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The Real You Is Still In There.
Let's Tune Back In.

Music to open you up. Movement to settle your body. Breath to set you free.Turn off the noise and hear your own True Voice again

Choose Your Pathway

Two paths home to your True Voice: one becomes a song you'll keep forever, the other a practice you'll carry with you every day.

Soul Song

Co-Created Songwriting & Transformative Journey

Transmute a feeling, memory, love, loss, or chapter of your life into an original song—professionally recorded in Nashville and yours to keep forever. For when talking isn't enough, and you're ready to move your story into sound.
NO MUSICAL EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

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MCM Method

Heal & Realign Through Sound, Breath & Movement

This signature method blends movement, breathwork, mantra, meditation and vibrational sound to calm your nervous system and quiet the noise, so you can finally hear your own voice again. No song required.

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About Joanna

For over twenty years, I lived in the gap between what the world applauds and what the soul actually needs.

On the outside, I was a professional songwriter, performing alongside world-class artists and the Nashville Symphony, touring Europe, releasing three albums, and placing songs on CBS's Criminal Minds. On the inside, I was quietly devoting that same time to yoga, meditation, energy work and somatic practice.

Eventually I realized that forcing outward success was costing me my inner peace. So I stopped choosing between the two worlds and brought them together.

Today I use a lifetime of musical craft and mindfulness practice to help you quiet the mental static, come home to your body and hear your own true voice again. Sometimes that happens through the MCM Method. Sometimes it becomes a Soul Song, written from your story, recorded in Nashville and yours to keep forever.

Joanna Barbera
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter | Somatic Specialist | Mantra & Sound Guide

“Life-changing. Soul Song reached places in me that years of therapy couldn’t touch.”
— Molly Booker, Coach, Author

“I cannot recommend her programs enough. Joanna is an incredible leader and space-holder.I was blown away by the powerful breakthroughs I experienced each week. She strikes the perfect balance between leader and friend, guide and sister”
— Kayce Laine, sound practitioner and educator

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You have felt the resonance. Now, let’s anchor it.

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