About Sophia Edlund, PhD

A voice at the threshold. A current of remembrance.

 

Sophia Edlund, PhD, is an interdisciplinary voice practitioner, researcher, artist and ceremonial guide whose work arises at the confluence of voice, water and myth. She tends the threshold where silence meets sound, body meets spirit, and memory stirs beneath the surface of song.

 

Her offerings are rooted in decades of study and a lifetime of listening: to the vibrational power of voice, the subtle intelligence of water and the mythic archetypes (Sirens, Mermaids and water-bearers) who carry songs across time.

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She works with artists, educators, consciousness explorers and those at the edge of transformation—people who sense that we are entering a new epoch and that the voice is one of its evolutionary keys.

 

With over ten years of advanced academic training, Sophia holds degrees in English Literature (University of Edinburgh), Text and Performance (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), Performance Science (Royal College of Music), and a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (University of Exeter). Her practice-based research explored the enchantment of voice through the myth of the Sirens, with a focus on the psychology of singing, the ripple effects of sound, and the deep interrelationship between voice, body and environment.

 

Sophia has spent over a decade apprenticing herself to the voice, studying with diverse teachers, traversing traditions and disciplines, and exploring the many ways sound lives in and moves through the body. Her vocal lineage and training include theatre voice work, performance psychology, classical singing, choral singing, extended vocal technique, Kulning (Nordic herding-calling), experimental voice practices, sound healing and water priestess arts. 

 

This multidimensional path allows her to meet each voice with nuance, care, and elemental clarity, whether in ceremony, coaching, or pedagogy.

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Her work bridges the scientific and the sacred, the pedagogical and the poetic. She has presented and published internationally on vocal enchantment, interspecies communication, and humanimal vocal pedagogy, and has taught undergraduate students, supervised Master’s research, and collaborated with educators and institutions across disciplines.

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Sophia’s voice practice is shaped by this depth of training and complemented by a living, intuitive relationship with sound: one that listens to and sings with springs, seas, rivers and crystalline frequencies. Through devotional encounters with natural bodies of water, and through listening to the archetypal presence of Sirens and Mermaids as vocal guides, she has developed a unique vocal expression that blends elemental resonance, ancestral memory and embodied tone.

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Her work contributes to the emergence of a new field, one that bridges voice studies, ecological attunement, mythic memory and vibrational science. Sophia is currently one of the only public voices exploring the intersection of Siren song, water and vocal resonance.

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A natural bridger, Sophia moves between worlds: between singers and non-singers, science and story, health and creativity, theory and practice. Her work weaves together the seen and the subtle, inviting a remembrance of voice as both a personal gift and a planetary force.

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A core focus of her work is healing the singing wound: the inherited silencing of the soul’s natural voice. She supports those who feel unheard, uncertain or afraid to sing, guiding them back into relationship with their sound as a source of power, restoration and belonging. Her offerings are educational, energetic and ceremonial, created for singers, seekers, researchers, water guardians, and those reclaiming the sacred through sound.

 

Her visual artwork—inspired by sacred geometry, water crystallography and archetypal symbolism—extends her vocal practice into form, offering visual portals that evoke remembrance, resonance and reverence.

 

Based in Sweden and serving a global community, Sophia stewards the Voice Water Temple, an online sanctuary for sonic renewal and vibrational care. In her role as a voice-water priestess, she tends the flow between voice and water, orienting sound as a force of healing: for bodies, for ecosystems and for the planetary field of consciousness.

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Her work is not only a practice, but a devotion, a remembering of what ancient cultures knew:
that sound is a medicine,
that water is listening,
and that the voice is a sacred current
through which transformation flows.