January 20, 2011 – 5:05 pm
“Vocal improvisation is more than singing,” said Rebekka Goldsmith during our recent Vocal Improvisation Singing workshop, “it also teaches you life skills”. At the end of our workout, I knew what she meant. Most of us improvise all the time: figuring out what kind of meal to make from leftovers, giving an unplanned speech, or putting [...]
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October 4, 2010 – 1:00 pm
Excerpt from blog . . . “When I work with a client who believes they are not a good speaker, I have to nudge them away from their story. To do this, I use guerilla camera work.”
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September 8, 2010 – 7:36 pm
Our stories are deeply ingrained and got created to serve a purpose. If I tell everyone I’m shy, then I won’t be asked to speak in public and I won’t have to risk failure and humiliation that might accompany that experience.
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It works the same way for your voice. A good vocal warm up will gently loosen your muscles, rouse your voice, and move you from a quiet, grouchy, introverted, or the-cat’s-go- your- tongue mode to something more freeing. Let’s call this “yoga for your voice.”
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November 24, 2009 – 6:00 am
“Being natural occurs when we let go of our assumptions of how it should be, how it could be, and how it ought to be, and just allow it to be like it is, as a prelude to interacting with others.” Angeles Arrien, from “Reflections” These words came back to me the other day [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:09 pm
Stop right now. Call yourself on your phone. Listen to your voice message. Really listen. Before you say, “Is that really what I sound like?”, pretend it isn’t your voice. How would you describe the person you hear? What do they look like? Would you like to hear more? Do you want to spend time [...]
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