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…

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…
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!
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.
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...
Most people, when they hear the term “voice training” think it’s a good thing. They think… I’m going to train my voice to do healthy things, better things, professional things - and by the use of exercises, determination and repetition, make my voice what it should...
Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) For those of you who know your western music history, classical singer history and 90's movie history (1994), you know that Farinelli (1705-1782), a castrato, is lauded as one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. In those days,...