How Singing Can Boost Your Immune System - by Lyz Cooper: The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST)

COURSE

How Singing Can Boost Your Immune System

With Lyz Cooper: The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST)

This is a five-day course which explores the use of the voice to boost your immune system in different ways. Together, we will explore the latest research to show how your voice can reduce adrenaline and cortisol, therefore reducing stress which has such a negative effect on the immune system. We will also look at how to use the voice to boost dopamine and immunoglobulin A to help us fight off disease. As well, will go back to the dawn of humankind to discover how neural pathways in the human brain evolved that enabled both the voice and music to become such a powerful healing tool. We will discover how to choose everyday songs for healing and will build an immune system boosting song list. We will also explore vowels, consonants and mantra and soothing drones will accompany our voices as we work together. Fun and dynamic warm-up exercises help you to develop your voice further and different techniques aim to inspire you to sing on your own or with a group for the heaven of it! And to nurture our spiritual health and our creativity we will explore the use of Tone Poems - non sensical songs that transcend boundaries and connect us on deeper levels.

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Meet your Teacher

Lyz Cooper: The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST)
Ross-on-Wye HR9, UK

Cooper

5 Days

3.2k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Energy

English

Lesson 1

You Are What You Sing - Using The Breath & Voice To Change Your Neurochemistry

During this session, we will explore the latest research to support the therapeutic benefits of singing and how our voices can help boost our immune system. We will use techniques to help reduce adrenaline and cortisol and boost the release of Immunoglobulin A - a natural antibody that helps fight disease. We also will experience a polyvagal breathing exercise which helps switch off the fight or flight response and explore vocal warm-up exercises before using some vowel sounds to help us relax.

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Lesson 2

Happiness, Abundance & The Immune System Response

During this session, we will think about adding a few happy songs to our playlist and explore the 'sonic vitamins' (healing properties) within music that makes certain songs so good at boosting our mood. When we are happy, we are much more able to ward off illness as well as feel more in control of our lives. The vocal warm-up exercises will deepen and we will feel the buzz as we try some 'sonic caffeine' together. The session ends with a mantra for increasing happiness and abundance - the perfect end to todays' mood-boosting session!

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Lesson 3

Time Travel, Open-mindedness & Resilience

Today, we will look at the power of nostalgic reverie (when we get lost in feelings and emotions from the past) and how mental time travel can improve our health and wellbeing. We will discover that stretching our musical repertoire enables us to become more cognitively flexible and open to change in our lives and that music is more widely distributed in the brain than anything else. Embracing change can be scary so at the end of the session, we will work with a mantra for removing obstacles to change in our life.

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Lesson 4

Singing For Survival - Early Hominids, Bonding & The Power Of The Group

In this session, we will explore the evolution of language and how, over millions of years, neural pathways have developed that enable sound and music to heal and affect us profoundly. We will learn that language not only enabled us to climb the social ladder but literally became a matter of life and death. We will also learn that 1.8 million years ago, our early ancestors sang together for many of the same reasons as 21st-century singers today and that singing in groups nurtures and enhances our spiritual health. At the end of the session, there is a lovely monochord drone track that you can use to improvise and tone along to.

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Lesson 5

Transcending Barriers - Language, Tone Poems, Space & Time

Today, we are going to take the evolution of the voice a step further and move from basic vocalization to complex language. We will discover how our language evolved from simple sounds used to describe space, size, time and emotions to the complex language we have today. We will review the vowel sounds and vocal warm-up exercises we have used so far and will journey into the realm of the Tone Poem - songs that transcend barriers that language, race and culture can create.

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4.8 (82)

Recent Reviews

Will

April 6, 2025

Ty

Girija

January 30, 2025

I loved this course, as I love singing, learnt new things thank you! Hopefully can join a singing group soon.

Iga

December 29, 2024

Such a valuable course! I rushed a bit with it, since I only had a week of Premium membership for free, plus- I had a cold but, I know that my notes and having a go will stick with me and helps me practice regularly. It has been a skill developed early in me, and then, through educational/ cultural systems not encouraging it, I rose lots of bareers around singing. Thank you so much, Lyz, for bringing the historical perspective of singing, and how impactful and bonding it is when you sing in a group 🙏🏽✨️🎵💚💛

Letitia

October 28, 2024

I started this course a while back and didn't remember that I had not finished. It had an effect on me in spite of that my son and I signed up for voice lessons it was really wonderful to hang out with him as an adult since he is now 25. Thank you so much

Angela

June 14, 2024

Thank you. Enjoyable and fun course.

John

June 13, 2024

I found the techniques useful and really loved the last lesson.

Debra

January 26, 2024

Great concepts and exercises! I especially liked the tone poems!🎶💜

Tessa

October 17, 2023

Nice! Now just keep teaching us to vocalize…we need more toning:)

Liz

October 14, 2023

I really enjoyed this class!!! Thank you so much!!!

Fahad

October 5, 2023

Wonderful course

Micah

July 22, 2023

Thank you! A great beginning.

Louisa

July 14, 2023

Massively fascinating thank you!

Karen

February 9, 2023

Wonderful class!

Joan

August 2, 2022

Very interesting and well studied. I'm giving it a shot.

Troy

March 23, 2022

Absolutely Famtastic! I am going to listen to it again from the beginning and all the way through on my upcoming road-trip today. I found the course fascinating and conveyed with clarity and pleasure. TroyBoyWorld.com

Leslie

January 29, 2022

Thank you, Lyz! This was a wonderful introduction to music and toning, and it’s physiological and psychological benefts! I have only become quite interested in sound therapy this past year, including toning, chanting, mantras and drumming. Your course gave me an understanding of why and how sound can provide positive, healthy benefits, confirming the intuition I had about it. I wish your course were longer! Thank you again for this interesting and informative opportunity to learn!

maggie

October 22, 2021

encouraging and directive … very grateful for this guidance thank you

Beth

July 5, 2021

I am grateful for this course & so excited to play & experiment with the material here. Thank you!!

Esther

May 30, 2021

Thank you! It makes me want to start singing with a groep of friends!

Zawadi

May 29, 2021

Great course! I've learned a lot and looking forward to using my voice as a tool for healing, more and more every day. I especially enjoyed day 5 and hope to find or create a group I can practice with regularly. Thank you

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