12 Days of Vertebrae, Part 2
This is part 2 of the 2024 Movement Advent, Twelve Days of Vertebrae, that I ran on Instagram. Over the 12 days we look at each segment of the spine: cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral with movements and breathing strategies to improve how your spine functions and feels. As always you can try singing a […]
12 Days of Vertebrae, Part 1
This is part 1 of the 2024 Movement Advent, Twelve Days of Vertebrae, that I ran on Instagram. Over the 12 days we look at each segment of the spine: cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral with movements and breathing strategies to improve how your spine functions and feels. As always you can try singing a […]
Over Breathing and The Singing Body
We would be foolish to think that there is one ‘correct’ way to breathe for singing. There never is, not even within a genre – every single body is different. My goal in working with singers is to create a system (a body) that is flexible enough to respond to the demands of the singing […]
Singers, can you feel your way through?
I read a great article talking about the importance of singers relying on feeling over hearing when it comes to performing well. Author Arden Kaywin says, But there is another kind of listening: listening to your body. Listening in this way means being present to the sensations your body—your instrument—in any given moment. It’s focused in on our […]
Singers! Less isn’t just better…less is more.
“Just because you can go 100%, should you?” “What if 80% gets you the same result, but you’ve preserved 20% of your energy?” Those questions, asked of me in a yoga therapy session several years ago when I was working to rehab my torn labrum in my hip, stopped me in my tracks. “What do […]
Six ways to add movement into your day.
Movement doesn’t have to be complex, take a long time or be difficult to make a difference! Let’s be honest. Most of us spend our days sitting, and sitting, and sitting some more. We sit so many places…* for work – at a desk or piano * to commute – on a train, a bus, […]