Keeping the voice FLEXIBLE 🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
Planks may target larger support muscles and core strength, but I use other exercises to train my smaller, finer support muscles. These are more responsible for your ability to sing with flexibility, phrasing and control. This work requires so much patience.
About 8 months ago I pulled an ab muscle while lifting heavy luggage up the stairs at my AirBnb in Italy. I was really devastated because I had to cancel Gilda at the
@arenadiverona after only one day of rehearsals there 💔 It took us a while to diagnose the problem, and it took about a month to heal. Rebuilding my support afterwards was slow and I had to be extremely careful as I was prepping to sing Marie at the
@metopera in a very physical production. It was not unlike my recoveries from childbirth. These are some of the exercises that helped me throughout the process:
💡 Straw bubbles, lip trills, quick breaths, balancing on the
@bosu_fitness ball, gentle onsets, lots of pianissimo, crescendo/decrescendo, cooling down after a high or difficult aria (hello Lakmé Bell Song), and wearing the
@bellybandit for added support (this was especially gold after my C-sections but I still use it).
Most of this video is from yesterday’s Zoom session with my voice therapist
@lindacarrollphdnyc who has helped me through years of keeping this instrument healthy. 🙏
Young singer friends, we need both strength and flexibility in order to sing well. Don’t neglect either side. Same as any sport! 🤸🏻♀️⚽️🎾⛸️🧘🏻♀️🏀🎿
#vocalfitness #flexibility #support
