Flow: Release
What muscles are you holding right now? Are those muscles necessary this moment? Often the muscles we brace are not the ones currently in use. Among these, are often muscles that have primary roles in breathing and voice use --…
Office Space: Diversity
We usually hear about diversity in the context of Equity and Inclusion, as we well should. But when we engage in embodied communication it takes on another important, perhaps related, meaning. Diversity in communication is adapting your listening to hear…
Office Space: Ideas
Happy New Year! I am of the opinion that the start of a new year is both a terrible time to make set resolutions and a wonderful time to contemplate the new. It is a great time to collect ideas…
Flow: Sparkly
It is snowing in MA, and much of the Northeast, this morning. Snow is always some combination of annoyance and wonder for me. Today, working from home with no need to leave, it is pretty sparkly. We sometimes talk about…
Flow: Contrast
For many of us, this is already a very different holiday season. We understand things better by contrast, so we can miss a particular holiday gathering or invitations from friends. This contrast can illuminate what is missing but it can…
Office Space: Winding Down
The end of the year is always a point of transition in workflow. For some, this may be a sprint and for others a slow walk in the woods. Whatever the pace of actual work, there is also a pull…
Office Space: About Eating The Frog
There is a quote, attributed to Mark Twain, about eating a frog first thing in the morning. The idea is that if you do the hardest thing first, the rest of your day will be much better. Here's the thing…
Office Space: Restore
For many in the U.S., it is a short week. It is also more stressful than usual as we adapt (hopefully) to a holiday season in a pandemic. Usually we discuss how to use the voice to "do" things. Today,…
Sing: With Feeling
This week there was a good amount of over-singing in the studio -- Just a lot of "efforting." In all cases, we traced it back to listening for a particular sound. Also in all cases, the singer had stopped paying…
Flow: Order of Operations
I like to hand sew complex things. When this is your hobby, you tend to spend a significant amount of time planning the steps in a project. If you try to skip this part, you end up spending a lot…