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Awakening Your True Voice

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $220
  • Virtual Classroom
  • 9 hours over 6 sessions

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  • $220
  • Virtual Classroom
  • 9 hours over 6 sessions
  • No class on March 29
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this singing class:

Awakening Your True Voice: Health and Vitality Through Better Breathing

Note: This program will be offered online. Sessions of all our online programs will be recorded and shared with registrants after each is completed for 90 days.

There is no greater joy than to use our voices in a way that is powerful, spontaneous and fully expressive. Developing a physical understanding of voice and breath support helps us release inhibiting vocal and physical tension to become more musical singers and more engaging speakers. This course creates a supportive environment in which self-consciousness dissolves and your true voice emerges.

Breath is fundamental to every aspect of our life. We are born with an ability to breathe deeply and fully, but as we go through life, stress and tension can cause our breathing to become shallow and constricted and our voices strained and weak. Inefficient breathing can lead to fatigue, anxiety, muscular tension and even digestive problems. Getting back to the way nature designed us to breathe is a tonic that revitalizes body and mind. In this course we will explore ways to reestablish our natural, coordinated way of breathing and learn ways to free and strengthen our breathing and voice.

Our work will integrate the Alexander Technique with Carl Stough’s principles of breathing coordination. Singing of easy folk songs and spirituals along with spoken text will help us experience the joy of self-expression. There is no vocal experience necessary for this course.

Note: No previous vocal background required.

What You'll Learn: 

  • Discover a voice that is spontaneous and free, open and expressive
  • Strengthen your breathing, body and voice through the integration of the Alexander Technique with the principles of breathing coordination.
  • Experience a physical understanding of breath support to free and strengthen your voice.
  • Learn lasting ways to relieve vocal and physical tension and increase ease and vitality in your body.
  • Develop an awareness of the diaphragm and learn to strengthen it in a non-manipulative but powerful way.
  • Explore the connection between breathing, voice and artistic self-expression.

Who is this class for?

This workshop is suitable for everyone and specifically benefits people:

  • Who have been told they cannot sing or who have lost their joy of singing
  • Who experience vocal fatigue, tension, hoarseness or who suffer from conditions such as Spasmodic Dysphonia
  • Who suffer from anxiety, depression, performance anxiety or self-consciousness
  • With breathing problems and conditions such as asthma, shortness of breath, COPD or sleep apnea
  • Who experience fatigue, lack of vitality and muscular tension and pain
  • With Depression

The course offers 9 (CEs) Continuation Education Credits for: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapist, Nurses, Teachers, Sound Professionals, Speech Therapists/Speech Pathologists

What you'll need for the course: 

  • Prerequisites: No 
  • Supplies list for the class: N/A
  • Zoom Software Requirements: This is an online course which requires Zoom webinar software. Zoom is easy to use. Click HERE to make sure your computer is set-up correctly.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

For Single Evening Events, Series, Half-Days and Mini-Workshops, Walking Tours, Single-Event Webinars or O’Cast™ Recordings, there are no refunds or course credits for these offerings.

For Full Workshops, Ongoing Courses and Webinars and Online Courses:

  • Refunds are available minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 11 business days prior to the first day of the program.
  • Course credits are available, minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 3 business days prior to the first day of the program.

*The processing fee for cancellation is $15 for programs costing less than $250, and $35 for programs costing $250 and up.

No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations less than business days prior to the first day of a program, or if a student does not attend a program. The estimated refund processing time is two to three weeks.

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Hey! I'm going to be on vacation for one or two of these dates - what are the possibilities of make-up classes, etc.?
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Hey there! The school doesn't offer a make-up class in case you miss a session.
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Dear Jackson, It's Jean McClelland here. I do allow "makeups" when I next offer the class. That has been my policy for the 32 years that I have taught at the Open Center. "Makeups" are at the discretion of the teacher at the New York Open Center. Please contact me directly if you have any other questions on the course. Very best, Jean
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