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Voice Lessons:
Personalized and
tailored to your level of development and experience, and to your wants
and needs -- voice lessons and preventive care for reliability, power,
range expansion, breathing security, pitch consistency, healthy singing
posture, projection of your voice, working around and releasing
allergies/asthma/reflux issues, resolving nasal tone, stamina, mic usage,
stage presentation, singing while playing an instrument, preparation for
auditions/competitions/recording/performances, creativity -> your
passionate performance... Detailed Warm-Up, Cool-Down, and Vocal Healing
routines will be developed with you. Lessons for all levels and types of
singers, from absolute beginners through advanced performers...
Vocal Therapy Sessions:
Voice Therapy/Vocal Rehabilitation for
helping you heal nodes/nodules, polyps, swellings, hoarseness, chronic
laryngitis, bowed vocal cords, weakened vocal stamina, vocal strain or
pain, and all vocal problems. Severe allergies, asthma, sinus congestion,
esophageal reflux, body pain(s), and smoking symptomology issues and their
effects on your voice and singing are addressed and ameliorated. While you
are healing your voice, you will learn to develop healthy vocal technique
and production, and then to strengthen your voice, and restore your vocal
confidence and ease.
Vocal Performance Workshops:
We come together to explore and
experience developing our performing ability, working on songs we've been
studying and preparing in our lessons for auditions, competitions,
recording, and/or performing. We work on building our newly-developed
vocal production technique and healthy vocalizing into our singing and
performing. We 'practice' singing for an audience, pulling ourselves out
of our private lesson situations and our personal practice at home (and in
our cars!) and our practice room work with our accompanists or bands, and
step into the spotlight of singing in front of others. Here in our
workshops, you'll be singing for and with peers - other Rak students who
understand more of your issues than a regular audience and who are working
on some of the same issues as you, yet are now experiencing you as a
performer, and are learning to constructively critique and assist you in
your learning..., and then, they step up and experience what you've just
gone through -> this greatly accelerates our learning! We work on
how to present ourselves as a performer, what our audience wants and needs
from us as performers, song interpretation, projection and personality
onstage, the “before” and “after” performance preparations and
considerations, developing how to know when we are 'ready' to perform,
voice care in the 'real' performing world, etc.
Vocal Technique and Voice Building Workshops:
Rak voice students
come together to work in a group session on concentrated or focused areas
of vocal production and technique development. The bonding and connecting
with others who are working on similar issues and concerns helps
accelerate each other's learning and depth of understanding. Getting to
hear this development work in other voices besides your own and the
teacher's helps you to relate it even more effectively to yourself.
Hearing and watching how other students verbalize their learning can be
very helpful to you. Hearing and watching others progress more easily in
some areas than you do, and with more challenges in other areas than you
do helps you to gain insights into your own modes of learning and explore
your own potential for improving in various areas more efficiently.... I
have found that students who attend these group sessions tend to improve
in their own development about six times faster than those who do not
share any sessions with other students....
Introductory Rak Vocal Care Workshops:
Introductory gatherings for
singers to explore and experience some of the Rak Vocal Care concepts and
teachings, and create some vocal improvements in themselves right away.
Vocal Toning Circles:
We gather to share in free toning, allowing
our voices to go where they want, exploring the “healing powers of breath,
tone, and music. ...tapping the powers that lie beneath the consciousness
of the song. The song leads down to the chant, the chant leads down to the
tone, the tone leads down to the breath, and the breath leads to the
energy beneath the sound - the roar of silence. ...Our own toning sounds,
not necessarily interesting, beautiful, or creatively organized for an
audience, can vibrate, massage, and balance the body without any invasive
methods. ...The energy underneath sound, the power that increases before a
thought emerges and our ability to intuit information are the keys to an
exploration into tone and vibration. How can we reach this unnamed
potential ...” (Quoted material from THE ROAR OF SILENCE: Healing
Powers of Breath, Tone & Music, by Don G. Campbell) We get to
experience the healing powers of the voice with each other, and share in
the awesome bonding of voices beginning to explore creative release and
unfettered vocalizing, for the joy and mystery of 'sounding ourselves',
individually, yet within a group...
Band Consultations:
Sessions about better band interactions, the
musicians understanding the singer and the singer understanding the
musicians and their needs, improving practice sessions, exploring set
pacing and interaction with your audience, exploring what your audience
wants and needs from you, improving performances and confidence
Alternative Healing Sessions:
Self-Healing modalities and
techniques are taught, shared, and experienced, helping singers and others
tap into their own abilities to heal themselves, and believe in their own
healing and balancing abilities... EFT (
http://www.emofree.com ), hypnotherapy and meditational experiencing,
and developing of empowering affirmations, and other modalities are
explored for vocal development improvement and acceleration, for vocal
healing, for releasing smoking and other unwanted habits, for increasing
motivation and follow-through, for releasing stress and tension reactions,
for self-belief and self-esteem improvement, for self-healing, for pain
release, for healthier living, for more efficient decision-making and
action replacing procrastinating, for increased creativity, for increasing
expressive singing and performing, etc.
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