The story goes like this…

In 1994, Elissa Maas Weinzimmer was in third grade at an elementary school in Northern California. While the other students spent their recess playing soccer or tetherball or on the monkey bars, Elissa would trek to the very back of the field to sit on a special log surrounded by trees and blackberry bushes. There she would compose and sing simple spiritual songs. 

The following year, Elissa started music classes. She began performing in musical theatre and singing in choirs, and she forgot about her own songs. Years passed full of the American songbook, and arias, and pop a cappella arrangements.

In 2007, at age 21, Elissa experienced a major vocal trauma: a vocal hemorrhage due to pushing and over-singing. After the hemorrhage, Elissa gave up performing and focused her efforts on studying the human voice to understand what had gone wrong.

In 2011 she founded Voice Body Connection, a vocal education company dedicated to helping speakers and singers have a healthy, confident voice. 

Teaching brought great fulfillment. Yet gradually Elissa started to remember her own songs. At a certain point, it became clear that she would need to embody her own voice and creativity fully in order to continue helping others heal their voices.

Today Elissa makes medicine music, much the same as she intuitively did as a child. She releases this music under her first and middle names - the middle name which is also her mother’s maiden name - in order to honor her matrilineal ancestors from whom she received her musical inclination. 

This music is an offering. May we connect to earth, sky, water, sun, and moon. May we dive deep into our own hearts, and also hold and nurture each other. May we channel the divine everyday. May we remember ourselves forward and backward across time and space. May we be blessed. May we be free. May we be light. 

Our voices are our pathway to liberation.