008 Why Posture is Important for Reducing Vocal Fatigue

02/15/21 • 16 min

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Today I want to talk about posture, and why it is essential for reducing vocal fatigue. You will understand the secret to improving your posture when speaking, and we will also talk about the four questions you need to ask yourself to turn body alignment awareness into a habit, and the exercises and activities that can help you with it as well.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

What is body alignment
How the lack of alignment affects our voice performance
The kink in the straw effect
The ultimate secret of body alignment
Four questions to quick-check your body alignment
How understanding body alignment brings freedom

Once we are aware of our body alignment, we can start making it a habit. Bad posture can have devastating effects on our voice, and to fix it, we need to understand voice as a holistic experience, and be mindful of the connection between our body parts.

P.S. Thank you Jack Evans for making the music for this podcast!

Resources:

Nic's Quick Voice Tip - Chin jutting and mic position video https://youtu.be/RTRu3Yq7nnI
The Use of the Self by FM Alexander https://amzn.to/3p9pSd8
5 Alexander Tech Exercises to Try http://ergonomictrends.com/alexander-technique-exercises-posture-back-pain/
My Alex Tech Teacher https://alexandertechnique.co.uk/users/n-osorio
Alex Tech Directions https://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/on-giving-directions-doing-and-non-doing/
Dane Chalfin https://www.vocalrehabilitation.com/primal-voice

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What You Will Learn In This Episode:

What is body alignment
How the lack of alignment affects our voice performance
The kink in the straw effect
The ultimate secret of body alignment
Four questions to quick-check your body alignment
How understanding body alignment brings freedom

P.S. Thank you Jack Evans for making the music for this podcast!

Resources:

Nic's Quick Voice Tip - Chin jutting and mic position video https://youtu.be/RTRu3Yq7nnI
The Use of the Self by FM Alexander https://amzn.to/3p9pSd8
5 Alexander Tech Exercises to Try http://ergonomictrends.com/alexander-technique-exercises-posture-back-pain/
My Alex Tech Teacher https://alexandertechnique.co.uk/users/n-osorio
Alex Tech Directions https://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/on-giving-directions-doing-and-non-doing/
Dane Chalfin https://www.vocalrehabilitation.com/primal-voice

Mentioned in this episode:

Buy Nic's Book

Head to onthemicbook.com to get your copy now

Get my book here

Previous Episode

007 Top 5 Microphone Technique Tips

Today's episode is about microphone techniques. We will let aside the different mic setups and styles, and we will focus on the universally beneficial tips when it comes to speaking on a microphone. We will talk about body alignment, the better way of facing a microphone, the ideal distance from the mic and much more.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

The importance of body alignment when speaking on a mic
How to let the microphone take your voice
Plosives and how to play across the microphone
It's not about you or the mic - it's about the listener
How hydration can help our microphone technique

These five tips apply to voice professionals, but they are also helpful for Zoom meetings or virtual presentations. Time and practice will help you perfect these techniques, and still, they'll have a visible impact in your voice performance from day one.

Big thanks goes to Jack Evans for creating music for this podcast!

Resources:

B Double E https://b-double-e.co.uk/services/
Nic's Quick Voice Tips - Alignment and Avoiding Vocal Fatigue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRu3Yq7nnI&t=3s
Join my Facebook group Voice & Accent Hub: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thevoiceandaccenthubb

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Buy Nic's Book

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Next Episode

009 Top 5 Tips for Improving Your Speech

In this episode, I'm sharing with you five cheeky tips you can use to improve your speech. These simple yet effective tricks that you can start applying right away will help you enhance your voicing without a lot of practice.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

How making pauses can help us when speaking
A rule to consider - new thought, new breath
What it means to ‘find the floor’
Why you have to listen to your recorded voice in order to improve it
Any good speech starts with a great warm-up

The element that connects these five tips for vocal improvement is awareness - not only being aware of our flaws and fails, but also of our posture before and while speaking, the in-breath and out-breath, and the time we take to talk. And listening to our recorded voice is a great tool to improve that awareness and improve our speech.

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