Singing Voice Training

Working one on one, you will learn to use your voice with full body involvement with the goal of discovering you own voice.  I encourage you to move at your won pace as long as you are using what you are learning in live performance; and I don’t care what that looks like.  As long as you are getting out in front of others  and singing, I am happy to work with you.

Personal Bodywork for the Singer

Learning to free your body of the tension that prevents you from using your voice fully is a necessity you will discover.  I am certified in a number of methods for helping free the body of tension and fear that prevents singers from using their instrument fully. Fear is accumulated in the body as tension and prevents full flexibility which the singer needs to release ongoingly.

I have worked full time in private practice, mostly in New York City, for nearly 25 years helping singers free their bodies from the accumulated tension. I was a ‘go to guy’ for Opera, Broadway, pop, and many other types of singers to come to when they discovered that they were blocked and that the block was preventing them from singing freely.  Often it was their voice teacher or coach who recommended me because once they began to work with me, their singing improved very quickly.

I have developed a unique approach based on twenty five years experience of helping singers free their bodies of tension that is none of the above methods.  I have discovered that no two people are the same nor are their body care needs.  I am able to assess what your needs are and provide what is needed to improve range of motions, small muscles flexibility, and overall body adaptability.

Here are some of the therapeutic body methods that I am trained in:

• Massage Therapist- Licensed since 1984 
• Certified Advanced Rolfer®- since 1985
• Cranio-Sacral Therapy- since 1987
  
• Chua Ka™ Massage- since 1989
  
• Certified Psychocalisthenics® Exercise Instructor- since 1988

I am also a Licensed Psychotherapist in Colorado, and although singing training is not psychotherapy, I can help you understand and move through barriers that will arise in learning for find you own voice. These blocks are personal issues that must be observed, understood, and detached from in order to sing with relaxation, confidence, and grace.  This is a path for personal growth for sure, but again, our goal is singing development with the side benefit of improving personal maturity.

*The poet e .e. cummings says: if you don’t want to learn to be yourself (in this case find your own voice) then learn to do something easy like blow up the world.

Relaxation Training for the Singer

Because anxiety and the accompanying lack of focus while under pressure are such a big impediment for singing in front of live audiences, I have found it necessary to offer relaxation training for singers.  But perhaps the word relaxation is misleading here since we can now actually train your brain (Central Nervous System) to remain relaxed which improves concentration, stops producing anxiety, and generally improves our ability to be present, moment to moment, which is what singing for live audiences demands.

It is only in the past few years that we have learned we can train your brain to stop producing its own anxiety and poor focus, by simply communicating with it, in it’s own language, when it is about to loose focus or become upset.  As a performer, I know the anxiety that comes with doing an hour and thirty minute or longer live show.  It can be tremendous!  We now can teach your brain to stay present rather than going to the past or future, when this moment is the only one you can actually deal with.

For more information about NeurOPTIMAL™ Neurofeedback Training, go to my website:http://boulderneurofeedback.com

I am an Advanced Zengar NeurOPTIMAL™ Neurofeedback Trainer