This a 4 week hybrid course with recorded live sessions.

Please check back for the 2026 cohort. 

Our voice is a profound resource that shapes how others receive and engage with us.

Whether in leadership, parenting, performing, counselling, therapy or coaching, our voice can either invite closeness or create distance. Its tone, rhythm, pace, and pitch signal safety or risk, connection or disconnection, confidence or doubt. 

While these dynamics often occur unconsciously, this course empowers you to intentionally develop strategies to align your vocal and physiological presence with your core values, aspirations, and intentions.

Rooted in the principles of Polyvagal Theory, we explore how our voice can be a powerful tool for creating meaningful connections, impactful communication, and building trust—the cornerstone of all relationships.

Designed for daily practice and real-time application, you'll develop practical tools to enhance self-regulation, cultivate meaningful connections, and foster resilience in your personal and professional life.

This course is created specifically for The Polyvagal Institute. 

Voice : All Access Pass - Connecting with the deepest parts of ourselves.

Awareness and acceptance are the first steps in helping us diffuse the habits that may be preventing us from realizing our full vocal potential. Sometimes, we discover, the reasons lay in our greater physiology and even the environment in which we live, work, play and breathe. 

In our small group, we will discover how to speak truly and fully from our thoughts and feelings and create a daily practise that builds connection and supports health and well being. Together we will explore exercises in breath, support, range, resonance and more. The neural mechanisms we engage to sound and speak are the same neural mechanisms that promote health, growth and restoration. Taking a voice class will enable you to step into your full self while cultivating resilience in the nervous system.

“Our voice reflects whether we feel safe or unsafe, relaxed or unsettled, playful or aggressive, alive or numb. Our voice is also a bridge that either connects or disconnects us to ourselves, others and the world." Michael Allison, developer of The Play Zone - a unique application of The Polyvagal Theory aimed at regaining control of our physiology to optimize the human experience.

We will meet once a week as a group over Zoom for 90 minutes to share our voices and stories and experience the work. I then invite you to work one on one with me in carefully designed sessions outside of these times to address your more specific vocal needs. These times will be made with your schedule in mind.

You will come away with life time access to all recorded videos of the exercises as well as other supplementary materials and links to articles of interest. Added bonus - you meet like minded people who share this journey with you from all over the world!

I do hope you will join me and I look forward to supporting your most vital natural resource.

ABOUT THE CLASS:

This is a small group class (maximum of 10). 

4 x 90min live online classes (recorded)

2 x 30min individual sessions

COST: $450CND + tax

In only 4 weeks of working with Mattie, I clearly saw how my voice was keeping me small. Despite saying “all the right things”, my voice portrayed insecurity and doubt. Mattie created a safe space by keeping the sessions interactive, playful, and educational. I looked forward to our meetings where Mattie taught me tools to align my voice with my intentions. Now I am not only more confident when I speak, I am confident in who I am!

Mattie brings so much heart and play to her voice course. I came away with so many great practices to support my embodied connection to my voice. This course has helped me bring a more authentic and centred voice to my work and personal life.