Deepen your practice in somatic voice & expression
Love & Inspiration resource library
My own classes, practices and playlists, alongside the books and talks that shaped how I work with the voice. All in one place, for you.
Take what calls you, and leave the rest. These are the things I return to again and again, gathered so you can keep coming back to your voice, your body and your joy. I’ll keep adding to it, so bookmark it.
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Practice with me
Yoga, meditation and sound practices to come back to whenever you need them.
Yoga
Bhakti Flow Yoga: Invoking Tara
Yoga class · 60 min
A bhakti vinyasa flow weaving mantra, movement and devotion, with Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha. Practice on YouTube.
Bhakti Flow Yoga: Embodying the Goddess Durga
Yoga class · 65 min
A bhakti flow to embody the strength and courage of the goddess Durga. Practice on YouTube.
Full Moon Flow
Vinyasa class · 64 min
A flowing practice for the full moon, to let in the light. Practice on YouTube.
Sun Salutations x3
Daily home practice · 10 min
Three rounds, ten minutes. A simple way to get some flow into your day. Practice on YouTube.
Introducing Sun Salutations
Finding Flow series, 1 of 5 · 6 min
The alignment and sequence of the basic sun salutation, a foundation you can build your own home practice on. Practice on YouTube.
I Am Supported
Finding Flow series, 2 of 5 · 10 min
A grounding flow that begins with a short meditation to honour everything that supports you. Practice on YouTube.
Flow for Transformation
Finding Flow series, 3 of 5 · 9 min
A short, dynamic flow to build heat and transform whatever no longer serves you. Practice on YouTube.
Spiral into the Flow
Finding Flow series, 4 of 5 · 10 min
A dancing warrior flow to move through stuck energy and find more flow in body, mind and heart. Practice on YouTube.
Hip Opening Seated Flow
Finding Flow series, 5 of 5 · 9 min
A yummy seated flow for the hips, where so many of us hold our tension. Practice on YouTube.
ABC’s of Yoga
Short talk · 3 min
Alignment, breath and conscious awareness: a bite-size look at the deeper dimensions of yoga. Watch on YouTube.
Meditation
Permission to Sing & Awaken Your Voice
Guided meditation · Insight Timer
A guided practice to give yourself permission to make sound, just as you are. Listen on Insight Timer.
I AM Affirmations for Self-Belief, Self-Trust & Change
Guided meditation · Insight Timer
Affirmations to strengthen your self-belief, self-trust and self-love. Listen on Insight Timer.
Integrating Bliss
Guided meditation · Insight Timer
For after a retreat, a ceremony or any big experience, to bring what opened in you back into daily life. Listen on Insight Timer.
Simple Daily Meditation Practice
Guided meditation · 8 min
A short, simple practice to centre, energise, focus the mind and open the heart. Practice on YouTube.
Sound
Vocal Flow Warm Up Practice
Voice practice · 22 min
My warm up to wake up the breath, the body and the voice before you sing. Practice on YouTube.
Balancing the Throat Chakra
Voice practice · 10 min
A practice for Vishuddha, the throat chakra, the centre of expression. Practice on YouTube.
Create Your Own Vocal Care Resonance Ritual
Voice practice · 9 min
For before you sing or teach, or any morning your voice feels tight. Calm the nervous system, warm the voice, then let it open. Practice on YouTube.
Ganesha Mantra Practice to Clear the Way
Call and response · 9 min
Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha, sung together to clear what stands between you and your voice. Practice on YouTube.
What Does It Mean to Find and Awaken Your Voice?
Short talk · 5 min
Finding your voice is a joy practice and a practice of aligning with your truth, and giving yourself permission to express it. Watch on YouTube.
How to Make Your Voice Sound More Beautiful
Short teaching · 8 min
Key tips for connecting to the beauty of your own voice. Watch on YouTube.
Thought Alchemy to Live Fully Expressed
Short teaching · 6 min
How to shift the stories that hold you back by alchemising a few key words you use with yourself and others. Watch on YouTube.
Vocal Activation vs Vocal Training
Short teaching · 4 min
What each one is, and how they work together. Watch on YouTube.
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Music
Playlists for your practice. Something to put on while you move, sing, or rest.
Playlists for practice
Awaken Vocal Flow
Spotify playlist
Heart medicine songs to sing along to. Pick a song a day and sing. Listen on Spotify.
Pure Space: Free Your Voice
Spotify playlist
Spacious backing tracks to play, improvise and let your voice soar. Listen on Spotify.
Meditation & Savasana Soundscape
SoundCloud
Music for meditation, savasana and quiet evenings. Listen on SoundCloud.
WonderFlow
Spotify playlist
Made for my yoga classes at Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand. Listen on Spotify.
Yoga Lock-Down Love-Up
Spotify playlist
Uplifting flow music, with lots of beautiful cover versions. Listen on Spotify.
Red Moon Rising
Spotify playlist
An uplifting rising flow mix I made around my birthday. Listen on Spotify.
Dreaming In
Spotify playlist
Fresh music to help you let one year settle and dream in the next. Listen on Spotify.
Heartsongs & Mantras
SoundCloud
The heart songs and medicine mantras I sing and share. Listen on SoundCloud.
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Books
The books I return to again and again. Start anywhere.
The body and healing
When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté
What happens when we say yes with our mouths and no with our bodies for long enough.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
How overwhelming experiences live on in the body, and the many paths back to feeling safe in it. Dense in places, so take it slowly.
Waking the Tiger
Peter Levine
Where fight, flight and freeze come from, and why the body completes what the mind cannot.
Anchored
Deb Dana
Polyvagal theory made practical, and why your voice is a live readout of how safe you feel.
Voice and sound
Free Your Voice
Silvia Nakkach
More than a hundred exercises for awakening your life through singing.
Sacred Sound
Alanna Kaivalya
The myths and meaning behind twenty-one mantras and kirtans, so you know what you are singing.
The Healing Power of the Human Voice
James D’Angelo
Mantras, chants and seed sounds for health and harmony.
Creativity, joy and play
The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron
Morning pages, artist dates, and a gentle path back to your creativity.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
Short chapters, one a day, on listening and getting yourself out of the way so the thing can arrive.
Play
Stuart Brown
The science of why play matters for our brains, our relationships and our joy.
Joyful
Ingrid Fetell Lee
How the ordinary things around us can create extraordinary joy.
Belonging and self-compassion
Belonging
Toko-pa Turner
For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, on remembering ourselves home.
Fierce Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff
How kindness can also be fierce: speaking up, setting boundaries and claiming your power.
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Podcasts & talks
Conversations and talks worth your walk.
Podcasts
Awakening Joy and Authentic Expression
SELF with Amanda · Episode 61 · 59 min
A conversation about awakening joy and authentic expression. Watch on YouTube.
Rediscovering Harmony
Nessi Gomes and me · BaliSpirit Festival Conversations · 29 min
I sat down with Nessi at BaliSpirit Festival to talk about songwriting, the connection between a singer and the people listening, and healing through the voice. Watch on YouTube.
Walking a Path Less Travelled
Stories of Healing and Wanderlust · Episode 4 · 44 min
On adventures on a magical island and living life in flow. Listen on Spotify.
How to Be Authentic
Dr Gabor Maté · Harvest Series podcast · 31 min
Why being true to yourself is so hard for most of us, and what we give up to stay connected. Listen on Spotify.
Befriending Your Nervous System
Deb Dana · Sounds True, Insights at the Edge · 66 min
How our nervous system moves between states, and how we can get to know it and find our way back to safety. Listen on Sounds True.
Ayahuasca, Yoga Nidra and the Changing Yoga World
My interview with Simone Mackay · 58 min
On dharma, purpose, and how living it ripples out to everyone around us. Watch on YouTube.
Emergence: How to Meet This Moment
My interview with Simone Mackay · 49 min
On trauma, mental health, and the importance of connection and presence in challenging times. Watch on YouTube.
Your Tears Are Prayers
My interview with Cathy Pearson · 44 min
From depression in her teens in Ireland to a life-long meditation practice. Watch on YouTube.
Devotion Is My Teacher
My interview with Daniela Garza Rois · 45 min
Mandala vinyasa, the Vedas, and devotion as a way of living. Watch on YouTube.
Talks
How Can I Keep This Feeling Alive?
Short talk · 7 min
On integration, and carrying the glow of a big experience into the rest of your life. Watch on YouTube.
Why You Don’t Like the Sound of Your Own Voice
Rébecca Kleinberger · TED Talk · 13 min
Why your voice sounds strange to you on a recording, the difference between your outward, inward and inner voices, and everything we say without realising it. Watch on TED.
How Our Voices Reveal Anxiety
Jackie Gartner-Schmidt · TED Talk · 10 min
A speech pathologist on what happens in the body when the throat tightens and the voice shakes under stress, with simple ways to ease it. Watch on TED.
How Singing Together Changes the Brain
Tania de Jong · TEDxMelbourne · 19 min
A soprano and choir founder on what happens when people sing together, from hearts falling into rhythm to a deeper sense of belonging. Watch on YouTube.
The Power of Vulnerability
Brené Brown · TED Talk · 20 min
What her research on connection and belonging revealed, and why vulnerability sits right at the heart of both. Watch on TED.
The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage
Susan David · TED Talk · 17 min
A psychologist on letting ourselves feel what we feel, and the emotional agility that grows from it. Watch on TED.
The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff · TEDx Talk · 19 min
The limits of chasing self-esteem, and how self-compassion gives us steadier ground. Watch on YouTube.
Name It to Tame It
Dan Siegel · Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education · 4 min
A short, clear explanation of why putting a feeling into words helps calm it. Watch on YouTube.
Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps
Julian Treasure · TED Talk · 7 min
How the noise around us wears on our wellbeing, and eight simple steps to restore a healthy relationship with sound. Watch on TED.
How to Truly Listen
Evelyn Glennie · TED Talk · 32 min
A deaf percussionist on listening with the whole body. Watch on TED.
Watch Me Play… the Audience!
Bobby McFerrin · World Science Festival · 3 min
Bobby McFerrin gets a whole room singing the pentatonic scale without teaching it. Three joyful minutes. Watch on TED.
Hanging in the Heart Space
Krishna Das · Online satsang
Chanting and conversation with one of the great voices of kirtan. Watch on YouTube.
XOXO
Francie
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