Barbara Ann Grant is a classically trained mezzo soprano. She sang her first public performance aged 6, began formal lessons at 13 and went on to study performance voice at the Wellington Conservatory of Music, Victoria University and Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, U.S.A, where she received a full tuition scholarship.
In her early twenties Barbara contracted a shoulder and neck injury which turned into a chronic pain condition. Whilst studying opera singing Barbara was working to manage and heal this complaint. After undertaking the traditional Western medical approach, including unsuccessful surgery, Barbara met a reiki practitioner and began exploring Eastern approaches to health and well-being. During this healing pilgrimage Barbara learnt a huge amount about her own life patterns and how they had contributed to her chronic pain. Inevitably this journey into self and healing led this singer into sound healing practice. In the U.S and later in the UK Barbara met some of the leading sound healers in the world today and discovered sound as a tool for deep, therapeutic self-transformation.
After a 21 year odyssey with chronic pain and a vocal journey of over 30 years, that has taken Barbara all round the world, she feels both inspired and compelled to share what she has learned with others. In terms of traditional teaching of vocal technique she says, "Our voice is a deep expression of our true self. We need to ''feel good to sing good'' and ''sing good to feel good''. Treat the voice with the curiosity of a child and the voice itself will teach us the lesson that we are always free and whole and we have always been so. When our voice finds this truth it echoes it back to us on all levels and in all ways and we are deeply transformed."