Speak with Authority
Taylor Mali, in his poem Totally Like Whatever, You Know, concludes very articulately with these words: I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, I challenge you: To speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner …
Category: Warm-ups
Feeling the Soft Palate Move
What is the deal with the Soft Palate? There are three major holding blocks on the voice that Krisitin Linklater identifies in Freeing the Natural Voice: the Jaw, the Tongue and the Soft Palate. Jaw tension really limits the speaker’s …
Jaw Swinging on Triads
This post will combine the Jaw Swinging exercise of the Intermediate Warm-up with the descending triads used in the Resonance Basics of the Basic Warm-up. The sound of the descending triad can be heard in this audio file. If you can …
Ribs: Stretching the Sides
Voice training in North America owes a lot to the influence of Yoga on our training methods. I am anything but a yoga practitioner, but I have to say that my teaching is full of excises that I learned from …
Exhaling with the Internal Intercostals
The internal intercostals (Wikipedia) are muscles that are on the inside of the ribcage, mostly on front, around the sternum, and out to the sides. They are in between each rib and the one beneath it. These aren’t casual, every-moment-of-every-day …