Hi it's Elissa Weinzimmer, founder of Voice Body Connection, and it is time for
another how to warm-up video how to warm up in today's how to warm up video we
are doing part two of the exercise we did before about exploring language and
text this time instead of being crisp about your consonants you're going to
lengthen all of the consonants that you possibly can or maybe I should say
lengthen all the con- you know what I mean so let's dive in again with the
Blandine Calais-Germain Anatomy of Breathing book okay same passage as we
were reading before but this time we're gonna lengthen all of the consonant and
probably vowel sounds too that can be long it's gonna take a lot longer
because there's actually a lot more of these we have the sounds that can buzz
they're called the fricatives we have the approximate or semi vowel sounds
like R and L and we have the nasal sounds as well mmm
we have lots of different sounds that we can lengthen so this will take a little
while you have heard it that's all story oh I wanted to go off the s faster than
is necessary try to really make them long sad hear how the D is short that
we and it's really easy to skip over things so you have to really really
challenge yourself what can I make long we might wanted to say we but you could
go we don't need to learn okay so same passage as before but this time we're
gonna make all of the sounds long that we can possibly make long and there's
actually a lot more sounds that you can do this with than with the quick sounds
so it will indeed take a little while because you can use the buzzing sounds
that are called fricatives you can use the nasals like mmm you can make all of
those long and you can also do the semi vowels or approximate as they're called
like er, il, oh those kind of sounds so anything you can make long including the vowels
you're gonna make long okay it'll sound something like this
you have
heard it that's short said and you might be tempted to skip
over things so really challenge yourself thhhh that right not just that but it's
that we don't need to learn how to breath okay that's even thought the whole sentence
but I'll stop there can you tell this is gonna take longer so this exercise is so
powerful because many times we inadvertently skip over sounds in our
words because it's just the way we're accustomed to speaking so we might say
that and almost skip over the th or we might say don't and almost skip over the
NT at the end when you make things long it really encourages you to live through
send breath and energy through all of these sounds and then when you read it
again it's very likely that it's gonna have more you in the sound and more
freedom ease and clarity let's try it so now that I've done the exercise here's a
read of the same passage learning to breathe you've heard it said that we
don't need to learn how to breathe it just happens
thus in some activities even very complex ones there may be a total lack
of breath training because only spontaneous breathing will harmonize
well with movement yet in other activities eg yoga the breathing itself
is the object of the entire learning process okay good
so I hope that made sense and felt clear and of course I went back into
communication mode again but one thing I will say is sounds that are the easiest
to skip over that you might want to pay extra attention to are n's and v's
it's very easy to skip over your v's or your n's and you just don't hear them
so we hear the sound the word very becomes
really quick instead of very with a V so if you combine this exercise with the
other exercise that we did in part one where you're focusing on the quick
explosive sounds I think what you'll find is that it deepens your
relationship to the actual sounds that you're making and the words that you're
saying and then of course ultimately the language and ideas that you're
communicating so take a moment with whatever you're working on to try these
two exercises in tandem see how they help and see if it helps you communicate
with more ease and clarity I hope you enjoy and I will see you in a future how
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