Loryn Barbeau, Holistic Performance Coach

This woman is amazing. She is changing my life with each lesson. She’s brilliant, a wonderful communicator, very perceptive. She’s been helping me a ton through my vocal issues. LOVE!

From the minute you meat Loryn, it’s clear that you’ve made the right decision to call her; she’s an incredibly warm, empathetic and intuitive person who just seems to «get“what’s going on beyond the surface. Using her natural intuition and a detailed questionnaire she had me fill out prior to our first session, Loryn helped me to identify what was going on in my mind and body. I love our sessions together because she keeps the atmosphere fun and light while getting me to address deeper issues that are negatively affecting my wellbeing. From what I was eating to how I was thinking, Loryn has helped me to redirect my lifestyle around my individual needs. In addition to helping me build positive habits, I now have tools, including meditation and yoga poses, I can use when I feel stressed or anxious. I can’t thank her enough and wholeheartedly encourage others to contact her.

I can’t imagine where I’d be if I had not crossed paths with this amazing woman. I am a coloratura soprano with a degree in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; when I met Loryn I was struggling to simply keep my head above water as I attempted to readjust to life in the city after spending several years recovering from a traumatic back injury. I had tried everything traditional Western medicine had to offer as well as several alternative healing methods but nothing was working to get me back on track towards the performing career that I wanted. Many practitioners that I had met with previously had at most a shallow understanding of the unique and very complicated physical and emotional demands of a professional operatic career and I was dispirited, hopeless and seriously considering giving up the thought of ever performing at all much less professionally again.
Since I began studying with her in August she has helped me find a physical and mental equilibrium that I previously thought was unattainable. In addition, I have gained an invaluable and specific practical understanding of my personal challenges and strengths as a direct result of the unique and deeply insightful ways in which she handles any problem I bring to her. In just five months my life and outlook has changed tremendously. I had the courage to audition for and consequently be accepted into the voice studio of Jane Randolph, booked my first professional gig since my injury, began the process of planning a joint recital as well as a production of an original composition and have been encouraged by my teacher to seriously consider singing for both national and international auditions next year. If there is a «Soprano Whisperer», she’s it.
To be truly understood as a performing artist (and one dealing with chronic pain while attempting a career revival at that) is a rare and amazing experience. Not only is she amazingly well versed in several nutritional, spiritual and physical disciplines but her unique ability to adjust them into a specialized program for your specific situation and personality type make the service she offers invaluable and like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. Not only is she deeply empathic and sympathetic but also refreshingly disciplined in her ability to organize her lessons in a way that makes them easily accessible and memorable. She has the rare ability to inspire without making you feel judged or attempting to ‘shame’ you into compliance but instead encourages and wins you over with a warm and comforting sense of humor and grace.
I am deeply grateful to have had and continue to have the opportunity to work with such an original, remarkable and talented individual. I can’t recommend her services highly enough and personally consider them an essential part of a professional vocal career for anyone who wants to stay safe, healthy, happy and sane.

Loryn is wonderful!
I am a singer and went to Loryn primarily to work on performance anxiety. She was able to help me in many different ways. We were able to come up with some diet changes, breathing exercises and a yoga sequences that were immensely useful. After working with Loryn I felt a lot better about performing and being on stage. My voice has only gotten better and stronger from the breathing exercises she gave me and I feel more grounded in my art.
My favorite part about working with Loryn is that she is very intuitive and is able to help me in a way that I will understand. She doesn’t just tell you to do something without helping you understand why you are doing it and how it will help you.
I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Loryn and I truly cherish the knowledge she has given me.
She is so talented and such a wonderful person. I highly recommend her.

Is it too strong to say Loryn changed my life? No, it’s the truth!
Not that it wasn’t going great already, she just tweaked a few things and now it’s just 20 times better!
I came to her for help with scars. I had been in Asia and while there contracted some form of virus that left me with scars all over. Which sucked, obviously. So after trying a few skin treatments that weren’t working, my sweet Mother suggested «why don’t you talk to your brother’s ‘witch doctor’?» (Yes, Loryn know’s we call her that).
At my first session Loryn not only gave me suggestions for the scars but quite a few other diet suggestions that would improve my every day life. Improve they did! I NEVER feel bad, there are no longer headaches, stomachaches, etc. I didn’t even realize this was an issue for me until they were gone. And most importantly, slowly but surely, my scars are disappearing!
Since then she’s given me yoga postures for everything from pain in my neck to calming my anxiety of staying in one place too long. So far she hasn’t left any of my questions unanswered, Loryn seems to have a healthy solution to all little obstacles that pop up in my life.
I highly recommend giving Loryn’s practice a try!

Loryn is great.
I went to her with the specific goal of improving my live performance singing and otherwise. Loryn was so friendly and has a very warm demeanor and astute solutions to whatever your problem (s) may be. She showed me an easy and quick yoga regimen, some basic breathing techniques and suggested various foods and beverages I could take leading up to a performance. I admit sometimes my schedule doesn’t always include the yoga stretches and breathing but when I do start working them in my mind and body feel so relaxed and focused. It allows me to be pro active in the most deliberate and methodical way. Just taking that little amount of time everyday to listen to yourself makes a world of difference in harnessing your potential.
Loryn is very knowledgeable and extremely easy to communicate with. I recommend her for any field that one may be seeking improvement in.

I’m an athlete with a very physical job that requires daily movement, training, eating, and a lot of go, go, go. One of the most important lessons Loryn taught me is if I want to be fully effective in my work and sport, I also need to stop, stop, stop.
She taught me a whole new yoga practice centered on the idea «yin». It’s a restorative practice that helps to heal the muscles and replenish the energy that carries me through my days.
She also helped me immensely in understanding my body’s needs around food and heat. I was having a hard time digesting stuff, which she sorted out, and I was having a lot of sugar cravings, which she helped me understand and address in a healthy way. She taught me so many things in one session which were easy to understand and do on my own.
Loryn’s work and approach is different than anyone else out there. I can’t exactly explain how she does what she does, because it’s based in Ayurveda combined with her own life experience — it’s definitely not a traditional Western approach.
I can say I am a better athlete, happier eater, and more grounded human having worked with her.
If you have problems with your diet, weight, skin, digestion, breathing, or mobility that no one else has been able to fix — go see her. She’s a teacher, healer, detective, and spiritual guide– and she’s 100% awesome.

Loryn looks at the big picture. Everything from your pulse, your digestion, and your hydration habits to your posture, your fears, and your personality are taken into consideration in her practice.
She helps you understand what is going on on the inside, both physically and emotionally, in order to improve what you present on the outside as a performer.
Loryn meets you where you are and moves at a pace that’s appropriate to you. While there were numerous changes she could have recommended when it came to my lifestyle/​diet, she totally accepted that I didn’t have the bandwidth to make lots of changes at that time, so she helped me to focus on just the one or two most important ones.
I am an amateur singer with dreams of being a public speaker in the future, so finding my voice and learning to be in the moment on stage are just as important to me as my health.
During our first session, after I finished explaining my frustrations and fears on stage, she asked me if I was willing to sing for her, which I did. She made a few comments and requested I change one simple thing and sing again. The second time through, it was as if a HUGE weight had been lifted from my shoulders and I was able to really hear my own voice for the first time!
Loryn’s holistic approach and thorough understanding of ayurveda coupled with her extensive experience as a yoga instructor and opera singer make her uniquely qualified to coach performers who understand that speaking/​singing/​acting is about so much more than just what you put forth — that it all starts on the inside.

I have told many people about Loryn as I was blown away by both her innate talents as well as how skilled she is at her trade. Loryn is incredibly knowledgeable in holistic health and has an insane intuition.
Those two things combined make for a powerhouse. Highly highly recommend working with her.