Even if you’re working with a teacher, you’re always teaching yourself to sing! And of course, you can teach yourself to sing well… if you know how!
EXPERIENTIALÂ VOCAL LEARNING – HOW TO TEACH YOURSELF TO SING
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HOW TO BE A BETTER VOICE TEACHER FOR YOUR SINGING STUDENTS
Voice teaching is complicated, but with simple guiding principles you can go from average instructor to great somatic vocal learning facilitator in no time.
EXPRESSING VOCAL UNITY – BIG BODY, BIG VOICE, BIG YOU
We think that vocal training should limit possibilities from unwanted to wanted. Another way: expand, integrate and unify ALL possibilities with choice!
OH THE TONGUE!: THE CENTER OF IT ALL?
Unlock your true singing potential with our comprehensive guide on the influence of the tongue. Harness its power, from rest to action, and enhance your vocal prowess.
VOICE TEACHERS – What is good teaching?
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!
PHONEMES – Like having hundreds of Voice Teachers Living in Your Own Mouth!
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…
RULING THE EXCEPTIONAL TONGUE: The Tongue at Rest and the Tongue in Vocal Action
We talk a lot about releasing and mobilizing the tongue, but there are two other crucial topics less-well understood: how to hold it when at rest and just what to do with it in order to optimize its function in action. Let’s explore both…
REVISIONIST FUTURE: Why do we need to recover after recovering?
Why is it that we seem to have to recover vocally long after we’ve already recovered from some other impactful event – grief, surgery, break-up, move? Why is there often a second recovery after the first? There could be lots of reasons, but for sure there’s one sure-fire way to recover and keep recovering and it’s… PLAY!
THE JOYS OF SINGING AND SEX – A Somatic Approach
Over the years, as a voice teacher and Feldenkrais® Practitioner, I have noticed a direct connection between how we think of and organize ourselves for both singing and love-making (regardless of sex, gender and sexual orientation). If you are interested in exploring these ideas experientially sign up for my upcoming online class series, SENSE AND SENSUALITY in which I will guide you through awareness lessons designed to clarify and expand these connections, let’s be honest… bring more pleasure and satisfaction to both activities… singing and sex.
TEACHERS: What is Voice Training?
I’ve been running a course for the last few years, TEACH WITHOUT TEACHING, which has become the heart of my TEACHER TRACK Program. And, the idea that that course centers around is that it is possible to teach a student whatever it is you feel you could teach them...