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Voice Works

Voice Works is a practical skills-based workshop that aims to provide teachers, professionals, and anyone else who would like to use their voice more effectively with the fundamentals of how the voice works, how to use it better, and how to look after it.

What will be covered

• Using elements from the somatic disciplines of the Alexander Technique, the Feldenkreis Method, and Body Mapping to explore how body balance and alignment can be achieved and its effect on the voice.
• Projected and sustained speaking requires active breath use. Exploring how the body and voice work most easily and efficiently through active recoil inhalation and active exhalation using elements from Accent Method Breathing.
• Making sound and how the voice changes pitch is directly connected to body and breath use. Sounds made instinctively, like laughing and groaning, co-ordinate holistic vocal use and can lead to finding the most comfortable speaking pitch, more expressive intonation choices, and the possibility of increased vocal range.
• Exploring the many adjustments that are possible in the Vocal Tract and the techniques that enhance and maximise vocal projection and timbre.
• Learning how and where vowels and consonants are shaped enables clearer, more precise, and efficient diction and exploring how language and expressive communication is the end point of human sound.
• Vocal Health: Looking at how to take care of the voice through a summary of healthy vocal use, personal health, and voice care, to include physical and vocal warmups and general vocal hygiene.

Student Testimonials

• Absolutely excellent workshop. Christina is great!
• Christina is an excellent & passionate facilitator
• Christina is very professional, interested, empathic, and prepared. She also has good humour and a natural presentation style. What a privilege being in her class.