About me and my teaching:

I have been singing, performing, and training my voice since I was 13 years old, and I still seek out and receive voice training, breathwork classes, acting class, and other mindbody modalities that help me learn more about my own voice and the body it resides in. 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 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.