Reclaim Vocal Sovereignty + Birth the Life of your Dreams

The Voice Doula offers nervous system-informed coaching so YOU can take center stage & be the main character of your life!

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After 10+ years of studying classical voice and choral music education in the university setting, I had forgotten why I loved to sing in the first place. So my ancestors led me to research my story of adoption, family separation, and intergenerational trauma. They reminded me that singing was my healing medicine, and more people in the world needed to sing.

This led me to develop a spiritual and nervous system-informed vocal pedagogy for self-led healing and collective world building for those who have been historically marginalized and silenced.

Calling and Vision

My divine calling is to guide others in becoming the main character of their dream life by sharing the power of the voice!

My vision is to create a generation of nervous system-informed singers who are in-tune with their soul’s unique frequency.

Meet Dr. Kiki

Vocal Liberation Doula. Somatic-Spiritual Practitioner.

Dr. Kiernan "Kiki" Steiner, D.M.A. (she/they) is a Ilokano-Filipinx vocal liberation doula and somatic-spiritual practitioner who is passionate about the intersection of vocal liberation and reproductive justice. Dr. Kiki was born, transracially adopted, and raised on Ho-Chunk Nation lands in the rolling hills of Southwestern Wisconsin, which set the stage for her personal journey to find community and healing through music. Her ancestors are from the Ilocos and Central Luzon region in the Philippines, Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, and Switzerland. 

In 2021, Dr. Kiki received their doctorate in choral conducting and decolonizing choral music education from Arizona State University where they began to develop a decolonized approach to vocal and choral teaching practices. Through all of their offerings, Dr. Kiki intuits ancestral wisdom and blends somatic-spiritual practices with scientific knowledge of the voice, which they have coined “our soul's unique frequency,” to regulate the nervous system, strengthen the voice/inner voice, and to activate creativity through releasing shame around the voice. Their highest calling is to provide radical somatic-spiritual care to parents, educators, and caregivers as she believes we must embody and practice liberation in order to achieve collective liberation.

In March 2023, Dr. Kiki became a certified full spectrum birth justice doula with the Sokana Collective and sponsored by BIPOC for Better Birth. Her vision is to equip mothers and birthing people with the knowledge of the voice, nervous system, and pelvic floor, so that they can birth the life of their dreams!

She now resides on occupied Peoria and Kickapoo lands in central Illinois where she can be found cooking Filipino and Hawaiian cuisine, learning how to garden, and tending to their ABC—adoptive, biological, and chosen—family.

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