“The Canto Coletivo process gives me faith in the sacred. In the connection between women. In life. To inhabit my voice with full consciousness is the gift of meeting my own soul.”
Marcela Boechat · Canto Coletivo de Mulheres
A digital somatic-vocal practice
ResonantVoice
the path from individual vibration to collective resonance.
A method for working with the singing voice from the inside out. By Greyce Ornelas, singer and vocal teacher of sixteen years. In development.
Singer·Teacher·Master's, UFMG · Universidade de Aveiro · Música do Círculo · Sonora Brasil · Edital Descentra 2025
What the fellowship builds
01
A library of guided practices
Recorded video sessions, ten to sixty minutes each. Integrated and targeted.
02
Three languages, day one
Portuguese, English, Spanish. More to follow.
03
Twelve months, research to prototype
Systematization → recording → platform → testing.
04
A selected beta cohort
User-tested across contexts, bodies, geographies.
Methodology
Voice as a technology of presence.
Resonant Voice is a structured, body-first methodology for working with the singing voice. It treats vocal production as a coordinated psychophysical event, not a performance, not a relaxation. Three axes integrate into a single practice.
The body is the instrument.
The voice is the field it makes.
01
Somatic and postural
Body awareness, spinal organization, and movement as the foundation of vocal production. Tension is released, posture reorganizes, the body becomes available to sound. The voice cannot be cultivated separately from the structure that carries it.
02
Resonance-based vocal technique
Technical refinement guided by the perception of vibration in the body. Internal sensory feedback is treated as the primary reference, ahead of any external sound result. Acoustics meets feel: the conditions for the voice to deepen, project, and gain timbre on its own terms.
03
Improvisation and musical integration
Improvisation, listening, and collective musicality. The bridge between technique and expression, where the voice becomes a relation. This is where the practice opens out, from a private vibration into something shared.
A first practice — two minutes
Try it now.
- 01
Stand. Spine vertical. Don't push.
- 02
Soften the jaw. Slow breath in through the nose. Released breath out through the mouth.
- 03
Hum quietly on a comfortable pitch — under ordinary speaking volume. Notice where the vibration travels: lips, chest, soft palate.
- 04
Open the hum to ahhh on the same pitch. Where does the vibration go now?
- 05
The voice has not arrived. The conditions for it have.
What I believe
Vibration is the framework of the universe.
Hatred gives way to melody.
Music is necessarily cooperation. It goes against the spirit of war.
When two or more human beings resonate together, no matter the context, it brings improvement.
Greyce Ornelas
Origin
I had to relearn how to listen, feel, and inhabit my own voice from the inside out.
In 2016, after a decade as a professional singer and vocal teacher, I lost my voice. A vocal cyst, alongside a deep depression, interrupted the career I had spent years building. The medical path was surgery. I chose another route.
Through somatic practice, slow breath, and a different relationship with the body, the cyst regressed without surgical intervention. The voice came back: a different voice, one I now understand as a field of presence, regulation, and expression.
Resonant Voice is the methodology I built from that recovery. It is the practice I would have wanted access to in 2016, and the one I have now offered to hundreds of people across Brazil and Latin America.
A turning point. From performance to vibration as the unit of the work.
Belo Horizonte → Serra Grande, Bahia
A timeline
2011
UFMG + Universidade de Aveiro
2015
Master's, vocal pedagogy
2016
The cyst. No surgery. Recovery.
2016
Canto Coletivo begins
2022
Baião de Sereia · forró feminino
2025
Sonora Brasil · Colombia tour
2026
Resonant Voice
Lineage
This work is descended.
No practice arrives without teachers. Some named, others held by tradition. These are the bodies of knowledge this work bows to.
Direct teachers
- Ricardo PassosDhrupad · four years
- Tisza CoelhoMestra of capoeira angola · five years
- Sérgio PererêVocal resources, ancestrality
- Música do CírculoPedagogy of cooperation · conductor training
Lived traditions
- Terreiro culturesTen years and counting
- Forró femininoBaião de Sereia · Bahia
- Afro-Brazilian songSonora Brasil · Colombia 2025
- Vale do MucuriAncestral home · Minas Gerais
Vibration, made visible
the path from individual vibration to collective resonance.
In practice
This work already lives in the world.
Resonant Voice is not a hypothesis. It has been developed across sixteen years of vocal teaching and ten years of collective practice, and has trained hundreds of voices across Brazil, Colombia, and beyond.
By the count
- years teaching the singing voice
- 16
- years of collective practice
- 10
- ongoing programs
- 4
- cities where the work meets
- 5
- international tour · Colombia 2025
- 1
years teaching the singing voice
years of collective practice
ongoing programs
cities where the work meets
international tour · Colombia 2025
2016 to present
Canto Coletivo
An ongoing project for women's vocal autonomy through collective singing. Long-term programs, immersive workshops, weekly classes. Hundreds of students across Brazil. The seedbed for the Resonant Voice methodology.
@cantocoletivo_
Belo Horizonte
A Coral
Women's collective and tribute concerts to the women composers of Belo Horizonte. Selected for the Edital Descentra, Lei Municipal de Incentivo à Cultura, 2025.
@coletivoacoral
2022 to present
Baião de Sereia · Sonora Brasil
Performing and researching the presence of women in forró, and conducting didactic concerts on Afro-Brazilian music. Sonora Brasil 2025 Colombia tour: San Café Jazz Club, Casa del Bosque al Amanecer, JATS.
@baiaodesereia · @sonorabrasilmusica
From the students
The voice begins as a private vibration. The work is to let it become a relation.
Originals in Portuguese, translated. The full collection of testimonies sits with Greyce.
“After the work we have been doing on perceiving and owning my own vibration, singing has felt like massaging my body from the inside.”
Student · Canto Coletivo de Mulheres
“There is a me before, and a me after the Canto Coletivo experience. I did not imagine I would learn so much. It was transformative.”
Maria Teresa · Canto Coletivo de Mulheres
Where it meets
The work already has homes.
- Casa A CoralFloresta · Belo Horizonte
- ·Holístikas BarPraia Pé de Serra · Serra Grande
- ·Casa SerpenteSerra Grande · Bahia
- ·DojomarSargi · Bahia
What's coming
Building Resonant Voice, a structured digital pathway for the body and the voice.
Resonant Voice (the platform) translates the methodology into a structured digital pathway. A library of guided vocal practices, ten to sixty minutes, organized as integrated sessions and targeted micro-practices.
Multilingual from day one: Portuguese, English, Spanish, with more to follow. Built for use in daily life, not as a one-off course.
Months 1 to 3
Research and systematization
Organize the methodology from accumulated experience. Structure practices, categories, developmental pathways.
Months 4 to 7
Content creation
Record the library of guided vocal practices in video format, ten to sixty minutes. Integrated sessions and targeted micro-practices on posture, breath, resonance, vocal release, musicality.
Months 8 to 10
Platform development
Build the platform prototype with a small technical team. Designed for daily use, not as a one-off course. Translated into English and Spanish.
Months 11 to 12
Testing and refinement
Test with real users. Listen to what works, what gets in the way. Refine the practice and the platform together.
Scope
Twelve months. One researcher, working with collaborators on production, platform, and design.