Voicework: Singing & Speaking With Ease

This course gives you an introduction to the essentials for healthy singing.

Learn the fundamental and optimal breath for the pressure and power system of your body. Experience benefits through your whole body system, including:

• Ease on tired voices
• Increased control and sustain in your vocal expression
• Musculoskeletal alignment and relaxation
• Vagal tone + nervous system regulation leading to a sense of calm and wellbeing
• Digestive ease and gut health to support a vital, vibrant life
• Hormonal balance to meet the day
• Connect to your thoracic and pelvic floor diaphragms

Practice supportive, accessible postures to build your connection to the thoracic and pelvic floor diaphragms. These positions and hip movements will guide you to breathe with your body's natural rhythm. Understand how you may be translating tension. Bring awareness to the relationship of tension from one place in the body to another. Learn to facilitate a softness to surrender what is unnecessary.

Lección 1: Part I: Breathing With Your Pelvic & Thoracic Diaphragm

Learn the fundamental and optimal breath for the pressure and power system of your body. Experience benefits through your whole body system, including:

• Ease on tired voices
• Increased control and sustain in your vocal expression
• Musculo-skeletal alignment and relaxation
• Vagal tone + nervous system regulation leading to a sense of calm and wellbeing
• Digestive ease and gut health to support a vital, vibrant life
• Hormonal balance to meet the day
• Connect to your thoracic and pelvic floor diaphragms

Practice supportive, accessible postures to build your connection to the thoracic and pelvic floor diaphragms. These positions and hip movements will guide you to breath with your body's natural rhythm. Understand how you may be translating tension Bring awareness to the relationship of tension from one place in the body to another. Learn to facilitate a softness to surrender what is unnecessary.

Lección 2: Part II: Toning With Curiosity

Open your heart and sing with curiosity as you learn the central dynamics of sound creation. These include molar and tongue position, soft palate raising/lowering, shape of lips, and position of the jaw. Consider these dynamics the colours, paint brushes, and brush strokes you have access to with your voice. Notice and appreciate the meditative and intriguing nuances of toning. Here, we choose simplicity for a deeper connection, singing a single vowel 'ooh' and a single pitch. We are using the C# pitch.

To prepare, please find yourself in a comfortable position to sing. Enjoy the softening of your mind to your heart with self-expression through the voice.

Lección 3: Pelvic Floor Breathing Meditation

Here is a breath meditation practice to help you connect deeper with your pelvic floor

To prepare, find yourself a comfortable place to sit, lie down, or stand with joints free and unlocked. You may wish to have a ball, blanket, or bolster for comfort and to press against your pelvic floor to feel the tactile connection. Enjoy!

What do you feel after completing this meditation practice?
More space in my torso
Lighter and wider
Reduction in stress
Calm in my mind