We are all born singers. Everyone can sing… it is your birthright. If you believe to can’t sing, something has happened due to societal conditioning to make you believe a story that simply isn’t true.
You have been conditioned to think so, by thought, word or deed. And now you believe a story: This story is incorrect.
With a few exceptions, there is no such thing as a vocal problem - vocal pathology is symptomatic of personal history. Virtually all vocal problems can be traced back to physical tension, postural issues, respiratory inefficiency, doubt, fear, or a sense of lack of permission. We investigate and integrate the respiratory system, diaphragmatic integrity, posture, fascia and thought processes first, and the larynx last.
Therefore, we do not learn how to sing, we remember how to sing.
Were you the loudest voice in the grade 4 choir, and the porrly-trained teacher asked you to mouth the words? Instead of doing with should have been done which is bringing the rest of the choir up to you?
Did you always have a big, wonderful, boisterous laugh and were told to “hush”?
Did you endure loud shouting or arguing in your household when you were younger, and now anytime a teacher asks you to use your “big” or “full” singing voice, you don’t want to because it subconciously reminds you of yelling?
Did you have a natural instinct to sing when you were young? And you sung randomly out of of deep feeling of joy, and people began to tell you that that “wasn’t appropriate”?
While practicing your singing repertoire or warming up at school, were you made fun of in the hallway by people walking by?
Did you get the idea that it wasn’t safe to “take up space”?
Are you a physical or emotional abuse trauma survivor? Singing is a forward-momentum, outwardly-mobile art. If we “know” we are safer hiding back in the cave, that is where our voice will sit - in the back of the throat.
Your Big Voice is already there, inside you. Voice training is as much about uncovering and unleashing the joyous voice, as it is about learning how to sing.
Everyone is a singer.
“Yes. I can sing”.
