I am Sheryl Rak, an experienced, inventive Vocal Therapist, Voice Teacher, Vocal Performance Coach, Alternative Healing Consultant, and Singer. I am a consultant on issues of stage presentation, singing career, music business, vocal lifestyle prioritizing, band practice and interaction, stress reduction, performing confidence, and mental and physical health for optimal vocal production. I look forward to working with you and your singing, as you experience even more compelling, expressive vocal performing.
The “RAK VOCAL CARE” System helps singers know how to take care of yourselves - body, mind, voice, and spirit - so you can practice and perform with strength, authenticity, dependability, and passion. I have worked with many Chicagoland area singers (including Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana residents), of many kinds of music, including rock, heavy metal, pop, classical, sacred, ethnic styles, gospel, R'n'B, and theater singing... My work has been referred to as “a beacon of light in the murky night of vocal distress.”

Rak Vocal & Healing Clinic
Sheryl Rak
6056 W. Irving Park Rd
Chicago, IL 60634
773/283-8349
RakVocal@aol.com

MY VOICE ENHANCEMENT AFFIRMATION

-My voice and I are a GREAT TEAM!

-I am understanding myself and my voice better every day.

-I am understanding how to develop and use my voice well, more and more in wonderful ways, every day.

-I CHOOSE for my voice to be liberated *,
and to sing freely.

-My voice and singing are developing wonderfully.
 

YOU ARE YOUR VOCAL INSTRUMENT
You are your vocal instrument - body, mind, voice, and spirit. Everything you think, eat, drink, do, feel, believe, and experience affects how you let your voice come through you. As a singer, you are a vocal athlete -> create yourself fit and healthy, strong, vibrant, and balanced in order to be able to sing passionately and creatively from your heart, mind, and soul.
I help you to become vocally healthier and stronger immediately as you learn how to produce your core voice more consistently, easily, safely, and reliably - with character, projection, power, improved tone quality, pitch consistency, expanded range, endurance, and your emotive passion and communication.
Your heart yearns for your voice to express your core self. You and I are going to be a team working for your highest good in developing your ability to tap into your voice and your communicating skills and performing talent so you can express yourself more effectively, comfortably, creatively, and reliably. My method teaches you how to build strength through resilience. I teach you to sing by feel rather than by listening to yourself and trying to adjust and manipulate your singing after you hear that it isn't sounding as well as you would like. Singing by feel of your production will help you get to know how your body and voice feel when you are singing well, and then, you can reproduce that feel of your vocal production rather than trying to adjust to the acoustics of the venue in which you are singing.... When your production feels right, you will be singing the best for any acoustics and amplification system, and you will be preserving the health and creativity of your voice and body.

*Affirmation Note: think about your voice becoming liberated and freed from misconceptions, worries, inhibitions, weakness, malfunctioning parts, irritation, emotional repressions, inappropriate technique and usage, injury, and any other ways your voice hasn't been allowed to sing YOU easily, freely, and fully, expressively, creatively, passionately, from your very core and being.

CHOOSE TO LIBERATE YOUR VOICE ON ALL LEVELS!
I have written this affirmation to assist you in developing your voice and singing. Read this affirmation for yourself, write or print it out for yourself, carry it in your wallet or purse, and work with it every day... See for yourself, hear for yourself what you can do for your voice and your singing!