Our new somatic Singing Self Program—3 Free Video Samples to unlock your best voice & discover the secret of laryngeal freedom—never sing the same way again!
Breath cannot be seen as independent or causal within the vocal system. Doing so can have detrimental effects.
Voice teaching is complicated, but with simple guiding principles you can go from average instructor to great somatic vocal learning facilitator in no time.
We think that vocal training should limit possibilities from unwanted to wanted. Another way: expand, integrate and unify ALL possibilities with choice!
We think of the tongue as one thing, but really it’s a complex organ made of many structures and connects, locally and globally, to many other parts of the self/body. Learning to release and coordinate the tongue in integrated action is key to optimal vocal function and expressivity!
We think we know what teaching is, we think we know how to teach well, but is it possible that the whole premise of teaching is in need of some questioning? I think so. Here’s a whole case for learning to “teach” without teaching at all!
Most singing approaches out there are futzing around with the “parts and pieces” of the system as if that were enough to organize and coordinate the entire system for complex actions. It’s insane. But, there is another way…
Most of us aren’t aware of phonemes and their incredible power to bring about vocal awareness and learning. And if we are aware of phonemes it’s usually related to diction. But there’s so much more and in this blog I’ll let you in on a few of those phonemic secrets…
We all want vocal control, but 99% of you out there are going about it ALL WRONG! When you learn to educate your system – the larger, more powerful part of yourself – and discover the CONTROL OF NO CONTROL, you’ll never go back to the old way. Here’s what I mean…
We have the old artsy, creative and metaphorical way of vocal imagery for singers. Then there’s the other cold, hard, reality based approach to imagery for voice. How could we re-imagine vocal imagery for better vocal learning? Well, I have a wonderful solution… It’s what I call a “physical image.”