Christchurch
Singing Lessons | Artist development, Song Writing Workshops, NCEA Music Tutoring, Online Lessons
Bio
Why Intuitive Voice?
To provide you with practical and sound vocal techniques to access more clarity, power and range. To provide you with the tools to be able to heal past and/or present performance or life challenges.
I draw on my reserves of experience with different coaches and my life experience as a singer, musician and songwriter to guide you to your goals. I am committed to my own growth and development and can empathise with the challenges we can face when singing and/or expressing ourselves authentically.
Teaching Info
Areas of tuition include
Technical: breathing, breath support, posture, resonance, volume, clarity and strength of tone (to name a few).
Mental blocks: fright/freeze response, anxiety, fear, unplesant experiences with stage or prior tuition.
Emotional support: Inner relationship focusing techniques to connect the student to what they are feeling and the way to be with and process the feeling. When feelings are met with and listened to, space is created to connect to a sense of expansion i.e., the magical place we go when we sing that feels amazing, or positive, joyous memories from a past event (such as opening night of a show/your most happy memory) which brings those feelings into play as you work with your song(s).
*Different students may need different pieces from these key areas at different times.
What I hope you come to feel or notice:
Feelings of understanding and eventually peace around what may have held you back and a renewed faith in your abilities.
A sense of confidence in and useful control of your voice. I teach singers of many different backgrounds and each have their own aspirations, some want to sing just for enjoyment for themselves, some work on the stage as performers/artists.
If would like to know more, please contact me and ask any questions you may have.
I look forward to working with you :)
I came across a gem when I discovered Natalie. Her knowledge and mastery of the voice has been truly invaluable to me. I have learnt more from Natalie from the mere 6 weeks I have been with her than I have under any other tutelage. Natalie will work on your technical ability if that’s what needs to be done. However the thing that sets her apart from others is her ability to work with the whole performer: the confidence to perform, bringing your whole self to a performance, her acute understanding of the individual barriers and blocks and her ability to work on these through integration work in a safe and nurturing space. Natalie pushes you and champions you in equal measure. There is not anyone else out there doing what Natalie does to the standard that she does it. Cannot recommend her highly enough.
Marianne McLoughlin - Actor and Producer
Natalie is a teacher that goes above and beyond what most teachers are capable of. She excels with technical teaching, but what truly makes her stand out is her ability to understand the student’s patterns of thinking works. She helps them overcome even their most unconquerable mental barriers. As an aspiring musician with the greatest insecurity and lack of natural ability with his singing voice, and having gone through various other singing tutors in the past to little success, I was able to bring out the singing capabilities I had always wanted along with the confidence to perform live. All thanks to her ability to empathise and inspire even those who believe in themselves the least. I could not recommend Natalie enough to anyone who wants to overcome their mental blocks to achieve their ambitions - she will not only help you get far as a singer/musician - I was surprised to see other personal aspects of my life improve through her teaching.
Richard Han - Full stack web developer
Natalie is more than a singing coach - she is my music "therapist" who has helped tremendously in shifting underlying emotional blocks that have kept me from realising my singing potential and confidence. Natalie respectfully gets to the heart of who you are and who you could possibly be as a performer and creates a safe space to learn how to sing correctly while making (many) mistakes along the way. Natalie's holistic teaching approach has truly helped me embrace my love of music and song-writing - it's never too late! I'm well into my 40s and I was inspired by Natalie's success in transforming my son's NCEA performance results, to give it a go. I look forward to realising my childhood dream of being a spectacular singer and am so happy to be on this journey with Natalie.
