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Sitting here trying to edit my presentations for t

Sitting here trying to edit my presentations for tomorrow and my 75 lb neck wrap is a little wriggly...
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#vocalyogi #yoga #breathe #movementmaven #dogmom #labradorretriever #singer #voiceped #vocalpedagogy

The weekend update. 40 rows in. - #vocalyogi #sin

The weekend update. 40 rows in.
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#vocalyogi #singingknitter #yogiswhoknit #fiberarts #yarn #knittersofinstagram #voiceteacher #yogateacher #movementmaven #momlife #metrowestma #natick

Don’t you all love to roll in a snowbank? - #voc

Don’t you all love to roll in a snowbank?
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#vocalyogi #dogmom #yellowlab #natickma #metrowestma#pupstagram

Saturday is mom life sitting in the chilly car wai

Saturday is mom life sitting in the chilly car waiting for soccer practice to end.
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Brought my kindle to read and keep myself occupied.
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What’s on tap for you this Saturday afternoon?
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#vocalyogi #momlife #yogateacher #voiceteacher #read #metrowestma #beautycounter #barefacedontcare #natick

I’m looking forward to joining the module 3 Yoga

I’m looking forward to joining the module 3 Yoga Therapy Trainees next week with @susi.hately to talk all things breathing.
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We’ll be doing a lot of experimenting with the breath throughout the two days.
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I think this is my fav graphic from my slide decks.
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Who else got in trouble for blowing bubbles in their milk as a kid? Just me? I was apparently just ahead of my time...
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It’s now officially an ok thing to do - especially when you’re experimenting with breath, pressure and over breathing!
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#vocalyogi #breathe #yoga #yogatherapy #healing #voiceteacher #lovettheinstrumentyoulivein #yogateacher #sovt

Looking forward to presenting at the upcoming Voco

Looking forward to presenting at the upcoming Vocology in Practice Conference next month!
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Join me to talk body and voice and then explore with some movement!
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#vocalyogi #voiceteacher #singer #vocology #vocalpeddgogy #voiceped #voiceteacher #yoga #breathe #healing #movementmaven

How do you prepare? - I’m doing a few days of te

How do you prepare?
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I’m doing a few days of teaching breathing next week and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself over the years it is this: I need to SPREAD OUT when I’m prepping.
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Pulling out all my notes, books articles and having them in front of me to refer to AND being able to create a visual map of what I want to teach.
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It looks like a giant mess to everyone else, but it’s just how mah brain works!
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#vocalyogi #breathe #yoga #healing #yogatherapy #voicegeek #bodynerd #singer #performer #yogateacher

Another post where @morganharpernichols says exac

Another post where @morganharpernichols says exactly what I need to hear!
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Feeling ready to get what’s been brewing in my head out onto the page! Well, actually onto the PowerPoint, but same idea!
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#vocalyogi #yoga #breathe #breathwork #pranayama #healing #yogatherapy #singer #performer #voiceteacher #yogateacher

Move with Love today and everyday! - Happy Valenti

Move with Love today and everyday!
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Happy Valentine’s Day all!
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#vocalyogi #movewithlove #lovetheinstrumentyoulivein #yoga #healing #breathe #performer #singer #voiceteacher #momlife

#reallife It’s 5:15pm on a Saturday and I got ou

#reallife It’s 5:15pm on a Saturday and I got out of my pajamas long enough to immerse myself in a hot tub to try and soak away the week and then put clean pjs back on. That’s all I did today.
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Over this past week I’ve only gotten about 4 hours of sleep a night.
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An anxious child, a Covid exposure, a pile of upcoming work projects I haven’t gotten to, the dull gray of February, life in a pandemic, remote schooling a kid who desperately needs to be in person, life with roller coastering middle aged hormones. They all swirled together to hijack my thinking mind and left me awake hour after hour.
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All those hours not sleeping I spent in deep meditation, some time in tears and some time doom scrolling to distract myself.
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A friend has reminded me many times in the last month to be gentle with myself. The challenges are many right now.
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We’re all in the same ocean just paddling different boats.
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Tomorrow is another day, but today I rested.
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#vocalyogi #healing #yoga #momlife #voiceteacher #singer #performer #meditation #breathe #yogatherapy #metrowestma #natick

Super excited to host a book chat this month with

Super excited to host a book chat this month with @catefnstudios co-author of @singingthruchange book.
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If you are a singer or voice teacher, SLP or Laryngologist, I hope you will join us in the Library this month for this special opportunity!
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Link to the library membership is in linktree in my bio!
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#vocalyogi #singer #voiceteacher #singingthroughchange #voicepro #voicemaven #vocalpedagogy #voiceped #middleagesingers #perimenopausalsinger #postmenopausalsinger #soprano #mezzosoprano

Sweater progress. Just a little over halfway throu

Sweater progress. Just a little over halfway through the yoke.
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#vocalyogi #knittersofinstagram #fiberarts #yogiswhoknit #iloqsweater #hopeiammakingtherightsize #pandemicprojects #knit #momlife #metrowestma #yogarherapy #natick #singerswhoknit

The more you know. I learned this today —> - #R

The more you know. I learned this today —>
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#Repost @edwards_voice with @get_repost
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When most people hear the song "Hound Dog," they think of Elvis Presley. But the truth is it was recorded three years earlier by Big Mama Thorton who sold over 2,000,000 copies of the song. Sadly, it was her only hit record. In the early days of rock 'n' roll, it was not uncommon for black artists to originate a song and then have white artists come along and remake it. In cases where the black artist wrote the song as well, the white artists rarely made payments to the original artist for their work. This left many black songwriters on the sidelines and they were forced to watch their careers fizzle while their songs soared to popularity. It's a dark part of music history that has often been ignored, but must be brought to light if we are to truly understand the roots of American popular music. #BlackHistoryMonth #Rock #history #themoreyouknow

I often share what I’m reading on IG, but today

I often share what I’m reading on IG, but today I thought I’d share a few of the books my daughter (age 11) has loved in the last year.
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Throughout my kid’s lives I’ve tried to create diverse bookshelves for them, with authors and stories that represent cultures and skin colors other than their own.
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To celebrate black history month I wanted to share these. If you are realizing there isn’t much diversity in your middle schoolers novels, check these out. Many of them she loved so much she brought them to me and told me I needed to read them too! My favorites were the Children of Blood and Bone series and we are both waiting anxiously for book 3 to come out.
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After you’ve surveyed your kid’s shelves, reach out to their classroom teacher and offer to purchase some books for the classroom that bring in more diversity. We do this every year and the teachers are always really grateful.
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#vocalyogi #read #middlegradebooks #bipocauthors #blackhistorymonth #yoga #momlife #metrowestma #natick
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Snow day adventures with Jazzy. - #vocalyogi #metr

Snow day adventures with Jazzy.
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#vocalyogi #metrowestma #natick #labradorretriever #snowshoes #gooutside

Even before my first show with stage makeup I’d

Even before my first show with stage makeup I’d sneak my mom’s lipstick and nail polish (I’d also totally mix together her lotions and toner etc and make potions!).
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BUT! I was the performer who had skin that itched under makeup - even just street makeup. Every show I’d struggle with the combo of makeup and hot lights and the way my skin reacted.
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Fast forward to my 40’s and between sensitive skin and lack of time to get ready due to two small children, I’d basically given up on wearing any.
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So grateful to have found Beautycounter with their high performance, safer products. No skin reactions, no worries about products messing with my hormones and with the Flawless in Five set I’m ready in under 5 minutes!
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Want the deets? Comment below or DM me!
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#beautycounter #saferbeauty #vocalyogi #singer #performer #cleanbeauty

Love this post from @mhn (go to her page for the w

Love this post from @mhn (go to her page for the whole post.
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This slide jumped out at me because this is one of those mornings where I feel like a square peg in a round hole and find myself questioning where I, and what I know, fit in, inside the voice world.
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I’ve experienced this enough times to know the way out is to get to work and just keep moving forward, connecting with people I can help.
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How do you deal when you feel this way?
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#vocalyogi #yoga #voice #vocalped #vocalpedagogy #voicepedagogy #voiceteachers #movementmaven #lovetheinstrumentyoulivein #healing #breathe

My latest WiP. Yoke work on the #iloq sweater. -

My latest WiP. Yoke work on the #iloq sweater.
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#knittersofinstagram #singerswhoknit #yogiswhoknit #fiberarts #highlandwoolfingering #colorworkknitting #creativeoutlet #metrowestma #natick #winterlife

Just a gentle reminder. - #vocalyogi #lovetheinstr

Just a gentle reminder.
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#vocalyogi #lovetheinstrumentyoulivein #yoga #healing #voiceteacher #singer #voicegeek #bodynerd #voicepro #metrowestma #natick

Here is my Thursday Thought for you: Inevitably w

Here is my Thursday Thought for you:

Inevitably we are seeing singers (and ourselves) with higher levels of stress and consistent, ongoing low level stress, and we are bearing witness to this within their bodies and voices as we live through this pandemic.

The question naturally arises of 'How do I deal with this? How do I handle this in the studio? What can I do?"

Here is my answer:
It is invaluable for voice teachers to have an intimate understanding of the nervous system so we can take intelligent, compassionate approaches with the beings in front of us.

We can do the intellectual work of learning how the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work in the body, how stress impacts the body, how the breath is connected to all of it. I don't want to diminish the importance of this, it is a great starting point.

But we must also intimately know our own nervous systems and histories of stress and trauma. We MUST be able to co-regulate (manage) in the midst of witnessing someone else's stress and trauma. We must know what our own boundaries are and stick to them. We must engage regularly in the work we need to do to manage our own responses to our own stresses.

It is not work that is for the faint of heart, but we already know teaching voice is not that either.
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#vocalyogi #traumainformed #voiceteacher #vocalpedagogy #voice #singer #yoga #breath #voicegeek #bodynerd #lovetheinstrumentyoulivein

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