Sunday, November 3, 2019

Full-body and voice burn out prevention workshop for language teachers!

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If you will be at BCTEAL regional conference on 11/16, please join Angelina Van Dyke and me for the "Full-body and voice burn out prevention warm up". (If not, it will be recorded and available off the blog shortly thereafter.) In all modesty, this will be a great session, not just because I'm in it, but Angelina, an accomplished concert and recording artist and voice teacher, has just finished an advanced diploma in voice science and will be sharing some amazing new techniques for "saving your pipes" as we say!

Here is the abstract from the program:

Feeling sluggish, stressed or caffeine deprived? This session, created by voice and pronunciation specialists for the language teacher (and students), should help. The carefully scaffolded, “restorative” exercises activate and focus body and vocal tract in less than 10 minutes. No meditation, medication or mendacity required.

My part of the party, body activation and preservation, takes about 15 minutes. Here is the list of the quick exercises involved: (Note: In some cases the name of the technique is more creative than descriptive, but you get the idea!)

1.     Mandibular massage
2.     Jaw shaker
3.     Neck slow header
4.     Trapezes circles
5.     Rotator cup “rolls”
6.     Hand/Forearm/Finger stretcher
7.     Shoulder and upper body boogie
7.5. Temple wings!
8.     Lateral leanings
9.      Glute Glutin’ 
10.   Core Belly Dance roll up (or plank or Dead Bug)
1.   Hip rotation girations
12.  Progressive lunge (with chair)
13.  Quads lifts (with chair)
14.   Hamstring swing (with chair)
15.   Adductor/abductor swing (with chair)
16.  Progressive mini-squats (with chair)
17.   Upper and lower Achilles tune ups (with chair)
18.   Calf and shin rock (with chair)
19.   Cursive ankle alphabet (with chair)
20.   Visual field scan and full-arm fluency (on the compass)
21.   Hyper lipper (8 vowel tour)
22.   Back and arms hyper stretch (3x) to vocal cone
23.   Chest and mouth hyper stretch (3x) from maximum pucker!

With the video you should be able to do both parts of the workshop any morning you need to get tuned up for the day. See you there or later!

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