Voice Lessons:
Personalized and tailored to your level of development and experience, and to your wants and needs -- voice lessons and preventive care for reliability, power, range expansion, breathing security, pitch consistency, healthy singing posture, projection of your voice, working around and releasing allergies/asthma/reflux issues, resolving nasal tone, stamina, mic usage, stage presentation, singing while playing an instrument, preparation for auditions/competitions/recording/performances, creativity -> your passionate performance... Detailed Warm-Up, Cool-Down, and Vocal Healing routines will be developed with you. Lessons for all levels and types of singers, from absolute beginners through advanced performers...

Vocal Therapy Sessions:
Voice Therapy/Vocal Rehabilitation for helping you heal nodes/nodules, polyps, swellings, hoarseness, chronic laryngitis, bowed vocal cords, weakened vocal stamina, vocal strain or pain, and all vocal problems. Severe allergies, asthma, sinus congestion, esophageal reflux, body pain(s), and smoking symptomology issues and their effects on your voice and singing are addressed and ameliorated. While you are healing your voice, you will learn to develop healthy vocal technique and production, and then to strengthen your voice, and restore your vocal confidence and ease.

Vocal Performance Workshops:
We come together to explore and experience developing our performing ability, working on songs we've been studying and preparing in our lessons for auditions, competitions, recording, and/or performing. We work on building our newly-developed vocal production technique and healthy vocalizing into our singing and performing. We 'practice' singing for an audience, pulling ourselves out of our private lesson situations and our personal practice at home (and in our cars!) and our practice room work with our accompanists or bands, and step into the spotlight of singing in front of others. Here in our workshops, you'll be singing for and with peers - other Rak students who understand more of your issues than a regular audience and who are working on some of the same issues as you, yet are now experiencing you as a performer, and are learning to constructively critique and assist you in your learning..., and then, they step up and experience what you've just gone through -> this greatly accelerates our learning! We work on how to present ourselves as a performer, what our audience wants and needs from us as performers, song interpretation, projection and personality onstage, the “before” and “after” performance preparations and considerations, developing how to know when we are 'ready' to perform, voice care in the 'real' performing world, etc.

Vocal Technique and Voice Building Workshops:
Rak voice students come together to work in a group session on concentrated or focused areas of vocal production and technique development. The bonding and connecting with others who are working on similar issues and concerns helps accelerate each other's learning and depth of understanding. Getting to hear this development work in other voices besides your own and the teacher's helps you to relate it even more effectively to yourself. Hearing and watching how other students verbalize their learning can be very helpful to you. Hearing and watching others progress more easily in some areas than you do, and with more challenges in other areas than you do helps you to gain insights into your own modes of learning and explore your own potential for improving in various areas more efficiently.... I have found that students who attend these group sessions tend to improve in their own development about six times faster than those who do not share any sessions with other students....

Introductory Rak Vocal Care Workshops:
Introductory gatherings for singers to explore and experience some of the Rak Vocal Care concepts and teachings, and create some vocal improvements in themselves right away.

Vocal Toning Circles:
We gather to share in free toning, allowing our voices to go where they want, exploring the “healing powers of breath, tone, and music. ...tapping the powers that lie beneath the consciousness of the song. The song leads down to the chant, the chant leads down to the tone, the tone leads down to the breath, and the breath leads to the energy beneath the sound - the roar of silence. ...Our own toning sounds, not necessarily interesting, beautiful, or creatively organized for an audience, can vibrate, massage, and balance the body without any invasive methods. ...The energy underneath sound, the power that increases before a thought emerges and our ability to intuit information are the keys to an exploration into tone and vibration. How can we reach this unnamed potential ...” (Quoted material from THE ROAR OF SILENCE: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music, by Don G. Campbell) We get to experience the healing powers of the voice with each other, and share in the awesome bonding of voices beginning to explore creative release and unfettered vocalizing, for the joy and mystery of 'sounding ourselves', individually, yet within a group...

Band Consultations:
Sessions about better band interactions, the musicians understanding the singer and the singer understanding the musicians and their needs, improving practice sessions, exploring set pacing and interaction with your audience, exploring what your audience wants and needs from you, improving performances and confidence

Alternative Healing Sessions:
Self-Healing modalities and techniques are taught, shared, and experienced, helping singers and others tap into their own abilities to heal themselves, and believe in their own healing and balancing abilities... EFT ( http://www.emofree.com ), hypnotherapy and meditational experiencing, and developing of empowering affirmations, and other modalities are explored for vocal development improvement and acceleration, for vocal healing, for releasing smoking and other unwanted habits, for increasing motivation and follow-through, for releasing stress and tension reactions, for self-belief and self-esteem improvement, for self-healing, for pain release, for healthier living, for more efficient decision-making and action replacing procrastinating, for increased creativity, for increasing expressive singing and performing, etc.