Testimonials

“What an extraordinary adventure!! I arrived at this Authentic Voice workshop weekend without having any idea of what to expect, while noticing that my body was feverish and agitated, my stomach in knots… It was definitely preparing for something BIG!!

It was such a powerful experience of being confronted with myself—no longer able to hide behind the stories in my head and instead dropping into the body, which never lies!! I was especially touched by those moments of body‑to‑body connection with others: standing firmly on our legs while being completely soft in the upper body, held in the arms of another human being who welcomes our vulnerability through our imperfect yet authentically vibrating voice.

It is a space where we learn to balance letting go and inner strength—I have always sought this in my life!! I also loved the combination of spending half the day in group exercises and the other half in individual sessions!!

Anikim is a true magician when it comes to sensing exactly where a person needs to go to free themselves from limiting beliefs and suffocating stories… Whether it’s needing to be rocked, to express anger, to inhabit one’s power, or to dare to be vulnerable—it’s incredible how she can move so freely between the two poles of the sacred masculine and feminine!!

THANK YOU so much, my dear Anikim. You were my buffalo / bull—solid enough to dare to push me into my true power, all the way to that divine voice I myself couldn’t imagine could exist within me… Thank you, thank you, thank you for EXISTING!!”

— Élizia Castonguay (2025)

“The Authentic Voice! The title caught my attention. I allowed myself to be guided and signed up for the two-day workshop without really knowing what to expect.

After just a few minutes, I realized that Anikim truly embodies this authenticity—without masks, complexes, or restraint. I accepted the invitation and fully immersed myself, knowing I could surrender to her experience, expressed through a kind and confident authority.

I found myself playing with my voice, breath, and entire body. All the participants became part of this dance, and in turn, we each took center stage. I realized that my body deserves my trust, even when my mind doesn’t fully understand what’s happening. It was a profound and beautiful awakening.

I am writing these lines the day after the workshop, and I know the benefits will continue to transform my singing and my relationship with my body.Thank you, Anikim Lamoureux, for your passion.”

— Julie Perron (2025)

“One More Step Towards Self-Love and Love for Others

By the end of the weekend, through singing, I discovered both my strength and my vulnerability.

Dead weights fell away—those that were keeping me from flying.

Women saw me: strong, persevering, sensitive,
but also playful, laughing. I was afraid of discovering myself,
of finding ugliness within me. But I found my path—
my thread of self. And this path, my voice, came forth
without shame, without pain,
without struggle, without conflict. It emerged. Gentle, silky,
and strong like a silk thread. I discovered that singing
is both an intimate and universal act.

It’s about being bare before others,
offering your voice as a promise—of love and trust.

It’s about embracing your shadow parts, your flaws, your missteps.
It’s about embracing the full spectrum of emotions: anger, rage,
confidence, tremors, and all the love we carry—
that love seeking to be set free. Learning to sing
is learning to tame yourself. Singing is choosing joy.

I have taken one more step towards self-love and love for others.
Thank you, Anikim, for your guidance.”

— Julie Bernard (2025)

“Anikim is a shaman of the voice; she guides us to discover the voice we’ve buried beneath our wounds, the one calling to be freed. It’s an experience that is both moving and transformative, sometimes very uncomfortable, yet revealing an unexpected inner power. A compassionate, supportive, and caring space. I am deeply grateful to have crossed paths with this magnificent soul, who follows her path in such an authentic and inspiring way.”

— Agathe Roy (2025)

“It was a truly powerful experience. It is a practice that, at least in my experience, brings us into direct contact with the true SELF. Thank you for knowing how to guide us and for holding the space. It was so beautiful to see how each session with you was unique, and to witness how you supported us by knowing exactly what we needed in each present moment. Truly, thank you! Thank you for being of service and for being an instrument. I feel immense gratitude for having lived this experience and for knowing you.

What I observed throughout the entire weekend—especially during the individual body, breath, and voice work—is how deeply we dive within ourselves to shed light on our conditioning and blockages, and to draw from that vitality, that life force we all carry within us. It takes perseverance to go ever deeper, beyond all those conditionings and layers that prevent us from accessing this vitality already present within us. These realizations, especially toward the end, are truly precious.

It is a transformative, deep, and powerful practice that embraces the being as a whole. We are embodied in a physical body, and it is essential to be grounded in that body. At the same time, our voice is the expression of our soul; it goes beyond the physical body and the mind. The breath is the connection between voice and body, because without breath, there is no life… Body, breath, and voice together form a whole: a trinity.

I would truly love to relive this experience with you in the future and to be guided by you again. I find it so admirable how you push us, how you don’t let go of us—and we need that! You don’t abandon us, even when we might be ready to give up ourselves. It is precious to know that someone is there to say: “Come back, you’re falling here.” Because during the practice, we don’t even realize that we’re getting lost, that we’re falling. But you are there, guiding us, telling us: “Here, you’re starting to lose yourself.” We are so conditioned—this is deeply rooted in our subconscious, our unconscious… Working with you brings everything back into Awareness and Presence.

During the individual work with you, you were able to recognize exactly what I needed. I needed support, holding, and to be accompanied by the other participants. That was so precious. How good it feels not to be alone! To be seen, welcomed, and loved for who I truly am. It’s beautiful! This experience allowed me to go even deeper on my path and to continue bringing light to those shadow parts—those parts that are afraid, that doubt, that struggle to trust, and that fear getting lost.”

— Cynthia Riku (2025)

“The two-day workshop I just experienced with you and all the beautiful souls present was truly revealing. Through your firm authority, infused with love, I was first shaken—and it didn’t take long for me to feel completely inspired. I am so inspired by the strength and confidence you embody that I am now bringing a little more of that authority into my own personal journey. It is an exceptional gift for me, truly.

Thank you for naming the real things, thank you for not abandoning me, and for authentically telling me when I was moving away from my truth and getting caught in my stories. Just that alone was a revelation for me—to become aware of when I step out of my inner power.

I was able to taste more deeply what it truly means to be in one’s power, to be grounded in one’s center, to inhabit one’s body with presence and surrender. I was able to settle within myself, and it feels good.

The work with body, breath, and voice is so complete and powerful. I now see my Voice differently. This is only the beginning of a beautiful adventure.”

— Roxanne Germain (2025)

“During this weekend workshop on a cold winter’s day, I had the great fortune of meeting a wonderful and authentic Anikim. She is a vocal facilitator who guides us inward and listens so deeply. With precision, she knows exactly where to go so that we can explore our own shadow parts, unique to each of us.

She guides us with rigor, confidence, and kindness, encouraging us to be authentic, right where everything truly resides.

This workshop is a wonderful gift to give to yourself. Thank you.”

— Andréa Parent (2025)

“So much joy in entering a proposal I knew nothing about. The bodily preparation through free dance, the exercises, your benevolent presence, and your tenacity allowed me to feel safe enough to step into the unknown and trust the process you offer. The invitation to let go of ‘the story’ during the workshop was deeply instructive for me—I savored it.

During my individual session, I felt a great curiosity to explore my ‘depths’ through the voice, in a playful way. I was deeply touched by your full and wholehearted presence, entirely devoted to the unfolding process, alternating between gentleness and a kind of ‘martial’ clarity in a very finely tuned way. I felt safe and respected, while being guided with kindness toward where resistance and blocks to the full expression of Being lie hidden deep within. Your expressive gaze and face supported me.

I was in my body—in my pelvis, my feet, my hands, my mouth, in my breath—and as if connected by a thread, from your gaze to mine, heart to heart, without fear of intensity, the unknown, dissonance, or the tears that were flowing. Nothing could have pulled me out of the process; I was fully in it.

After the individual session, I was there, in my body, simply there in the present moment, completely ‘new,’ and it felt so good. Walking outside, I was immersed in bodily sensations—the feel of my rubber boots, the ground and the plants, the light, the wind. The thoughts passing through me didn’t interest me; I returned instantly and effortlessly to ‘here and now, in the body.’

It’s rare for me to truly be present in my body. A long history of dissociation often pulls me away from embodied experience into ‘groundless’ reflection. And this—this felt very, very good!!!

I found observing and participating in the individual sessions of others to be incredibly rich—beautiful mirrors, deep compassion, and a sense of wonder at witnessing the process unfold. It was beautiful to see, each time and without fail, your inner availability. You never forced anything (no one can force someone to go there), yet you never let go of the process or the person being accompanied.

After this week of ‘settling’ following the workshop, I feel more ‘here and now.’ I return more often, and more easily, to my body and the present moment. I approach my emotions and thoughts differently, with a phrase that stayed with me and that I repeat like a mantra: ‘With this.’ I remain in presence ‘with this’ (thought, discomfort, sorrow, pain), without judging, without trying to understand or control the inner experience, and without clinging either—just being present.

And it is very gentle. I feel that I am caring for what is, rather than ‘wanting to free myself’ or ‘wanting to make things move.’ It’s an attention, a deep listening that transforms the way I approach healing and transformation. It allows me to welcome what is—intention without directive will.

Thank you, Anikim, for this journey and this beautiful accompaniment. Your medicine is precious.”

— Élodie Adam (2024)

“Without revealing any personal information, I want to share what I witnessed unfolding during this day. Each person present was there for a different reason, with a different life path. With each one, I saw you intervene with patience, love, and rigor, finding the opening through which the voice of the soul could find its way. It passes through the body—and it is magnificent.

It is prodigious work, and it is a privilege to witness these transformations, both as an observer and as a participant. I believe that for everyone, this voice of the soul was revealed for the first time… or rediscovered.

I left feeling full of energy and joy. When I returned home, I sang and played the drum, and I gave thanks—to you, Anikim the magician, to the participants for their support, and for all the help received from the invisible world. Aho.”

— Claire. V. Nadeau (2022)

“I attended a voice workshop with Anikim. An exceptional day. Anikim’s method, approach, and talent allowed me to discover my voice… nothing less. It is astonishing. Despite all the obstacles we may place in our way, despite fear and past failures, Anikim guides us with grace toward this voice that so deeply wants to express itself. I am now walking the path of healing through the voice. Thank you, Anikim.”

— Suzanne Bernard (2022)

“Anikim knows how to generously guide us on the path that opens the body to the breath, giving it the space to release the voice. I was simply enchanted by this approach to expressive revelation!”

— Martine Saphira (2022)

“Carving a path with one’s voice, a path within oneself to help express what wants to be expressed, to be experienced through the body, the sensations, and the vibrations we create ourselves. I deeply appreciate this approach, this way of encountering oneself intimately connected to the body, bypassing reflection… touching and shaking the barriers we’ve built to make space for free expression in all its nuances and colors.

Anikim offers guidance of remarkable precision. Her support is at once gentle, tender, loving, firm, lively, dynamic, and welcoming. We feel safe; we know we can find the path—she knows we can find the path. The trust she carries and embodies, this faith in humanity, naturally takes root within us! She knows that we already have everything we need and that we are whole, here and now, and that it is possible for everyone, exactly as they are. She knows that we are worthy, worthy of being humans expressing and living simply. Through osmosis, we are imbued with this too… and we know it as well!

Being in a group with others makes the experience deep and sincere, whether in the posture of the observer or the one being observed! The power of seeing and being seen, of welcoming and being welcomed by others, alchemizes the process with such gentleness.”

— Emy Allaire (2022)

“The voice workshop is an experience! ANIKIM carved a path for me, like a guide through the jungle, all the way to my soul note! That sound, that vibration that is mine! The power I felt in that moment was magnificent… feeling connected to something greater than myself… yet still myself!!!

The power of the circle that supports each participant is also something to be experienced… witnessing the revelation of each person’s unique vibrational note is deeply moving.

Anikim’s quality of presence is phenomenal—precise and attuned to each participant. I am filled with gratitude… thank you!!”

— Christine Boudrias (2022)

“Reflections on the Authentic Voice workshop offered by Anikim. An authentic Presence, flowing with the moment, guiding me to welcome the resistances in simply expressing my voice.

For me, the effect of the circle was an added gift—thank you to the participants for your caring presence, which challenged me to continue daring to be the full beauty of Life that I am.

Thank you, Anikim, for the path you have walked and for your willingness to share it.”

— Sylvie Mailloux-Phaneuf (2022)