welcome to SenseAble embodied voice and movement with alison taylor
SenseAble embodied voice and movement:
where singing is movement
and your voice is your body
A learning space for voice educators and therapists who want to understand what “your body is your instrument” really means to them.
Support for creative educators and clinicians who want to build awareness around ease, balance, and vitality in their art, work, and life.
An opportunity to learn, grow, and become more yourself, with someone who has experienced a creative journey - from the inside out.
Hello, my name is Alison and my pronouns are she/her. Welcome.
SenseAble embodied voice and movement fuses vocal exploration, body awareness, and movement principles to support your whole-self awareness without separating mind, body, and voice.
What is "embodied” voice work?
For me, embodied means using our bodies and ourselves - sensations, movements, thoughts, feelings, spatial awareness - as a support for deepening our understanding and strengthening connection to our self and our voice, as a means of expression, communication, and connecting to others.
My approach is process-oriented rather than outcomes-oriented. This work does not provide a quick fix, but rather an opportunity to expand your awareness about what’s happening with your “instrument,” which allows your practice to lead you to more choice and freedom.
📣 EXCITING UPDATE 📣
Thank you for making your way here, and for bringing your curiosity about voice and movement!
As of January 2026, I no longer offer voice and movement teaching outside of therapy.
Over time, it became increasingly clear to me that voice, movement, and embodied awareness naturally belong within a therapeutic container: one that offers greater support, flexibility, and awareness for what can emerge through this deep experiential work.
When voice and movement explorations are held within a therapeutic relationship, we have more choice around pace, boundaries, integration, and meaning-making. Your whole field of experience - sensations, emotions, stories, relationships, and creativity - can be met with curiosity and care, rather than being shaped toward a particular outcome. This shift allows the work to remain relational, responsive, and grounded in your lived experience.
For clients:
If you are interested in exploring voice, movement, and embodiment as part of therapy, I invite you to visit my therapy website to learn more about working together in this way.
Bringing voice work into therapy could support you to
build awareness of how your voice reflects your inner experience
explore expression, fluidity, and ease without pressure to perform or “sound right”
notice how breath, sensation, and emotion shape communication
support grounding and presence during moments of vulnerability or anxiety
reconnect with vitality, spontaneity, and aliveness
explore how your voice shifts in relationship and connection
develop trust in your body’s signals
create more choice around when and how you speak or make sound
experience your voice as part of your whole self, rather than something separate to manage, change, or fix
For voice educators, therapists, and student therapists:
The SenseAble website will soon be transitioning to include information about somatic consultations and embodied support for educators and clinicians.
These offerings will focus on supporting
embodied presence
awareness
capacity through experiential, embodied exploration, rather than skills-based instruction
Workshops and group experiences will also be on offer.
More details will be shared here soon.
This transition reflects my commitment to holding embodied work in ways that honour wholeness, integration, and support for clients, educators, and clinicians alike. When we as humans have an experience of voice-mind-body wholeness, we bring this experience as background to whatever role we find ourselves occupying. This work is less about teaching you how to do something with your client or student, and more about valuing intrinsic knowing and reminding you of what you already know. Once you’ve had an experience, it is in you, and that is enough.
a little bit more about me…
Hi. It’s nice to be with you. I would like to share a bit of my personal story, as a way of introducing myself, and sharing my experience.
Before I found my way to Alexander Technique (AT) and Wholeness in Motion (WIM) work over 20 years ago, I was walking around with a secret: I felt like a "bad" singer. Like, all the time.
My voice cracked often and I didn’t know what was wrong with my voice. I was too embarrassed to audition for choir solos.
I had persistent dull aches and pains in my head, neck, shoulders, and back, no matter how hard I tried to correct my posture.
I felt exhausted at the end of every day, and never felt truly rested. I felt uncomfortable in my body a lot of the time. I didn't really know or trust my body.
As I’m imagining you reading these words, I’m wondering,
What has your relationship with your voice and body been like?
Here is what I've found out about myself, and have come to support in others:
The movement skills and whole-self awareness I learned through AT and WIM work have really changed my singing experiences.
I often sing with confidence, self-assurance, and joy. I can meet myself - including my voice! - where I am at, instead of trying to change or fix something to be “better.”
I often feel more at ease in performance because I have a new trust in my instrument and feel more at home in myself.
I have discovered stamina and energy because I am more aware of when I am working too hard or inefficiently. I stopped being so hard on myself by understanding the signals my system was sending me.
Singing often feels easy, good, and (gasp!) FUN.
On a regular day, I continue to explore my own voicemindbodyself relationship through daily movement and sound-making: Alexander Technique, Wholeness in Motion with Babette Lightner, and relational sound-making improvisation with my wonderful colleague, Maureen Batt. My one:one teaching and group classes and workshops incorporate some of all of the above.
This is what I’ve found to be the most supportive for my personal and teaching process.
I’m excited to co-create the best and most nourishing environment for YOUR awareness and experience to blossom and expand!