About
At the heart of Vital Song Foundation™ is a belief: the human voice is central to care, connection, and emotional well-being.
We understand singing as presence—a living, embodied act that invites healing, deepens relationship, and honors the sacredness of sound. Through guided vocal meditation workshops, support ceremonies, and a growing archive of care songs and vocal practices, we invite our community into experiences where the voice becomes a vessel for transformation, expression, and communal care.
This work is held by three co-facilitators who share a commitment to voice as a medium for healing and emotional depth. Each brings a distinct orientation to the practice, shaped by lived experience, relational care, and trust in the liberatory power of sound.
Facilitators
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Jasper Sussman
Knowledge Domain: Vision & Practice Development
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Danielle Perrault
Knowledge Domain: Embodied Expression & Integration
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Elly Roseberry
Knowledge Domain: Holistic Health & Relational Care
Jasper Sussman
In her view, musicking—an interrelational process of becoming—is inseparable from ethical life. A vocalist, composer, choral leader, and scholar, Jasper Sussman is dedicated to socially meaningful voice work. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego, her dissertation explores the voice as ecology and the choir as a socially driven ecosystem, integrating ethnomusicology, somatic practice, and liberatory pedagogy to reimagine vocal work as a medium for communal care and transformation.
Her creative life spans choral direction, ritual facilitation, and experimental vocal performance and composition. Recent roles include Soloist and Core Member of Sacra/Profana, Director of Choirs at Cuyamaca College, and contributing artist with San Diego New Music. She also serves as Education Programs Coordinator for SACRA/PROFANA and Community Engagement Manager for the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Her private studio teaching draws on somatic modalities including Alexander Technique, butoh, yoga, and reiki, integrating trauma-informed and constructivist frameworks. A founding member of FOMA Ensemble, a movement-based vocal trio that laid the groundwork for Vital Song Foundation™, Jasper now co-facilitates offerings rooted in voice as care.
She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (MM) and Lawrence University (BM), and her choral works are published by See-A-Dot Music Publishing and in the Justice Choir Songbook.
FOUNDER
Caribbean-American vocalist Danielle Perrault is an educator, performer, and somatic practitioner whose work explores the voice as a pathway to deeper self-knowledge. With roots in dance, psychology, and yoga, Danielle’s creative and teaching journey has consistently centered the body as a site of expression and transformation.
Her performing life has spanned over three decades and has carried her through choral, opera, oratorio, musical theater, jazz, and folk traditions: experiences that continue to inform her vision of the voice as both versatile and deeply human. Rather than separating artistry from wellness, Danielle’s current practice brings both into conversation, integrating somatic movement therapy, vocal pedagogy, and intuition to support vocalists of all kinds in cultivating presence, resilience, and authentic expression.
In addition to her work with VSF, Danielle teaches applied voice at California State University San Marcos and serves as Assistant Director of Community Engagement with Bach Collegium San Diego. She holds degrees in Opera Performance (MM), Music Performance (BA), and Psychology (BA), and is currently completing advanced training in somatic movement therapy.
Danielle Perrault
Elly Roseberry (she/her) is a singer, voice-body specialist, and educator with a simple belief — anyone is allowed to sing. This guiding principle is the foundation of her artistry, teaching, and community work.
For the past two decades, Elly has been fascinated with the intersection of voice science/pedagogy and the intuitive connections between voice, body, and mind. This exploration has shaped her conviction that vocalizing, in any context, is a practice of holistic health and the deepest expressions of the nervous system. In creating spaces where the voice is inherently worthy, her invitation is to sing with curiosity: not to decide what your voice should sound like, but to discover what your voice already has to say.
Elly maintains a vibrate private studio (RoseberryVocalStudio.com), is on faculty at Villa Musica - San Diego’s Community Music Center, and is a sought-after educator across multiple San Diego school districts. As a seasoned performer who started in the classical and choral traditions, Elly also plays with and teaches musical theater, jazz, CCM, and crossover styles. She regularly performs with SACRA/PROFANA (San Diego’s premiere professional choral ensemble), and is brought in as a soloist with First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Village Community Presbyterian Church’s contemporary band and traditional choir.