Become the musician you have always been.
A bespoke private mentorship in harp, guitar, sound, or voice, taking you from zero experience to fully-embodied musician in just a few months. Embrace the freedom and flow of music for well-being, brain health, and joy.
You have built a full and capable life. Somewhere along the way, the music in you grew quiet.
You feel it in the moments of stillness, a sense that one of your own languages is waiting to be spoken. This mentorship returns it to you, and makes you a musician, fully, from wherever you begin today.
Manifest Through Music
The Private Mentorship is a bespoke, three-month immersion that carries you from wherever you begin, even total beginner, to a fully embodied musician. Through harp, guitar, voice, and sound, guided by a neuroscience-informed, somatic method, you don't simply learn to play. You change your relationship to music, to your body, and to yourself.
This work has guided hundreds of adults into playing and singing for the very first time, among them students carrying traumatic brain injury, PTSD, grief, and a lifetime of believing they "weren't musical." Again and again, music moves through all of it as a force that restores something essential: a sense of agency, a deeper connection to the body, and a way back to joy. What starts as a wish to finally play becomes something far greater, a lifelong practice and a voice that stays open long after we are done.
Voices from the practice
A somatic method that has led hundreds of adults with zero experience into becoming fully embodied musicians. Hear their experience.
A sonic queen and a true master of her craft. The musical codes she carries are unique and incredibly powerful. I always left class feeling like a sound healing rockstar.
Scarlett is the real deal. Her ease, her humor, and her expertise create a learning container like no other. I was amazed to be playing songs I love on instruments I'd never even touched, in a matter of two hours.
A safe space where I felt encouraged to explore the depths of my creativity and push beyond my comfort zone. Her deep knowledge guided me on a transformative path of self-discovery and artistic development.
Sacred transformational portals that will change your life. The first teacher who got me to truly understand music theory. I can now transpose and compose in any key.
She made music theory digestible and enjoyable, something I thought impossible. She is an absolute goddess. The whole experience was so healing and heart-opening.
Scarlett comes from the heart and you can feel it. She gives you the tools to guide you through the light and the dark. She helped me remember how much magic is in this world, and that it lives inside all of us.
I felt like a total disaster at the beginning, and Scarlett helped me go step by step until I could feel it. I sang and played for other people for the first time in my life. When you play an instrument, it's like playing from your soul.
Three pillars, one practice.
Private Instruction
We begin with the sound you already carry. Your voice strengthens and your chosen instrument grows familiar, true skill, at your own pace, with the full attention of a mentor who has spent two decades on the world's stages.
The Inner Work
Music asks for presence. Alongside your skill, you develop the stillness, breath, and devotion that let sound move through you. Your nervous system settles. Playing becomes a practice you return to for life.
A Living Practice
The goal is not a lesson but a lifelong devotion. Together we shape a daily ritual that fits your life, so the music, and the calm and clarity it brings, stays with you long after we complete.
Every engagement is bespoke.
There is no single version of this mentorship, because there is no single version of you.
Some sessions happen on Zoom, intimate and unhurried, from wherever you are in the world. Some happen in person, at Scarlett's music temple in Topanga, or at your own location. For those who want full immersion, Scarlett travels to you for a five-day intensive, shaped entirely around your life and your vision.
Included is one full-day music integration ceremony, where everything you have learned, your songs, your practices, your sound, is woven into a single ceremony that is entirely yours. This is the day most students describe as the moment everything became real.
What you receive.
Three months, three movements.
Foundations
We open your voice and place your instrument in your hands. You build a daily practice and steady, real skill.
Deepening
Your playing becomes expression. Presence, breath, and devotion join your technique, and the music becomes yours.
Becoming
Your skill, presence, and voice weave into a lifelong practice, a sound that is unmistakably your own, and a calm you can return to whenever you choose.
Why music chose her first.
She could play before she could speak.
Music was the first language her body knew, the one that arrived before words. Decades later, on the floor of a shelter in Calcutta with young women who had survived trafficking, she understood why. Women who had stopped speaking found their voices through song. Music reached places that therapy, language, and time had been unable to touch.
She carried instruments and song to refugee homes in Thessaloniki, to communities in grief and displacement, and sat with Indigenous elders to learn how ceremony works and how sound holds space. She brought all of it home, into her studio in Topanga and into the private mentorships.
And then there are the nine babies. Nine students, within six months of beginning their music practice, conceived children they had been told they might never have. Something in the vibrational recalibration of active music-making, the breath, the nervous-system regulation, the deep cellular resonance, shifted what had been stuck.
Music is vibrational medicine. It is the oldest technology for bringing human beings back into alignment with themselves and with each other. This mentorship is the full transmission of everything she has learned.
Scarlett
de la Torre
Scarlett de la Torre is a musician, sound ceremonialist, and teaching artist who has spent decades watching music do what nothing else can.
She has brought instruments and music lessons, as a way to transmute some of the heaviest of human experiences, into refugee camps in Greece, music education to trafficking survivors in Kolkata, and ceremony to plant-assisted therapy programs for survivors of rape and domestic abuse in Jamaica through Wonderland Project. She has performed at global stages such as the Montreux Jazz Festival with Nile Rodgers, Summit at Sea, Necker Island, Surreal Academy, and ceremonial gatherings across the Americas. She has musically supported the ceremonial tours of Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and worked at the intersection of music, healing, and human rights across four continents. Every room has deepened her understanding of what music actually does inside a human body.
Her path as a teacher began in those rooms. Not in a conservatory. Not on a stage. In the places where music was the only thing left that could reach someone.
Since 2018 she has guided hundreds of adults with zero prior musical experience to sing and play an instrument. She has specialized in teaching psychedelic therapists and plant medicine facilitators to learn an instrument to conduct their work. Students have come to her carrying traumatic brain injury, PTSD, fertility challenges, grief, and many more challenges and limiting beliefs and music has moved through all of it as a force that restores something essential: a sense of agency, a relationship with the body, a way back to joy.
Her method is built on one truth: music is not a talent you either have or don't. It is not reserved for the gifted, the trained, or the brave. It is a living force that belongs inside every person, waiting to be remembered.
She is here to help you remember yours.
A particular threshold.
There is a particular moment Scarlett recognises in the people who find their way to this mentorship. They have built something real. A practice, a business, a life with genuine depth. They have done the inner work, the therapy, the ceremonies, the coaching. They have invested in themselves seriously and it has paid off.
And they arrive at a kind of threshold. Everything they have built is working. The life is full. The work is meaningful. And there is still this frequency, this persistent, quiet signal, that something in them is waiting to be expressed in a way it has never been before.
Most people feel that signal and file it away. Later, they say. When things slow down. The ones who come to Scarlett have realised something: later is a story. The moment you are in right now is the only one that is real.
The question is simply whether you are ready to answer what has been calling.
You belong here if…
This is for someone else if.
This mentorship is a serious creative and spiritual commitment. It calls for genuine devotion, a daily practice, and the willingness to be a beginner in the presence of a master.
You are a right fit if this page has felt less like marketing and more like a mirror.
A serious, personal commitment.
$10,000 in full, or five monthly payments of $2,222.
This mentorship opens to a small number of people each year, by private application only. Every engagement is personal, bespoke, and built entirely around you.
In case you are wondering.
Do I require musical experience?
My life is very full. Will this fit?
Is the rainforest immersion required?
Is this for my own musicianship, or to teach others?
How is the investment structured?
How do we begin?
“Her teaching wasn't just about technique. It was fully embracing the energetics of what it means to be a musician. My sound has evolved in ways I never experienced. She has completely transformed who I am.”
The Yawanawá
Rainforest Immersion
For those who feel called, there is a journey deeper still, an optional immersion with the Yawanawá people of the Amazon, welcomed as guests into a tradition where song has always been medicine and prayer.
You sit in their ceremonies, learn from their keepers, and witness the living source of sacred sound. The journey rests on respect and reciprocity, and your presence supports the community directly.
Offered separately from the mentorship · travel and retreat not included. Ask me about upcoming journeys on our call.
What music does to the adult brain.
Adult brains are open systems. The research is decades deep and runs in one consistent direction: active music-making changes the brain in ways that passive listening, and most other cognitive activities, simply do not.
When you learn an instrument, you recruit your auditory cortex, motor cortex, cerebellum, and limbic system all at once. You build new motor maps and strengthen the bridge between the brain's hemispheres. Studies on adult beginners show measurable increases in gray matter in regions tied to memory, attention, and fine coordination, within months, not years.
And beneath cognition, singing and playing string instruments ask for slow, controlled exhalation, directly engaging the vagal brake, the branch of the nervous system responsible for calm, presence, and connection.
Gray Matter
Instrument learning increases gray matter in regions linked to memory, attention, and coordination.
Gaser & Schlaug, 2003Hemispheric Integration
Music practice improves communication between the brain's hemispheres, sharpening cognitive flexibility and focus.
Schlaug et al., 2009Adult Neuroplasticity
First-time adult learners reshape motor maps and auditory-motor networks within weeks of beginning.
Wan & Schlaug, 2010Mood & Regulation
Active music-making raises dopamine and serotonin, measurably shifting mood and reducing stress markers.
Salimpoor et al., 2011“What musicians call ‘being in it’ has a physiological address. I teach directly into this: body first, nervous system first, technique second.”
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