
Kick off an efficient and fun vocal warm up for singers and speakers in about ten minutes, grounded, confident, and expressive, drawing on 25 years of study including Feldenkrais.
Learn grounding techniques for confident vocal warmups by locating four foot spots—the big toe ball, the fourth toe ball, and inner and outer heel edges, building sensory awareness for standing.
Practice a playful self-hug to improve posture by lying on the floor, guiding glued elbows and rib shapes through gentle left-right movements, sensing floor support and then sit up.
Lie on your back and roll left and right, lifting feet and holding the outsides of your feet to sense floor contact, shaping rib cage for standing during vocal warm-up.
Stand with your feet grounded on four points and gently imagine spaces in your ankles, knees, hips, and spine to ease gravity and stay present during efficient vocal warm ups.
Explore balance drills for singing, alternating weight between feet, maintaining contact with the head of the fourth metatarsal, like riding a surfboard. Integrate breath with stance to improve vocal control.
Perform the two balloons breathing exercise: breathe into a lower torso balloon 50-60%, then expand a chest balloon 50-60% for ease and effortless breath while lying on your back.
Practice global breathing to engage the entire torso in even inhalation and exhalation, from pelvic floor to clavicles, then extend awareness to arms, legs, and head for coordinated breath.
Explore welding with the breath to softly press through the feet, lengthen the rib cage, and invite gentle, three-dimensional awareness in the upper back and shoulders.
Practice kiss and smile to relax facial muscles, then alternate lemon face and lion face to engage the whole face and breath for clearer, more expressive voice.
Explore the teeth with your tongue to minimize effort, noting how little jaw and throat activity is needed, while using breath to monitor ease.
Practice ballet arms with parallel feet, breathe into balloon to expand torso, then inhale to lift and exhale on the letter S as arms descend for singers and speakers.
Explore unvoiced lip trills to warm up articulators, then add voice on low notes and glide from low to high back to low, with encouragement that most students can learn.
Improve vocal warm ups for singers and speakers by waking up the articulators—the tip of the tongue, the teeth, and the lips—achieving clear, effortless enunciation without tension.
Warm up your mask and wake your resonators with nasal consonants m, n, ng, then practice the mouth open for n and lips closed for m to feel the resonance.
Perform sirens on the vowel oo to wake up low and high spoken notes. Release the jaw as you rise to higher pitches, making the flow easier at the top.
Set a clear intention before warming up, grounding yourself and defining the goal for singing, acting, or speaking; write the end aim beforehand and repeat the first words five times.
Practice the 5-3-1 oo's vocal warm up to quickly and effectively warm up the voice for singers and speakers, with jaw release and elevated ooh sounds.
Practice bright forward ha ha ha, a clear ah, during vocal warm-ups to channel power from down low without force, while keeping happy eyes and eyebrows as you hop.
Engage in efficient vocal warm ups for singers and speakers with a smooth, non-staccato oo pattern and a quick 1-3-5-3-1 rhythm.
Sing the tip of the tongue, the teeth, and the lips on one note at a time to warm up articulation in this sung articulator warm up.
Delve into low notes with bright 'sa' vocal warm ups, guiding you to use repeated 'sa' sounds to strengthen the lower range.
Design and execute a 10–15 minute vocal warm-up for singers and speakers, combining posture, breath work, movement, articulators, nasal consonants, lip trills, sirens, and a clear intention for first words.
Revisit the course to turn your favorite parts into your perfect vocal warm up. Include feet, posture, breath mask, articulators, and high and low notes, and set a performance intention.
Would you like to learn a fun, effective, and efficient vocal warm up? One that encompasses all the elements you need to be ready for a speaking or singing engagement, in just 10 minutes?
In this course, you’ll learn all you need to know to warm up your body, breath, and voice, for any purpose, in just 10 minutes. I’ve put together the best methods both my students and I use to get ready to speak or sing. Here, you’ll learn:
1) how your feet can help you feel more grounded and spontaneous when singing/speaking
2) fun and effective postural tricks for better confidence and coming across better
3) simple breathing exercises to banish stage fright, and help with projecting your voice
4) how to warm up your ‘mask’ and articulators, quickly and easily
5) how to warm up your high and low notes, so you can be more expressive
6) the most important step to preparing for a performance: getting crystal clear about what you want to accomplish during the performance
7) how to put this all together in one 10 minute warm up that is easy to remember and execute!
If you’re familiar with my work, you’ll know that I incorporate the Feldenkrais Method in all of my vocal teaching. So, that means you’ll learn a unique way to include all aspects of yourself into one warm up, that will leave you feeling grounded, confident, and more spontaneous and alive!
All of this leads to you being a more effective speaker or singer, which means you’ll come across as confident and convincing, and you’ll generate more opportunities for yourself. Your message will be better received, and that will translate into more engagements, and more income. You’ll have a go-to, all-encompassing warm up that you can use every time, that’s easy to understand and remember, and you’ll learn to do it in 10 minutes or less.
So, give it a try! You’ll learn the most efficient and effective warm ups that I have learned in my over 25 years of teaching and learning. Let’s get started, and get you on a path to feeling confident, grounded, and expressive, while having fun in the process. See you soon!