Brain Shaman Angela Clarke: Vocal Therapy — How to Tune Your Voice and Nervous System | Episode 52
In this episode, we explore the intimate connection between your voice, nervous system, and overall well-being. Our guest, Angela Clarke, is a voice specialist, embodiment practitioner, and educator based out of Australia. Join us in our lovely conversation about the voice, movement, touch, the nervous system, and more. This episode is packed full of fun practical vocal exercises that you can use to change your brain and bodily state at anytime - to increase focus, calm, connection, etc. "We are a song in the universe," and today we will practice how to sing.
You will learn about:
- what the voice is
- how sound (and everything) is omnidirectional
- Alexander technique
- Body-Mind Centering
- Social Presencing Theater
- voice in connection with the head and neck
- how to gain freedom over your voice (and entire organism)
- how your nervous system state affects your voice
- vocal toning
- humming
- touch and voice
- bones and voice
- somatic imagination
- how to re-guide your attention
- connection (with our body, ourselves, others, the environment, and planet)
- how to use your voice to calm down and relax, decrease anxiety, etc.
- how we can use voice to increase care and empathy
- how to use voice and movement to alter your focus and alertness
- singing as therapy
- benefits of communal singing
- how to change your voice (tone, prosody, speed, etc.)
- the value of listening and silence
- how the nostrils affect your voice
- physiology of technology - smartphones, computers, and your nervous system
- eye movement and voice
- how to move "horizontally"
- trauma and voice
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
- Arawana Hayashi
- Astrid Jorgensen
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
- Frederick Matthias Alexander
- Moshé Feldenkrais
- Stephen Porges
VOICE & EMBODIMENT PRACTICES
- Alexander Technique
- Body-Mind Centering
- Feldenkrais
- Pub Choir
- Social Presencing Theater
**CONNECT AND LEARN MORE**
Angela Clarke's website: liveparticle.com.au
Adventures in the Field: adventuresinthefield.com