Health Benefits - How to do Vocal Toning
Let's explore the amazing health benefits and techniques for vocal toning, including how to position the mouth appropriately to achieve the different vowel sounds. Always remember that our voices are powerful tools for healing and connecting with ourselves and others,
so these techniques will support our practice.
Health Benefits of Vocal Toning
Stress Relief: Vocal toning helps to reduce stress and anxiety by activating your parasympathetic nervous system,
promoting relaxation and releasing endorphins.
Improved Respiration: It encourages deep, diaphragmatic breathing, which oxygenates your blood and boosts your immune system.
Emotional Release: Toning is amazing for helping to release pent-up emotions, leaving you feeling lighter and more centred.
Physical Healing: Some studies suggest that certain frequencies can promote physical healing for all manner of ills, such as reducing pain or inflammation. There are many such frequencies we explore in sound medicine, including finding those tones that resonate particularly with your unique physical and energetic body.
How to Purse the Mouth and Other Techniques:
Pursing the Mouth: Imagine you're about to whistle or blow a kiss. That's the perfect pursed-lip position for vocal toning an
‘OOOH’ sound. It helps to focus the sound and vibration.
Now drop the chin and open the mouth and throat like a wide-open tunnel to create a clear, resonant tone, a deeper ‘OHH’. This tone starts at the centre of the mouth, then moves to the back of the throat. Avoid tensing your throat muscles.
(NB. This sound is a dipthong which is formed by combining two vowels into a single syllable.
You sound one vowel and then slide it towards another. Which two vowels can you hear in this dipthong? )
Now, engage your diaphragm: Place one hand on your belly. As you inhale deeply through your nose, feel your belly expand. This helps you sing from your core, creating a stronger, more resonant tone.
After a few moments, raise the hand to the centre chest to feel the chest expand. As you move to relax the breath with an exhalation, open the mouth to vocal tone a deep ‘AAAH’, feeling your sound vibrate the sternum bone in the centre of the chest. Directing your voice to this bone helps to strengthen even more the resonance of your tone, as well as vitalise an area so crucial for the immune system.
Experiment with Pitch and Volume: Try out different pitches and volumes to find what feels best for you. Remember, there's no right or wrong pitch – it's all about what resonates with you. You can support pitch by placing the attention on different parts of the body, for example the head for a high EEEH; the lower addomen and torso for a mid-toned OHH; the legs and feet for a deep ‘UHHHRRR’.
Be creative. Start Simple. Begin with a single tone, like the familiar "Ohm" or "Ah." As you get comfortable, you can explore other sounds and create simple melodies. Feel into where you naturally pitch your notes, your tones. Are they high in the body or lower?
Unleash your voice, your creativity; connect your sound with your body; unleash your ,
your confidence: your healing!
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