YOUR VOICE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Hello!
Who is Kayla?
I’m a New York based voice teacher, singer, and actor who's always down for a good cry.
After losing my mother to cancer in 2017 I started a journey to reclaim my voice when grief threatened to quiet me for good. I was lucky enough to stumble into a rehearsal room with Jonathan Stancato where I was encouraged to cry, scream, wail, and snot my way through songs I brought in to sing. In my previous 18 years as a singer and performer I had never imagined that my best singing would happen in the state of despair I was in, and I thank God I was proven wrong every day. Not only did Jonathan train me in the techniques and exercises that he used to help me find and release my most beautiful voice, I came to a rock solid conclusion of my own: After being a student of the voice for nearly 2 decades previously, I had never considered that my most authentic, raw, and emotional sound would be the one that gave me what I had always longed for; Peace in my voice, confidence in my singing, a new standard for what is possible, and a release from perfectionism. This is why I am so passionate about my approach to the voice as a teacher. I want you to experience your voice in a way that brings you back to yourself. I want you to live in a world where you love your voice. True expression is just on the other side of tension and it feels so good to be there.
In addition to all that, received my Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Music Performance from Olivet College and am a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City specializing in the Meisner Technique from Master Teacher, Charlie Sandlan.
Since 2018 I’ve continued studying voice privately with Jonathan Stancato and was one of only 6 people accepted into his voice teacher training program and am now joyfully teaching his ‘Inside Voice’ technique as well as using my vast knowledge of other vocal pedagogies like –
✔ The Great American Songbook, rock, opera, folk music
✔ Trained in the Bel Canto Tradition of vocal pedagogy and have an extensive choral background
✔ Breathwork practices to support your sound and emotional life, and facilitate physical release.
✔ Extensive practice in Musical Theatre; belting, mixing, and story-telling.
✔A thorough understanding of the vocal anatomy and its functionality.
The techniques that I offer have been meticulously curated by me, and I know how to get you to sing and speak your best and most comfortably.
I offer private voice in person in NYC and all over the world via Zoom with clients from LA to Hong Kong. In addition I offer group voice workshops throughout the month in NYC and online and singing meetups for free.
TL’DR: If there’s something you don’t like about your voice, then there’s something you don't like about yourself
My most impassioned teaching is with and through song. What is the song your soul is dying to sing, because whether you believe it or not yet, you are a singer, and you are meant to be singing.
Your voice is your most vulnerable means of expression. It was not meant to hide your feelings, and stifle your impulses, and if you are like most people, your voice has been caged for most of your life. Maybe you have thoughts of “it should sound like this” or “I wish it didn’t sound like that” most likely these sounds that you are making which you do not like, or find uncomfortable are created from tension. Mental tension can easily and most often is turned into physical tension.
When we are physically tense when speaking or singing we cannot be expressive, persuasive, or effective. Learning to work with the sounds we dislike and find out why we are making them is the first step in being able to change. Change is a difficult word for me to use around the voice because I deeply believe that your voice merely needs to be freed, not changed into something else. Because your voice is you, there is no other voice on this planet that sounds exactly like yours, and that is a miracle to be celebrated, not condemned.
My mission is to make you sound more like you than you may have ever known to be possible, not to sound like someone else. In the release of the voice, freedom occurs, and this is the change that I mean when I speak of the voice. The change from caged to freed. This approach takes time, and most importantly introspection. Why do I resist being loud? Or, Why is being quiet so uncomfortable for me? Why do I not believe I can sing that pitch? And then, and maybe most importantly, we get you to make sounds you didn’t know you could make, through play, repetition, imagination, and courage.
Yes, courage is an incredibly potent ingredient to this work. The courage to feel. The courage to say yes to the emotion arising from you. The courage to be expressive in a world that may have told you that you are “too much.” Bring me your “too much”, and I will show you how it’s just enough. Your voice was designed to be emotional, of the moment, and free. Let’s get you back to that. This work is for singers, this work is for speakers, this work is for anyone with a voice, I have all the tools to get you where you want to go and beyond. The techniques that I offer have been meticulously curated by me, and I know how to get you to sing and speak your best and most comfortably.
Kayla teaches private voice in person in NYC and all over the world via Zoom with clients from LA to Hong Kong. She teaches multiple different group voice workshops throughout the month in NYC and online, as well as facilitates singing meetups for free.