80% of professional singers get injured. At some point we have to acknowledge where those injuries start to occur.

Our own vocal journeys were full of mystery, myths and technical inaccuracies. and because of this how could we be autonomous in our vocal health and well-being?

It’s about answering the call to empowerment; to be empowered educators, to be empowered students. This comes about through evidence informed, BPS, person-focused practice.

We are enabling and facilitating and creating the opportunity for people to help and to heal, within an ethical framework and from practical knowledge base, delivered be a fully accredited training provider.

They also sought to empower and educate the next generation of singers and performers across the UK by providing subsidised, specialist vocal health education to drama schools, music colleges and theatre companies – which is no mean feat for two people to achieve. They needed help to achieve this massive goal, so they amassed an initial team of specialists from across the UK to help educate those in need. They realised that there needed to be more accountability for the work undertaken with singers and their health, and no accreditation in the UK seemed to be facilitating and safeguarding this. Thus, the VOCAL REHABILITATION SPECIALIST pathway, in three levels (see above), was established.