In addition to straightening the spine from the back, the upper front chest has to be pulled up. This also pulls up the rib cage. The result is better lows and the head also better balanced–for better highs. The side of throat muscles need to be released of tension as well.
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The upper front chest
May 12, 2009questions to ask about posture
May 10, 2009Additionally, I’d like to ask how is it that the posture isn’t naturally good? And why is it we don’t hear ourselves accurately? Lastly, why we don’t automatically express our feeling lyrically and musically?
My suggestion is that Zen Buddhist concepts are very similar to these. If we observe meditation, much of the work itself is a straight spine posture. The sound waves we hear are inaccurate in part because without good posture, it travels through the bones in a different way. And without good posture, the body’s emotions remain bound in certain taut or over-relaxed muscles—hence, the expression is always different.
What I’m suggesting is that Eastern concepts of restoring the divine and then taking this and focusing on meditation and its straight spine, is basically analogous to—restoring the misaligned divine voice within by straightening the spine.
Yin and Yang
May 2, 2009Alan Greene describes singing vocal structure training as releasing the constrictors and enabling the anti-constrictors. Yoga is pose and counterpose. I’m reading a book on autism that traits as a balancing of the male and female genes, with normal in the middle.
The Taoist Yin and Yang sages must have seen these in people as well as nature. I suspect that the yin and yang has not been fully explained in the vocal structure process, and perhaps not fathomed in all its implications for modern society
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