VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Whether you want to sing for a performance, for fun, or for your AGM, music is a phenomenal way to train yourself to use your voice.

Opening the full capacity of the singing voice is much like learning to play dominoes:  if you hit the right reflex, the voice unfolds with ease.  Voice Empowerment’s approach is designed to enhance vocal energy, and develop a strong physical and mental foundation for the singing voice. "Using the singing voice is much like learning to play dominoes. If you hit the right reflex everything effortlessly falls into place.”

Influencing Performance:  Intention vs. Assumptions

The singing voice is highly influenced by you attitudes.  Consider what assumptions stand in your way. Reinvent your expression and capability.

Rooting through the Body

The singing voice becomes free when tension is used correctly. Power for your voice sits below the solar plexus, in the diaphragm, pelvic floor, legs, and feet. Rooting your sound creates strength and vocal energy.

"Align your focus and ignite your delivery."

Opening the Breath

Singing relies on pliability of the voice and the breath. The body needs to respond and lift the voice into a place of strength and lightness, even if you’re ‘rockin it hard.’ Singers have found their voices get back in gear quickly when they lose it under touring stresses.

Freeing your Sound

Unite the initiating impulse of sound with open resonation.  Range opens, and sound quality improves. The voice becomes resilient and pliant.  The tonal shift is quick and rewarding. Pitch tends to align with listening and placement. A deep inner stillness tends to open.

Background

Voice Empowerment’s roots are in the Werbeck method. Techniques from meditation,
yoga and chi kung merge with the Werbeck approach in a dynamic, results-driven approach.
The Werbeck method was developed by Werbeck Svaedstrom, a Swedish opera singer in the
early 20th century, in combination with R. Steiner. She was a colleague of Jenny Lind,
The Swedish Nightingale.