I'm Ruby Rose. I’m an award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, author, master nervous system coach, and the founder of MuscleMusic. I created the Superplay Theory.
(The Fox Method)

Universities we’ve worked with!

  • Yale University

  • Emerson College

  • Cambridge Community

  • TuneFoolery

  • Brandeis University

  • Boston University

  • Northeastern University

My mission…

MuscleMusic was built to help artists train their nervous system as their primary instrument, so you can struggle less and create more, safely.

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 safe 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 my 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 my 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 broken, 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…

So I…

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

But then… at 35, I found my nervous system in freeze. I couldn’t create. I couldn’t perform. Everything came to a halt.

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, after years of inspired research, I created a groundbreaking training program that combines the performing arts 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 so much more.

Finally, I built an educational system, an app, and a pedagogy to rehab even 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 100s of artists and major universities to safely reclaim the nervous system as our primary instrument. So we can all struggle less, and create more. To me, shifting the way an artist moves in the world,

IS an ART FORM.

Here is what this looks like!

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

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.