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.
Nicole is your teacher and guide on this singing journey.
She has always been drawn to singing. Photos from her early childhood capture her clutching a turkey baster and singing into a tiny recording device—not as proof that she was “destined” to sing, but as a reflection of an innate desire that was already alive within her. Over time, that desire was systematically repressed, and she spent many formative years not singing. Eventually, she became so afraid to be heard that she grew quiet, avoiding and neglecting the part of herself that had once brought so much joy, freedom, and color to her life.
With time and great care, Nicole has made a significant journey back to her voice. Today, she confidently shares her music with the world and embraces the power of her voice. Along the way, she’s experienced many unexpected gifts.
Through this vocal path, she has learned to know and express her truth with confidence, foster deeper connection in her relationships, deepen her embodiment practices, communicate with nature, and hear—and act on—her intuition, all because she has come to trust her voice....
Les 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.
Les 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.
Les 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