Breath as Relaxation

The main point I took away from a lesson with Dr. Martha Rowe was to use the breath as a moment of relaxation. This really worked for me.

Perform Fearlessly Part IV: The Day of the Performance

By this point of preparation, you can do little to fundamentally change your outlook on the nature of a performance. So your best bet is to set up conditions so that you are in peak shape to perform even if you still have lingering worries.

Get enough sleep the night before. Pavarotti said

Vocalise: Tongue Relaxing Scale

For those of you without Scorch

This is something I learned from my teacher Andrew Zimmerman. As you pronounce the “mneh” let your tongue loll out of your mouth. Let the vowel “eh” sound kinda lazy. It’s not pretty, but it does help to keep that interfering tongue out of the way. Try

Letting Go

How in the world do we let go?

I practiced a morning focusing technique called the Morning Pages for years, which was taken from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Sometimes, I would work myself up into a tizzy by trying to solve every nagging worry, and I would then spend a page writing over