Are you asking a singer’s body for the impossible?
Have you ever asked a singer to raise their sternum, or told them to stand tall? Perhaps you’ve had them place three fingers or placed three of your fingers on their sternum and asked them to lift into your fingers? Maybe you’ve even had them roll shoulders up, back and down as a way of […]
The Voice World is like a Balloon Factory
I listened to Seth Godin say something this morning that stopped me dead in my tracks while I walked my dog. In his book Tribes, he uses a fabulous analogy of a balloon factory, to talk about the institutions that we train and work under where the systems we have in place keep things humming […]
Jaw Tension and The Voice
If you live with jaw tension and pain you are all too familiar with the ways it can impact your singing. You may have observed and experienced how tension in the jaw tends be seen in conjunction with tension in the tongue as well as the larynx and the rest of the neck. That tension […]
When exercise hurts, try movement instead
This post was inspired by an exchange I had on my facebook page. I shared a post about foot problems being connected to hip issues and how something like an orthotic is not a good long term solution. A reader responded regarding her feet, sharing that she wasn’t so sure about all that because she’s […]
The importance of core training for singers
Many singers will avoid doing any core exercises in the interest of having total flexibility of their abdominal area. Other singers will do core exercises in an attempt to strengthen musculature that they know is connected to vocal production. And, still a third group considers what they do as classically-trained singers to be adequate work […]
The cult of breathing correctly
Today I worked with a client exclusively on breathing and I realized she was asking me the same questions I get from almost everyone about breathing so I thought I’d address them here. What’s the BEST way to breathe? I’ve seen it in almost every book I’ve read, whether it is about the voice or […]