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Taking care of your voice is a practice that you might not think about in the same way as you think about overall health, but there are a lot of similarities. Choosing well-being over excess physical and emotional stress has a powerful effect on your body and your voice. If you’ve ever had vocal fatigue [...]
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Your voice acts like a radio transmitter for what you’re thinking and feeling. Someone’s antenna will start to twitch if they sense something in the sound of your voice that doesn’t match the words you’re saying. Although it may be at a subconscious level, they are constantly picking up and rapidly interpreting internal messages as [...]
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When it comes to voice training for either a singer or speaker, questions often arise about how long to practise, and what exercises to use every day to build the voice.
The answers for both depend on what purpose you have for voice practice. Let’s deal with how long first.
Professional opera singers sometimes practise several hours [...]
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Recently I was interviewed by Kate Sanner of VivacityNow on how voice coaching could help the clients in her confidence-building program, designed to help them jump to the next level of their career and life. These are the three main questions we covered during the interview.
Q. If you could only convey to people one vital [...]
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To have an authentic voice it’s essential that the sound of your voice and the words you say align with who you are. Think for a moment what that means. Your voice is a huge part of your identity. It’s the words you speak and the sound you make. It’s a big part of how [...]
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When people ask a question they are asking out of their own desire, which is a moment of great power and invitation. The following questions about the voice are moments of great potential. Do any of them resonate with you?
Q. When I’m doing a lot of speaking and training my voice gets really tired or [...]
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Here are some starter questions to ask when you are looking for a voice coach. Whether its for singing or speaking, it’s important to find the one that works for you.
First the practical questions:
Do you want coaching in person or by phone?
What are the fees?
What is the method of payment?
If you want coaching in [...]
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The inspiration for taking voice training or coaching may be feedback from others, a personal insight or desire, or even a traumatic event. Whatever the catalyst, it leads to a moment of awareness and a decision to take action. At that moment there is tremendous potential. To manifest any potential for a new skill or [...]
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