Voice Yoga for Grief 2026
Tend to grief through voice, song and ritual, when words are not enough
An intimate online journey for people living with loss, change and transition.
Through Yoga of the Voice, song, embodied practice, ritual and shared reflection, we will explore ways of meeting grief that honour the uniqueness of your own experience while remembering that grief is something deeply human and something we do not have to carry alone.
You do not need to be able to sing. You do not have to perform, explain your grief or share anything you do not wish to share.
Grief is not always something we can think or talk our way through.
You may know you are carrying something immense yet not know how to come close to it. You may feel overwhelmed by your grief, cut off from it, or move between the two. Perhaps you have talked about what happened and still sense that there are places words cannot quite reach. Perhaps meditation feels too still or too abstract and you are longing for something more embodied. Perhaps music or singing was once a source of connection, but grief has put a wall between you and your voice. Or perhaps you simply know that something in your life has ended or changed, and you need a way of acknowledging what has happened that involves more than thinking about it. Grief can also be profoundly isolating. Even when we are surrounded by people who love us, there can be parts of the experience that feel impossible to communicate.
Sometimes what we need is not another explanation.
We need a way in.
A breath, a hum, the movement of pen on paper, a lullaby, a roll of the spine, a melody, an offering... a new practice.
And perhaps another person willing to sit alongside us without needing us to make what we feel neater, easier or more comfortable.
Two weeks later I still feel so profoundly different, something inside has really melted and it’s amazing, really amazing. What a gift.
Hannah Walsh, Senior Director
Working with Liv in this way, I received far more than I imagined - her well of experience walking with grief shines through in her skillful and caring container and the way she prioritizes space for body and voice to let grief breathe and move; and her presence and deep honoring of our capacities draws a beautiful community of witnesses together.
Jo Wilber, Yoga Teacher & Therapist
A place to allow grief to move, to give it breath, body and voice
Voice Yoga for Grief explores the voice as a resource for tending to grief, expression, connection and contemplative practice. We will work with mantra, raga, improvisation, song, embodied practices and ritual. We will make sound without needing to know exactly what it means.
The voice can offer respite from the continual activity of the mind. It can allow us to come closer to sorrow, anger, longing, confusion, tenderness, the deep ache of love, and let them have sound. And in the midst of loss, it can remind us that there is still breath moving through the body; there is still vibration, connection and life.
This is not about getting over grief or completing it. Grief changes as we change and what we have loved continues to live in us in different ways. The invitation is to begin discovering your own ways of being with what is here.
This may be for you if...
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You know you are carrying grief, but part of you feels frightened to come close to it.
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You have lost someone you love and want a way of honouring both the grief and the relationship you continue to carry.
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You are at a threshold in your life, leaving behind a relationship, identity, home, stage of life or future you once imagined.
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You are grieving something you thought you would have, and trying to find your way towards a life that looks different from the one you expected.
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You have tried meditation, talking or other forms of support but are longing for something more embodied, creative or experiential.
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Grief has made it difficult to connect with yourself, with people you love, with creativity or with your spiritual practice.
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You used to sing or express yourself freely but feel that something has closed.
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You feel the presence of loss, longing or change but cannot necessarily name exactly what you are grieving.
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You are simply curious to explore grief more consciously.
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You want to spend time with other people who understand something of this landscape from the inside.
This course is for many forms of grief, not only bereavement.
Loss may come through death, separation, changes in health or identity, fertility or parenthood, ageing, displacement, ecological or collective grief, a future that did not happen, a life that changed course or something much harder to name.
What might become possible?
I don't want to promise that eight weeks will make your grief disappear. That is not how I understand grief, and it is not the purpose of this work. What these practices can offer is another way of relating to it.
You may begin to find more choice in how you meet difficult moments rather than feeling entirely overtaken by them. You may discover that your voice can give form to what you cannot explain. You may reconnect with singing, creativity or spiritual practice at a time when life has felt empty of them. You may find ways to stay close to difficult feelings without immediately needing to analyse them, solve them or make them go away. You may discover a creative resource at a time that has felt defined by absence. You may experience a greater sense of agency in your relationship with grief: not control over what has happened, but more choice in how you meet what is here. And you may experience the particular relief of being in a community where grief does not have to be hidden, hurried or made more comfortable for somebody else.
What we will explore together
In our time together, you will receive:
Eight two-hour live online sessions
Enough time for the work to unfold gradually, rather than asking you to confront everything at once.
Recordings available for 12 months
You can revisit the sessions and practices in your own time for a full year after the course ends. If you reach the end of that year and feel you still need access, just contact me. I am happy to extend it where needed.
Embodied voice and breath practices
Ways of reconnecting with sensation, breath, sound and the body when the mind feels crowded or overwhelmed.
Guided vocal improvisation and sounding
Exploring your voice without needing to find the “right” note or make something beautiful. Sometimes, in giving pain sound and form, something unexpected can emerge: beauty, expression, even art.
Mantra, raga and medicine songs
Offering musical forms you can return to when finding your own words or sounds feels difficult.
Ways of sounding emotion
Exploring how sorrow, anger, longing, confusion, tenderness and love might be voiced rather than only carried inwardly.
Ritual and ceremony
Including support to create your own personal grief ritual: a way of giving form, attention and meaning to a loss or transition that matters to you. This can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish.
Reflection and resources
Including readings, poems, mantras, visualisations, meditations and other material we explore together, including work with Francis Weller’s Gates of Grief.
A consistent small group of no more than twelve people
Allowing trust and familiarity to grow across the eight weeks rather than continually beginning again with strangers.
Practices to carry forward
So that what we explore becomes a personal resource you can return to as your relationship with grief continues to change.
What we will explore together
In our time together, you will receive:
Eight two-hour live online sessions
Enough time for the work to unfold gradually, rather than asking you to confront everything at once.
Recordings available for 12 months
You can revisit the sessions and practices in your own time for a full year after the course ends. If you reach the end of that year and feel you still need access, just contact me. I am happy to extend it where needed.
Embodied voice and breath practices
Ways of reconnecting with sensation, breath, sound and the body when the mind feels crowded or overwhelmed.
Guided vocal improvisation and sounding
Exploring your voice without needing to find the “right” note or make something beautiful. Sometimes, in giving pain sound and form, something unexpected can emerge: beauty, expression, even art.
Mantra, raga and medicine songs
Offering musical forms you can return to when finding your own words or sounds feels difficult.
Ways of sounding emotion
Exploring how sorrow, anger, longing, confusion, tenderness and love might be voiced rather than only carried inwardly.
Ritual and ceremony
Including support to create your own personal grief ritual: a way of giving form, attention and meaning to a loss or transition that matters to you. This can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish.
Reflection and resources
Including readings, poems, mantras, visualisations, meditations and other material we explore together, including work with Francis Weller’s Gates of Grief.
A consistent small group of no more than twelve people
Allowing trust and familiarity to grow across the eight weeks rather than continually beginning again with strangers.
Practices to carry forward
So that what we explore becomes a personal resource you can return to as your relationship with grief continues to change.
You do not need to be able to sing.
Voice Yoga is not a singing technique course, and you will not be asked to perform.
There are no auditions, no expectation that your voice should sound a particular way and no need for previous musical experience. The practice begins with the voice you have now. When we sing, sound or improvise together online, everyone except me will usually be muted. This means you can explore your own voice freely, in the privacy of your own space, without being heard by the rest of the group while still having the experience of practising together.
There will also be space for reflection and optional sharing. You never need to tell your whole story. You never need to share something you would rather keep private. And you are encouraged throughout the course to listen to your own limits and move at your own pace.
It has helped me look forward in a way that I really hadn’t been able to and it has opened a window for me back into the world of music, especially singing, which I had been finding really hard since the loss of my parents.
Hannah Walsh, Senior Director
Olivia’s work is transformative. The space her being and voice conjured invited me to be relaxed and fully myself in the sessions.
I had reservations about being online as opposed to in person, but Olivia was a supportive guide... I loved the exercises and felt relief and power, connection and gratitude as results of our time together.
Olivia is gentle and attuned. She is creative in her approach whilst making it all feel accessible, and allows space for you to feel ownership of the work.
Caroline Milsom, Producer & Celebrant
There is deep and transformative magic woven here. I have such profound gratitude for these experiences.
Jo Wilber, Yoga Teacher & Therapist
Why I created Voice Yoga for Grief
My own relationship with voice changed profoundly after my mum died suddenly while I was pregnant with my first child. For a time, I stopped singing. It was simply too painful. Something that had always been close to me became somewhere I could no longer go. When I eventually began singing again, I discovered that the voice could hold things that language could not. Sound allowed sorrow, love and longing to exist together. Singing did not take my grief away, but it gave me another way of being with it and, over time, helped me encounter moments of connection and aliveness alongside the pain. That experience changed how I understood both voice and grief.
My work now brings together my experience as a yoga teacher, jazz singer, vocal coach, composer, music therapist and facilitator, alongside my studies of Hindustani singing. I created Yoga of the Voice™ as a way of bringing these strands together into an embodied practice of listening, expression and relationship. Voice Yoga for Grief grew from that practice, from my own experience of loss and from the work I have since shared with others.
This will be the fourth time I have held Voice Yoga for Grief as an extended group journey.
Join Voice Yoga for Grief
Eight weekly two-hour online sessions
Begins: 21 October 2026
Time: 7–9pm
Group size: Maximum 12 people
Investment: £444
Early booking
The first five people to book receive 10% off, bringing the course fee to £399.60.
Payment options
You can pay the £444 course fee in full or choose a payment plan.
A simple option is 3 monthly payments of £148.
If another arrangement would make the course more accessible to you, please get in touch. I am happy to discuss flexible payment options.
Concessionary places are also available for people on low incomes. Just ask.
Come with someone you know
Grief can be deeply personal, but there can also be something profoundly supportive about entering this kind of work alongside someone you already know and trust.
If you book two places on Voice Yoga for Grief together, for you and a friend, family member or someone close to you, you will receive a complimentary two night stay for two in our lovely shepherd’s hut with outdoor bath, worth £240. You can use the stay simply as time to rest, be in nature and step away from ordinary life for a little while. Or, if you would like to mark something more intentionally, I can also support you in creating a personal or shared grief ritual during your stay, at no additional cost. There is no obligation to do this. The time can simply be yours.
This offer is available to anyone booking two places together.
questions you may have
Do I have to be a singer?
Not at all. You don't need any previous experience of singing, voice work or music. This is not about singing beautifully or getting anything “right”. We begin with the voice you have and work from there.
My grief is not a bereavement. Is this still for me?
Yes. Voice Yoga for Grief is open to many forms of grief and loss. You may be grieving a death, relationship, change in health or identity, fertility, ageing, displacement, a future you imagined, a chapter of your life that has ended or something you cannot easily name. You do not need to justify whether your grief is “big enough” to belong here.
My bereavement is very recent. Will this be suitable for me?
Possibly, but timing matters. This is an experiential course, and some of the practices may bring you into contact with strong feelings. If your loss is very recent, you are feeling particularly overwhelmed or destabilised, or you are unsure whether this is the right moment for you, please contact me before booking and we can think about it together. Voice Yoga for Grief is not psychotherapy, bereavement counselling or crisis support, and it can sit alongside those forms of care rather than replacing them.
I have experienced several losses. Is the course suitable for me?
Yes, it can be. You do not need to choose a single loss to work with throughout the course. Griefs often overlap. One loss can awaken another, and sometimes what we carry cannot be neatly separated into individual events. The invitation is to work with what is present, rather than needing to organise or explain it first.
Do I have to share my grief with the group?
No. Sharing and reflection are always optional. You are welcome to say as much or as little as feels right for you. You can participate fully in the practices without telling the group the details of your story.
Do I have to attend every session live?
I encourage you to attend live whenever you can because meeting regularly with the same group is an important part of the experience, but life happens, and you do not need to worry if you occasionally miss a session. Recordings will be available so that you can catch up and revisit the practices in your own time.
How long will I have access to the recordings and course materials?
You will have access for one year after the course ends. This gives you time to return to the material slowly rather than feeling that you need to absorb everything during the eight weeks. And because grief does not work to a timetable, if the year comes to an end and you feel you would benefit from keeping access for longer, just get in touch. I am happy to extend it where needed.
What if I feel self-conscious about making sound?
That is completely welcome too. Many of us have complicated relationships with our voices. You may have learnt that you “can't sing”, that your voice is too much, not enough, too loud, too quiet or simply something best kept private. There is no expectation that self-consciousness disappears before you begin.
When we sing, sound or improvise together online, everyone except me will usually be muted. This means you can explore your own voice freely, without being heard by the rest of the group, while still having the experience of practising together.
This relationship with the voice, including any hesitation, self-consciousness or uncertainty, can itself become part of what we gently explore.
You do not have to know how to do grief.
You do not have to arrive ready to sing. You do not have to understand everything you are feeling. You can begin with what is already here.
For eight weeks, we will make a place for it together.
Through breath and body.
Voice and song.
Silence and ritual.
And the presence of other people who know something of this landscape.
A place to give grief breath, body and voice, and to discover your own ways of carrying what has been loved into the life that continues.