for artists
built for real creative work, shows, students, and clients.
For artists with ambition the size of TEXAS
but capacity the size of Rhode Island
You might recognize yourself here:
- You swing between overdrive and shutdown when it’s time to make your art, market yourself, or share on social media.
- Therapy isn’t addressing your artistic issues, and your career isn’t changing or improving.
- You can’t say no to misaligned shows, clients, or classes and then quietly sabotage or ghost.
- Your body crashes with burnout, illness, or pain every time you gain momentum, making it hard to grow in your craft or career.
- You have no space left for yourself after over-giving to friends, students, collaborators, or clients.
- You secretly wonder if you’re too much, too broken, or too late to actually achieve your creative goals.
- Success feels like a threat, because you’re afraid that if things really worked out, your nervous system couldn’t support it.
Hi, I’m Ruby!
I help artists make and share their best work from a body that feels safe.
I’m an award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, author, coach, and founder of MuscleMusic. For 25 years, my voice was my lifeline – Shakespeare plays, 5 one-woman shows, touring the US, fronting a 10-piece band, winning Boston music awards, and even singing on the TED stage – while my nervous system quietly lived in survival mode.
At 35, my body finally hit the brakes; I couldn’t write or perform, and I was devastated. I dragged shame around like dead weight. This sent me deep into Polyvagal Theory, the science of safety, and years of research while rehabbing my own nervous system. My whole life changed, so I set out to provide new resources to fellow artists in need of a safer way to succeed.
That work became MuscleMusic, my Superplay Theory (The Fox Method), and the Nervous System & the Arts course: a groundbreaking, trauma-educated training that treats your body as your primary instrument, so your art, health, and income can safely coexist and last.
Why I work with artistsOur Revolution in the Arts
At MuscleMusic, the artist’s primary instrument is the nervous system.
We give artists of all disciplines the same level of training for their nervous system that they’ve given their craft, so they can create and perform without burning out, freezing, or blowing up the work they care about most.
We do that through science-grounded, trauma-informed education and embodied tools
that artists rarely receive in traditional education, artistic training, or therapy.
Nervous System & The Arts Program
Inside the program, you’ll have two ways to work with this:
- Lean Artist Path - build a regulated, sustainable art life for your own body, career, and projects.
- Mastery Path (Fox Method Certification) - learn to use this work with your students, clients, or casts while staying regulated yourself.
Both paths use trauma-educated nervous system training built for real creative lives with bills, deadlines, and people who need you.
You get lifetime access to the Nervous System & The Arts curriculum and one year of live coaching, organized into four seasonal 6-week cohorts, so you’re never doing this alone. Practice these tools in real-time with your current shows, classes, clients, and creative work so you can sustain your art, income, and impact without blowing up your body or disappearing when it matters.
Inside The Nervous System & The Arts Program, you’ll:
- Start and finish creative work without freeze, “comeback” cycles, or self-betrayal by matching tools to the exact state your body is in.
- Take bigger opportunities (shows, launches, students, clients) without crashing afterward so your nervous system can hold more visibility, money, and responsibility.
- Bring a regulated, trauma-aware presence to the rooms you lead so students, casts, bands, and clients feel safer around your work than your burnout.
If you’re stuck in burnout, avoidance, or shame around your art, this program can reset the way your nervous system meets your work in the next 6 weeks. Payment plans and a Value Guarantee are available, so you’re not gambling your rent on hope.
Real Artists ~ Real Results
Stories from artists and educators with nervous system tools
“The maintenance of nervous system health will revolutionize acting training by providing tools to manage the habitual trauma reactions that can be triggered by the work. I wish I had this knowledge as a young actor and will be using these techniques in the classroom for years to come.”
“Ruby's MuscleMusic has bridged the gap in my 25+ year career as a performing artist where no counseling or therapy could—giving me a clear picture of my nervous system states in all circumstances and supporting tools on and off-stage to continue to excel as a performer and advance as a nervous system leader.”
“Ruby’s work has changed my life. I feel incredibly fortunate to have found a way for my body and mind to make sense of past experiences in theater. If you have found your way to Ruby, I hope you give yourself the gift of sitting with the work, applying it to your life, and returning to it whenever this journey gets tough.”
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FREE Mini-Masterclass
Practical and transformative tools for anxious and avoidant artists
Make one small agreement between you and your body today.
Begin at your body’s pace:
get the Free Masterclass for Avoidant Artists
or explore the Nervous System & The Arts Program.
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