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Learning to love your voice and need some support?

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Lessons I've learned after 10+ years with chronic pain.

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"I like pie!" (Pitch Exercise) exercise nonbinary voice pitch voice feminization voice masculinization Dec 21, 2022

Earlier this week, we talked about raising or lowering pitch. Today, I'm going to give you an exercise for determining your baseline pitch so that you can get a sense of where you need to go when you're raising and lowering it. For this exercise, you're going to need a tuner. There are plenty of...

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Add reflexive journalling to your voice practice (freebie inside!) exercise motivation nonbinary voice voice feminization voice masculinization Dec 15, 2022

This will probably not come as much of a surprise to you because I'm a very introspective person, but I love reflexive journaling in both my life and my voice practice. It's something that I encourage my students to do all the time. If you've never tried reflexive journaling, all you have to do...

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TVE Excerpt: the 2-minute warm up exercise nonbinary voice trans vocal exploration ecourse voice feminization voice masculinization Nov 28, 2022

Hello pals!!

There are two more days to take advantage of my Black Friday super sale and get my courses at a whopping 50% off. Many people have taken advantage of this sale so far (hello, if you're new around here!!) but I wanted to make sure that nobody missed this opportunity.

Today, I thought...

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Low stakes practice: micro-conversations exercise nonbinary voice voice feminization voice masculinization Sep 12, 2022

Trans voice alteration and singing have a lot in common. They're both voice skills that have to be practised regularly in order to build up muscle, endurance, and flexibility. The end goal for a singing practice is usually a performance of some kind, like an open mic or an audition. However, in...

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Three daily voice feminization exercises exercise voice feminization May 30, 2022

On TikTok, edsheeransbuttisjuicy asked "What are some exercises I can do throughout the day every day to feminize my voice?"

Of course, the answer to this question varies from person to person, as each person's definition of a "feminine voice" is unique to them. However, in my experience, most...

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Three easy posture exercises for voice masculinization exercise voice masculinization May 20, 2022

I asked my friend Dibs from Dibs Fitness to share three easy posture exercises for voice masculinization. But what do posture and voice have to do with each other?? A lot, actually, but today let’s focus on the pharynx.

the pharynx is a tube of muscle just above your larynx, at the...

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