OFFERINGS
Kara provides voice lessons and healing through Reiki
Vocal Studio
Kara (she/her) has maintained a private voice studio for 20 years with students ranging from total beginners to professional colleagues. Kara first started teaching privately in her native Long Island while earning her masters degree at Stony Brook University. She then moved to upstate New York and maintained a studio in Albany and was a voice instructor in the musical theater department at Russell Sage College from 2007 to 2014. In 2015 Kara relocated to Pittsburgh, and in the summer of 2016 she returned to her alma-mater, Carnegie Mellon University, as a voice teacher in the school of music and school of drama's pre-college program. From 2018-2023, Kara taught during the school year as voice instructor in the music, commercial music, and theater departments at Seton Hill University, and in 2021/2022 was the interim full-time voice instructor in the musical theater department at East Carolina University. in 2023 Kara relocated back to New York State to work as a full-time lecturer in voice in the music and music theatre departments at State University of New York at Geneseo.
Reiki Master/Teacher
In 2009 Kara (she/her) became a certified Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master and Teacher, apprenticing for over a year under Beth Netter, MD.
Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation, which also promotes physical and emotional healing. Reiki is administered by "laying on hands" on and around the body and chakra system, and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
