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An introduction to Somatic Vocal Healing
The method where sound becomes the language of the body — a closer connection to your body, your own sound, and whatever wants to show up underneath.
Somatic Vocal Healing Workshop
Your voice knows more than you think.
A one-hour live workshop in Somatic Vocal Healing — for everything in you that never found a way out.
Register for the workshop See the next date & detailsWhat's moving in you
You can feel that something in you is asking to be heard —
and, at the same time, kept carefully quiet.
Maybe it's an old feeling you've carried a long time. Maybe it's something true you've never said out loud. Maybe it's just the quiet sense that a part of you is waiting — and doesn't know how to begin.
Most of us learned early to be quiet. To stay safe. To belong. To not take up too much space. Over time that becomes a body that's holding a lot. Tension. A tight throat. The feeling that some part of you never quite arrives.
You're not wrong. Nothing in you is broken. It just hasn't been heard for a long time.
Your voice was never the problem.
It's the way forward.
What to expect
One hour —
and a different way in to yourself.
Somatic Vocal Healing is a somatic practice: you use your own voice to feel what's here and give it expression. Singing is its own beautiful art — this is something quieter and more inward. Your voice becomes a way to meet what's alive in you, and the crackle, the wobble, the little break in the throat all belong, because they carry information.
In this hour I'll introduce you to the method, gently. You'll sound. You'll feel. You'll notice that your body has been waiting a long time for a language that doesn't come from the head.
You don't need a good voice. You need an honest one.
What you'll experience
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A somatic warm-up with live piano
So your nervous system can arrive before anything else happens — settling, breath widening, listening getting finer.
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Guided sounding
A somatic practice for giving what's here a sound — not describing it, sounding it. The healing is in the acknowledgment. And a little more trust in speaking your own truth, at home and at work.
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A first tool for everyday life
Something to keep coming back to — when something in you is stuck, when your head is too loud, when the day has made you shut down. You can keep practising it on your own after.
One hour only opens the door. But it's enough to feel that this is real — and to leave with a practice you can keep for the rest of your life.
One hour. 9€. That's deliberate — the door should be easy to open.
The voice never lies. Words can lie — the voice never lies.
— Jacob Vermeulen
Voices from the practice
What people say about Somatic Vocal Healing.
From Jacob's international community of students and practitioners.
Somatic Vocal Healing is a simple yet natural way to connect with the life within us. I'm grateful for this practice — it's balanced, practical, and so easy to take in.
I'm trained in Nonviolent Communication and the science of voice, and this work enriches my toolkit, letting me support people more deeply and precisely. The voice becomes a bridge to yourself — a direct way to what's alive in the present moment, and sometimes to ancestral patterns. It makes room for clarity, peace, and reconnection to our deeper needs.
In forty years across holistic healing — as a chiropractor, Reiki master, yoga teacher, and coach — I've never met a method that works as quickly, deeply, gently, and effectively as Somatic Vocal Healing.
As a musician I feel far more deeply connected to my own voice, with a new understanding of how to express the truth of who I am. But beware — after this, conversations are never the same. You start tuning your ears to the emotion inside the tone.
It's both a simple and a deeply spiritual practice. By learning to listen to your own sound, you bring the unconscious into the light of the present moment. A safe path to transformation — powerful, and incredibly gentle.
This is a deep immersion into the weave of heart and nervous system. The most beautiful part: there's no need to search for the right words — it's enough to open my mouth. And in the community that forms through the live meetings, I found a deep sense of safety.
Who holds the workshop
Jacob Vermeulen — your companion through the sound.
I help people find their way back to themselves — through their own voice.
I'm a pianist and singer, and the creator of Somatic Vocal Healing. Fifteen-plus years and a few thousand students later, it's become a way of working that's somatic, trauma-informed, and — I hope — honest. In this hour I'll hold a steady, careful space where your own sound can do the work. You don't have to perform. You just have to be there and make a sound.
Before you ask
The questions people actually ask
- Do I need a good voice?
- No. You don’t need a good voice — you need an honest one. You cannot do it wrong; it will always express something.
- Will I have to scream?
- No. We don’t go to screaming. One tone, the tone of what’s there — that’s the whole instruction.
- What about the people I live with?
- The most common question in this work. Soft counts — soft often counts double. A hum is a complete practice. Start in the bathroom; everyone does.
- Is this a sound bath?
- No. In a sound bath someone makes sound for you. Here you are the one sounding — nobody does it to you, because nobody can.
- Is it safe if I’m holding a lot of pain?
- The safety is built into the instrument: the voice will never force you. It only brings up what you can stay present with, and volume is yours to set. And this doesn’t replace therapy — it never will.
“Don’t expect miracles — expect a real relationship with your own voice.”
— Jacob
You can't hold this for someone else until you've let it work on you first.
For practitioners
Masterclass — Somatic Vocal Healing in your practice.
Every so often I run a 90-minute masterclass for practitioners — and people training toward it. It's a more structured, deeper look at how to bring somatic voice work into one-to-one and group settings: how to hold the space, how to read what a sound is telling you, and how to let someone find their own way in without steering it for them.
90 minutes · Live · €29
Come to the next workshop
What in you is waiting
to be heard?
Come. One hour. Live.
You don't need any skill, any preparation, anything to prove.
You just open your mouth
and see what happens.
Live on Zoom · No experience needed · Replay included
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