Awakening Your True Voice

Awakening Your True Voice: Health and Vitality Through Better Breathing

Note: This program will be offered online. Sessions of all our online programs will be recorded and shared with registrants after each is completed for 90 days.

There is no greater joy than to use our voices in a way that is powerful, spontaneous and fully expressive. Developing a physical understanding of voice and breath support helps us release inhibiting vocal and physical tension to become more musical singers and more engaging speakers. This course creates a supportive environment in which self-consciousness dissolves and your true voice emerges.

Breath is fundamental to every aspect of our life. We are born with an ability to breathe deeply and fully, but as we go through life, stress and tension can cause our breathing to become shallow and constricted and our voices strained and weak. Inefficient breathing can lead to fatigue, anxiety, muscular tension and even digestive problems. Getting back to the way nature designed us to breathe is a tonic that revitalizes body and mind. In this course we will explore ways to reestablish our natural, coordinated way of breathing and learn ways to free and strengthen our breathing and voice.

Our work will integrate the Alexander Technique with Carl Stough’s principles of breathing coordination. Singing of easy folk songs and spirituals along with spoken text will help us experience the joy of self-expression. There is no vocal experience necessary for this course.

Note: No previous vocal background required.

What You'll Learn: 

• Discover a voice that is spontaneous and free, open and expressive
• Strengthen your breathing, body and voice through the integration of the Alexander Technique with the principles of breathing coordination.
• Experience a physical understanding of breath support to free and strengthen your voice.
• Learn lasting ways to relieve vocal and physical tension and increase ease and vitality in your body.
• Develop an awareness of the diaphragm and learn to strengthen it in a non-manipulative but powerful way.
• Explore the connection between breathing, voice and artistic self-expression.

Who is this class for?

This workshop is suitable for everyone and specifically benefits people:

• Who have been told they cannot sing or who have lost their joy of singing
• Who experience vocal fatigue, tension, hoarseness or who suffer from conditions such as Spasmodic Dysphonia
• Who suffer from anxiety, depression, performance anxiety or self-consciousness
• With breathing problems and conditions such as asthma, shortness of breath, COPD or sleep apnea
• Who experience fatigue, lack of vitality and muscular tension and pain
• With Depression

The course offers 9 (CEs) Continuation Education Credits for: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapist, Nurses, Teachers, Sound Professionals, Speech Therapists/Speech Pathologists

What you'll need for the course: 

• Prerequisites: No 
• Supplies list for the class: N/A
• Zoom Software Requirements: This is an online course which requires Zoom webinar software. Zoom is easy to use. Please check this How To Guide For Zoom Online to make sure your computer is set-up correctly.