The 5-Minute Voice Series is back!

Your Voice is Yourself

To work on your voice is to tap into your deepest inner resources. You don’t need to be a singer or actor to benefit from coordinating and freeing your vocal energies.

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And click here to discover or re-discover the 5-Minute Voice series of pedagogical clips.

Your body and your mind, your words and emotions, and the vibrations you put forth all collaborate to make you connected, present, attentive, and creative whenever you speak—and also in silence, which happens to be an important part of how you use your voice.

To help you unlock the power of your voice, I use many tools that I’ve developed over the decades. I describe some of these tools in my books Indirect Procedures: A Musician’s Guide to the Alexander Technique and Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound, both published by Oxford University Press.

Other tools come from my explorations as a singer and instrumentalist—which you can hear by visiting my SoundCloud page, where I perform some of my compositions and improvisations.

My students have included classically trained professional singers, amateurs, men and women who wanted to express themselves better in public, and plenty of curious individuals who just wanted to do something fun and life-affirming.

Lessons can take place in Paris, where I live most of the time; during my worldwide travels, when I might be passing through your hometown; or through Zoom, a surprisingly effective medium. For some people, online lessons may be even more useful than face-to-face sessions. Click here to read a short essay of mine about the merits of online sessions..

You can use some very simple vocal exercises to put yourself on the road to mindfulness. Click here to read my blog post about it.

In August, 2017 I gave workshops at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Stockholm, Sweden. Below is a little trace of my adventures.