Bea Palya

SINGER, SONGWRITER, VOICE TEACHER, COACH

Half-Gypsy from the edge of a tiny Hungarian village, she sang herself into Carnegie hall. Hungarian folk songs are her musical “mother tongue”, and she has deep roots in Romani (Gypsy), Jewish, and Bulgarian music.

After 40 years of performing on the biggest stages of the world from Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) to London Royal Opera House, she put her voice-wisdom to serving others. By the encouragement of her dear friend Dr. Gábor Máté, she became a transformational voice teacher, besides continuing giving concerts as well all over the world.

She developed several programs based on her method of voice-related deep inner work. She helps people, mostly women, to find their own authentic voice and row through it. Her method involves exercises to open and free the physical voice, cultivating a sense of joy in singing, and learning the basics of songwriting: embracing our personal history and creating our soulsong out of that material in order to grow and self-realize.

She is also continuing her songwriting work. Being the first female singer-songwriter in Hungary (with her 47 years!) she is a pioneer in writing her bodily experiences into songs, which transformed thousands and thousands of lifes in her tribe. Some of the themes that arise include how to be less burdened by the inheritance we receive from our ancestors, how to give birth, how to have a positive body image, how to return to sexuality after childbirth and parenthood, how to have a sustained life partnership with another person, how to have the support of sisterhood friendships, and how to heal from divorce and what to say to our children about it. (She also went through a divorce with two very small children, and, through singing and songwriting, she turned her experience into a deep medicine – for herself and for others.