The Lessac Training - An Invitation to Balanced, Holistic BodyVoice Training
Lessac Kinesensics: A Holistic Approach to Voice and Body in Performance
Lessac Kinesensics offers a holistic approach to integrating voice and body for performers, enhancing authentic expression, seamless transitions between singing and speaking, and overall creative confidence. Actors, singers, educators, speech-language pathologists - and more - report transformative experiences in Lessac training programs, noting expanded vocal range, increased flexibility, and a deeper understanding of their unique vocal “fingerprint.” This training not only improves performance skills but also provides tools for protecting and sustaining voice and body in diverse contexts, fostering greater musicality in speech, improved communication, and enriched self-expression for both individual and collaborative work.
“Each person brings their own goals, desires, and aspirations to the training, and the training responds to those needs”
Participants at the 2022 USA Intensive at DePauw University
Grounded in Science and Health
Lessac Kinesensics is grounded in the science of health and well-being. Individuals tackling physically or vocally demanding roles discover healthy strategies to help them navigate these challenges while protecting their voice and body, without sacrificing their creative expression. And this approach doesn’t stop at the stage. The principles of Lessac Kinesensics can be applied to everyday life. We encourage workshop participants to become solution builders for their own communication challenges. Our workshops build on foundational skills in body and vocal awareness, culminating in practical applications. This step-by-step approach ensures participants have time to fully integrate what they’re learning and apply it to their unique personal and professional goals.
A Personalized, Holistic Experience
One of the most exciting aspects of Lessac Kinesensics is its focus on individual growth. Each person brings their own goals, desires, and aspirations to the training, and the training responds to those needs. The model allows for open-ended exploration, encouraging each person to take ownership of their learning. This personalized approach respects the lived experiences of each participant while helping them develop their voice and body as an integrated instrument.
Trainers are well-versed in issues of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, ensuring the space is not only supportive but actively engaged with the real-world challenges individuals may face in their personal and professional lives. The result is an empowering environment that nurtures growth in a way that is sensitive to each participant’s unique experience.
The New Era of Lessac: Integrating Tradition with Innovation
While Lessac Kinesensics has been around for decades, the training style has evolved significantly since the 1970s. Today’s training reflects a global perspective, inspired by international partners and rooted in a commitment to justice and equity. It offers participants a chance to explore somatic-based, integrated bodyvoice training, blending voice, body, mind, and acting skills into a cohesive learning experience.
The work is slow, intentional, and deeply connected to the body’s organic movements and vibrations. Workshop participants often find that their habitual patterns and tensions begin to release, making way for new neural pathways that support optimal use of the body and voice. This process leads to significant growth in vocal expressiveness, body flexibility, dynamic alignment, and overall confidence.
Lifelong Learning Through the “Teacher Within”
One of the core principles of Lessac Kinesensics is helping participants connect with their inner “teacher.” This self-guided learning is a powerful somatic tool, allowing participants to continue growing beyond the structured exercises of the program. With newfound awareness of their body, breath, voice, and communication skills, they leave the program more grounded, more self-assured, and ready to tackle challenges with confidence.
Facilitators firmly believe that people who come to the work for voice and body training don’t need to be “fixed.” They may come into the program thinking they have a “problem” with their voice or body, but what they really gain is a new lens through which to see their abilities. Lessac Kinesensics offers them the tools to strengthen their body-voice instrument and create solutions that are unique to their personal experience.
A Training Program for Growth and Empowerment
Whether you’re looking to expand your vocal range, refine your physical experience, or simply gain more confidence in expressing yourself, Lessac Kinesensics offers a holistic and integrated somatic approach to body-voice training. It’s not just about improving your skills on stage—it’s about connecting with your body and voice in a way that supports lifelong learning and growth.
Participants in Lessac Intensive Workshops leave with a deeper understanding of their own instrument and a renewed sense of agency. Whether in a classroom, community, or personal setting, they gain tools that allow them to approach challenges with creativity, flexibility, and confidence. Kinesensics is performance training, it is actor training, it is voice and speech training, it is communication training - and much more. If you’re seeking a somatic-based, integrated approach that respects your individual journey while helping you grow as an artist and a person, Lessac Kinesensics may be exactly what you’re looking for.
