Voice Tip Series/Blog - 5
If you want a healthy voice, don't smoke. Or seriously reduce your habit.
There is lots of help available if you want to give up. Your local pharmacy is a great place to start.
There are lots of health reasons to not smoke and these are covered in a multitude of places, so here is just a little bit of information on what happens to your voice if you smoke.
Voice Tip Series/Blog - 4
Maintaining adequate hydration is a well-known tip for general health and as well as being good for a healthy body and mind, water is essential to maintaining a healthy voice.
Voice Tip Series/Blog - 3
Have you ever tried hiding sadness over the telephone, only to have a good friend immediately ask 'What's wrong?'.
Our emotions give us away most of the time. Face-to-face, our good friends are likely to tell that we are upset, but we may be able to hide it more in other face-to-face interactions. Our emotions affect the way that we move, sit, stand, walk, talk and in the way we communicate with others. Our muscles tighten or release in response to the various chemicals entering or leaving our bodies and the tension, or released sounds, are also apparent in our voice.
Someone asked me the other day, 'What is a free voice? What do you mean?' They got the longer reply in person, and in short...
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I am running a new, introductory voice workshop, 'Discover Your Voice' very soon. Over the last couple of days, I have been wracking my creative writing brain to come up with a good way to help people decide if this is a useful workshop for them, instead of just writing a list. I wanted something that helps people have an ‘Aha! That’s for me!’ moment and jump on the 'phone to get in touch. Today, I went to do my Day 25 of the ‘Body Groove Challenge’ and Misty Tripoli’s challenge writes:
‘Imagine for a second if you owned a really expensive sports car, like a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. What if when you drove this car that you never took it out of first gear. That you kept your speed to less than 20-30 miles per hour? Wouldn’t that be a waste of the car’s potential, the things it could do?’
Venue: Online
Price per person £120.00 for the full workshop
Discounted Individual consultation and follow up sessions can be booked prior to the course to help you hone in on specific areas. Follow up sessions also available. Call for details and pricing. You do need to book and pay for any consultation sessions at the same time as the course. Note/ There is no requirement for you to book a private one-to-one, it's just for you to be able to focus in more on specific areas as they arise.
You can choose at any point during the course if you want a follow-up session to take advantage of the discounted pricing.
Only 8 Places to ensure a supportive environment (min of 6 required to run)
Effective Vocal Skills Workshop
Discover your voice’s potential, find and free your voice and begin practising exercises to get the most from it!
An introductory workshop for those who want to learn about their voice and how they can begin to use it more effectively for creative or professional development.
This session covers the introductory work for voice work and the beginnings of exploration of building your voice skills. Perfect for those who want to find and free their voice and those wanting to grow in confidence with their voice.
The course is delivered as a highly practical and interactive online workshop and group sizes are kept small, around 8, people to ensure that everyone gets a chance to explore their voice’s potential over the course.
It is designed to equip you to learn and begin to practise skills needed to find and free your voice and/or to begin building skills to use your voice more effectively, confidently and with greater impact.
You will be working together and in small break out groups in order to practise the exercises and delivery back to the whole group at regular intervals.
How to book
To book your place, click here and fill out the 'contact us' information with your email and mobile telephone number. Do include a brief message that you would like to book on this course and I will send out an email with booking form and payment details. Once payment received, I will confirm your place. Please read FAQ's.
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