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A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist.
Sometimes you have to go quiet to finish the thing.
This week was that week. No YouTube video β the first time since I started the channel. Exhaustion and overwhelm, so I turned inward. Just the particular stillness that happens when something is almost done and needs your full attention to cross the finish line.
Two things crossed it this week.
VOCAL RECESS is now available outside the community. π
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Seven weeks of voice work that doesn't feel like voice work. Each week a completely different world β a murder mystery, a fairy tale, a romance novel, a newsroom, a comedy club, a punk show, a Shel Silverstein poem. Each one secretly a technique lesson. All of them designed to get your voice doing things it would refuse to do if you asked it directly.
A noir murder mystery that hides a diction lesson in every chapter. A stand-up comedy series where the pause before the punchline turns out to be a breath support lesson in disguise. A fairy tale about a child who wandered into a forest and forgot how to find their way home.
Fear contracts the instrument. Fun, games, play, and imagination are not soft alternatives to real voice work. They are the mechanism.
Your voice doesn't need more pressure. It needs permission.
$47. Lifetime access. Seven weeks. This is the archive.
THE FIFTH Issue No. 5 drops tomorrow. And it's now available as a standalone subscription for everyone.
Five months of editorial magazine β research, technique, voice philosophy, depth. Designed to be read slowly, kept, and returned to. Issue 5 arrives on the first day of June, themed around The Emotional Dial. Right on time.
For community members: it's already in your feed. This is yours.
For everyone else: $5.99/month or $49.99/year. One more thing to read slowly on a Sunday morning. The kind of writing that actually moves things.
This week's podcast started as a launch update and turned into a twenty-minute rabbit hole on the English language. Because of course it did.
We covered the Word Police β why correcting other people's language, even with the best intentions, is a form of coercion. And then deeper: Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee, the theory that English was designed to be the language of angels. And the homophones hiding in plain sight.
Good morning as good mourning. The days of the week as the daze of the weak. The word awake as a service for the dead.
Intention matters more than perfect pitch. Study your own language. But don't stop someone mid-sentence to correct them.
π§ Words as Spells β And Why I Won't Correct Yours β Listen hereβ
June opens Monday.
And everything changes. The theme is The Emotional Dial. The monthly song is The Water is Wide.
And this month we launch something new in The Healthy Voice Community:Voice Lessons β weekly 10 to 15-minute videos, one technique per week, all applied to the same song for the entire month. This week we open the throat. Next week we build the breath. The week after, resonance. The final week: expression and diction β the human layer on top of everything.
By the end of June, four techniques live in one song.
The warm-up library was the foundation. This is where we build on it.
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Coming next week: An ALL LEVELS practice session: Tuesday June 2 at 5pm PDT. All levels. Come sing.
And next week in Vocal Recess: BON VOYAGE. π
Seven days. Seven destinations. All of them inside you. The throat. The breath. The full terrain of the body. The open sky. The resonance rooms. The hidden city β the voice underneath the performed voice. And Sunday: home.
Pack light. The voice is already everything you need.
Seven days. Seven destinations. All of them inside you.
We're not going to Paris. Not Rome. Not anywhere you need a passport for.
We're going somewhere most voice teachers have never taken you β a grand tour of the instrument itself. Each day a different stop on the itinerary. Each one a place in the body that your voice actually lives.
Monday β The Lobby. The throat. The entrance to the whole instrument. Most singers never actually arrive here β they rush past it straight to performing. Today you check in.
Tuesday β The Engine Room. The breath. The thing that's been powering the sound your whole life, largely without your attention. Today we go below deck.
Wednesday β The Full Terrain. The whole body. The psoas. The pelvic floor. The sternum. The skull. The feet. Your instrument is bigger than you think. Today we take the aerial view.
Thursday β The Open Sky. Release. The voice that finally stops managing itself and just β opens. The sound that shows up when you forget to monitor. Today we go there on purpose.
Friday β The Resonance Rooms. The chest, the sinuses, the soft palate, the skull. The rooms where the sound becomes itself. Most singers live in one room their whole career. Today we tour all of them.
Saturday β The Hidden City. This is the one. The true voice underneath the performed voice. The sound that comes out when you forgot to be careful. When something made you laugh so hard it surprised you. When you sang alone in the car and heard yourself and thought β oh. There you are. Today we find it on purpose.
Sunday β Home. The return. But here's what the brochure won't tell you: you come home different. The engine room, the open sky, the hidden city β they're not left behind at the destination. They traveled with you. They are you now.
Pack light. The voice is already everything you need.
Three months in for many of the people I work with. And this week I'm watching something shift β not just in the sound, but in the relationship to the sound. The open throat is opening. The resonance is landing. Singing with ease β actual ease, not effortful ease β is happening. Sometimes the progress arrives wrapped in emotional difficulty. Something that was held loosens, and what comes out first isn't always the note. But the voice on the other side of that is cleaner, freer, and more theirs than anything that came before. This is what sticking with it looks like. Not a straight line. A real one.
π΅ Running to: Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun β chasing that specific feeling. The 80s shimmer that isn't quite nostalgia and isn't quite present. Something in between. Which, now that I think about it, is exactly where creative breakthroughs tend to happen.
π Noticing: I've been in pure creation mode this week. No books. No shows. Just making. Sometimes that's the most honest answer. The input has to stop so the output can happen. I think the voice works the same way.
βοΈ Journal Prompt
You're at a threshold. May is closing. June is opening. Something that was being built is now ready.
What have you been building quietly β in your voice, in yourself, in your life β that is ready to be released now? Not performed. Not presented. Just finally allowed to exist.
And what has been keeping you from letting it out? Name it. Not to fix it β just to see it clearly.
The threshold is here. What are you bringing through?
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"Once I let go of the fear of singing the song wrong in our last Courage Circle, was when my voice was able to be unleashed. This journey of reclaiming my voice has taught me so much of myself so far." β BellaShanti, Foundation member
"This was a fantastic session. I learned so much about how the vocal instrument works, and the emphasis on somatic awareness opened up a whole new approach for me. It's amazing how one can go for decades using the voice without ever really understanding it, and what a difference it makes when knowledge and experience are put together in a structured way. Also, it was just plain fun." β Steven Brent, Practitioner member
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