All too often, I coach someone preparing for a speech or a performance with which they have little or no engagement. A little digging leads to well-meaning friends, mentors, bosses, and/or teachers. People who have designed the experience to the…
You all the know the feeling. You realize you have forgotten something important. Let's say posting to your blog by your deadline. Just me? For you it might be a missed call or appointment, or forgetting to move the car,…
When you are working on improving your speech or singing most of the work happens in private. Hours upon hours can be spent on disrupting a stubborn habit or learning how to craft this or that phrase, just so. You…
Whenever I talk to people about breathing, I watch them adjust their posture. Usually this involves some straightening of the torso with culminates in a hard shift of the shoulders backward. I suppose it is great that we correlate breathing…
When was the last time you thought about where exactly your tongue was as you pronounced a vowel? Never? You are not alone. Vowels are lovely and necessary, and far too often, nebulous. This can make language hard to understand…
You know those things you tell yourself, about yourself? Your doubts, your fears, your limitations. The things you claim competence in, but where you aren't quite there. The little stories you craft around yourself. Swinging from underestimating yourself, to overcompensating,…
Many of us live with physical pain and/or discomfort. For some, it cannot be helped and for others following the problem can provide relief. But root causes of and solutions for pain are not the point of today's exercise. Today…