Anita Stryker

Anita is an amazing teacher! She is creative, intuitive, and within the first 20 minutes of class, made me feel comfortable expressing myself through my voice and body. Such an energizing way to start a rainy fall morning! I highly recommend Anita and her classes.

Anita’s attention to breath, muscle action, and the anatomy of voice is inspirational. This is more than learning to make yourself make pretty sounds.
I initially came to Anita to be a better public speaker, but I’m learning about breath and sound on a level that goes beyond projecting to an audience. In fact, these lessons are informing my life as a yogi, and as a person in the world. Not only will I be able to perform my fiction and poetry on a higher level, but my teaching and perhaps my business practices will improve, as well.
Also, I found out that I am, in fact, a Baritone — long-​term question answered!

I’ll never forget the moment in 7^th grade chorus class when my exasperated teacher told me to please lip sync during the upcoming performance. In that moment, I decided that I had no singing ability, and that singing only leads to one thing… embarrassment.
Years later, I decided I’d spent long enough in shame and avoidance, and signed up for private singing lessons with Anita. I was nervous, but I also trusted her a lot. We started slowly from where I was at. When tears came up, she met me with nothing less than full love and support. I quickly became more comfortable.
What’s unique about Anita is her uncanny psychic ability to «feel» where your breath and voice are stuck, and suggest movements and sounds to open things up. Turns out I have a beautiful singing voice. (Who knew?!) And over the course of my lessons with Anita, she helped me relax more and expand my range.
Soon after we started working together, I was actually having fun with singing and enjoying a new form of self-​expression. I even performed at a talent show, which I NEVER would have done. Singing is still incredibly vulnerable for me, but now in a good way.

I took a series of voice lessons from Anita without any prior experience and I treasure the process of seeing a new part of myself unfold during her lessons. She helped me move past my initial doubt and worry around singing and had me focus on the feelings and sensations in my body that told me I was loving this process and had desire to explore it more. The more I felt into singing and the less I thought about how to sing, the better it sounded. After our second lesson I found myself singing to myself and others, excited to share this new tool. I never expected to find a new confidence from our lessons that has stayed with me to this day and has touched my personal and professional life. I highly recommend Anita if you are wanting to get to know yourself, stretch your boundaries or are curious of what your singing voice sounds and feels like.