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Somatic Vocal Healing
Twelve weeks to learn the practice — until you can hold it yourself.
Your voice has carried everything you’ve ever felt. This is where you learn to listen to it, and to let what’s been waiting finally be heard.
Why the voice
Every word said — and every one held back.
Your voice has been with you since your first cry — every joy, every word said, and every word held back. When a feeling has nowhere to go, it doesn’t disappear. It settles into the body as tension, ache, grief, or a low background hum you’ve long stopped noticing.
The voice is the most direct way back to all of it. Not to perform anything. To meet what’s there, give it sound, and let it be heard.
Over twelve weeks, you learn how.
What this actually is
Sounding, not singing.
Singing reaches for something — a melody, a “good” sound — and flinches when the voice cracks. Sounding does the opposite. There’s nothing to get right. The crack, the wobble, the rough edge: that’s the information.
The only question is: what does this feel like — and what is the sound of that?
Somatic Vocal Healing is the practice built around that question. Twelve weeks of learning to find the sound of a feeling, stay with it safely, work with your own nervous system, and keep doing it for the rest of your life — on your own, whenever you need it.
An honest note
This won’t be twelve weeks of feeling wonderful.
Here’s what no course page usually admits. Sometimes you’ll feel lighter. Sometimes you’ll meet something tender first. If all you want is a pleasant hour, there are gentler tools, and they’re good ones.
But if you’re willing to meet the parts that have been waiting — the old fear, the grief, the anger — what’s on the other side isn’t a quick boost. It’s a steadier kind of peace. More lasting. Yours in a deeper way.
What you get
What you’ll be able to do — and what’s included.
What you’ll be able to do
- Find and sound a stuck feeling, instead of managing it or waiting for it to pass.
- Work with your nervous system, not against it.
- Hear what your voice is telling you — fear, anger, grief, purpose, even older echoes.
- Hold a safe, grounded space for sounding: first for yourself, eventually for others.
- Keep practising on your own, for life.
What’s included
- 18+ hours of video across 12 modules, full of guided practices. Chaptered, so it’s easy to find your way.
- 12 weeks of weekly live Q&A with Jacob, one hour each, on a rotating schedule for every timezone — with replays.
- Lifetime access to the course materials. Return whenever you like.
- A supportive student community to practise and share with.
- On joining: five of Jacob’s original mantras for joy, and the pleasure of a voice doing something beautiful.
The curriculum
Twelve modules, one practice.
- 01
Understanding vocal sound
Singing, toning, chanting, sounding — and why this practice is its own thing.
- 02
Becoming comfortable
Meeting the collective unease around using the voice, and reclaiming its full, imperfect range.
- 03
Holding space
Building safe, grounded ground for sound work — for yourself and others.
- 04
Reading your sound
Hearing the feeling and the pattern inside the voice, and using it as a way in.
- 05
Neuroanatomy
The brain–body–voice connection, in plain terms.
- 06
Nervous system flow
Using sound to regulate, settle, and build resilience.
- 07
The five core wounds
Rejection, abandonment, betrayal, humiliation, injustice — met safely, through sound.
- 08
Sounding toward essence
A meditation that listens toward your own essential sound.
- 09
Sounds of the chakras
The energy centres, explored through tone.
- 10
Sounding with instruments
Voice with drum, shruti, or singing bowl.
- 11
Practising with others
First steps in sounding together.
- 12
Self-healing & integration
Carrying the practice forward on your own.
Who it’s for
For anyone ready to meet themselves at a deep level.
Including the earliest things — from before you had words, even from before birth — still living in the body and the voice.
And, equally, it’s for professionals — therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, facilitators, bodyworkers — who want to bring this into their work. There’s a path for that.
No experience needed. You don’t need a good voice. You need an honest one. Go entirely at your own pace, supported by the live Q&A whenever you want company.
From the circle
Not a concept — a practice people actually do, together.
How we think about healing
We don’t believe healing has to be painful or exhausting. The fear of being overwhelmed is usually what keeps us away from the deeper feelings in the first place — most people have simply never had a safe, reliable way in.
So we honour the wisdom the body already carries, and we go gently. Healing is yours alone to do; no method and no person can do it for you. What we can do is make it safe enough that what once felt unbearable can finally be heard — and finished.
Verified reviews
In their words.
“A rare combination of intuition, embodied knowledge, and gentle guidance. It deepened my personal growth and my professional work.”
“Clear, structured, and deeply practical. He blends intellect with real emotional experience.”
“It gets straight to the essence, surfacing deep layers of emotion quietly and intuitively.”
“Brings awareness to hidden parts of yourself, in an environment where authentic expression is genuinely welcome.”
“Gentle yet powerful pathways to transformation.”
“As a musician I feel far more deeply connected to my own voice. But beware — after this, conversations are never the same. You start tuning your ears to the emotion inside the tone.”
Who holds the space
Jacob Vermeulen
Pianist · Singer · Educator
Jacob is a pianist, singer, and educator who spent nearly twenty years on the voice before Somatic Vocal Healing took its shape.
He’s guided thousands of people through this work, online and in person across Europe and South Africa. He doesn’t think of himself as a healer — he holds the space, and people heal themselves.
The practice began at home: his late wife, Upala, losing her speech, began to sound — and taught him what a voice can still do when words are gone.
Co-facilitator
Karen Evans
Karen walks alongside Jacob on the course — hosting Q&As on the weeks he isn’t on the call, and holding the space with care. A long-time practitioner herself, she knows this work from the inside, and what it asks of you as you learn to hold it for others.
A former chiropractor, 500-hour trained yoga teacher, Reiki master, and trained master coach.
After the twelve weeks
Go deeper — or learn to hold this work for others.
For some, twelve weeks is the whole of it. For others, it’s the doorway. The Certification Course is the live, deepening path that takes you further into Somatic Vocal Healing than anything else we offer.
More than a training. A path.
It has a dual purpose. First, it’s about you — travelling further through the layers of a sound, meeting the line behind you, giving back what was never yours to carry. Second, it’s about your capacity to guide, facilitate, and hold space for others. Everything you learn to do for someone else applies just as well to yourself.
You don’t have to want to work professionally with this to belong here. Many come simply to go further into their own practice. The certificate is real — and so is the path of becoming a practitioner — but the heart of it is the journey itself.
What the path holds
Weekly live Q&A
Through the end of 2026, with Jacob — and occasionally hosted by Karen Evans.
Monthly deepening sessions
A live community session each month, exploring the work at its widest edges with fellow practitioners.
Hosted practice sessions
Pairing up to give and receive — the quiet heart of the course, where holding space for another actually grows.
The Somatic Vocal Healing app
Record and tag your own sounds, train your ear, and keep the practice alive between the live sessions.
A growing global circle
Practitioners across every time zone — plus lifetime access to the full replay library, yours to return to.
The certificate is a doorway. Three steps to walk through.
- 01 Attend the live classes — or watch the replays. The whole arc matters.
- 02 Take part in the practice sessions. You certify by sounding, not by reading.
- 03 Record one real session and send it to Jacob, who gives you his feedback.
“I’m a self-taught, self-certified man. Who am I to say you need a certificate?” The certificate isn’t permission. It’s a record that you walked the path — and a door, for those who want one.
Questions
Good questions.
What are the class times and dates?
It’s a self-paced video course — watch whenever you like. The live Q&As run on a rotating schedule to cover every timezone, and every one is posted as a replay.
How long are the classes?
Most videos are around two hours and are chaptered for easy navigation; some are shorter. Q&As run one hour.
Are there replays?
Yes — Q&A replays for the full twelve weeks. The video classes are lifetime access.
Can I pay in installments?
Yes, in three monthly payments.
How long do I have access?
Lifetime access to the course materials, plus twelve weeks of live Q&A and replays from your start.
Do I need to be able to sing?
No. Sounding is not singing — one tone, the tone of what’s there. You don’t need a good voice. You need an honest one.
What about the neighbours?
Everyone asks. Until the day you stop caring: a cushion, the bathroom, the car. Half this practice happens in parked cars.
Is this therapy?
No, and it doesn’t replace it. It will always remain valuable to have regular sessions with someone who knows you. This is a practice you carry alongside.
Still have questions? Write to info@songdance.co — we reply personally.
Begin
Begin with your own voice.
Your own time — with live company whenever you want it.
Your 12-Week Somatic Vocal Healing Course includes
- 18+ hours of video across 12 modules, full of guided practices
- 12 weeks of weekly live Q&A with Jacob, plus replays
- Lifetime access to the materials
- A supportive student community
- Five of Jacob’s original mantras on joining
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