Charlotte Herst

Charlotte Herst is a British-Canadian soprano and STAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher who teaches embodiment skills and performance readiness. They run the Voice and Alexander Technique Studio in east van and online, and tour group workshops for performers and makers of all kinds. Recent workshops include Singing into Being with Rosalie Warner at AT Congress Dublin and Voice and Alexander Technique for the Actor at Bard Studio in Vancouver. Charlotte has assisted in London UK at the Royal College of Music, the London School of Musical Theatre and with the Temple Church choral scholars program. She is dedicated to developing accessible and affordable resources for performers such as Folder Shoulder™, a short course for choristers, and her substack community: The Process Rooms.

Trained as an actor and musical theatre artist, Charlotte has sung as soloist, ensemble-singer, church musician, improviser/collaborator, and as part of an early music soprano duo. After becoming a yoga teacher in 2009, Charlotte began leading Voice and Movement workshops. Her approach is inspired and informed by over two decades studying anatomy, somatic practices, and the challenge of working with disability.