Monday afternoon - Inhabiting your Voice with Cordelia
An embodied practice of agency, regulation, and relationship
If you learned early on to hold your voice back — to quiet your expression in order to belong - this practice offers a different way.
For many women, that quieting doesn’t disappear. It settles into the body, shaping how alive, connected, and expressed you’re able to feel today.
Rather than being shaped by sound from the outside, this practice works with the sound that arises from within your own body. Neuro-Sensory Voice Work restores embodied agency by inviting you to generate and inhabit your own voice. As the voice opens gradually, internal flow returns - allowing life force, sensation, and expression to move with greater ease.
Relating Through the Body - Not Just Understanding
Many of us have learned how to relate through thinking - through shared ideas, stories, values, or roles. And yet, underneath that, there can be a quiet sense of loneliness. A feeling of being present, but not fully here. Of speaking, but not quite feeling ourselves as we do.
This practice is for those who sense that their voice holds more truth than words alone have been able to carry - and who are curious about what becomes possible when relationship includes the body.
Your Voice Carries More Than Words
Your tone, rhythm, volume, and timing are shaped by your history of connection - when it was safe to be heard, when it wasn’t, and how you learned to adapt. Over time, this can create a split: a sense of self that lives mostly in the head, and a body that holds feelings, impulses, and expressions that never quite make it through.
Neuro-Sensory Voice Work offers a way back - not through emotional catharsis or self-improvement, but through a slow, embodied practice of listening, sensing, and sounding.
This split often shows up most clearly in relationship - where the voice either disappears, becomes overly careful, or works too hard to be received.
A Practice of Relationship - Beginning from Within
In this taster session, we begin with your relationship to your own voice. We explore how it feels to inhabit sound in the body, gently working with areas that often hold tension - the jaw, throat, chest, and belly - not to push or release, but to bring awareness and support where the system has learned to brace or go quiet.
From there, we introduce simple, grounded relational and authentic relating practices. These are not performative or exposing. They offer a way to notice how your voice responds in contact with others, while staying connected to yourself.
Sound, Rhythm, and Nervous System Support
Your voice is an extension of your nervous system - reflecting safety, regulation, and connection. Through sensory-based vocal practices, sound and rhythm are used to support organisation and ease, meeting the system where it is. Pleasure may arise. So may subtle discomfort. Both are welcomed, without being amplified or forced.
This Is a Practice - Not a Fix
This work builds capacity over time: the ability to stay present with sensation, feeling, and expression without overwhelm. What’s most meaningful is often simply practising together.
This taster is for you if you feel a disconnect between head, heart, and body; if you’ve learned to withhold expression to stay safe; or if you long for more embodied, authentic connection.
No voice experience is needed. You don’t need to sing, perform, or share anything you’re not ready for.
An invitation to come into relationship - with your voice, your body, and others - at a pace your nervous system can trust.
Things to bring/materials required: Yoga mat – blanket - cushions
Date of event Monday 12 January 2026
Time: 12:30 – 3 pm
Cost: £28.00
No of places: 8
We never want cost to prevent anyone attending our events so please reach out to the class practitioner if you require a subsidised ticket
Biography
Cordelia is the Founder of Neuro-Sensory Voice Work (NSVW), a pioneering therapeutic modality that integrates the ancient wisdom found in the art of Bel Canto singing with trauma-informed principles rooted in Polyvagal Theory. With over two decades of
international experience in opera and voice, and more than 30 years dedicated to breath work, she has developed a deeply attuned approach to vocal embodiment and self-expression.
Find more about her work on her website You and Your Voice