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For women who are ready to live as fully as they know they can.

I work with resourceful, motivated women who are ready to stop holding everything together at their own expense.
 

If this is you, you are not looking for another way to improve or manage themselves. You want greater freedom, vitality, self-trust, and room for your own voice.


You are ready to feel at home in your body and fully present in your life.

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My Story

Long before I began helping women trust their voices, I had to reclaim my own.

I spent 30 years as a professional actress. Onstage, I knew how to inhabit powerful women, hold a room, and move an audience. Yet in my own life, I often gave my authority away—especially to people whose love, approval, or recognition seemed to determine whether I belonged.

By my fifth decade, I began to understand how much of my life had been shaped by trying to please difficult people, hold everything together, and make myself worthy of love they could not give.

The most exhausting role I ever played was not onstage. It was the woman who could manage everything, keep everyone comfortable, and never need too much.

From the outside, I appeared more than fine. I was attractive, articulate, talented, and accomplished. But those outward signs of success could not give me the belonging and fulfillment I was seeking.

The turning point came when I stopped asking how to become a better version of myself and began listening to what my body, voice, and soul had been telling me all along.

My way back to myself came through sound, voice, nervous-system healing, shamanic work, and the gradual practice of trusting my own inner knowing.

That journey became the foundation of my work.

Today, I bring together a lifetime in the performing arts, technology, and the healing arts to help women come home to their bodies, free their voices, and inhabit their presence more fully—not as another role to perform, but as the truth of who they are.

Training & Experience

My work draws on overlapping careers in the performing arts, technology, and the healing arts, along with extensive training in sound, voice, nervous-system regulation, shamanic counseling, and body-based healing.

I’m certified in Sound, Voice and Music Healing through the California Institute of Integral Studies and am a certified provider for leading programs in sound healing, listening therapies, brain health, voice, and embodied presence.

I’m also the co-author of Free Your Voice: Awaken to Life Through Singing and the bestseller Finally Me: How Shamanic Journeying Healed Childhood Trauma and Gave Me Back My Life

The Story Behind The Work

In this short video, I share the experience that first opened my understanding of sound, voice, and healing.

If something in my story or approach speaks to you, you can explore the different ways we might work together.

© 2026 Valerie Devi Sound Living

Valerie@Sound-Living.com | 510-232-6024

San Francisco Bay and Online

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SOUND HEALING | VOICE & PRESENCE COACHING | TRAUMA RECOVERY

SHAMANIC COUNSELING | SOUL RETRIEVAL 

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