Emily Stauch

Background

About Emily Stauch

Emily Stauch brings a wide variety of teaching experience to the studio. A voice and language/diction instructor for over 25 years, Ms. Stauch speaks French, German and Swedish. She has taught academic courses in German, French, English, and English as a Second Language. Emily favors a mindfulness approach for all instruction. Emily has served on the voice faculty at Virginia Wesleyan College and is currently a member of the voice faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has directed opera and musical theater workshops and has taught master classes and workshops for various schools and choral organizations. As a singing voice specialist, she has worked with patients recovering from vocal fold injuries, surgery and problems related to vocal misuse, in conjunction with laryngologists and speech pathologists. Emily specializes in helping performing artists and public speakers manage stress and anxiety. She teaches Meditation for Performing Artists as well as classes and workshops in Managing Performance Stress and Anxiety and offers virtual and onsite individual coaching and consultation. With a whole-body/mindful approach, her “Mindful Voice” teaching incorporates yogic philosophy and “Voice Yoga”*, combining mind-body-spirit awareness with a positive psychology, encouraging and supportive guidance, and faith in every student’s ability to succeed. Emily currently maintains a studio outside of Cleveland in Medina, Ohio, and enjoys working with students of all ages and levels of study, both virtually and in studio. Emily is also a certified Adaptive Yoga instructor, a certified Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra instructor, a certified Let Your Yoga Dance® instructor and a certified Yoga Breathwork Coach. Emily’s interest in living a more authentic, mindful life and improving general health led her to Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health where she obtained my first certification to teach Let Your Yoga Dance® in 2013. Her Let Your Yoga Dance® program was part of the University of Miami/Frost School of Music’s summer program in Salzburg, Austria in 2016. She enjoys teaching weekly yoga classes, currently in-person, in Medina. She also offers Wellness/Empowerment coaching. In addition to her teaching career, Emily has performed and studied in the U.S. and in Europe in opera, oratorio, recitals and chamber music. Her voice has been described as versatile “.huge energy and smooth high notes.” and expressive “. She continues to be an active concert and recital artist.