embodied voice training

Catharsis

Singing is a fully embodied musical experience. In retrospect, my difficulty learning to sing came from an inability to feel a functional connection between different parts of my body.

A line drawing of a woman lying face-up on a mattress. She is in her underwear, gripping the sides of the mattress and kicking with her legs. The caption reads "Fig. 17. Kicking"

vocal tension release

Smash

There is tension, and then there’s Tension, with a capital “T”. The creative tension I experience preparing to write a blog post is one thing. The kind of Tension that you urgently need to get rid of because it’s messing up not just your singing but also your life, is something else.