Let's close our eyes and we are connecting with our breath and we want to start to warm up our voice which is very important.
The voice is like any other muscle it likes to be warmed up before any use.
So we want to send our awareness towards the bottom of our spine and then we will start to hum with the lips gently closed,
A little smile in the face and then we're gonna hum around our tailbone moving our awareness up the spine imagining we are humming around our vertebrae all the way up up up to the top of the head and then we hum from the top of the head all the way down along the spine to the bottom to our tailbone.
So let's take a deep breath in and then from the top of the head all the way down.
Let's do that one more time.
And from up down.
Very good.
So we will continue doing this a little bit.
What is important with this exercise is to just be relaxed.
It's not about doing something,
It's not about making it perfect.
It's really a warm-up and it's also gonna evolve.
While we are doing this humming exercise for a while we will notice that the voice starts to relax,
There might be a few scratches in the in the sound.
It's really an exploration of where am I today with my voice.
And that said we can also be aware of the voice is like a barometer,
Like a thermostat.
It shows us where we are at emotionally or energetically.
So when I get up in the morning and I'm talking to myself which is also the voice then I know already how am I feeling.
And then if I start my first conversation and I really listen to my voice then I can determine more or less how am I today because it's gonna be reflected in the voice.
So during this warm-up make sure that you don't push it when we are not trying to make the lowest humming sound and we are not trying to make the highest humming sound.
We are just gonna go from down low humming sound to up high humming sound and we go with our comfort because while we are doing the humming it's gonna develop in its own natural way in its own natural time.
So it's really about enjoying that humming and also trying to connect to the resonation of your humming sound within your physical body because we want to start to make a connection with the sound of our own voice.
So the humming exercise is really beautiful for that because it does invite us to become aware of that relationship between the physical body and the sound of my voice and how it feels in my body.
Okay so let's do this a few more times breathing in starting at the bottom of the spine.
Hmm hmm very good.
So this is also a nice gentle way to already connect to the diaphragm.
So in the next exercise we are gonna connect with the diaphragm a little bit more.
Before we do that let's do the same thing but we slightly open our lips.
So the inward sound which is the humming sound is gonna be transformed in an outward sound though it's really just about opening the lips very very slightly.
So we're gonna do the same just with the lips slightly open.
Okay let's take a deep breath in.
Hmm two more times hmm Let's take a breath in and out.
So whenever we are doing the in and out breath towards the end of an exercise try to squeeze your face,
Relax your face all those muscles in the face we often forget about them.
Yeah so let's try to always stay connected with that flexible face,
Flexible voice.
So this humming exercise and then slightly opening the lips I highly recommend this one.
Also notice what happens when we slightly open our lips.
Yeah something is changing in our perception two things mostly one is we our voice becomes more audible so our ears start to follow the sound a little bit more so the the inside view is opening up a little bit yeah and in the same time there's also more space created for the for the for the voice so we are creating a bit more space for the voice to fly and to explore itself and still it's really not about doing anything or trying to do anything it's just letting the voice run from down to up and observing what's happening while we are doing this yeah and and to explore naturally without any force our vocal range yeah that's the other thing that's happening and we just naturally explore it without pressure what's our lowest sound what's the highest sound okay
