Ellen Weiss Music

Vocal Instruction

I offer a safe space and an approach which helps you liberate your innate capacity to sing with freedom, grace and power! This work can help you overcome vocal challenges with a gentle and playful, yet energizing way of releasing limitation and stress.

Singing for me is defined by the communication of music and emotional experience through the voice. My technique, which encompasses elements from many years of varied vocal work as well as various bodywork and healing modalities, (including energy work, yoga and Alexander Technique), allows actively and whole-heartedly for the permission and spontaneity of emotions that are moving through you during the lessons. This is so important because most of us have developed habits of body and mind which tend to restrict the free flow of our emotional expression and therefore our breathing, speaking and singing. I am dedicated to tailoring the lessons to each individual’s unique needs while also working with very grounded physical and anatomical principles that promote the most flowing, healthy and dynamic functioning of the human voice.

My goal with singing lessons is to guide you in clearing obstacles and opening the path to dynamic musical and personal expression, to spark the innate wisdom of the body, mind, spirit and imagination into liberated singing!

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TESTIMONIALS
I’m a seasoned performer, working professionally and semi/professionally both in the theater and as a singer/songwriter, since my teens. I have worked with top teachers on both coasts. All have brought me useful technique and awareness, expanded my range, addressed pitch issues, etc, but in my recent work with Ellen I have found a new dimension to my singing.

During our work together I discovered emotional and physical blocks that kept me from really letting my voice go and truly relaxing while singing. With her guidance, I found a whole new level of relaxation, enjoyment and resonance that I hadn’t experienced, and I found myself expanding in ways that continue to be very satisfying.

Jana Herzen — Recording Artist/President and Founder of Motema Music: www.motema.com
Ellen Weiss is a skilled and thoughtful voice teacher, with great intuition for what will inspire her students. My work with her has greatly increased my abilities, and confidence, as a singer. If you have a song in you, she will bring it out!
Laura Cantrell — Country Singer, and former host of “The Radio Thrift Shop” on WFMU
Ellen helped me unlearn a lot of bad habits from the past involving strain and “trying too hard.” She inspired me to have confidence in my natural voice and to sing from a truthful place. Her coaching for auditions and performance material has been invaluable to me.
Lenore Manzella — Actress/Singer | Feldenkrais practitioner | Dance/movement therapist