This Is a Voice

Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher take a deeper breath and dive lower into part 2 of breathing techniques for singers & speakers.

And we share

  • Breathing and tongue position (with demonstrations)
  • Is nose breathing better than mouth breathing for singers?
  • Is there a difference in pressure between inhaling through the nose and through the mouth?
  • Breathing, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system
  • Why nasal breathing DOESN’T raise the soft palate
  • Different breathing patterns (square, 2-1, coherent) and what they can teach you about your nervous system
  • And Gillyanne and Jeremy play a game of breath inflection

RESOURCES
The Vocal Process Learning Lounge - 550 resources on singing, speaking and breathing techniques for less than the price of one singing lesson https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-lounge

SOVT 1 streaming course https://www.rayvox.co.uk/?ref=VOCALPROCESS

SOVT 2 live online course https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/sovt-workshop

Online Singing Teacher Training Weeks 1 & 2 https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/singing-teacher-training-online

This Is A Voice: 99 exercises to train, project and harness the power of your voice https://amzn.to/3iEXQ7Z

The health benefits of nose breathing by Dr Alan Ruth https://www.lenus.ie/bitstream/handle/10147/559021/JAN15Art7.pdf?fbclid=IwAR14AvvFa1KiGJ-lkStHSGxR10BBdyzrZvX2aQObp1gkU2CR_1WkHoNStu8

Can influenza viruses be inactivated by a “nose-mouth-nose” breathing technique? Carlos Sanchez https://www.ijirr.com/sites/default/files/issues-pdf/3637.pdf

Ann Coxhead Osteopath https://www.anncoxhead.com/