01 The practice
Somatic Vocal Healing
Your voice is the instrument — not a performance to get right, but the honest sound of what's here. The healing is in the acknowledgment: being present with it until it can finish.
Read moreSound as the body's language
Some things can't be said. They can be sounded.
Nobody does this to you. You do it — with your own voice. This is Somatic Vocal Healing.
What it is
What does a feeling sound like?
Most of us were taught to handle feelings in the head — to name them, manage them, wait for them to pass. This one works in the body: you give the feeling a sound, in your own voice, and stay with it until it's been heard.
02 What makes it different
Sounding, not singing
There's no melody to reach for and nothing to perform. The crack, the waver, the rough edge — that's the information. The question isn't how it should sound, but what this feels like — and what the sound of that is.
Read more 03 Together
Sounding in a circle
Most of the deep work happens with others — in a room, on retreat, sounding in a circle while the group holds the space. Witnessed is different from watched.
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Your body has been talking the whole time. Sounding is how you finally answer.
Offerings
Four ways to begin.
A Vocal Healing Workshop
one live hour An hour, live, online
You don't watch — you sound. The simplest way to feel what this is, from the inside.
Read moreThe 12-Week Course
foundational Learn the practice properly
Twelve weeks, in your own time, with live Q&A. Until you can become your own space holder.
Read moreFor Professionals
masterclass How sound works in your work
Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, facilitators, leaders: what sound can do when words are not enough.
Read morePractitioner Training
live training Hold this work for others
Live training for people who want to hold space for others' sounding — to go deeper themselves, or to certify.
Read more Nobody here will ask you to scream. Soft counts — soft often counts double. Quiet people welcome.
From the sessions
Breath, voice, and the last of the light. The work, as it actually looks.
Who holds the space
You are the healer, and you are the healed.
Songdance is the work of Jacob Vermeulen — pianist, singer, and educator who spent nearly twenty years on the voice before this practice found its shape.
He doesn't call himself a healer. His work is to make a room safe enough that the true sound can come — and to trust what it does.
Retreats
A handful of times a year, in person.
In Belgium, and further away. Small rooms, real time, no rush.
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Next retreat
Songdeck
Thirty-six cards that sing.
An oracle deck with one difference: every card has its own song. Draw a card, scan the back with the free app, and the music plays — a song, a mantra, a soundscape. The one place in the work where the sound comes to you, like tea and a blanket.
Upcoming
What's happening next
Stay in touch
The occasional letter —
practices, and what's coming next.
No spam, no fixed schedule. Easy to leave.
Thank you. We'll be in touch when there's something worth sending.