The Voice And Its Preciousness

The human voice, a truly unique instrument, has always fascinated me. Its preciousness, however, became even more apparent in the face of the widespread violence and bloodshed that plague our world today.

Did you know hearing is among the first human faculties to develop in the womb? And hearing is postulated to be among the last of our senses to leave us as we die? Hearing leads to the development of our voices. If our eyes are the gateways to our souls, could our voices be their bodies? In all their diversity, our voices are the universal embodiment of our souls.

The human voice, a unique blessing of life, characterizes our aliveness. The voice can express itself through the body and be heard through the ears, a manifestation of sound moving in the air medium. This aliveness of sound sets the human voice apart from all other sounds, making it a truly extraordinary instrument.

Unlike the mechanical sounds emitted from electronic music synthesizers or everyday equipment, the human voice carries a depth and nuance of consciousness that is truly unique. This aliveness of sound and consciousness sets the human voice apart from all other sounds.

And so, how do we come into this awareness in a way that explores the voice? The yoga of sound is the yoga of the voice. It is an exploration of the voice as much as it is a way of listening to the different sounds and appreciating, for instance, the sounds in music. This connection between the human voice and the proportion of harmony and sounds we experience in music and the feelings generated. As a result, the meaning of musical intervals, like when we watch a film.

Imagine watching a film without a soundtrack. The sound, the music, and the rest of the soundtrack don't have the same experience, but the music, in particular, does something extraordinary for the experience. And so music is the soundtrack of our own lives. 

On the one hand, we're speaking, but on the other hand, there's the music underneath our lives. When I wrote the yoga of sound, I invited people to pay more attention to the underlying music. Well, it's been many years since I trained people musically, and even though I do that with some of my students in private, I want to invite people to a clinic.

The yoga of sound clinic is a significant concept. It is a place not only for healing but also for learning. Just as a jazz workshop or clinic condenses the study of jazz into a short time, this yoga of sound clinic addresses music and the voice, offering a unique opportunity for healing and learning. 

Three qualities of the voice you can start to cultivate right now,
ways that involve your speaking voice to help you sing better.

No matter what is happening in our lives or the world, one tool always at our disposal is our voice. However, when our voice says things that add to our concern, we have another way of using our voice: creating tones. Some methods of developing our singing voice can draw from speaking because singing might be construed as a sophisticated way of talking with many tones. Cantonese is known to have nine tones, although it employs mainly six.

Here are three practical ways to develop your singing voice through speech. These are not just theoretical methods; they are tried-and-tested techniques that work! I've successfully used them with students, especially those who struggle with tone or have some wounding around their voices. You can start practicing these exercises today and begin your journey to overcoming any mental barriers that may be hindering your progress.

1) Volume: Learn to increase and decrease the decibel level of your voice's volume when you speak and sing. You can read aloud from a text to do this with your voice. For your singing voice, choose two tones and vary the volume for each. This exercise is a simple way to discover the contrasting volume dynamics in our voice.

2) Pitch: Learn to vary the pitch or tone when you speak and sing. You can read aloud from a text to do this with your voice. For your singing voice, choose two tones and move from one to the other and back. This method is the simplest way to discover contrast in the pitch of our voice. 

3) Length: Learn to vary the tone length when you sing. It is not something we do when speaking; it is exclusively an expression of singing. For this exercise, choose three lengths of a single tone. In other words, do not vary the pitch: stay on one pitch but vary its length.

What do you hear in your voice when you do this? What you "see" in this process is what will inspire you to develop your voice to the next level.

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