What you'll learn
- Stress management strategies that will improve your singing
- Learn how stress affects the voice
- Body and vocal warmups that relieve stress before singing
- Performance anxiety strategies
- Holistic wellness practices that enhance vocal health
- Ways to soothe your nervous system and give your best performance
- Release muscle tension and let the vocal instrument sing freely
- Yoga and meditation for singer
Requirements
- Do you want to reduce your stress level, body and vocal tension, and performance anxiety? This course is for you! No other requirements or prerequisites needed.
Description
Your vocal instrument is part of your body, and is affected by your physical and emotional wellbeing.
Learn stress-management strategies from vocal pedagogy, yoga, Alexander Technique, holistic wellness, neuroscience, and more.
Relieve your stress and free your voice.
Stress management strategies that will improve your singing
In this course, we'll learn...
How stress affects the voice
Body and vocal warmups that relieve stress before singing
Performance anxiety strategies
Holistic wellness practices that enhance vocal health
How the nervous system relates to stress and singing
Yoga and meditation for singers
There is relief ahead...
As singers, we work for years to sculpt and hone our voice, and then walk on stage to bear our heart and soul to the audience... perhaps night after night, show after show, gig after gig. Or perhaps with long lulls in between, while we try to carve out the next performance opportunity, chasing the dream.
In between, we train, we hustle, we schedule, maybe we work a side job, maybe we shuttle our kids to soccer practice.
The life of the vocal performance artist is stressful, demanding vocal health and stamina, skill and technical prowess, expressiveness and dedication to the craft. As singers, it's necessary to find a source of resilience and balance that will sustain us.
"Stress Relief for Singers" provides mind and body stress-management strategies so you can relax your way to better singing.
Are overwhelm and stress affecting your performance?
Learn ways to soothe your nervous system and give your best performance
Is muscle tension affecting your singing?
Learn ways to release the body and let the vocal instrument sing freely
Are you mentally and physically exhausted?
Learn mindfulness and yoga practices that will provide balance and stamina
Who this course is for:
- Singers who want to relieve stress and relax their way into better singing.
- Singers wanting to reduce body tension and vocal tension.
- Singers who hope to soothe the nervous system and give a better performance.
- Singers curious about incorporating mindfulness and yoga practices.
Instructor
- 5.0 Instructor Rating
- 2 Reviews
- 4 Students
- 2 Courses
Voice
With the foundation of a Classically-based vocal education, I've enjoyed performing and teaching in the genres of Musical Theatre, Classical, Pop/Rock, Jazz, Folk, and World since 2002. I use a holistic approach that empowers my students to find and free their own natural sound, incorporating vocal pedagogy, voice science, performance practice, vocal styling, yogic principles, trauma-informed teaching methods, Alexander Technique, and mind/body integration.
Enjoying a wide variety of genres, my performance experience includes solo recitals, operatic roles, choral concerts, community outreach programs, venue gigging, and recording. I served as a Vocal Department Artist-in-Residence at School of the Arts in San Francisco, and currently teach voice lessons online and in my private studio in Land Park, Sacramento.
My formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a concentration in Vocal Performance, Master of Music in Classical Vocal Performance, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Minor in Psychology. I am a RYT-200 (Registered Yoga Teacher), CMT-200 (Certified Meditation Teacher), certified Core Singing voice instructor, and have 40 hours of Alexander Technique training. I’ve also completed the Contemporary Voice Teacher Academy and New Science of Singing certification programs with John Henny, the Musical Theatre Coaching Course with Nate Plummer, Breaking Down the Riffs with Natalie Weiss, and the Vocal Instrument 101 with Shannon Coates.
I play piano, guitar, and ukulele, and offer beginning instruction in these instruments, as well as beginning to advanced music theory and ear training.
Yoga
Marisa Gray Atha is the owner of Mama Yoga Studio, offering specialized yoga practices for women and mothers. She an RYT-500 certified yoga teacher and CMT-200 certified meditation teacher. Marisa has been published in OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, and continues to offer private livestream sessions and free yoga and meditation practices via Mama Yoga Studio and Mama Yoga YouTube.
Training:
RYT-500, RPYT, RCYT Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher
CMT-200 Meditation Alliance Certified Meditation Teacher
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification
300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification
200 Hour Meditation Teacher Training Certification
95 Hour Children's Yoga Teacher Training Certification
85 Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Certification
50 Hour Pranayama Teacher Training and Breathwork Certification
Yin Yoga 25 Hour Teacher Training
Chair Yoga 25 Hour Teacher Training
Restorative Yoga 25 Hour Teacher Training
Yoga Mythology 25 Hour Teacher Training
Trauma Informed Kids Yoga 25 Hour Teacher Training
Ayurveda Specialist 25 Hour Teacher Training
Effective Cues for Yoga Teachers 15 Hour Training
Peaceful Babes 10 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga Levels 1 and 2
60 Hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification