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Petrina Kow

@petrinakow

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Developing a relationship with your voice is learning to love yourself. My clients come to me with deep fear and insecurities about their voice. Everyone has an opinion about your voice! Even you! And life brings all kinds of challenges and tensions into our bodies. How can we release those habitual holds, the ones we don’t even realise is there and affecting the quality of our voice? How does carrying your body a certain way affect your sense of grounding, presence and connection?
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Come explore and re-learn how to bring vibrancy and energy into your daily interactions, tell better stories and speak with clarity and confidence! Link in Bio!
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Book now! Early bird ends 27th September!
#fitzmauricevoicework #voiceteacher #vocalbreathwork taken in Damai Spa & Fitness Centre by @petrinakow

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A reminder today to speak from a place of integration and ‘wholeness’.
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This connection between mind, body and environment is the fertile ground of experimentation and practice. And that is what you will learn in our 5 Day @fitzmauricevoicework next week!
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Breathe. Sing. Speak. Sound. Text. Express. Connect. It’s all good! .
#goodvibrations🙏 #voicework #fitzmauricevoicework #breathwork by @petrinakow

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8 months ago

What began as a random suggestion became a full on hanbok photoshoot to commemorate our 50th year and our 35 year friendship!
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Our photographer Jay @nasl.snap from Get your Guide was amazing! Knew exactly where to go to avoid the crowds and suggested some fun poses. These aren’t her photos but just the fun ones we took ourselves around the palace. We also hired an amazing make up artist @mina.ssam who came to our Hanok at 530am to do our faces!
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Top Tip if you’re going to do this.
1. Make appointment with the Hanbok Rental and go early. By the time we were returning our hanboks around 1pm it was madness at the studio!
2. Choose your photographer well. It can make a huge difference to your experience.
3. Wear a tank top and comfy shoes. Quite a bit of walking. Also I couldn’t imagine doing this in summer!! It was a pleasant 20 degrees and already we were slightly moist in places! 🤣
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I highly recommend these folks for your next trip to Seoul! Both women spoke excellent English and even recommended great places to eat! Can’t wait to share the actual shots!
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#hanbok #friendship #girlfriends
@studiokjd_official by @petrinakow

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A busy but fulfilling few weeks that I wanted to capture. We’ve become scrollers. Fast flicks, blink and miss. Here are some moments shared with beautiful people i get to call friends and loves. Sometimes I look back on my journals and am glad I slowed down enough to catch moments of my life. From desperate ones like “I find myself either needing to runaway or when I allow the Tap of Judgement to flow, the velocity of mean and hurtful words gets scribbled in my diary or sprayed on my closest friends.” To emotional ones like “I cried at the gate. I think he doesn’t see me cry often. Intellectually I know it’s alright and he’s ok. Emotionally, I can’t even clock where the tears are coming from.”
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And observational ones. “There’s always a crane, some pounding in the distance, dust, forklifts dangling tonnes of concrete precariously. The grass patch that used to house the make shift 歌台 (gē tái) is now the Holiday Inn. Some nights I catch hotel guests changing clothes, housekeeping turning beds over, busy professionals on zoom calls. Devoted individuals running towards me at the rooftop gym at 11pm closing rings and hitting milestones.”
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Noticing takes time. Feelings take time to surface. And we’ve stopped giving it a space to be expressed.
Here’s your cue to go observe something, speak something into existence and make beautiful connections. 🥰❤️ thanks for sharing!
@yeoyannyann @ivanhengwild @benjaminkheng @rekharajan_9 @oniattaeffendi @sunglingun by @petrinakow

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10 days ago

Keep it down.” “Shh.” “Don’t make a scene.”

Sound familiar?

Growing up in Singapore, how many of us were taught that making noise when we’re frustrated or overwhelmed is wrong?

We have been conditioned to swallow our stress, lock down our breath, and keep completely silent.

However, hiding that sound just traps physical tension directly inside our bodies.

I recently attended the exclusive media preview of the Vocal Breathwork Retreat with @petrinakow at the new Damai Spa & Fitness Centre at Grand Hyatt Singapore and it completely changed my perspective on emotional release and vocal health.

The class is grounded heavily in the Fitzmaurice Voicework® method, which helps you to unlearn decades of vocal repression by treating sound as a natural, somatic extension of your breath.

From deep floor bodywork to natural alignment, I learned that letting out a heavy sigh, a grunt, or a loud hum while trembling is exactly how our nervous system resets.

The moment I finally gave myself permission to make noise, the heavy knot of tension in my shoulders completely vanished.

If you are looking for somatic healing, public speaking confidence, or a premium wellness retreat in Singapore to release trapped trauma and stress, all the exact dates and details for the upcoming intake are below:

📍 Damai House, Damai Spa & Fitness Centre, Terrace Wing, [Grand Hyatt Singapore, 10 Scotts Rd, Singapore 228211)

🌿 4 weekly sequential Sunday sessions, starting from 4 October 2026, 2:30pm to 6:30pm (4 hours per session)

💰 SGD 1488 (Early bird at $1288!)

To register interest or book your space for this October 2026 intake, contact Petrina or the Grand Hyatt Singapore wellness concierge directly via email at damai.sg@hyatt.com! taken in Grand Hyatt Singapore by @petrinakow

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TRUE STORY: the only reason they still hired me to do the VO is because legal wouldn’t allow them to use AI voices. Even though it’s a local company they still preferred the American accented AI voice. What does this mean for Singaporean Voice Actors? What does it mean for us to be surrounded by such examples and not hear our languages, dialects and accents? If you’re a voice actor in singapore please share your experience!
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19 days ago

when doing Fitzmaurice Voicework, why is it that some people start laughing, some cry, while some lie on their yoga mats wondering if they’re broken because they’re not feeling any kind of emotional outburst? (me)

in this clip, @petrinakow reflects on the emotions that can arise during voicework. the aim isn’t to force a release; as she puts it, the practice can be therapeutic, but it isn’t therapy. it’s an invitation to notice what’s happening and make room for change.

the first time I did Fitzmaurice Voicework I was struck by how free my voice sounded within a short one-hour session, but it didn’t surprise me at all — we carry so much tension from the bad habits we’ve formed over the course of life, trying to manipulate our voices to fit what we’ve been told it should sound like.

returning to @grandhyattsing for a second year after its inaugural run last year as the first time a hotel wellness facility was introducing Fitzmaurice Voicework classes as part of its holistic wellness offerings, Vocal Breathwork with Petrina Kow invites actors and professionals alike to explore greater freedom in their voices. The weekly series runs this October at Damai House, on 4, 11, 25 October, and 1 November.

Limited trial slots are available this Sunday, 27 September, 3-5pm. For more information, visit bit.ly/hyattbreathwork. Link in bio! taken in Grand Hyatt Singapore by @petrinakow

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award-winning actress @yeoyannyann talks about her first time experiencing Fitzmaurice Voicework with Petrina Kow at Damai House.

on 10 September, @petrinakow joined forces with @millerbudi and @yeoyannyann to discuss what it means to find your voice, and how methodologies originally developed for actor training can prove to be very powerful for regular everyday working professionals trying to become better public speakers or simply express themselves with more authenticity.

returning to @grandhyattsing for a second year, Vocal Breathwork with Petrina Kow invites actors and professionals alike to unlock what it means to find freedom in one’s voice. running this October as a weekly series at Damai House. limited slots are available for trials this Sunday, 27 September, 3-5pm.

for more information, go to bit.ly/hyattbreathwork taken in Grand Hyatt Singapore by @petrinakow

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https://bit.ly/hyattbreathwork

how can @fitzmauricevoicework originally developed for actor training help us unlock our authentic selves and find freedom in our voices at work, even if work for us looks more like a boring open concept hot desk co-working space than a stage, more often than not?

when I quit my job to ~embark on a journey to figure out what I want to do with my life~ one of my first big treats to myself was a spot at the inaugural run of Vocal Breathwork with Petrina Kow @petrinakow at @grandhyattsing last year — I went into it hoping to fix my eternal love-hate relationship with my singing voice, and came out realising that if I get stuck with writer’s block or need help figuring out what I’m trying to express that’s being held back by the polyphony of voices that sometimes clash, I can just get into a dynamic effort (something like a yoga pose) and start tremoring and somehow turn the physical release of tension into mental release.

this year’s series starts on October 4, and if you’re interested in checking it out before committing, we’re doing a trial session this Sunday, 27 September, 3-5pm! Sign up at bit.ly/hyattbreathwork by @petrinakow

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Don’t think I share this story enough. But EVERYTIME I think about that moment, my heart squeezes a little because I’m just so grateful for how much richer my life is because of @fitzmauricevoicework. Not only because I was transformed that afternoon but that it continues to teach me as I continue to teach it to others.
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The fundamental guiding principles of this work is steeped in humanity because it understands and works with breath. And in this noisy world of Artficial intelligence and how it’s going to make us ‘obsolete’ I think we forget about the one thing we share. And that is our breath. It’s the one thing we have that is wholly ours and present and never going to be replaced until we draw our last.
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What does that have to do with our voice? Well EVERYTHING because Breathing is Meaning and if you’re intrigued I’ll leave you with another life changing bit of advice from Catherine; “follow your curiosity and your heart, I find it always leads you to where you need to go”.
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Hope to see you next Sunday! #voiceteacher #fitzmauricevoicework #voicetraining #publicspeakingcoach #publicspeakingtraining taken in Grand Hyatt Singapore by @petrinakow

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There’s no such thing as an optimal environment for best communication to happen. However we can learn to cultivate an optimal set of skills and awareness for our bodies and our voices to respond and speak our truth. As a teacher of @fitzmauricevoicework my job is to create an optimal set of circumstances and environment for you to explore, express and understand how your voice works in your body! And I don’t know of a better environment than @grandhyattsing Damai Spa for this to happen! by @petrinakow

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How often do you think about the connection between your breath, voice, and presence?

Join 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙆𝙤𝙬 for 𝙑𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠, a four-session retreat designed to help you communicate with greater confidence, authenticity, and impact.

Using the internationally recognised 𝙁𝙞𝙩𝙯𝙢𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠® method, you will learn practical techniques to free your voice, release tension, and express yourself more fully.

✨ Classes available now, link in bio.

💬 What helps you feel most confident when speaking? by @petrinakow

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