Tag: #healing
How to Stop Your Throat from Tightening When You Sing
“Stop singing from your throat.” It sounds like useful advice—until you are the singer trying to work out how. You may be perfectly comfortable on…
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How to Stop the Same Singing Problems from Coming Back
I have often watched a singer’s face change halfway through a lesson. We try something. A sound that was tight becomes easier. A note that…
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Why the Stage is a Sanctuary for the Socially Anxious
The Actor’s Paradox: When the Stage Feels Safer Than Real Life Have you ever wondered why someone who appears completely at ease under the lights…
Continue ReadingWhy Your Body Can Tell You Something Your Words Can’t
We often assume that if we can explain something, we understand it. We talk about why we’re nervous before an audition. We explain why a…
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How Bullying Impacts Self-Esteem and Voice
Bullying harms young people, affecting self-esteem and mental health. Supportive environments are crucial for rebuilding confidence and encouraging communication.
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How to Respond When Your Inner Critic Gets Loud
When your inner critic is loud, acknowledge it kindly, engage with curiosity, and practise self-compassion. Accept all parts of yourself and seek support when necessary.
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What Happens to Your Body When You Sing?
Singing activates brain networks, boosts immunity, and reduces stress, offering therapeutic benefits for mental health, especially in recovery contexts.
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Coping With Emotional Overwhelm: 10 Simple Strategies
Simple techniques like Jin Shin Jyutsu point holding, saccadic eye movements, grounding, and gentle stretching aid emotional balance and reduce stress effectively.
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What Singing Does to Your Brain, Body and Stress Response
Your voice is more than a way to communicate. When you sing, you bring together breathing, movement, hearing, memory, attention and emotion in one activity.…
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7 Jin Shin Jyutsu Benefits for Singers
Jin Shin Jyutsu benefits singers by enhancing vocal health, reducing stress, improving breath control, boosting energy, fostering emotional balance, and promoting relaxation.
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Vocal Coach vs Speech Therapist: Choosing the Right Expert
Not sure whether to see a vocal coach or a speech therapist? If you’re facing vocal challenges—whether artistic or clinical—understanding the difference between these two…
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Guided Meditation for Singers: Managing Performance Anxiety, Self-Doubt and Perfectionism
Guided Meditation for Singers: Managing Performance Anxiety, Self-Doubt and Perfectionism Singing is not only a physical skill. What happens in your mind and body can…
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How Language Shapes Performance: NLP-Inspired Tools for Singers
What if some of the biggest obstacles in singing are not found in your voice at all, but in the way you think and speak…
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Mindful Singing: Breath, Sound and Presence
Singing is usually thought of as something we do. We practice scales. We learn songs. We work on breath, pitch, tone and expression. We prepare…
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Holistic Voice Lessons: Where Function Meets Wellness
Holistic Voice Lessons: Where Function Meets Wellness What if a voice lesson could do more than improve your singing? Most voice lessons focus on the…
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Functional vs Traditional Voice Training: What’s the Difference?
If you’ve taken singing lessons before, you may have noticed that different teachers can approach the same voice in very different ways. One teacher may…
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Jin Shin Voice™: Body, Breath and Singing
What if your voice could be explored through more than sound? At Vocalogy, we see singing as a whole-body experience. Your breath, posture, movement, attention…
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Singing and Speech in Neurodegenerative Voice: A Case Study
Some of the most important lessons about the human voice come from students who challenge our assumptions about what a voice can do. “J” began…
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What Acting can teach us about Emotional Self-Regulation
What if one of the most useful things acting can teach us is not how to pretend to be someone else, but how to understand…
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The Spleen Flow for Actors, Singers and Dancers
The Spleen Flow helps performers feel by making them feel safe. Its astrological sign is Cancer- the crab . As a cardinal water sign, the…
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Singing and Speaking: Why Your Voice Shouldn’t Have to Choose
“Sing as you speak” is a familiar idea in voice teaching. The appeal is obvious. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could open your mouth…
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Slower, Lower, Weaker: A Different Path to Vocal Mastery
We live in a culture that celebrates higher, faster, stronger. The Olympic motto captures something deeply human: the desire to push beyond our previous limits,…
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Competition Culture: When Winning Becomes a Measure of Worth
I have watched many of my students perform in Winners’ Recitals—in Singapore and in competitions around the world. One thing has struck me repeatedly. The…
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What Guided Suggestion Taught Me About Performance: The Power of Pause, Sound and Imagination
My work in guided suggestion began as an exploration of communication. I was curious about what happens when words, rhythm, breath, tone and attention are…
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Your Posture, Your Life- a talk by Terence Chua
Talk by Chua Shengwei Terence at ‘Be the Change’ Voice Talk, 29 June 2014 organized by Vocalogy*. Transcribed by Grace Ng Ee Wern Good afternoon…
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The Art of Taichi in Integrative Pedagogy- an Interview
Master SimPernYiau is a taichi (太极) master of the Nam WahTaiji Gong/ Wu Tu Nan Taijigong lineage. He is also an experienced actor. He received his education in the…
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Body, Mind and Voice: Emotions and Vocal Expression
Presentation by Grace Ng Ee Wern on 17 October 2015. Part of the Fringe Festival, International A Cappella Festival. Organized by the A Cappella Society…
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Listening with the Heart: Hearing the Person Behind the Voice
“I think, therefore I am.” René Descartes’ famous cogito has become one of the most recognisable statements in Western philosophy. It places thinking and consciousness…
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What Kung Fu Panda Taught me about Teaching Voice
I didn’t expect Kung Fu Panda to teach me much about voice teaching. The film tells the story of Po, an unlikely martial arts hero…
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