We will pause our resonance training to talk about allergies, more specifically about hay fever. In this episode, I will share seven tips that might help mitigate the effects of this stational affection. We will go through the medications’ side effects we need to be careful of, and some exercises to help us keep things […]
In this episode, we will continue talking about resonance. We will break down Barbara Houseman’s definition of resonance, and I will share some exercises to encourage awareness of the spaces that affect our resonance potential. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – What resonance can offer to our voicing – How we can explore […]
In today’s episode, we will define and understand what vocal resonance is, and how we can improve it. I’ll also share some simple exercises to increase resonance awareness and feel the vibrations in our bodies. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – What resonance is, and how it affects our voicing – How resonance […]
In this episode, we will talk about breath capacity for voicing, and understand it from a holistic perspective, rather than from a mechanical aspect. I will also share some simple exercises to increase our breath capacity that we can easily incorporate into our daily routines. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – Why breath […]
Today, we will have a prop-related episode – we will talk about straw phonation. I’ll share three techniques to start practicing straw phonation in two different ways, doing straw work in water and doing straw work out of water. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – What is straw phonation, and how it can […]
In this episode, we will talk about SOVT – Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract. We will dive deep into what SOVT work is, and how you can use it in your daily voice work to improve your voicing. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – What is SOVT, and what it is used for – How […]
A few clients recently have mentioned how they feel like they struggle to find the time to do their voice work in the day. So I wanted to offer some tips for how to fit voice training into your routine without it hanging over you. Tips for Fitting Voice Practice Into Your Day: – Tip […]
Today, we will condense all the breathing work we’ve been doing into a simple 5 minute routine to use either as a warm-up or as a tiny voice workout. I’ll guide you through every step of this routine to make voicing a little easier. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – The importance of […]
In this episode, we will go back to breathe land. We will go through a set of exercises to bring awareness of how voice support can help us use our voice more efficiently and reduce voice fatigue. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – Why breath and support are essential for our voice – […]
Today I want to discuss a question that came up after a coaching session with one of my coachees: is voice coaching needed after we understand the techniques to voice efficiently and safely? I will share with you three reasons why it is a fantastic idea to explore voice training, even when we feel like […]
In this episode, we will talk about getting nervous when speaking in public. We will dive deep into why this happens to us, how it affects our voice performance, and how to deal with it. I’ll share four simple tips that you can apply before speaking to an audience, to help you handle the anxiety […]
In this episode we are continuing with our breathing for voice journey. Today we will talk about connecting breath support with speaking, and we will perform a few exercises to explore and understand which body parts participate in breath support. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – Is it hard to implement breath support? […]
In this episode we will go through the meaning of common terms in voice training like voice support and breath support. We will talk about the three crucial elements of voice support, and we will do a simple yet powerful breathing exercise. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – How getting support is not […]
In this episode, we are analysing the importance of in- and out-breathing. Understanding the in-breathing as the fuel for voicing, and out-breathing as the mechanism responsible for producing sound, we will go through a simple exercise to gain awareness of the pause between breathings, or to notice any tendencies to hold air unnecessarily. What You […]
Today we are talking about filler sounds and words when speaking, why they show up in our speech, and whether we need to eliminate all of them. I’m also sharing a few techniques we can use to reduce or replace filler sounds. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – Hesitation signs and filler words […]
Today, we are taking the first step on our journey into breathing for voice work. We will explore how to improve unnecessary patterns in our breathing and why we tend to use more breath than we need. This episode will help you become more aware of the intuitive nature of inhalation, and the importance of […]
Today, I will walk you through a preparatory physical bodywork that will help you release tension. Learning how to loosen any tightness in our bodies is essential before starting with the fundamentals of voice training. What You Will Learn In This Episode: – Alignment and posture – mandatory step #1 – Spine roll – secrets […]
In this episode, we talk about sibilance, what it is, why some people sound more sibilant than others, and why it gets people annoyed. We will also focus on a few practical ways of controlling our voice’s features, so we can reduce sibilance. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: Is sibilance a speaker or a […]
This episode is a practical guide to deal with a common, yet dramatic situation – losing our voice. We will go through the possible reasons that cause it, the importance of resting our voice, release exercises that can help us, and what to beware of when we lose our voice. What You Will Learn In […]
In this episode, I’m sharing with you five cheeky tips you can use to improve your speech. These simple yet effective tricks that you can start applying right away will help you enhance your voicing without a lot of practice. What You Will Learn In This Episode: How making pauses can help us when speaking […]
