…where Performance meets Psychology
…where Performance meets Psychology
…where Performance meets Psychology
A couple of days ago, I published an Instagram deck that created a bit of a stir – I will add it here so you get a better idea of what I am referring to. The response to this post was overwhelmingly positive, which left me a bit overwhelmed 🙂 It got me thinking though …
I’d like to talk about one of my favourite teaching and coaching tools today: Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. As singers, we probably all know one thing: Feeling isn’t hard (we do it all the time), but being at ease with our feelings, and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, is. We so often talk about “negative …
When we hear about trauma, we often think of how if affects people emotionally and mentally. We talk far less often about how trauma also affects our bodies – and consequently our voices. I could tell you about countless singers who were bullied at school. For years, they endured cruelty. When they get older, they …
I promised you a little Easter egg. Here it comes, in the guise of an extra blog post this month… “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally” Jon Kabat-Zinn I would like to introduce you to mindfulness techniques, and how you can use them daily (no …
I recently did a live broadcast about semi-occluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercises that some of you might find interesting. The main benefit of SOVTs is back pressure on the vocal folds since you are singing through a much smaller mouth opening (e.g. by using a straw, closing your lips or covering your mouth with your …