Release relax ☺️ release 🐈‍⬛🎶

Discover a specialized breathing method designed to reduce anxiety and tension by utilizing core diaphragm connection. This technique helps singers release physical stress and improve vocal performance. Sing and relax. One thing that makes us unique is we teach different strategies on breathing to be able to alleviate anxiety and focus on releasing tension at the TMJ’s and very, very specific area work. Like a lot of specialists do. We do use Alexander technique, we do use body mapping, as I’m certified in all those things. Somatic voice, bel canto. But then there is also sing and relax to implement this concept out of necessity. During COVID 19, I started designing different structured ways to be able to teach singers, particularly essential workers who sing, as that’s my specialty, how to be able to reconnect with their breath with really stressful situations like being a nurse. During 2021, I had a handful of nurses from UPMC here in Pittsburgh and a bunch of other places as well. And because they were constantly masked up out of necessity in surgery and everything else, they were coming to me and telling me they couldn’t breathe in everyday life. So I did what any good teacher does, I think I started to find a new way to teach. So we designed bubble bel canto, riveting ribbons, ball bel canto and all these other things that led to this incredible journey I am so humbled to be part of. But I think it’s time now, as the trauma effects are starting to balance themselves out as history and time is passing, to start exploring what it truly means to release, relax, release. And special thanks to a student who actually looked me directly in the eye and said, you know, this works, but I don’t understand why. And goodness do I know what it’s like to be a student who asks a teacher why something is the way it is. And then they tell me just to accept it, it’s not going to work. So let’s start exploring that release, relax, release is built based on the idea of being able to use the diaphragm and truly utilize the incredible stature and ability of this muscle. I believe as a society, as I have explored in 18 different countries, that in the United States of America we do not as a rule, breathe properly. We’re constantly in a rush, there is no awareness. And when it comes to the intake of breath, I focus on good old fashioned bel canto, which I take no credit for, believe me. And that is the intake of breath, the release, relax. Release is utilized to be able to take cardiovascular thoracic breath off the table. The chest doesn’t rise as much because we’re not breathing in an anxiety state. We’re breathing from a core connection. So intake and then we release the air and then we Relax, release, relax, release. Intake, Focusing, focusing. And then we let go. But here’s the thing. I don’t hear my colleagues asking, because I don’t think any of us ever thought of this before. COVID what are we releasing? Every singer is different. And because of being a savant and being able to hear these really, really very, very different things than most people hear. Even with MRI machines and the other stuff that makes me different, I can hear it. I can tell you exactly where your TMJ is inducing. I’ll ask you to write it in a notebook and we’ll go on a journey for a few months. But I already know where your bruch isn’t is, and I know not why you’re doing it, but the patterns that follow it. So if that release, relax, release indicates TMJ support, that’s where we loosen up at the jaw, at the release. The diaphragm bounce, so to speak, was created. So I was able, during COVID 19 to be able to work with singers without putting my hands on them too much. The ball was used in ball belt canto to be able to find the connection with the core when I was making physical contact, but it was limited and I was able to push on the ball. The singer was able to actually push back with their core and their abs. And I could feel that everything was where it needed to be in the release. Now we do that and I go back to, you know, hands on work and it’s the same thing. But you have to ask yourself as a singer, what are you holding, holding on to that, hold your voice back. And that’s where the personalized experience comes in Working with me & 🐈‍⬛🐈