When you communicate, you use your whole body. Habits that develop over time, such as typing on a laptop or texting, can affect your posture and how you move in the world. In Module 1, I’ll help you become aware of your body alignment so you can communicate with confidence and power.

You’ll also learn step-by-step instructions for how to use digital tools for gender-affirming voice coaching to guide you in your path.

In this module, you’ll learn how to assess the starting point and progress of your voice.

This allows us to ensure that progress remains kind to the body (understand which goals align with your physiological limits), and gives us consistent milestones to look at through our journey.

Your voice is an instrument. With care and proper technique, a guitar can be tuned and played to produce the most delicate of sounds to the most thunderous ones without snapping the strings or hurting our fingers.

Module 2 will provide you with some tips for preventing vocal fatigue and hoarseness in order to protect your vocal cords and keep progress steady.

May the fun voice exercises begin! This module is all about establishing a target pitch and beginning to raise the broad speaking range in a safe way that protects and prepares your vocal tract for the journey ahead.

You’ll also learn how to modify the shape of your vocal folds to create buzzier or lighter sounds depending on your unique voice goals.

The vocal tract is richly equipped with a complex web of nerves connected to both our Central and Autonomic Nervous Systems.

If you’ve ever felt a knot in your throat from anger or sadness; had a shaky voice during a presentation; or been asked if everything’s OK right after picking up the phone on a busy day, then you’ve seen the effect that the nervous system can have on your voice.

In this module, you’ll learn some gentle practices that you can incorporate in your day-to-day to help you relax your nervous system and reduce tension throughout your entire body.

This module brings a more dedicated focus to the breath, the fuel of the voice.

You’ll learn breathing techniques for efficient voice production — allowing you to use your affirmed voice for longer — as well as breathing exercises for reducing tension in the body, building mental and physical resilience, and projecting confidence.

Resonance is what gives the voice its distinct sound quality, and it’s a hugely important tool for adding “color” to our voice (think how two people with the same pitch and even accents can sound quite differenty).

Module 7 is all about continuing to dial into the voice that most authentically reflects you. Here you’ll learn how to modulate the richness and brightness of the voice by teaching you how to independently resize and reshape the different areas of your vocal tract.

Intonation is the variation of pitch in a spoken language. It conveys our emotions, helps us differentiate between questions and statements, and can emphasise the importance of a message.

In this module, you will learn to develop awareness of and define the upper and lower limits of your pitch range, differentiate between legato and staccato-like speech patterns, and how to be expressive while staying in your new target pitch range.

Voice is so much more than the words we say. In this module, I’ll teach you strategies for coughing and sneezing in a way that feels affirming for your voice goals.

Now you’re ready to take final assessment measures of your voice in sentences, in a reading passage, and in conversation. You’ll be able to compare your measurements from the beginning of the course so you can see how much progress you have made!