I'm Ruby Rose. I’m an award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, author, master nervous system coach, and the founder of Muscle Music. I created the Superplay Theory.

(The Fox Method)

Clients

  • Yale University

  • Emerson College

  • Cambridge Community

  • TuneFoolery

  • Brandeis University

  • Boston University

  • Northeastern University

My mission…

“The main mission of MuscleMusic is to help artists train their nervous system as their primary instrument.

It's a call for artists to become nervous system virtuosos—not just emotional messengers or survival machines. Because when my life fell apart at 35, I knew there was a better way…

and everything changed.

My story…

As a child, singing was my safest place.
It was where I went when my sister died of leukemia—
I wasn’t me,
I was Roy Orbison’s “Crying.”

When my parents divorced,
I became Cosette from Les Misérables.

When the church told me who I couldn’t be,
I wasn’t me—
I was Nirvana, full volume.

And when a narcissistic parent distorted reality,
I found refuge in the vibrations of songs I wrote. Creating a self out of no self.

Art wasn’t a hobby. It was survival.
A lifeline.
The urgency to be seen, needed, and loved by an audience fueled a successful career...

But if art was so “healing” why was I always broke, and dysregulated, and scared? I didn’t know but I did know that I would PROVE to the world that I was not worthless like I felt at home…

And then…

I toured the country with a ska band at 18, I became a trained Shakespeare and stage actress, did 5 one-woman shows, I created a 10 piece band called RUBY ROSE FOX, made 2 full length albums, 10 Boston area music awards, got a couple million Spotify plays, toured the country again,

and then, at 35, found my nervous system in freeze.

And then…

I learned about “The Science of Safety” and realized that despite 25 years in the field, no one ever taught me what my TRUE instrument was, how to navigate it, and how to place it in the best position to THRIVE, not just survive. First, I had to heal my own nervous system. Then, I made a course to combine performing with Polyvagal Theory (PVI). Years later, I built upon the insights of the GREAT trauma theorists to develop my own theory specifically for the arts and made so much more.

Finally, I built an educational system, an app, and a pedagogy to rehab the most “broken” artist, through embodied practice, community, and play. I also realized that while I love singing, this work was the love of my life. I’ve now worked with 100’s of artists and major universities to reclaim the artists nervous system. To me, shifting the way an artist moves in the world is an

ART FORM.

I now live in Nashville, TN with my fiance and Yuna Tuna (our dog). I continue to create, sing, teach, but now from a place of KNOWING my nervous system is my instrument.

I never thought that relational and financial abundance could ever happen for me. The key was that I needed to know my worth from a DEEPER place than just art-making and performing.