Author: Jessica

Métis writer/educator with roots in the Georgian Bay Métis Community. Poet Laureate of Cobourg. Visit jessicaoutram.com for more information.

Big Idea #1: Breath is constantly adjusting to what we need: soft and loud

Jessica

Breath flow changes depending on what we want to say.

Breath is constantly adapting to what we need. Breath changes us and we can change breath. Breath is mostly an unconscious process.

  1. Big Idea # 1: Breath changes to support vocal expression (loud and soft)
  2. Big Idea # 2: Breath changes to support vocal expression (short and long tones)
  3. Big Idea # 3: Breath changes with our feelings: We can change our feelings by changing the way we breathe

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Do Singing Teachers Need to Teach Breathing? Instead of Skill Acquisition, It Is an Innate Learning Process: Part 1.

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Big Idea #2: Breath adjusts to the length of the sounds we want to make from long and slow to short and quick. Breath flow follows intention.

Jessica

Breath adjusts to the speed we want to say something–whether it is fast, slow, or somewhere between, and breath follows what you intend to do.

Breath is constantly adapting to what we need. Breath changes us and we can change breath. Breath is mostly an unconscious process.

  1. Big Idea # 1: Breath changes to support vocal expression (loud and soft)
  2. Big Idea # 2: Breath changes to support vocal expression (short and long tones
  3. Big Idea # 3: Breath changes with our feelings: We can change our feelings by changing the way we breathe

Click here for video script.

Review the Resources:

Long and Short Description Of A Wholeness in Motion (WIM) Lesson

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Big Idea #3:  Breath changes with our feelings: it affects and is affected by the autonomic nervous system. We need to feel safe, capable, and empowered to learn.

Jessica

Breath adjusts to the speed we want to say something–whether it is fast, slow, or somewhere between, and breath follows what you intend to do.

Breath is constantly adapting to what we need. Breath changes us and we can change breath. Breath is mostly an unconscious process.

  1. Big Idea # 1: Breath changes to support vocal expression (loud and soft)
  2. Big Idea # 2: Breath changes to support vocal expression (short and long tones
  3. Big Idea # 3: Breath changes with our feelings: We can change our feelings by changing the way we breathe

Click here for video script.

Review the Resources:

Here is what we have discovered. What do you think, feel and understand?

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