Voice Workshop(s) w/ Robert Sussuma
Discover vocal freedom through somatic awareness
Your voice doesn’t need to be corrected—it’s something that reveals itself when your system is well-organized.
Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method and integrating modern voice science and pedagogy, Robert Sussuma will help you cultivate deeper awareness of the “little body”—the intricate system from lips to vocal folds—within the larger whole.
His method is exploratory : instead of training specific sounds or muscles, he creates playful voice "puzzles" & learning environments where new vocal capacities emerge.
By weaving together anatomical insight, somatic awareness, vocal experimentation, and a playful release of rigid habits, you’ll discover new pathways to expression—not through effort, but through discovery.
Robert Sussuma
Part 1
Dates: October 2nd to 5th
Duration: 5 hours/day
Location: Forest Lighthouse, 274 rue des Alliés, Brussels
In the Feldenkrais Method, awareness of the skeleton provides a powerful way to organize movement--and that includes the intricate, coordinated actions of singing. But what if your bones could also guide your vocal expression? In this workshop, you'll explore how skeletal awareness can transform vocal ease, flexibility, and function in surprising ways - even when those bones may be fictitious! Whether it's finding more resonance, releasing effort, or refining articulation, understanding the role of your bones can offer a whole new way of working with your voice. We’ll bridge broad movement principles with precise vocal applications, giving you strategies that are both deeply foundational and immediately practical. Once you experience this shift, you’ll never think about singing the same way again.
This workshop is for singers and voice teachers who are interested in taking a deep dive into a Feldenkrais® approach to vocal learning, vocal development and solving vocal “problems” that most vocalists are looking to resolve, but in a different way… from the perspective of the bones. We will be exploring singing things in a purely Feldenkrais® way.
Part 2
Dates: October 18th to 21st
Duration: 5 hours/day
Location: 53 Rue Camélinat, 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
At the end of the day, singers want to sing--and sing well! But how do we refine our voices while staying connected to whole-body awareness and deep learning? This workshop is for singers who want to bring all the Feldenkrais-inspired exploration into the heart of what we love most: singing itself. Here, we’ll take a direct yet expansive approach to vocal refinement--engaging with specific vocal intentions while keeping the process fluid, adaptable, and free from rigid exercises or forced outcomes. You’ll discover somatic strategies that make technical and artistic development feel natural, intuitive, and even playful. If you love geeking out about singing but want a method that works with your body, not against it, this workshop is for you.
This is for singers, voice nerds and technique junkies who want to get into the “nitty gritty” of vocal tasks - sounds, qualities, anatomy, exercises, etc. - for very specific vocal needs and styles, but we’re also going to find different ways to expand, integrate and “think differently” while we do it. Here we’ll work on singing things, but also add Feldenkrais® strategies while we do it!
The steps
The key steps in this process are the same as in any somatic learning process. There will be references and points of discussion and openness for curiosity as we practice awareness through movement and other somatic processes that will illuminate and clarify both the vocal and learning process in such a way that each participant, regardless of where they are, will grow in awareness, sense-ability, skill and understanding. We will do this again and again in an integrated, spiral learning process of development and transformation that will unfold over the workshop and most likely extend into our lives afterward too!
Benefits
The benefits will be different for each person, but overall there will be more ease and ability vocally and more success technically, while learning about one’s self and one’s capabilities from a unique perspective.
Topics
The topics covered will be determined by the group’s input and interests.
Structure
The structure will be a mix of discussion, ATM, group work and perhaps some open coaching.
Prerequisits
There are no prerequisites other than an interest in voice and singing, some basic vocal abilities and lots of curiosity!