Most of us know to prepare for meetings, trainings, and presentations. It helps manage your charge, or physiological responses, and lets you be more confident and clear. I have also noticed that many people focus on an element that is…
For those of us still working at home for some portion of the time, there is an interesting balance. If there is no commute and work is right there, what prevents you from bleeding into the boundary between work and…
Breathing has an ebb and flow. No matter the task before from sleep to running at top speed, your breathing develops a cadence. It accounts for inhalation and exhalation. Often, it introduces a pause in-between them that allows for thought,…
At least once per year, I get to fight my spine and/or hips on a sticking point. Mainly, that they would like to stick to a bizarre contortion and I would like them to be mobile. This week has been…
Those of us still working at home some or part of the time have a system going by now. The physical location for work, our computer setup, and perhaps some actual or virtual background. Today, I want to spend some…
Singers are unique because the instrument we play cannot be separated from the human playing it. Faced with the fear of people rejecting our voices, us, singers can go to great lengths to create protective barriers. Here are just a…
Let's get something out of the way, there will be nothing esoteric about the post today. When I discuss grounding the body, I am talking about stabilizing your sense of how you move in space. In essence, I am talking…
Ah, the nose. It is the only externally visible part of our respiratory tract. It is also the primary air route into the lungs (those of you who mask under your noses take note). Structure and Function The interior of…
We are all pretty used to virtual meetings at this point but people are still making some common mistakes. So today, I wanted to offer some guidelines for improving communication and getting things done. Let People Know the Purpose of…
The blog hasn't had a dedicated space for singing in a while and that changes today. Today, I wanted to open up some space for discussing how we are weathering singing indoors, on video, and in some cases, asynchronously from…