About SAMYADA

At the centre of SAMYADA is therefore the person, not the method. The work is shaped by attention, curiosity, intuition and professional knowledge, while remaining open to what needs to be understood, questioned or approached differently. Physical experience, thoughts, emotions, behaviour, relationships, environment and the way we understand ourselves do not exist separately. Paying attention to these connections in all the practices offered, can open possibilities that may not have been visible before.

SAMYADA values participation rather than passive treatment or lessons. It takes healing seriously without presenting one method, practitioner or perspective as the complete answer. What matters is finding a way of working that is meaningful for the person — and that can continue beyond the sessions.

SAMYADA grew from the belief that there is rarely only one way to understand a person, a difficulty or a way forward. People are different, circumstances change, and what is helpful for one person may not be right for another.

SAMYADA was founded by Isabel, a German voice and speech practitioner, music therapist, movement practitioner and singer & performer, now based in Sri Lanka.

Her work has developed across fields that are often kept separate: artistic practice and therapeutic work, technique and expression, teaching and treatment, the voice and the body & mind.

Her professional path began through music, singing, performance and movement on stage and developed further through voice and speech training, teaching and music therapy. She has worked independently with students and clients as well as in music schools and clinically as a music therapist in a German hospital, including work with people living with chronic pain and in palliative care.

These experiences continue to shape SAMYADA: taking health seriously without reducing a person to a diagnosis; valuing technique without asking everyone to sound or move the same way; and working with professional knowledge while remaining curious about what is not yet understood.

Why these different paths belong together for me

I have never experienced voice, music, movement, body and health as completely separate subjects. They can ask for very different knowledge and they should not be blurred into one another, but they continually meet in the person.

Music can be artistic and deeply personal. Movement can be learned, enjoyed, observed or used to understand something about ourselves. Sound can be listened to, felt and worked with therapeutically. And the voice is a map of your own world.

The longer I work, the less interested I am in making one of these approaches the answer to everything. I am more interested in understanding what each of them can offer, where its limits are, and what becomes possible when the person rather than the method stays at the centre.

I am happy to welcome you at SAMYADA.