Full Voice Coaching for Women

One-on-One Sessions in Person and on Zoom

Peterborough, Canada

Full Voice Coaching offers a playful, embodied, and tested method to unleash the power of your authentic voice. Using the Five Elements Framework™ developed by my beloved teacher Barbara McAfee, this approach identifies five distinct vocal qualities―earth, fire, water, metal, and air―and explores how to cultivate each one to unlock the fullness of your self-expression.

In our sessions, you will…

  • Discover a broader range, spectrum, and aliveness in your speaking and singing voice

  • Build confidence in your voice in a supportive, caring, and non-judgmental space

  • Explore themes of identity, power, vulnerability, ancestry, grief, and joy through the lens of voice

  • Harness the power of your voice to hold boundaries, sharpen intentions, and strengthen your relationships

  • Connect with a series of tested, embodied methods to regulate the nervous system through your voice

  • Learn several easy-to-sing songs, that you can take home and weave into your daily life

  • Exercise your body and mind through the practice of oral-tradition singing

  • Release the stress of your busy life and work week

  • Nourish yourself, and fill up the reservoir that feeds you

Full Voice Coaching is not the same as singing lessons. It’s not about honing a technical skill or even about sounding ‘good’. It’s about discovering more of your full self through your voice, and opening pathways to greater expression in life. Though we often use singing as a tool, this approach encompasses all of the ways you express through your voice – singing, speaking, sound.

These sessions are open to all those with lived experience as a woman, including non-binary folks who feel comfortable in a woman-centred space. No singing experience is required. Please know that you are welcome however you are – tired and weary, fully ablaze in your brilliance, or anywhere in between.

About Your Coach

Mila Redwood is a Community Songleader, Mother, certified Full Voice Coach, and the Founder of Sing for Joy in Toronto. Like so many others, Mila grew up believing that her voice wasn’t good enough. She carried this belief for most of her early life, casting seeds of self-doubt and insecurity. It was through Community Singing and Full Voice Coaching that she found the medicine needed to reclaim her voice and vibrancy. Today, Mila uses song as a tool for building community, for restoring our sense of belonging and connection in a fragmented world. As a Full Voice Coach, Mila has been coaching groups and individuals in the Five Elements Framework™ since 2016. To read more about Mila, including her personal voice story, Click Here.

Rates & Bookings

*All rates are in Canadian dollars.

15 minute phone consultation – Free

1 hour (60 minute) session – $150

3 x 1 hour session package – $420 (Discount of $30)

Half-day intensive (in-person only) – $420

Bookings: I am currently full for one-on-one coaching, and will be opening four new spots beginning in January 2025. To schedule a free consultation call in December, you can click here.

Payment Options: I accept e-transfer, credit card, PayPal, or cheque.

Cancellation Policy: Full payment is required if a session is cancelled with less than 24 hours notice, unless the session can be rescheduled in the same week.

A Note on Group Singing

As a complement to our coaching sessions, singing with others in a group can be a great opportunity to explore your voice in a communal setting. I hold seasonal Singing from the Well retreats, Reclaim Your Voice workshops, and a Singing in Bloom summer gathering, which are all women-centred spaces. I also co-facilitate an annual Communal Grief Retreat, for all genders.

Since ancient times, women have gathered together to sing songs. There is an enduring magic that happens when women sing together – through the weaving of our voices, we remember our power, our rhythm, and our purpose.

Testimonials

“Singing with Mila has changed my life. It has helped me to overcome my fear of singing out loud. Her loving and warm approach is deeply healing for the spirit and I feel so free when I am singing with her. I always leave her sessions feeling lighter and full of confidence.” – Edane Tobias

"Mila's work has profoundly shifted my relationship with my voice. I highly, highly recommend Mila's workshops and sessions to any woman who wants to experience community singing that nourishes deeply while allowing space for grief, joy, and everything in between." - Maya Nadeem, Trauma-Informed Counsellor for Women

“Thank you a thousand times for creating a space where I felt safe, seen, heard, honoured, respected and valued. I felt that I belonged in the most beautiful way in the circle of women that you invited on this journey. Every song resonated in its own unique way and felt like a balm to a different part of my soul, one that I did not even realize needed soothing.” – Sacha Salenik

“The Reclaim Your Voice workshop was incredible. It was fun, playful, and deeply healing. Connecting with other women through song has helped me to feel more alive and empowered. Mila is a gifted facilitator, and gently guided us all in reclaiming our power and our voices. I left feeling joyous and renewed”. – Chloe Oliver

“Mila holds some serious song magic, and has a beautiful ability of weaving song, playfulness, and deep meaning into her workshops. These moments of group singing are cherished, and feed my soul in ways that are palpable for days after. Singing in this way has helped me to feel ever-more confident in my own voice and ability to share songs.” – Sammy Tangir

“Mila draws you in with authenticity and opens you up with her joy. Then, you remember parts of who you really are, and you come home to yourself. Connection and healing happen in the safe, thoughtful, exuberant song-scape that Mila creates. As she moves our group, I experience myself as an essential part of an essential whole, and I know that singing is everyone’s birthright.” – Sarah Vandenberg

“Mila holds space with warmth, wonder, and wisdom. The songs she offers seem to be carried in her bones, and her leadership approach is embodied, welcoming, and playful – always uplifting the voices in the room, embracing the gifts that each individual brings to the circle. I felt so deeply nourished by my experience in the Reclaim Your Voice workshop, being held by and with community, weaving harmonies, playing, laughing, and crying together – it was like protein to my soul!” – Michaela Bekenn

“Singing with Mila changed my life. Learning to sing with her was a waking-up kind of experience. It felt like breathing. I now know that I'm going to be singing for the rest of my days.” – Parker Glynn-Adey