Free Your Voice & Wild, Creative Spirit!
6-week online expressive singing class
for creative, soulful women who love to sing
or want to sing with more
freedom, confidence and joy
In VOICES WILD, we sing through the 5 Elements of the Wild Voice Way™ as an empowering foundation so your voice can fly free.
Even if you don’t think of yourself as a singer, and even if you are a perfectionistic professional, this holistic system will help you to:
Sing with more confidence, ease and power.
Heal your relationship with your voice, and quiet your inner critic.
Empower your voice with beautiful, relaxing and meditative techniques.
Reclaim playfulness, creativity and joy in singing.
Learn gorgeous songs and chants rooted in nature and women’s wisdom.
Experience the healing bliss of singing together in a supportive sisterhood of creative, soulful women.
Each week, we explore one element with beautiful vocal empowerment practices, healing singing meditation, playful soulsong improvisation, and inspiring songs and chants.
I accompany our singing with frame drum, guitar, shruti, singing bowls and vocal looping to create a rich and harmonious experience with lots of room for spontaneous inspiration!
There is no previous experience required. We are all born musical. Singing is your birthright!
(Open to all who identify as women/womxn/female/non-binary, by birth or otherwise.)
VOICES WILD SCHEDULE - SPRING 2024
Voices Wild Course:
6 Saturdays, May 18 - June 22, 2024
11 am - 1 pm Pacific Time
Live online via Zoom. Replays available.
Your voice is a beautiful harmony in the Great Song of Life.
You are a living, breathing, singing being on the living, breathing, singing Earth.
Your voice is a powerful, healing instrument, made of earth, air, water, fire and aether.
Your voice is beautiful and unique, and you have the right to sing, no matter what anyone has told you otherwise.
We are all born with the art of Music, an innate gift cultivated by the love, joy, playfulness and imagination of billions of ancestors, inspired by the world around them.
Singing is your birthright.
You are fully supported by all the music inside you and around you.
Stand on the earth, sister, breathe and listen.
Your soulsong is waiting within you - ancient, wondrous, wise, and wild!
VOICES WILD is a
playful, interactive singing circle
and vocal empowerment class
for women
Do you dream of unblocking your voice, so you can sing songs you love with more courage and confidence?
Would you love to explore the joyful, healing power of singing from your soul?
Are you seeking a safe and supportive space to explore your voice and awaken its potential?
Then VOICES WILD is designed for you!
Singing is a multi-faceted art form, involving body, breath, sound, soul, and spirit.
When your voice feels stuck, it can be blocked in any of these areas!
But when you bring these elements into alignment, you become an open channel for musical inspiration to flow through.
You can more freely express the music inside your heart and sing songs you love with more confidence.
You feel the exciting bliss of singing from your soul, the music filling your body with joy.
This is why in Voices Wild, we journey through vocal embodiment and empowerment into expression and inspiration, so you can experience new vocal freedom on all levels, wherever you are starting from.
Whether you are a beginner just finding your voice, an experienced singer who wants to unleash your creativity, or someone looking to access the healing power of sound, Voices Wild is for you!
Together we form an inspiring community of creative, soulful, like-minded women where we can safely sing, play, experiment and express ourselves.
You have the right to sing (no matter what anyone has told you)!
From personal experience, I know that singing can be intimidating!
In Western culture, many of us are conditioned to believe that:
only those born with a certain mysterious level of “talent” deserve to sing,
music is something to be consumed, not created,
you have to push and criticize yourself to “get it right,”
we need to compete to get our voices heard,
women’s voices are less important
mistakes like "wrong notes" are shameful, and perhaps worst of all...
music doesn’t matter.
None of this is true!
These are limiting and oppressive beliefs we’ve inherited from a patriarchal, colonial and capitalist/consumer mindset that are designed to hold us back from our true creative power.
Singing is your birthright, sister!
It’s time to shed that shame, quiet that inner critic,
and give yourself permission to sing from your soul!
VOICES WILD TESTIMONIALS
Voices Wild was terrific. From the first session I felt the healing power of this program! During the course I found myself laughing, crying, smiling, and I surprised myself multiple times. Heidi's personality is very welcoming, loving and accepting. I highly recommend this course whether you are a singer or not! - Shlomit Oren
Voices Wild is such a deep gift of medicine in my life. Not only have I been able to feel more relaxed and so much less inhibited and self-conscious, I’ve started singing in public a bit. Taming our inner critic is an integral part of Heidi’s teaching style, and I’m so grateful for that.
I am also grateful for the repertoire of wonderous “pocket songs” that I can sing in nature, with the more-than-human world.
Heidi's voice has magic and healing baked right in it. She is also a masterful facilitator, guiding us all towards being able to sing with ease, joy and appreciation for our own emerging and evolving voices. Thank you into the great beyond dear Heidi, for helping me to remember how to sing, and how to call back my voice. - Joani M.
Heidi is the muse who reminded me that I'm a singer! Singing is back in my life again in a big way thanks to Heidi McCurdy and I’m so incredibly grateful.
Last year she inspired me to record my Wheel of the Year chants and helped turn it into song ceremony with her arrangements and harmonies. Now I’m taking her amazing Voices Wild program, and after only 2 weeks I feel revitalized.
I’ve sung since I was a toddler. Singing has always been a part of my life and who I am. I took lessons for many years, got a college Music Diploma, and performed professionally for a decade.
BUT I WAS ALMOST ALWAYS SINGING ALONE. Now I have women to sing and harmonize with and the healing and empowerment that’s happening in these online song circles is astounding. Heidi is an exceptional music educator and group song leader. She is soulful and highly skilled. I feel so blessed to have found her!! IM A MUSICIAN AGAIN!! - Flora Ware
A truly deep experience where Heidi held us in a safe circle of sound and love. We all felt so connected and could play, explore and build confidence with our voices alone and together. It was amazing as this was on zoom! We even felt tingles and vibrations!
I love how working on our wild soul songs and singing Heidi's beautiful songs of the elements helps me to feel more hope. Our beautiful planet earth needs our connected songs and our loving spirits. - Sarah W.
I thoroughly enjoyed Voices Wild! Each week we would express and sing with our souls and the experience was transformative! Heidi took us on an exploratory singing journey as we sang with the energies of earth, wind, fire, water and aether. Even though the experience was digital, the connection we felt to one another and our voices was still so present. I would certainly take Voices Wild again as it was a gateway to exploring and loving one's own natural and powerful voice. - Jenn T.
Although I'm not a 'beginner' singer, I'd felt like one over the last year due to losing the ability to sing on key, and have breath control. I was keeping my eyes open for an affordable, virtual class to improve my confidence again, and strengthen my voice. Heidi's class provided what I felt I needed and within 6 short weeks. Using the practices we learned, it became easier to extend my range and improve both my breathing and pitch as well. The class was fun and informative, an interesting and productive learning experience for me. I plan to sign up for the next session. - Charlene Mc.
When we go past our comfort zone and trust the process of life, that’s when it becomes spiritual growth. This is the real work we are doing. - Pixie H.
ABOUT HEIDI McCURDY
Hi, I’m Heidi! I am an award-winning singer & songwriter, recording artist, sound healer, voice coach, and certified Expressive Arts Therapist.
I love to sing, and share the healing magic and medicine of the Muse with other creative, soulful women like you. For 20+ years, I have been guiding others to free their authentic voice so they can sing with more joy, ease, confidence, creativity and authentic expression.
But singing hasn’t always been easy for me. Growing up, I was super inhibited about using my voice, for both speaking and singing. Singing in front of others was absolutely terrifying! I felt like I had so much music inside me, but every time I tried to share my voice, it disappeared into a squeak or a whisper. My musical heart was full of ideas that I desperately wished I could bring to life.
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It took me years of study, practice, research, and experimentation with various methods to free my own voice. What made the most difference for me was learning to improvise and express my soulsong, combined with embodied vocal practices that helped me to intimately know my instrument.
In this course, I share the key practices that gave me confidence as a blossoming singer and allowed me to share the music inside my heart, so that you can too!
Now, with the addition of vocal sound healing techniques, singing has become both a creative and spiritual practice for me. Singing offers us healing, joy, fun, expression, and restores us to wholeness. It helps us to quiet our busy minds, and connect with the Earth, each other, and our unique inner wisdom.
Through these years of experience creating, teaching and performing, I have gathered together my favourite and most powerful, joyful singing practices and sound healing methods into a comprehensive system I call the Wild Voice Way™, which serves as the guide for this course. I can’t wait to share this journey with you!
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I am infinitely grateful for having had the privilege of studying with many amazing teachers, both formally and informally. My work is highly influenced by Rhiannon’s Vocal River improvisation methods (“All the Way In” alumni), Laurel Murphy’s innovations in improvisation, sound healing and vocal looping, Bobby McFerrin’s Circle Singing, and Chloe Goodchild’s Naked Voice.
These influences are woven together with sound healing traditions with roots in India, holistic vocal pedagogy and technique, expressive arts practice, divine feminine wisdom, Celtic earth-based spiritual worldviews (of my ancestors), plus original music and the infinite inspiration of the Muse.
I aim to hold space that is inclusive and safe for all, and intends the highest good for all beings. I am committed to working towards de-colonizing myself as an educator. I recognize that because of my privileges as a white person, it is a lifelong journey of learning and unlearning, and I welcome questions and feedback.
Some examples of what this process looks like for me:Restoring my personal relationship with nature through place-based creative inquiry, deep listening, and artistic expression.
Attending workshops from teachers in the Global Majority (BIPOC) when possible to keep learning more and attend to unexplored areas. I highly recommend Emily Anne Brant’s trainings for white facilitators on Decolonizing Your Coaching Practice.
Ensuring that to the best of my knowledge, any cultural songs I share are collected from ethical sources, given freely with consent, and meant to be shared with others.
Learning about cultural music traditions and appropriate use from respected artist-eductors such as Ysaye Barnwell, Linda Tillery, Krishna Das, Neeraja Aptikar, and Christine Stevens.
Integrating place-based and Indigenous ways of knowing as an integral part of my creative practice through my Masters degree at SFU.
Actively reclaiming knowledge about my own ancestral healing traditions, which take many forms, such as Celtic land-based spiritual practices and Irish folklore, Norse mythology, German fairy tales, Goddess wisdom, and women’s ancient drumming traditions from the Mediterranean (a la Layne Redmond).
Supporting local and international artisans when possible, by purchasing traditional instruments that are hand made rather than mass-produced.
“Giving back” to charities that support women’s & girls’ rights and healing with music.
Art has the power to create ripples of positive change throughout the world, and I believe that when women sing together, we rise together.
voices wild Will Help You to:
Feel more freedom, ease, flow, and FUN! when you sing.
Increase your confidence around singing.
Strengthen your voice with a gentle, holistic, and embodied approach to vocal technique.
Open into new levels of play and activate your wild, creative spirit.
Melt away perfectionism, shame, fear, negative beliefs and conditioning around your voice and your right to sing.
Heal your relationship with your voice and reclaim your joy in singing.
Experience the pure, joyful bliss of expressive singing in a safe, sacred circle of women.
Deepen your sense of interconnectedness and belonging with the natural world, as a living, breathing, singing being in the Great Song of Life.
Become more grounded, embodied and inspired, both in your singing and in daily life.
Awaken inner wisdom and the divine intuitive guidance of the Muse.
Experience the blissful alignment of body, breath, sound, s0ul and spirit.
Discover new levels of self-acceptance and self-compassion.
Soothe anxiety and stress, and generate more wellbeing and inner peace.
Give gentle expression to complex emotions.
Connect with ancient earth-based and women’s wisdom through singing and song.
Learn a collection of beautiful, powerful, earth-based songs and chants to carry into your daily life, and to share with others if you feel called.
VOICES WILD INCLUDES:
6 weeks of online group classes, live and interactive with Heidi on Zoom.
Each week will be a different focus (earth, air, water, fire, aether, integration).
Be sure to also attend the Free Workshop: Sing the Wild Voice Way!
Video Recordings of each session so you can view (or review) any missed classes.
Wild Voice Way™ Guidebook (printable e-book) about how to free your voice by connecting with the 5 elements, including journal pages to deepen your practice.
Downloadable recordings of beautiful, singalong Vocal Empowerment Practices from the Wild Voice Way™.
Printable Lyrics for the collection of gorgeous songs and chants you will learn during the course, to inspire you to keep singing all week long.
An online library with links to over 30 beautiful songs and chants, rooted in nature and women’s wisdom.
WEEKLY MODULES
Sing the Wild Voice Way - FREE WORKSHOP APRIL 27
Come enjoy a creative, relaxing and empowering workshop to activate your authentic voice! Discover the 5 Elements of the Wild Voice Way™ and sing from your soul. Meet Heidi, and learn some inspiring songs and chants to support your journey.
week 1: EARTH - Body - grounding
Root deep down into the Earth, and learn how to release specific areas of vocal tension. Sing from your soul with the ancient heartbeat of the drum.
week 2: AIR - Breath - support
Connect with life force and inspiration, as you breathe through the Tree of Life to energize and support your voice. Sing from your soul with the enchanting drone of the shruti box.
week 3: WATER - Sound - resonance
Awaken your beautiful, natural river of resonance so your voice can flow with ease. Expand your range with the Wild Voice Way vowels practice. Sing from your soul with the shimmering vibrations of singing bowls.
week 4: FIRE - Soul - expression
Activate your sense of play, creativity and self-expression to tune into your authentic voice. Sing from your soul with the modern magic of vocal looping.
week 5: AETHER- Spirit - inspiration
Tune into the cosmic hum, and explore the magic and medicine of music. Discover the power of divine inspiration and healing intentions. Sing from your soul with the ethereal tones of the tonguepan.
week 6: INTEGRATION - Authentic Voice
Closing ceremony to integrate our experiences, review favourite practices and songs from the course, ask Q&A, and close the circle. Sing from your soul with co-creative Songweaving to crystallize your learning and personal growth.
register for voices wild
INVESTMENT:
$450 CAD (approx. $325 USD)
Optional: Add-on 3 x Private Lessons for $450 CAD (approx. $325 USD)
50% discount for returning students.
Limited number of partial bursaries available based on need. Payment plans can also be arranged. EMAIL ME to inquire.
(Compare 6 week group coaching price with 12 hours of private lessons @ $1800, or 15 hours @ $2250)
VOICES WILD - 6 Week
Expressive Singing Course
SCHEDULE:
Spring 2024
6 Saturdays, May 18 - June 22, 2024
11 am - 1 pm Pacific Time
Live and interactive, online via Zoom.
Sessions will be recorded so you can view any missed classes.
Open to all who identify as women/womxn/female (and non-binary folks comfortable in a sisterhood space), by birth or otherwise.