Doing it.

I'm in training vocally and it's my favourite thing. Diaphragm, that great bit of muscle between yer lungs and yer guts... that's my focus. building up strength to hold notes, have breath control. core strength. The great upshot is that I can carry barrels at work much easier, ha ha. I'm doing Alexander Technique, which is about relaxing your muscles and moving /standing/doing anything with ease and not being a knotted anxious mess of muscle. The way I like to explain a fraction of Alexander Technique is that within our muscles are the large veins carrying blood around the body.If we hold those muscles in a state of tension, all tight, the blood flow is restricted, so that's how I make a tiny bit of sense of what it is and why I like it! A.T also helps me sing in tune... which is good for everyone! As a singer my biggest enemy to making a quality sound, a sound that has texture and depth, which is how we convey meaning/emotion, is tension and anxiety. I know I can sing, but if I am anxious then everything tightens up, stiff jaw, squashed back of neck, dry mouth....boring sound....yawn.... I'm sounding a teachery..apologies...I'm writing this so I remember what I'm doing not to tell anyone else what to do... we make sense of stuff as individuals...happy singing y'all.