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Breathe & Warm Up

A calm, guided breathing warm-up to settle your body and get your voice ready to play.

🪄 Tool⏱️ 6 min🌸 15 petals

Settle in

A relaxed voice starts with a relaxed body. When we’re nervous or tense, we tend to breathe high in the chest, lift our shoulders and tighten our throat, and our voice tightens with it.

Follow the bubble for a few rounds:

  • Sit or stand tall but soft. Feet flat, shoulders down and back, jaw loose, tongue resting.
  • Breathe low. Let your belly and the sides of your ribs widen as the bubble grows. Your shoulders should barely move.
  • Breathe out slowly, as if you’re fogging up a mirror very gently.

Then add a little sound

After four or five calm rounds, try one of these on your out-breath:

  1. A soft “mmm” hum - notice the gentle buzz on your lips and nose.
  2. A lip trill (“brrr”), letting your lips flutter like a motorboat.
  3. A sleepy “ahh” sigh that slides from a little higher to a little lower.