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Embodied voice and somatic support for voice educators and therapists 🏳️‍🌈

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This is a live one, friends!

It’s the one where I talk about implicit hierarchical teaching, being explicit about what it means to implement student-centred learning, and give three example of ways that our lessons can change when we apply it.

#shoutouts to:
➡️ Alison Jane Taylor @senseablesinging
➡️ Jess Baldwin @truecolorsvoiceandartist
➡️ Robert Sussuma @robert_sussuma
➡️ Liz Jackson Hearns @thevoicelab

Click @voiceped then click the link that starts with “mailchi” to:

✅ join the #voicepedrev(olution) mailing list so you’ll be the first to know when Child Voice 101 & Adolescent Voice 101 Registration opens

✅ sign up for The VPUD info mailing list

✅ purchase the Contemporary Voice 101 Class & Panel recordings

✅ send me a note to inquire about VoicePed VIP Days

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Coming right up with @senseablesinging as part of @melanietapsonvoicecare’s Power of Voice Symposium!
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Maureen and Alison's somatic movement experience was ✨SENSATIONAL✨ at last year's POV (pun 💯intended)! This year we are thrilled to have them back for another experiential opportunity to learn more about how we are connected to our voice. ⁠
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"Our voices are embodied. This session is an experiential opportunity to learn more about how we are connected to our voice. ⁠
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Throughout this 45min session, we’ll invite you to stretch, jiggle, giggle, and play🤸🏽. Together we will explore sensation, body awareness, and spatial orientation through listening, moving, and sound-making. We hope to offer you an experience to shift perspective, feel vibrant💫, envision with clarity🔮, and incorporate with confidence😌. This threshold offers a transition from rich cognitive learning into full-bodied somatic experience. This is an invitation into percolation and integration, both honouring the knowledge you already have and adding in all the new, exciting discoveries from the week. You - your body - already has the information and the answers - let’s play and see what happens!" 🤩👯⁠
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Maureen and Alison have been working together for almost a decade. Early on, they learned that their pedagogy complemented each other. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Maureen and Alison offered online voice and movement sessions, playing with free and easy singing through intuitive sound-making and movement, responsive deep play, and experimentation. Alison and Maureen continue to study how to implement these principles with the mentorship and guidance of Babette Lightner through the Wholeness in Motion Pedagogy Program. Their collaborative approach encompasses the importance of supported singing in the truest sense: inviting each other and their students to explore, experiment, and embody their voices, in an open and inviting learning environment. ⁠
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To find out more about Maureen and Alison and the other incredible speakers at the POV this year, by clicking the link in bio! 👆🏽⁠
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⭐Let them how excited you are to see them below!!🥰 ...and TAG YOUR FRIENDS WHO LOVE TO MOVE!!🙋🏽‍♀️🧘🏼🤸🏽‍♀️⁠

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This year (in the midst of preparing for some big offerings (The Spring Break Intensive!) and some new directions (The VoicePed UnDegree!) in my business), I started doing some somatic bodywork with Riikka Wilson (@riivivebody) because, of course, my body wasn’t doing what I needed it to do … it’s been a truly mind-opening & body-affirming experience. (Especially for this recovering evangelical who kinda’sorta’ was taught that carnal stuff is BAD. 😉)

If I can, I’d love to recommend that every one of us #voiceteachers (aka body workers!) start listening to / noticing our bodies BEFORE we feel pain.

Some folks (off the top of my head) who work this way in the voice realm are: @senseablesinging , @catefnstudios , @robert_sussuma , & @vocalyogi ❤️

Posted @withregram • @stopchasingpain Pain is the awareness switch. The attention getter.

When something hurts pay attention to it. But don’t forget to look at the rest of the body

Pain is very often where something ended up, not where it started. It’s the end of the compensation chain

Treat pain, but don’t chase it. Better yet, treat the human being with the pain. That will work out better

Suggestion: Law of Polarity. Check opposite

Balance. Yin Yang

✔️When your back hurts check the abdomen.
✔️When your neck hurts check the throat
✔️When your middle back hurts check the chest
✔️When your hip hurts check the opposite shoulder.
✔️When your shoulder hurts check the opposite hip

Everything matters.

No system in the body ever works alone. Never gets injured alone. Never heals alone. There is no such thing as an isolated injury. There is no such thing as isolated healing.

STOPCHASINGPAIN.com❤️#stopchasingpain #chronicpain #move #fitness #exercise #movement #inflammation #TLAS

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Pics are from June 2019, when @voicealexandertech and I went on a retreat to @babettelightner house to immerse ourselves in Wholeness in Motion.

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That retreat was life-changing for me and was the beginning of a huge shift in my teaching and in my being.

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This past year I have been further immersing myself in this work and it continues to change me and how I want to work -- both how I treat myself in my own practice and performance and in how I want to work with others who are learning about their instrument, their whole self.

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Alison and I have officially begun a Wholeness In Motion Teacher Training with Babette. We just spent two beautiful days immersed in "Feedback". It was another completely enriching and shifting experience for me. I might come back here to write about it more later. But I'll definitely be implementing everything in my work with others immediately.

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I came here to share this joy <3

Wholeness in Motion The Language of Wholeness

#WholenessInMotion #WIM #VoiceTeacher #VoiceCoach #SingingLessons #Feedback #Learning

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✨Introducing this week's Artist Spotlight with Alison Taylor✨

@voicealexandertech is an arts educator who specializes in Alexander Technique. Through her work she has found her superpower and is hoping others will embrace theirs as well.

Visit www.fromthevoiceof.com to read the full article! 🗞

“Many people working in this body working profession, therapy profession, and voice instructors have this empathy, or sensitive nervous system, or maybe it is just a spidey-sense, but we have this ability to tune into our students and clients. It is a superpower. I will not take that as a criticism – I will say “Thank you, I am very sensitive. It is my superpower.”

Alison found her superpower through her sensitivity. We want to know: what’s your superpower? Tell us below ⬇️

#ftvo #communityovercompetition #keeppushing #womeninmusic #voiceteacher #artsong #artsongs #voicestudies #uoftvoicestudies #bucknell #bucknellmusic #singer #operasinger #findingyourvoice

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The incredibly talented, generous, and dynamic Maureen Batt and Alison Jane Taylor will be joining forces to share their enlightening talk with us at the POV on 'The Range of Recuperation: what energy do you need to succeed'! ⭐💫⁠
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Alison, an Alexander Technique teacher and Maureen, an opera singer, will use intuitive sound-making and movement to demonstrate how voice, body, and self are inseparable. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Maureen and Alison have been offering online voice and movement sessions, playing with free and easy singing through intuitive sound-making and movement, responsive deep play, and experimentation. Their collaborative approach encompasses the importance of supported singing in the truest sense: inviting each other and their students to explore, experiment, and embody their voices, in a safe and welcoming learning environment. ⁠
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Learn more about Maureen and Alison and get your tickets now at *the link in bio*☝️ so you don't miss this inspiring, interactive, and playful talk at the POV! ⁠
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY⁠
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I am so grateful to share the stage and be part of the journey alongside so many incredible, powerful women. I've been influenced by strong women my whole life, and I strive to be that woman for others. To the phenomenal women I know, I trust, I value, I respect, I honour: I see you, I raise you, I celebrate you, I am thankful for you. Let's raise each other up. #internationalwomensday #IWD2021 #women #fiercegirls #womenofscience #womenofart #wearewomen #sheher

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#performanceanxiety #voiceped #voicepedadjacent #voicepedagogy #alexandertechnique #teachbetter #singbetter #voicepedrev(olution) #voicepedforreallife #voicethoughts #bodythoughts #anxietythoughts

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We’re at it again!
Voice and Movement Immersive (October 2-4)

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@voicealexandertech and I wanted to illustrate all that you have access to when you come to our immersive.

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#venndiagram #voiceandalexandertechnique #alexandertechnique #singinglesson #masterclass #workshop #colearning

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Omigod you guys! Last night’s Master Class was AWESOME. Laura Bell Bundy was so giving of her time. She had some great advice for young singers, we met her husband, and she even sang for us! When she found out we are based in Louisiana, she revealed a guy she dated for years is from Denham Springs, so she knows the area. What?!? #PhyllisSingsStudio

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TONIGHT! 6-7pm Central! @laurabellbundy will be joining the studio for a Master Class/Q&A via Zoom.
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What I love about the Master Classes my studio hosts, is I keep the number of attendees down to a maximum of 15, so it really is a personal experience for all.
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Tonight’s event is SOLD OUT, but a couple of spots remain for the @kerrybutler1 Master Class on August 24. Link to sign up is in the bio. Hope to see you there! #PhyllisSingsStudio

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Testimonials are coming in pretty hot and heavy about the inaugural #virtualvoicepedpowerup!! .
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The first #vvppu was allll about the anatomy and physiology of the vocal instrument as we produce #contemporary sounds ... and ended up skewing pretty heavily toward the #femalevoice. .
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Soooo, on the suggestion of many of Monday’s #VVPPU attendees I’m gonna’ do a #followup session on working with the #malevoice that will cover transitioning through #puberty (what’s happening on a chemical and physiological level, how it affects the voice, and strategies and best practices for working with a #changingvoice) PLUS contemporary singing for the male voice. .
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Details coming ... so if you’re interested in getting those details and you’re not already, I hope you’ll get on my mailing list. :) .
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SO grateful to everyone who came and learned and engaged and gave me feedback. The edited recording is coooomiiiing!!!! .
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#voiceped #voicepedagogy #vocalinstrument#vocalinstrument101 #teachyourfaceoff #voicepedyourfaceoff #singyourfaceoff #teachbetter #singingteachery
#voicethings #singingthings #voicepedthings #teachingthings #useyourwords #anatomyofthevoice #physiologyofthevoice #sciency #vocalhealth #voicestudio #independentvoiceteacher

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