She has been named: Goldenvoice That Heals & Golden Voiced Eagle Woman by her Lakota Teacher
Experience the sound of ceremonial singing creating a healing sanctuary held by
the voice of a spiritual healer...
"Winner 2008 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards"
"Best International Pop CD/Album"
"Best International Pop Female Artist"
Joy Adler is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and sound healer whose life and work are devoted to the transformative power of music. She is known for creating immersive concert experiences that blend voice, ceremony, and healing intention—offering audiences a space for emotional release, spiritual connection, and renewal. Her voice has been described as soulful, powerful, and deeply expressive, capable of reaching into the heart of human experience.
Her lifelong dream has been to create and perform music that touches people deeply—helping them release past trauma, dissolve emotional blockages, and open to greater possibility and purpose.
“It is my lifelong dream to create and perform music that touches people’s hearts, to help them clear past hurts, blockages or trauma in a graceful, high-vibrational way…
I know if I sing from my heart and soul, it moves the audience in profound ways.” – Joy Adler
Joy’s musical journey began in childhood singing in church. She later became a self-taught professional vocalist, developing a powerful and versatile voice interpreting rock, R&B, pop, and jazz standards. She performed extensively on stages in Atlantic City and other venues, where she refined her stage presence and expanded her range. During this time, songwriting became a central expression, marked by emotional honesty, depth, and a directness that quickly created a strong connection with audiences.
Her work as a recording artist and performer has been widely recognized. She received the 2008 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards for Best International Pop CD/Album and Best International Pop Female Artist. She is also a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2019–20) and is listed in Who’s Who in America in recognition of her professional contributions. In 2023, Joy was awarded a Gold Record from Midnight Records in New York City for Lifetime Achievement in “Music for Healing.”
Alongside her music career, Joy has built an extensive background in healing, psychology, and spiritual practice. In 1994, she became certified as a Pastoral Counselor and Hypnotherapist, marking the beginning of her formal integration of healing arts into her work. She went on to study shamanism for over a decade with respected teachers including a Lakota Chief and Medicine Man in New Mexico, Jane Wynote of the MicMac Nation in Pennsylvania, Grandmother Twylah of the Seneca Nation in New York, and Patricia White Buffalo.
Joy also completed advanced professional training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she studied energy healing science, transpersonal psychology, somatic and body-centered psychotherapeutic techniques, ethics, and transformational inner process work. In 2000, the school was granted licensure through the Florida medical and educational system allowing students to receive a Bachelor of Science degree through its program. Her studies in early childhood psychology were later integrated into the school’s Advanced Studies Master’s-level curriculum, deepening the developmental and psychological foundation of her teaching and healing work.
She also completed three years of teacher training within the same institution while simultaneously engaging in advanced studies in early childhood psychology and development. This interdisciplinary foundation now informs both her therapeutic practice and her role as Dean of the Graduate and Freshman Programs at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she integrates healing science, developmental psychology, and transformational education.
Joy has also pursued extensive continuing education in Neuroscience, which she actively weaves into both her clinical work and her teaching. She brings neuroscience-informed understanding of neuroplasticity, nervous system regulation, trauma response, and emotional processing into her curriculum and workshops. This integration allows students and practitioners to understand healing through both energetic and biological frameworks.
In addition, Joy has completed certifications in Somatic Training, Family Constellation Therapy, Core Energetics, Yoga Teacher Training, and Ayurvedic Nutritional Counseling grounded in Ayurveda. These modalities further expand her integrative approach to body-centered healing, emotional release, transgenerational pattern work, movement, breath, and holistic wellbeing.
Her personal experience also deeply shaped her path. A pivotal moment occurred when she sang to her father while he was in a coma from bone cancer and witnessed emotional responses to her voice—an experience that profoundly shaped her understanding of music as a healing force and inspired her lifelong exploration of sound as medicine.
Over time, Joy developed her own workshop series, The Healing Power of Sound and Music Certification Program, through which she trained others in vocal expression, sound healing, and vibrational practices. She is widely regarded as a pioneer in integrating energy healing, psychology, and the arts into experiential learning environments.
Her creative and healing work has been shared internationally through concerts, retreats, television and radio programs, educational seminars, and sacred site journeys. She has performed and taught worldwide, including ceremonial singing at Damanhur’s Temples of Humankind in Italy and at Darshan events with Hindu spiritual teacher Sai Maa in New York.
Joy has collaborated with numerous artists and producers, including Mark Shepard and Joe Mennonna (The Bacon Brothers), and has contributed vocals and compositions to healing music projects and global initiatives. Her album Community Heartshare features live recordings from events she created with spiritual teachers, shamans, musicians, and healing practitioners.
She is also the founder of Master Destiny Tours, sacred musical journeys to Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Scotland, where participants engage in music, ceremony, and ancestral healing at ancient sites. She wrote the theme song “Dreamers of Our Future” for the Global Foundation for Healing.
Currently, Joy is working with musician and sound engineer Dan Zavadil on her “Global Community Heartshare” concert series recordings, honoring the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. These works are being integrated into her forthcoming book Reclaiming the Self Through One’s Creative Process, along with her Energy Diagnostic Workbook.
Joy continues to tour and perform with her band, The Souls of Evolution, and is actively working on her upcoming album Mesmerized, featuring collaborations with producer Joe Mennonna. She also serves as Dean of the Advanced Studies Program at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and Dean of the New York branch, and is a longtime faculty member at the Center for Natural Wellness in Albany, New York.
In addition to her teaching and performance work, Joy maintains a private healing and supervision practice, mentors practitioners, and continues to create music and ceremonial events dedicated to healing, consciousness, and human transformation.
May Joy’s Song find you and bless you with the gift of healing one day.
"See the sound of a bee’s wings as she darts through the flowers, calling them to unfold and share their essence.
Hear the sound of an eagle’s krie carried throughout the skies, announcing to all his soaring joy as he is uplifted by the wind. Feel the sound made by the breeze joining the trees to bring forth an internal stillness heard only between breaths. Experience the sound of ceremonial singing creating a healing sanctuary held by the voice of a spiritual healer. All are sounds that weave sacred circles to hold the fullest attentions of a listener. All are sounds that carry a moment that deepens a listener’s connection to self and to creation. All are sounds made when song and singer are fully merged together with source, and the
singer becomes Song." –Jackie Hufnail
“The Difference between a flash-in-the-pan musician and one who transcends time is an artist’s willingness to bare the soul. Joy Adler’s own voice is no less passionate.”
-Martha Petteys -Reporter, The Troy Record